AnimType

INI reference·Art·AnimType

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Key	Description	Value	When omitted	Image-selected section
AlphaImage	The SHP file blended over the object as an area light.	string	(empty)	No
AltPalette	Draws the animation through the first declared color scheme instead of the shared animation palette.	boolean	no	No
ArmorNo effect	An object type's armor class, or on a country or difficulty setting the divisor of the damage its objects take.	ArmorType	none	No
BounceAnim	The animation played where thrown debris strikes.	class	none	No
Bouncer	Throws the animation into the air on a random arc instead of playing it where it was created.	boolean	no	No
BounceSound	The sound effect played where thrown debris strikes the ground.	sound	none	No
Crater	Leaves a crater where the animation plays, or makes the smudge one of the craters that can be left.	boolean	no	No
CrushableNo effect	Lets a crusher vehicle drive over the object or overlay and destroy it.	boolean	no	No
CrushSoundNo effect	The sound played when a crusher vehicle flattens the object or overlay.	sound	none	No
Damage	A weapon's damage per shot, or the damage an animation, particle or voxel animation delivers through its own warhead.	floating point	0.0	No
DamageRadius	How near an object must be to a bounce, in leptons, for the debris to damage it.	integer	0	No
DemandLoad	Defers loading a type's artwork until something first needs to draw it.	boolean	no	No
DetailLevel	A graphics detail level — the one the player has chosen, or the lowest one at which an animation is drawn.	integer	0	No
Elasticity	The fraction of its speed a bouncing object keeps when it rebounds off a surface.	floating point	0.8	No
End	The number of stages the animation runs through before it ends or chains.	integer	Computed	No
ExpireAnim	The animation played where thrown debris ends its life on solid ground, without which it deals no blast damage.	class	none	No
ExpireSound	The sound effect played where thrown debris ends its life on solid ground.	sound	none	No
Flamer	Throws one to three fires onto the ground around the animation.	boolean	no	No
Flat	Lays an animation flat against the ground; on a structure nothing reads it.	boolean	no	No
FreeAfterPlaying	Gives a demand-loaded animation's artwork back as soon as an animation of the type leaves the game.	boolean	no	No
HasRadialIndicatorNo effect	Whether a selected object of this type draws a ring showing the reach of its field.	boolean	no	No
IgnoresFirestormNo effect	Whether a raised firestorm wall passes the type over instead of destroying or consuming it.	boolean	no	No
Image	Selects an Image ID, animation Image ID, Tiberium overlay variant, or building main-shape basename according to scope.	string	Computed	No
ImmuneNo effect	Exempts the type from every damage path that is not applied as forced.	boolean	yes	No
InsignificantNo effect	Whether the object is kept out of its house's inventory tallies and its response to being attacked.	boolean	yes	No
IsAnimatedTiberium	Removes the animation as soon as the overlay that placed it stops asking for it.	boolean	no	No
IsFlamingGuy	Runs the animation toward the nearest water and then plays it out where it stops.	boolean	no	No
IsMeteor	Flies the debris in along a straight approach to the point it was created for.	boolean	no	No
IsTiberium	Can seed Tiberium where the debris comes down.	boolean	no	No
IsVeins	Treats an overlay as part of a vein field, or an animation as the attack veins make.	boolean	no	No
LegalTargetNo effect	Whether the type may be picked as a target by an automatic scan or by a player pointing at it.	boolean	no	No
LoopCount	The number of passes an animation of the type makes before it ends or chains.	integer	0	No
LoopEnd	The frame that ends every pass of a looping animation except the last.	integer	Computed	No
LoopStart	The frame a looping animation returns to at the start of each new pass.	integer	0	No
MaxXYVel	The upper bound on the horizontal speed debris is thrown at, in leptons per frame.	floating point	15	No
MinZVel	The low end of the vertical speed debris is thrown at, in leptons per frame, and the exact speed of a meteor.	floating point	3.5	No
