Create a (big) explosion midair

[CptBBQ 10]

Hi all!

I´ve got a (hopefully) small problem with a mission I´m planing.

Basically I want to make a scud missile detonate prematurely on launch. So the explosion would have to occur about 10m above the ground where the warhead would be located. Problem is, all noteworthy explosives I found are bombs which fall down before detonating. Too bad the missile itself doesn´t collide with other objects...

I currently use the ammo class 'ace_fuelexpbig' as a substitute which is too small for my needs. The only other way I can think of would be a nukeAirBurst, which again is a little to big ^^

Any input appreciated :)

Cheers,

bbq

[Migebuff 0]

Problem is, all noteworthy explosives I found are bombs which fall down before detonating.

Try creating two bombs in the same place. They will collide and explode.

[CptBBQ 10]

Heh, fun and simple! I´ll try that.

Thank you.

[CptBBQ 10]

Hey there!

I´ve got a confession to make... ^^

I came along with actually trying this just now :o

And it totally doesn´t work like I hoped it would...

Somehow the bombs always appear with enough of a delay to prevent them from colliding. I already tried creating the bombs in the sky and setPos-ing them to an 'invisible H' at the desired position. I even setPos´ed the second bomb to the position of the first one. But nothing worked...

Maybe my computer is too slow for this approach... :(

Could someone of a somewhat 'cleaner' way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

CptBbq

[ffur2007slx2_5 11]

Same too.

I also wanna to know and whatever camcreate or createVehicle are all useless, I have to choose to write some script to drop some and smoke in the mid of the sky with explosive sound, is there any simplier way?

[AZCoder 921]

This works fine:

_pos = getMarkerPos "bomb";
_explosive = "Sh_100_HE";
_bombLocX = _pos select 0;
_bombLocY = _pos select 1;
_bombLocZ = 60;
_warhead = createVehicle [_explosive, [_bombLocX,_bombLocY,_bombLocZ], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_holder = createVehicle ["weaponHolder", [_bombLocX,_bombLocY,_bombLocZ], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_warhead setPosATL (getPosATL _holder);

Change the 60 to whatever altitude you want, I just wanted to prove that the bomb blew up in the air. The CAN_COLLIDE parameter is not really needed if you just want to blow up a bomb in the air, but if you decide to blow one up inside a plane (or other model), you need CAN_COLLIDE.

Also, you can change explosive to "ARTY_SmokeShellWhite" to get smoke, but keep in mind that smoke falls to the ground.

[CptBBQ 10]

Awesome! Thanks a lot, AZCoder.

I just did a little tweak and changed

_warhead = createVehicle [_explosive, [_bombLocX,_bombLocY,_bombLocZ], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];

to

_warhead = createVehicle [_explosive, [0,0,1000], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];

that way the bomb itself isn´t visible to the player at any time.

Cheers,

Bbq

[ffur2007slx2_5 11]

This works fine:

_pos = getMarkerPos "bomb";
_explosive = "Sh_100_HE";
_bombLocX = _pos select 0;
_bombLocY = _pos select 1;
_bombLocZ = 60;
_warhead = createVehicle [_explosive, [_bombLocX,_bombLocY,_bombLocZ], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_holder = createVehicle ["weaponHolder", [_bombLocX,_bombLocY,_bombLocZ], [], 0, "CAN_COLLIDE"];
_warhead setPosATL (getPosATL _holder);

Change the 60 to whatever altitude you want, I just wanted to prove that the bomb blew up in the air. The CAN_COLLIDE parameter is not really needed if you just want to blow up a bomb in the air, but if you decide to blow one up inside a plane (or other model), you need CAN_COLLIDE.

Also, you can change explosive to "ARTY_SmokeShellWhite" to get smoke, but keep in mind that smoke falls to the ground.

Hey, thanks AZcoder!

I just wanna to know what is weaponholder?

[buliwyf 4]

Weaponholder is an invisible virtual weaponbox where you can place stuff like weapons.

:rolleyes: