Splash damage on firearma

[Keln]

I've been playing Warband for a long long time and lately I've been tweaking things in the game just for kicks. I had an idea where I wanted to add the effect of a cannon firing an exploding projectile. Looks don't matter to me much, so I wanted to use a blunderbus (I'm using the expanded Floris mod) to accomplish this "cannon-esque" role. I've looked around and have seen a few threads talking about a splash damage code (such as http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,59622.0/nowap.html), but I can't for the life of me decipher where exactly I am supposed to use that code. The explanations are brief and I'm not sure what they're talking about. Currently all I use is Morgh's editor and there isn't any options for adding code to an item on there.

Is there a way to accomplish this with the editor? If not, where do I try these splash damage codes? I have notepad++ and use it to edit a lot of other games, but I'm just not that familiar with what to edit in warband. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

[Somebody]

You basically have two sources of inflicting damage -

add_missile

and

agent_deliver_damage_to_agent

. There are also ways of catching when projectiles are emitted or hit stuff - they are ti_on_weapon_attack (when you shoot a gun), ti_on_missile_hit (when an ammo hits something), ti_on_scene_prop_hit (prop is hit), ti_on_agent_hit (agent is hit). The most straightforward way of making use of these triggers is to define a special cannon ammo and then use ti_on_missile_hit to catch it. Then, find agents within a certain distance of the missile and inflict damage with

agent_deliver_damage_to_agent

. While randomizing added shrapnel is more realistic, it's slightly more complicated and combining the two will probably be more satisfactory.

 

[Keln]

You basically have two sources of inflicting damage -

add_missile

and

agent_deliver_damage_to_agent

. There are also ways of catching when projectiles are emitted or hit stuff - they are ti_on_weapon_attack (when you shoot a gun), ti_on_missile_hit (when an ammo hits something), ti_on_scene_prop_hit (prop is hit), ti_on_agent_hit (agent is hit). The most straightforward way of making use of these triggers is to define a special cannon ammo and then use ti_on_missile_hit to catch it. Then, find agents within a certain distance of the missile and inflict damage with

agent_deliver_damage_to_agent

. While randomizing added shrapnel is more realistic, it's slightly more complicated and combining the two will probably be more satisfactory.

Thanks for replying. I get the gist of what you're saying...but where exactly do I find these values/triggers/whatever. What file(s) do I attempt to modify and where? I'm not a noob at modding games in general so I can probably pick it up quick with some trial and error, but I am a noob at modding M&B and have no idea which files are the prime ones for doing this.

 

[oroboros]

You find the stuff in the module system files which you need for modding M&B - you can get the module system here http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,111706.0.html
For compiling the module system you need to have Python installed on your PC.
The ti_on_missile_hit, ti_on_weapon_attack, etc., are triggers in module_items.

 

[Keln]

You find the stuff in the module system files which you need for modding M&B - you can get the module system here http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,111706.0.html
For compiling the module system you need to have Python installed on your PC.
The ti_on_missile_hit, ti_on_weapon_attack, etc., are triggers in module_items.

Yeah, I got that figured out now. Since it's in a mod, in this case Floris, then the module system doesn't work and I got the Floris development stuff...but that is way complicated with all of the folders compared to the simple module system and I'll save all of that nonsense for a rainy day. Thanks for the reply.