TechnoType

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Key	Description	Value	When omitted
Accelerates	Makes a driving vehicle ease up to speed and brake as it nears its destination.	boolean	yes
AccelerationFactor	The step a vehicle's throttle climbs by each frame while it is speeding up.	floating point	.03
AllowedToStartInMultiplayer	Lets a vehicle or infantry type appear among the units each house is handed at a multiplayer start.	boolean	yes
Ammo	The number of shots a runtime instance carries, or the number of visitors a hospital or armory can admit.	integer	-1
AutoCrushNo effect	A parsed per-type flag that nothing acts on, and the IQ at which a computer house starts running things over.	boolean	no
AuxSound1	The sound a structure makes as its build-up starts, and the sound a flying object makes as it takes off.	sound	none
AuxSound2	The sound a structure makes as it starts folding away, and the sound a flying object makes as it comes in to land.	sound	none
BuildLimit	The cap on how many of the type a house may build, with the sign choosing which tally it is compared against.	integer	2147483647
Category	Classifies an object, which the dropship loadout screen reads to keep civilians off its purchase list.	CategoryType	none
Cloakable	Whether an object of this type hides itself and recovers its cloak on its own.	boolean	no
CloakingSpeed	The number of game frames an object spends on each stage of its cloaking fade.	integer	7
CloakStop	Whether the object must come to a halt before it may start hiding.	boolean	no
CollateralDamageCoefficient	The fraction of its own maximum strength a destroyed object deals to its surroundings.	floating point	Context-dependent
Cost	The credit price of one object of this type, or the multiplier a country or a difficulty applies to every price it pays.	integer	0
Crewed	Allows the type to put a surviving infantry on the map when it is destroyed.	boolean	no
Crusher	Lets a vehicle drive over crushable objects and walls instead of being blocked by them.	boolean	no
DamageParticleSystems	The particle systems a damaged object gives off, sorted into sparks and smoke by their own behavior.	list of ParticleSystemTypes	(empty)
DamageSmokeOffset	Where a damaged object's spark and smoke systems are anchored, relative to the object.	offset (x,y,z)	0,0,0
DeaccelerationFactor	The share of a vehicle's top speed its throttle drops by each frame while it is slowing down.	floating point	.002
DebrisMaximums	The largest number of pieces each debris type may contribute, one figure per entry.	list of integers	(empty)
DebrisTypes	The voxel wreckage a destroyed object throws, spent in list order against its debris budget.	list of VoxelAnimTypes	(empty)
DeploysInto	The BuildingType a vehicle turns into when it is given the deploy order.	class	none
DeployTime	The time in game minutes a door takes to travel from shut to fully open, or back.	floating point	0
DetectDisguise	Lets an object see a disguised soldier for what it is when it scans for a target.	boolean	no
DisableableNo effect	Parsed flag that the engine never uses.	boolean	yes
Dock	BuildingTypes an object returns to for docking.	list of BuildingTypes	none
DoubleOwned	Opens the type to every country, outside campaign games only.	boolean	no
Elite	The WeaponType an elite object fires in place of its primary.	class	none
EliteAbilities	The abilities an object of this type gains at elite rank, on top of its veteran abilities.	abilities	(empty)
Explodes	Blasts the surroundings when an object of this type is destroyed, or detonates an overlay when any explosion reaches its cell.	boolean	no
Explosion	The animations a destroyed object leaves behind, one drawn at random from the list.	list of AnimTypes	(empty)
FlightLevel	The cruising altitude a type flies at, or the rules-wide altitude used by anything that names none of its own.	integer	-1
GuardRange	The distance in cells an object scans for targets while guarding, overriding its weapon range.	distance (cells)	0
HunterSeeker	Makes the type a hunter-seeker drone that acquires its own target, moves straight at it, and is never grounded by an ion storm.	boolean	no
ImmuneToVeins	Exempts the object type from vein damage.	boolean	no
Invisible	Whether the object is drawn for the player that owns it alone and kept off the radar entirely.	boolean	no
IsDropship	Flies an aircraft as a heavy transport that noses over on approach instead of banking.	boolean	no
IsTrain	Marks a vehicle as rolling stock, which changes how it finds a path, what blocks it and when it may leave the map.	boolean	no
LightningRod	Raises the type's chance of being picked as the target of an ion storm lightning bolt.	boolean	no
Locomotor	The class identifier of the locomotion object created to move each instance of the type.	Locomotor CLSID	{4A582747-9839-11D1-B709-00A024DDAFD1}
ManualReload	Stops the type from arming its reload delay when it fires, and has a service depot refill its magazine for free.	boolean	no
MaxDebris	The number of pieces of wreckage a destroyed object may throw.	integer	0
MovementZone	The terrain connectivity class the type's route and reachability tests are answered in.	mzonetype	Normal
MoveToShroud	Whether the type accepts an order onto ground that is still under the shroud.	boolean	yes
MyEffectivenessCoefficient	Weights a candidate target by how much damage this object's own warhead does to that candidate's armor.	floating point	Computed
NaturalParticleLocation	Where a structure's continuous particle plume sits, relative to the structure.	offset (x,y,z)	0,0,0
