UseFireParticles
Attacks with a stream of fire particles instead of the projectile's damage.
- Applies to
- WeaponType
- File
rules.ini- Section
[<ObjectType ID>]- Value
- boolean
- When omitted
no
The projectile is still created and still flies, but its firepower is forced to nothing, so Damage= is never delivered. Everything the weapon does is done by the particle system named in AttachedParticleSystem=, which is spawned at the muzzle and aimed at the target as the shot leaves.
[MyFlamer] ; example WeaponTypeUseFireParticles=yesAttachedParticleSystem=FireStreamSys ; a ParticleSystemType registered in [ParticleSystems]ROF=30The firer must stand still, and more than still: a vehicle and an infantry both refuse the shot while a destination is pending, whether or not they have started moving toward it. Neither of the object’s weapons may fire again while the stream is alive, and the reload delay is exactly ROF — the house’s rate of fire bias, the burst gaps and the random padding are all skipped — so the stream’s own lifetime and ROF together set the firing rate. A structure with more than one round left waits a single frame instead, so only the effect’s own lifetime paces it.
Assigning the object a target it cannot reach kills the stream at once: the system is removed the moment a new target is set that is out of range, which includes clearing the target altogether.