help ME PLEASE

Colonel Ferguson · Post by **Colonel Ferguson** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:13 am

can someone please tell me how to make the tanks main cannon shoot fire in an arc link the real flame tanks I'm making a mod and need to do this but i've crashed BG about 5 times trying myself.

EDIT: I can't even get the tank to shot flames correctly, I'm probably missing an efect or two but please tell me how to do this i'm getting frustrated.

Grave · Post by **Grave** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:22 am

your probably gonna need to swap the flame thrower projectile witht the tank cannon but im not sure what to do from there

Colonel Ferguson · Post by **Colonel Ferguson** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:32 am

I've got that much.

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Tue May 16, 2006 2:40 pm

crank up the refire rate

Colonel Ferguson · Post by **Colonel Ferguson** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:44 pm

I got that to that how youd normally do it i know. but you need all the efects to i think. i just want to know if anyone has done this before, so they could save me alot of frustration

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:32 pm

all you should have to do is swap the projectile and crank up the refire. for the effects make sure you swap out the muzzel flash and sounds, but the projectile swap will do most of the job for ya, the only effects you will need to change are the muzzel flash and sound

MasterNeoChief · Post by **MasterNeoChief** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:34 am

Well, don't swap the projectile, you'll just end up shooting short flames with a tank. Actually, try this

Swap the projectile
swap the firing effect to the flames used by the flamethrower.

Or just swap some effects with the flame effects, and add an arc value to the projectile.

Colonel Ferguson · Post by **Colonel Ferguson** » Wed May 17, 2006 11:35 am

nope didn't work it fires flames but you can't see the flames going which is the whole points of this.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:57 pm

MasterNeoChief wrote:Well, don't swap the projectile, you'll just end up shooting short flames with a tank. Actually, try this

Swap the projectile

well anyway, i would swap the effects, not the projectile

swapping the projectile would just make a flamethrower on a tank

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:02 pm

It's quite hard to swap the flame in for anything. First of all, are you talking about the main cannon, or the short bursts? If you're talking about the cannon, it's incredibly hard to get a flame without an explosion. If you are talking about the short bursts, you have two options: (1) You can swap the flame projectile so the tank has small flames coming out of the barrel (this would only be a short-range weapon, unless you changed thte flame speed and life span). Or (2) you can swap the flame effect so the tank's bullets hit a wall and cause a flame to appear. However, if you want to swap a flame with the tank's main cannon, you would not be able to see it. The each flame only appears for a split-second. You can see the flame from the flamethrower because there are tons of them being unloaded at once. But the cannon only shoots once every four seconds, so the flame would just appear for a split-second once. I'm sorry, it's quite hard to explain.

Colonel Ferguson · Post by **Colonel Ferguson** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:55 pm

um i got the main cannon firing 12rps just like the flamer...i ain't that dumb.... i just can't get the jet of fire to appear.

Oh and how do you extend the flames life and reduce the grav effect?