NaturalParticleSystem	A particle system a structure runs continuously from the moment it appears.	class	none
NoAutoFire	Stops a human-owned object of this type from picking targets on its own.	boolean	no
Nominal	Shows the type's real name to a player it is not allied with, instead of a generic label.	boolean	no
Owner	The countries that may own the type.	list of HouseTypes	(empty)
Passengers	How many objects the type can carry at once.	integer	0
PhysicalSizeNo effect	Parsed figure that the engine never uses.	floating point	2
PipScale	The quantity the pip row under a selected object counts, and how many pips that row has.	PipScaleType	none
PitchAngle	The angle in degrees an aircraft drops its nose by while it is flying fast enough.	floating point	20
PitchSpeed	The throttle an aircraft must be above before it pitches and banks.	floating point	.25
PointsNo effect	Parsed score value that the engine never uses.	integer	0
Prerequisite	The structures a house must own before the type appears on its build list.	list of BuildingTypes	(empty)
Primary	The WeaponType in the object type's first weapon slot.	class	none
RadarVisible	Whether the object is plotted on the radar map under every condition.	boolean	no
Repairable	Allows a structure to be repaired with the wrench, worked on by an engineer, and treated as a building by a commando.	boolean	yes
RollAngle	The angle in degrees an aircraft banks by while it is turning.	floating point	30
ROT	The rate an object's body and turret turn at, or the rate a homing projectile steers at.	integer	0
Secondary	The WeaponType in the object type's second weapon slot.	class	none
SelfHealing	Mends the object one strength point at a time while it is at or below the yellow damage line.	boolean	no
Sensors	Whether the object reveals a nearby hidden object whose house its owner does not consider allied.	boolean	Context-dependent
Sight	Radius in cells that the type reveals around itself for the local player.	integer	0
SlowdownDistance	How far short of its destination an object begins slowing down, in leptons.	integer	500
SpecialThreatValue	A per-type figure that TargetSpecialThreatCoefficient scales into a candidate's threat score.	floating point	0
Speed	The top travel speed of an object type, the launch speed of a weapon's projectile, or the travel ceiling every jumpjet unit shares.	integer	0
Storage	Units of Tiberium an object can hold.	integer	0
TargetDistanceCoefficient	Weights a candidate target by how far beyond weapon range it lies, and not at all inside it.	floating point	Computed
TargetEffectivenessCoefficient	Weights a candidate target by how much damage that candidate's warhead does to this object's armor.	floating point	Computed
TargetLaser	Draws a dashed sighting line from a firing vehicle to where its shot is aimed.	boolean	no
TargetSpecialThreatCoefficient	Weights a candidate target by the SpecialThreatValue of that candidate's type.	floating point	Computed
TargetStrengthCoefficient	Weights a candidate target by how much of its maximum strength it still has.	floating point	Computed
TechLevel	The level an object type demands, the level a house is given, or the level a non-campaign session hands every house.	integer	255
ThreatAvoidanceCoefficient	How heavily the type weighs the region threat figures when the pathfinder prices a route.	floating point	0
ThreatPosed	How much danger the type represents, used by team weighting, the region threat map, and base-defense call-ups.	integer	0
TiberiumHeal	Whether an object mends itself while standing on Tiberium, and how often every such object is mended.	boolean	no
TiltsWhenCrushes	Makes a vehicle lurch forward as it crushes a sandbag wall.	boolean	yes
ToProtect	Whether damage to the object makes its computer house call defenders back to it.	boolean	no
Trainable	Allows an object of this type to accumulate experience from kills and receive veterancy-crate promotions.	boolean	Context-dependent
Turret	Gives a vehicle or aircraft a turret that aims and fires independently of its body.	boolean	no
TurretSpins	Makes a vehicle's turret rotate continuously instead of holding an aim.	boolean	no
TypeImmune	Stops an object taking damage from another object of exactly its own type and house.	boolean	no
UndeploysInto	The UnitType a structure turns back into when it is taken down.	class	none
VeteranAbilities	The abilities an object of this type gains at veteran rank and keeps at elite.	abilities	(empty)
VoiceAttack	The responses an object speaks when the player orders it to attack.	list of sounds	(empty)
VoiceDie	The responses an object speaks as it is destroyed.	list of sounds	(empty)
VoiceFeedback	The responses an object speaks on the hit that takes it below half strength.	list of sounds	(empty)
VoiceMove	The responses an object speaks when the player gives it an order other than an attack.	list of sounds	(empty)
VoiceSelect	The responses an object speaks when it is selected.	list of sounds	(empty)
WalkRate	The number of game frames each step of a vehicle's walk cycle holds for.	integer	1
Weight	How strongly an object resists being rocked, and how heavily it presses on ice.	floating point	1
ZFudgeBridge	The depth bias applied to an object while it is under a bridge.	integer	0
ZFudgeCliff	The depth bias applied to an object standing at the foot of a cliff.	integer	10
ZFudgeColumn	The depth bias applied to an object passing a bridge support column.	integer	5
ZFudgeTunnel	The depth bias applied to an object standing at a tunnel mouth.	integer	10

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