New / Enhanced Logics

This page describes all the engine features that are either new and introduced by Phobos or significantly extended or expanded.

Buildings

Extended building upgrades logic

Upgrading own and allied Power Plants in CnC: Final War

• Building upgrades now can be placed on own buildings, on allied buildings and/or on enemy buildings. These three owners can be specified via a new tag, comma-separated. When upgrade is placed on building, it automatically changes it’s owner to match the building’s owner.

• One upgrade can now be applied to multiple buildings via a new tag, comma-separated.

  • Currently Ares-introduced build limit for building upgrades doesn’t work with this feature. This may change in future.

In rulesmd.ini:

[UPGRADENAME]       ; BuildingType
PowersUp.Owner=Self ; list of owners (Self, Ally and/or Enemy)
PowersUp.Buildings= ; list of BuildingTypes

Vehicles

Stationary vehicles

Setting VehicleType Speed to 0 now makes game treat them as stationary, behaving in very similar manner to deployed vehicles with IsSimpleDeployer set to true. Should not be used on buildable vehicles, as they won’t be able to exit factories.

Technos

Mind Control enhancement

Mind Control Range Limit used in Fantasy ADVENTURE

Multiple Mind Control unit auto-releases the first victim in Fantasy ADVENTURE

• Mind controllers now can have the upper limit of the control distance. Tag values greater than 0 will activate this feature.

• Mind controllers with multiple controlling slots can now release the first controlled unit when they have reached the control limit and are ordered to control a new target.

• Allows Warheads to play custom MindControl.Anim which defaults to ControlledAnimationType.

In rulesmd.ini

[SOMETECHNO]                       ; TechnoType
MindControlRangeLimit=-1.0         ; double
MultiMindControl.ReleaseVictim=no  ; boolean

[SOMEWARHEAD]                            ; Warhead
MindControl.Anim=ControlledAnimationType ; AnimType

Spawn range limit

Limited pursue range for spawns in Fantasy ADVENTURE

• The spawned units will abort the infinite pursuit if the enemy is out of range. Spawner.ExtraLimitRange adds extra pursuit range to the spawned units.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMETECHNO]              ; TechnoType
Spawner.LimitRange=no     ; boolean
Spawner.ExtraLimitRange=0 ; integer

Promoted Spawns

Promoted Spawns in Fantasy ADVENTURE

• The spawned units will promote as their owner’s veterancy.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMETECHNO]              ; TechnoType
Promote.IncludeSpawns=no  ; boolean

Shield logic

Buildings, Infantries and Vehicles with Shield in Fantasy ADVENTURE

In rulesmd.ini:

[AudioVisual]
Pips.Shield=-1,-1,-1           ; int, frames of pips.shp for Green, Yellow, Red
Pips.Shield.Building=-1,-1,-1  ; int, frames of pips.shp for Green, Yellow, Red

[ShieldTypes]
0=SOMESHIELDTYPE

[SOMESHIELDTYPE]               ; ShieldType name
Strength=0                     ; integer
Armor=none                     ; ArmorType
Powered=false                  ; boolean
AbsorbOverDamage=false         ; boolean
SelfHealing=0.0                ; double, percents or absolute
SelfHealing.Rate=0.0           ; double, ingame minutes
Respawn=0.0                    ; double, percents or absolute
Respawn.Rate=0.0               ; double, ingame minutes
BracketDelta=0                 ; integer - pixels
IdleAnim=                      ; animation
IdleAnim.OfflineAction=Hides   ; AttachedAnimFlag (None, Hides, Temporal, Paused or PausedTemporal)
IdleAnim.TemporalAction=Hides  ; AttachedAnimFlag (None, Hides, Temporal, Paused or PausedTemporal)
BreakAnim=                     ; animation
HitAnim=                       ; animation

[SOMETECHNO]                   ; TechnoType
ShieldType=SOMESHIELDTYPE          ; ShieldType; none by default

[SOMEWARHEAD]                  ; WarheadType
PenetratesShield=false         ; boolean
BreaksShield=false             ; boolean

• Now you can have a shield for any TechnoType. It serves as a second health pool with independent Armor and Strength values.

  • Negative damage will recover shield, unless shield has been broken. If shield isn’t full, all negative damage will be absorbed by shield.

  • When the TechnoType with a unbroken shield, [ShieldType]->Armor will replace [TechnoType]->Armor for game calculation.

