Different Explosion when projectile hits a player object.

****Updated 5/25/04****
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Create all the explosion data that you need for your explosion and create a projectile DataBlock in a seperate .cs. (Don't forget to have it execute !!!)

In the projectile DataBlock it seems important to set these values to this to work well:

muzzleVelocity = 1;
armingDelay = 0;
lifetime = 500;

explosion = "Your blood explosion that you made";
particleEmitter = Your blood emitter that looks like your explosion;

//Note If you want to use the decal for a blood splatter like Sabrecyd metions further down in this thread you will probably want to have the lifetime fairly high say 10000. The reason being that when the player hit with a kill shot the 2nd projectile will not have the player's collision box to collide with so the projectile won't explode until it hits the ground or a wall or something then the decal will appear and if the liftime is too low the projectile will just disappear before it collides with anything.

Also it should be noted that because of the kill shot problem I advise that you create a projectile emitter that looks like the blood explosion so you have a blood explosion effect to deal with the problem above. I won't go into the creation of this too much because you will need to tweak it to get the effect you are looking for. I will give you my emitter datablock as a guide you may want to use. Read the comments so you know why I set the data the way I did.

datablock ParticleData(BulletPlayerImpactSmokeParticle)
{
dragCoefficient = 0.0;
gravityCoefficient = 0.7; // makes the particles fall fairly fast illusion of drip
inheritedVelFactor = 0.0;
constantAcceleration = 0.0;
lifetimeMS = 300; // short don't need blood gush forever
lifetimeVarianceMS = 50;
useInvAlpha = true;
spinRandomMin = -90.0;
spinRandomMax = 90.0;
textureName = "~/data/shapes/particles/bulletsmoke";
colors[0] = "0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0"; // This goes Red, Green , Blue, Alpha
colors[1] = "0.5 0.0 0.0 0.4";
colors[2] = "0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0";
sizes[0] = 0.5; //Kept the size fairly small. Make it big if it's a rocket :)
sizes[1] = 0.5;
sizes[2] = 1.2;
times[0] = 0.0;
times[1] = 0.5;
times[2] = 1.0;
};

datablock ParticleEmitterData(BulletPlayerImpactSmoke)
{
ejectionPeriodMS = 50;
periodVarianceMS = 1;
ejectionVelocity = 1.0;
velocityVariance = 0.5;
ejectionOffset = 0.0;
thetaMin = 0;
thetaMax = 35;
overrideAdvances = false;
particles = "BulletPlayerImpactSmokeParticle";
lifetimeMS = 350; // Again no need to keep it going forever
};






On to the functions.

I put this in my rifle .cs file but you could probably put it in any server .cs


function blood(%pos)
{

%n = new Projectile() {
dataBlock = BloodProjectile;
initialPosition = %pos;
};

MissionCleanup.add(%n);

}



Your weapons onCollision function should look like this along with any thing else you are doing in there.

function RifleProjectile::onCollision(%this,%obj,%col,%fade,%pos,%normal)
{

// Apply damage to the object all shape base objects
if (%col.getType() & $TypeMasks::ShapeBaseObjectType)
%col.damage(%obj,%pos,%this.directDamage,"RifleBullet");


if (%col.getclassName() $= "player") {

blood(%obj.position);

}
}