Ideas for a Meteor Storm superweapon

kaizerdragon · Civilian **Joined**: 23 Jan 2018

Hi.

I am interested in making a Meteor Storm-type of superweapon; similar to this: I know this is using another patch but please; bear with me.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzQCqYmaXA)

Does anyone have an idea how this is implemented in Ares? I need it for my private mod that me and my friends enjoy. Thank you very much!

PussyPus · Commander **Joined**: 14 Jul 2015 **Location**: Egypt

Offtopic: Wait, are you Kaizer from Indie DB? Just asking.

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kaizerdragon · Civilian **Joined**: 23 Jan 2018

No, not familiar.

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

1. check out the Ares Doc about SWs

2. i would suggest Type=GenericWarhead and then create a new Warhead which has on the AnimList the meteors
e.g.
[MeteorWH]
AnimList=METLARGE,METSMALL

since this only creates a single meteor, you can then use some art.ini magic to add more meteors

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kaizerdragon · Civilian **Joined**: 23 Jan 2018

Please check if my idea is correct. Actually I've been working on it for nights but all I can do was to somewhat transform a lightning storm into mini-nuke explosions (and trust me, it's ugly).

1. I use Ares' GenericWarhead to detonate a warhead that contains METLARGE and METSMALL.
2. I will use 'Spawns' tag in artmd.ini to generate more meteors?

Does the vanilla METLARGE and METSMALL suffice? I mean, I don't have to change anything other than the damage dealt?

Please treat me as a total noob. It's been a while since I have modded my private mod. Thank you!

kaizerdragon · Civilian **Joined**: 23 Jan 2018

I did exactly what you said.

And nothing happened. The sidebar loaded the meteor storm tab correctly but upon clicking it, nothing happened.

kaizerdragon · Civilian **Joined**: 23 Jan 2018

Oh nevermind. I found out I did something retarded again. I'll ask if I run into trouble. Thank you.

kenosis · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:11 pm Post subject:

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4StarGeneral · General **Joined**: 14 Sep 2006 **Location**: Limbo

Or you can create a SHP graphic of a meteor falling like in Firestorm and make the superweapon as a LightningStorm clone. I'd make one, but I don't have the tools at my disposal at the moment.

Or you may be able to make it with a combination of an EMPulse super, Flare, invis aircraft with a weapon with a burst of however many meteors, aircraft itself has BurstDelay0=5, and projectile with Inaccurate=yes, Arcing=yes, BallisticScatter.Min + .Max with say, 8. Could even do no burst and just do like 8 planes.

Tried doing it with a Nuke, but Airburst nor Splits would work with it for some reason.

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TAK02 · Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:40 am Post subject:

4StarGeneral wrote:

Tried doing it with a Nuke, but Airburst nor Splits would work with it for some reason.

Like in TI with Nod's nuke?

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cxtian39 · Commander **Joined**: 11 Feb 2016

I use Meteor as PreImpactAnim so that they use the weapon's warhead to deal damage, in this way the unit firing it gains experience.

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Mr.Hymn · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 01 May 2020

kenosis wrote:

Do you mind let me know how please I can't seems to spawn something like this without lightning storm SW logic. Unless it's one projectile.

McPwny · Chem Warrior **Joined**: 29 Jan 2018

you can actually do it without ares or even art.ini editing. few people know this, but you can attach debris straight to a warhead.
moreover, you can attach voxel debris. even voxel debris that have the ini tag that makes them fall from the sky like meteors.

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wiwimax · Soldier **Joined**: 13 Dec 2016

Can someone write a full-code for this super-weapon?

Thank you in advance