NewTheater	Rewrites the second letter of a type's artwork filename to match the theater.	boolean	no	No
Next	The animation this one turns into instead of finishing.	class	none	No
Normalized	Rescales an animation's frame delay against the game speed setting, or paces a particle's damage states over its flight.	boolean	no	No
PingPong	Reverses the animation's direction each time it reaches either end of its frames.	boolean	no	No
RadarInvisibleNo effect	Parsed flag that the engine never uses.	boolean	yes	No
RadialColorNo effect	The color of the radius ring a selected structure draws on the tactical map.	colour (R,G,B)	0,0,0	No
RandomLoopDelay	The bounds, in game frames, of the pause inserted between one pass of a looping animation and the next.	point (x,y)	0,0	No
RandomRate	The pair of playback rates a new animation picks its frame delay from.	point (x,y)	Unchanged	No
Rate	An animation's playback rate in frames per minute, or a mission's servicing delay in fractions of a minute.	integer	Unchanged	No
Report	The sound effect played when the weapon fires, or when the animation starts.	sound	none	No
Reverse	Plays the animation from its loop end back down toward its start frame.	boolean	no	No
RunningFrames	The number of frames each of the eight facings of a burning victim's run cycle occupies.	integer	0	No
Scorch	Blackens the ground under the animation and sets a small fire burning there.	boolean	no	No
Selectable	Whether a player can select the object at all.	boolean	no	No
ShouldFogRemove	Hides the animation while the ground it plays over is under the fog of war.	boolean	yes	No
ShouldUseCellDrawer	Draws a structure's animation in the colors and at the brightness of the structure it belongs to.	boolean	yes	No
SpawnCount	The upper bound on each of the two random picks whose sum is how many pieces an impact spawns.	integer	0	No
Spawns	The type spawned where thrown debris lands, and on a particle system a flag no gameplay path reads.	class	none	No
Start	The frame of the shape the animation's first stage displays.	integer	0	No
StartSoundNo effect	The sound effect for the creation of a piece, played only by voxel animations.	sound	none	No
StickyNo effect	Parsed flag that the engine never uses.	boolean	no	No
StrengthNo effect	The maximum strength of most object types; wall overlays use it as a per-hit damage threshold.	integer	0	No
Surface	Places the animation in the ground layer, among the units and structures, rather than in the layer above them.	boolean	no	No
Theater	Marks a type's artwork as theater-specific in the art file; in a map file it instead names the theater the scenario is played in.	boolean	no	No
TiberiumChainReaction	Sets off the Tiberium in the cell the animation starts on.	boolean	no	No
TiberiumSpawnType	The overlay a landing animation plants its Tiberium from.	class	none	No
TiberiumSpreadRadius	Selects which of the eight cells around a landing animation can take Tiberium.	integer	0	No
Tiled	Repeats the animation's current frame upward until the copies leave the top of the view.	boolean	no	No
TrailerAnim	The trail animation dropped at intervals for as long as the effect lasts.	class	none	No
TrailerSeperation	The number of frames between one trail animation and the next.	integer	0	No
Translucency	How faded an animation or a particle is drawn, as a percentage, at the detail settings that honor it.	integer	0	No
TranslucencyDetailLevel	The lowest detail setting at which the animation is drawn faded rather than solid.	integer	0	No
Translucent	Blends the image into the scene instead of drawing it solid.	boolean	no	No
UseNormalLight	Draws the animation at full brightness instead of at the light level where it stands.	boolean	no	No
Voxel	Draws the type from a voxel model rather than from a shape file.	boolean	no	Yes
Warhead	The WarheadType a weapon's shot carries, or the one an animation, particle or voxel animation delivers its own damage through.	class	none	No
YDrawOffset	Shifts the animation's artwork down the screen, in pixels, as it is drawn.	integer	0	No
YSortAdjust	Biases where the animation falls in the ground layer's drawing order, in leptons.	integer	0	No

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