• When executing DeploysInto or UndeploysInto, if both of the TechnoTypes have shields, the transformed unit/building would keep relative shield health (in percents), same as with Strength. If one of the TechnoTypes doesn’t have shields, it’s shield’s state on conversion will be preserved until converted back.

  • This also works with Ares’ Convert.*.

• Powered controls whether or not the shield is active when a unit is running low on power or it is affected by EMP.

  • Attention, if TechnoType itself is not Powered, then the shield won’t be offline when low power.

• AbsorbOverDamage controls whether or not the shield absorbs damage dealt beyond shield’s current strength when the shield breaks.

• SelfHealing and Respawn respect the following settings: 0.0 disables the feature, 1%-100% recovers/respawns the shield strength in percentage, other number recovers/respawns the shield strength directly. Specially, SelfHealing with a negative number deducts the shield strength.

  • If you want shield recovers/respawns 1 HP per time, currently you need to set tag value to any number between 1 and 2, like 1.1.

• SelfHealing.Rate and Respawn.Rate respect the following settings: 0.0 instantly recovers the shield, other values determine the frequency of shield recovers/respawns in ingame minutes.

• IdleAnim, if set, will be played while the shield is intact. This animation is automatically set to loop indefinitely.

  • Bouncer=yes animations are not supported at the moment.

• IdleAnim.OfflineAction indicates what happens to the animation when the shield is in a low power state.

• IdleAnim.TemporalAction indicates what happens to the animation when the shield is attacked by temporal weapons.

• BreakAnim, if set, will be played when the shield has been broken.

• HitAnim, if set, will be played when the shield is attacked, similar to WeaponNullifyAnim for Iron Curtain.

• A TechnoType with a shield will show its shield Strength. An empty shield strength bar will be left after destroyed if it is respawnable.

  • Buildings now use the 5th frame of pips.shp to display the shield strength while other units uses the 16th frame by default.

  • Pips.Shield can be used to specify which pip frame should be used as shield strength. If only 1 digit set, then it will always display it, or if 3 digits set, it will respect ConditionYellow and ConditionRed. Pips.Shield.Building is used for BuildingTypes.

  • pipbrd.shp will use its 4th frame to display an infantry’s shield strength and the 3th frame for other units if pipbrd.shp has extra 2 frames. And BracketDelta can be used as additional PixelSelectionBracketDelta for shield strength.

• Warheads have new options that interact with shields.

  • PenetratesShield allows the warhead ignore the shield and always deal full damage to the TechnoType itself. It also allows targeting the TechnoType as if shield isn’t existed.

  • BreaksShield allows the warhead to always break shields of TechnoTypes, regardless of the amount of strength the shield has remaining or the damage dealt, assuming it affects the shield’s armor type. Residual damage, if there is any, still respects AbsorbOverDamage.

Weapons

Strafing aircraft weapon customization

Strafing aircraft weapon customization in Project Phantom

• Some of the behavior of strafing aircraft weapons (weapon projectile has ROT below 2) can now be customized.

  • Strafing.Shots controls the number of times the weapon is fired during a single strafe run. Ammo is only deducted at the end of the strafe run, regardless of the number of shots fired. Valid values range from 1 to 5, any values smaller or larger are effectively treated same as either 1 or 5, respectively. Defaults to 5.

  • Strafing.SimulateBurst controls whether or not the shots fired during strafing simulate behavior of Burst, allowing for alternating firing offset. Only takes effect if weapon has Burst set to 1 or undefined. Defaults to false.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWEAPON]        ; WeaponType
Strafing.Shots=5             ; integer
Strafing.SimulateBurst=false ; bool

Custom Radiation Types

Mixing different radiation types

• Allows to have custom radiation type for any weapon now. More details on radiation here.

In rulesmd.ini

[RadiationTypes]
0=SOMERADTYPE

[SOMEWEAPON]                    ; WeaponType
RadType=Radiation               ; RadType to use instead
                                ; of default [Radiation]

[SOMERADTYPE]                   ; custom RadType name
RadDurationMultiple=1           ; int
RadApplicationDelay=16          ; int
RadApplicationDelay.Building=0  ; int
RadLevelMax=500                 ; int
RadLevelDelay=90                ; int
RadLightDelay=90                ; int
RadLevelFactor=0.2              ; double
RadLightFactor=0.1              ; double
RadTintFactor=1.0               ; double
RadColor=0,255,0                ; RGB
RadSiteWarhead=RadSite          ; WarheadType

Radiation enhancements

• Radiation now has owner by default, so any rad-kills will be scored. This behavior can be reverted by a corresponding tag.

  • AffectsAllies, AffectsOwner and AffectsEnemies on RadSiteWarhead are respected.

  • Currently the rad maker doesn’t gain experience from kills, this may change in future.

• Radiation is now able to deal damage to Buildings. To enable set RadApplicationDelay.Building value more than 0.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWEAPON]    ; WeaponType
Rad.NoOwner=no  ; boolean

Warheads

Hint

All new warheads can be used with CellSpread and Ares’ GenericWarhead superweapon where applicable.

Generate credits on impact

TransactMoney used in Rise of the East mod

• Warheads can now give credits to its owner at impact.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWARHEAD]   ; Warhead
TransactMoney=0 ; integer - credits added or subtracted

Reveal map for owner on impact

SpySat=yes on [NUKE] warhead reveals the map when nuclear missile detonates

• Warheads can now reveal the entire map on impact.

• Reveal only applies to the owner of the warhead.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWARHEAD] ; Warhead
SpySat=no     ; boolean

Shroud map for enemies on impact

• Warheads can now shroud the entire map on impact.

• Shroud only applies to enemies of the warhead owner.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWARHEAD] ; Warhead
BigGap=no     ; boolean

Remove disguise on impact

• Warheads can now remove disguise of spies.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWARHEAD]                      ; Warhead
RemoveDisguise=no                  ; boolean

Break Mind Control on impact

• Warheads can now break mind control (doesn’t apply to perma-MC-ed objects).

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWARHEAD]                        ; Warhead
RemoveMindControl=no                 ; boolean

Critical damage chance

• Warheads can now apply additional chance-based damage (known as “critical” damage) with the ability to customize chance, damage, affected targets, and animations of critical strike.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWARHEAD]       ; Warhead
Crit.Chance=0.0     ; float, chance on [0.0-1.0] scale
Crit.ExtraDamage=0  ; integer, extra damage
Crit.Affects=all    ; list of "affects" flags (same as SWType's)
Crit.AnimList=      ; list of animations

[SOMETECHNO]     ; TechnoType
ImmuneToCrit=no  ; boolean

Custom ‘SplashList’ on Warheads

• Allows Warheads to play custom water splash animations. See vanilla’s Conventional system here.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMEWARHEAD]            ; Warhead
SplashList=<none>        ; list of animations to play
SplashList.PickRandom=no ; play a random animation from the list? boolean, defaults to no

Projectiles

Projectile interception logic

Interception logic used in Tiberium Crisis mod

• Projectiles can now be made targetable by certain TechnoTypes. Interceptor TechnoType’s projectile must be Inviso=yes and AA=yes in order for it to work properly and the projectile must be used in a primary Weapon.

  • Interceptor.GuardRange is maximum range of the unit to intercept projectile. The unit weapon range will limit the unit interception range though.

  • Interceptor.EliteGuardRange value is used if the unit veterancy is Elite.

  • Interceptor.MinimumGuardRange is the minimum range of the unit to intercept projectile. Any projectile under this range will not be intercepted.

  • Interceptor.EliteMinimumGuardRange value is used if the unit veterancy is Elite.

In rulesmd.ini:

[SOMETECHNO]                            ; TechnoType
Interceptor=no                          ; boolean
Interceptor.GuardRange=0.0              ; double
Interceptor.EliteGuardRange=0.0         ; double
Interceptor.MinimumGuardRange=0.0       ; double
Interceptor.EliteMinimumGuardRange=0.0  ; double

[SOMEPROJECTILE] ; Projectile
Interceptable=no ; boolean

Script actions

71 Timed Area Guard

• Puts the TaskForce into Area Guard Mode for the given units of time. Unlike the original timed Guard script (5,n) that just stays in place doing a basic guard operation the “Area Guard” action has a more active role attacking nearby invaders or defending units that needs protection.

In aimd.ini:

[SOMESCRIPTTYPE]  ; ScriptType
x=71,n            ; integer, time in ingame seconds

72 Load Onto Transports

• If the TaskForce contains unit(s) that can be carried by the transports of the same TaskForce then this action will make the units enter the transports. In Single player missions the next action must be “Wait until fully loaded” (43,0) or the script will not continue.

In aimd.ini:

[SOMESCRIPTTYPE]  ; ScriptType
x=72,0

73 Wait until ammo is full

• If the TaskForce contains unit(s) that use ammo then the the script will not continue until all these units have fully refilled the ammo.

In aimd.ini:

[SOMESCRIPTTYPE]  ; ScriptType
x=73,0