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I'm curious. Instead of wasting all night to figure this out.
1.Does anyone know if I can link fire as an fx after an explosion along with smoke. Do I do it in the normal fashion such as #set yadda yadda.
2. Can i link and explosion timed to a plane flying overhead?

Simple answers are fine. (as long as you know)

Just add the fx with #set xxx and targetname exploderfire.

U can link the explosion, probably a setthread trigger multiple or the wait xxx timer.

Hey it worked! This map is gonna be so sick. I got the Stuka chasing the c47 while the c47 is dropping a bomb on a bridge destoying the bridge... *Whew*.... that took entirely too long to script. Now I gotta make another one.

You got planes to drop bombs? Tell me more......

Yeah tell me to i need some info on dropping bombs for my new map!

They didn't actually drop the bomb. ie bomb dropping in the air, but I timed a hurtme explosion with the same #set as the plane. I used a wait .5 like i used it for the planes sound when it flys over and vualla the bomb exploded right where the sound was and BOOM.... i died.

Oh I see what you are asking. I'll post an exact script when I get it ironsed out. It is awesome. I just started experimenting with the #sets and different things. You can trigger almost anything with the script editor if you are bold enough to try it first. MOHAA ROX you are better than me at this I know you can figure this out.

Any thing you need, just ask me. I can try to add stuff, like maybe those SP thingy in AA or SH. Need a halftrack gunner?

WOW Cool. Can you do that? That is awesome. You gotta see what I made. It's fricken awesome. I made this building that is fully explodable from all sides. I wanna make it burn but when I add the fire fx to the exploderfire it just goes away like the explosion. Oh well.
The building is great. I gave the walls health 250 so it takes 1 grenade sometimes sometimes 2. People are gonna love this level I can tell. My next building is gonna be the opening sequence when the level starts. Sun is setting, fog 7500, Three bombers fly over from the sun flare and blow up a 4 story clock tower. ROCK!

I'm working on that bombing script.

Does anyone know how to script the fire fx so that it stays after the explosion. I already hooked it as an exploderfire and it just disappears like the explosion when it's done. Anybody? *tumble weeds blowing*

I know there's more than one way, but first one I thought of would be to use a 'hide/unhide' function. Set up your fire and in the script use a '$targetname hide' and then 'unhide' that will 'unhide' your fire just after the explosion. That would be one dirty way to do it.

Otherwise, and I may be wrong on this, I think you need to add a life expectancy integer to the entity to get it to stay........check the 'g-allclasses' file to see if you can find some related commands.

I tried using it as the explodersmashed but that didn't work. Do you mean?...

#set
1

targetname
expoderfire

$targetname
hide
-----------------
#set
1

targetname
explodersmashed

$targetname
unhide

Like that? Explain more. please[\size]

Gen Cobra wrote: $targetname
unhide

umm... i think show is the opposite of hide (at least it is in scripting for maps)

also, maybe an anim start would work better

put the fx in at the start of the map, then put $fx anim start

if it's hidden, also use a show command

You can't use show or unhide for fx, use anim start instead. He's right.

Slyk wrote:I know there's more than one way, but first one I thought of would be to use a 'hide/unhide' function. Set up your fire and in the script use a '$targetname hide' and then 'unhide' that will 'unhide' your fire just after the explosion. That would be one dirty way to do it.

I didn't say use unhide Slyk did. I'll try what you said.
Thank you a lot.