Having to put a group of effect entities together each time you want to define an explosion is very time consuming and annoying. Instead you can predefine these explosions as a combination of your predefined effects and then refer to the results by name. The file called explosion.ini contains the definitions of different explosions. The format of this file is as follows:

Each explosion definition is headed by the name of the explosion, enclosed in square brackets, such as [RocketExplosion] or [GeneralExplosion]. This name will be used by other entities to reference this explosion. Following the name, up to the next explosion name or end of the file, is the information needed to define the explosion.

Each explosion can contain up to 10 different predefined effects and they can be offset from the explosion position and delayed from the explosion start. Each effect you wish to add to the explosion will require a group of 3 definition lines, chosen from the following:

effect0 delay0 offset0

effect1 delay1 offset1

effect2 delay2 offset2

effect3 delay3 offset3

effect4 delay4 offset4

effect5 delay5 offset5

effect6 delay6 offset6

effect7 delay7 offset7

effect8 delay8 offset8

effect9 delay9 offset9

You can use any definition group in any order you wish. They do not have to be used in numerical order.

Effect

The effect line contains the name of the predefined effect you wish to add to your explosion definition. This is the name you assigned to the effect during its predefinition. See Predefined Effects for details.

Delay

The delay line defines the number of seconds after the start of the explosion before this effect is activated. It can be any value greater than or equal to 0.

Offset

The offset line is the distance in the X, Y and Z axis, from the explosion position, that the effect should be positioned. This entry has 3 values, separated by spaces, to define the X, Y and Z distances. If the explosion is attached to an actor then the offset is in relation to the direction the actor is facing, with Z being In, X being Left and Y being Up.

The explosion.ini file already contains some predefined explosions and you can look at these to see what each different explosion requires.