How to make a projectile spawn another (Kingdoms)

[Ashdnazg]

I suppose Canister can be done by making it explode after 0 or so seconds, and throw a nice amount of musket balls.

[Marcus Orentius]

Yeah, but judging by the mangonel explosion, it seems to go all directions, so you would end up killing your own troops.

[Ashdnazg]

I believe that's why the scatter angle and preserve_momentum exist :)

[Shadow_Wolf33]

Does the projectiles spawning other projectiles only work with artillery? I'm trying to create a scattergun type effect with muskets, but it isn't working. I've even tried changing the musket to ribault shot in case it had something to do with ammo type. Any chance for this to work?

[Furious Mental]

Yeah just change the entry for the musket_shot projectile the same as you would change an entry for an artillery shot. Of course, you would want the effect to create a smaller number of projectiles.

[Shadow_Wolf33]

Yeah just change the entry for the musket_shot projectile the same as you would change an entry for an artillery shot. Of course, you would want the effect to create a smaller number of projectiles.

I tried doing that, I more or less followed the steps outlined by the OP (even the cow_carcass!), modifying it as needed to suit the musket_shot type. Would it make a difference that I'm trying to do it in the americas expansion? Would that type of effect be disabled for mods that don't use the mangonel normally?

[PBI]

Will this work for vanilla or does it only work in Kingdoms? I tried setting up grapeshot but the cannonballs just disappear, they don't spawn anything.

[wolfslair]

I tried doing that, I more or less followed the steps outlined by the OP (even the cow_carcass!), modifying it as needed to suit the musket_shot type. Would it make a difference that I'm trying to do it in the americas expansion? Would that type of effect be disabled for mods that don't use the mangonel normally?

I believe this only works for Kingdoms because it is hardcoded in Kingdoms.exe. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

It should work in any Kingdoms mods as long as you have all the .cas files and everything done properly in descr_proj and all the relevant effects files.

For example,you could make an exploding beehive grenade with a shrapnel effect that would randomly hit different members of a group within a certain radius, instead of just an area effect that would effect every single unit in the area radius.

Personally I want to see if I can create an exploding shell for basilisks and cannon, etc that will emit a damaging shrapnel.cas beyond the cannon ball's usual damage radius, and have a sound.evt attached to it.

I'm already working on a bullet effects set that if I finish it and make available for release, should be able to be added to just about any mtw2 mod.