split from another thread....


That's something I've been thinking about for a while as well.
Might it be a good idea to add a <mass> tag and determine a "reverse thrust" using that? Whether that would assume all of the projectiles are the same in other dimensions or not, I would think that it would be a simple way to vary the wind resistance of heavier/lighter projectiles while allowing for future additions to the physics model.
On the other hand, a bullet that masses 10 g would be much more wind affected than a nuke with a mass of over 1000 kg..hmmm...
Maybe a <drag> tag or something might be better.....maybe we could even have it increased when in the water?

Is the drag configerable to how much drag you want?

Yes.

I want to revisit this, I actually have not checked out the feature, but it sounds as if this is a constant reverse acceleraton force? or is it a drag in percent of speed?

If constant, it isn't how wind resistance works. Given a high speed projectile from begin to end flight, If it is a small amount, it can be more or less similar to real wind resistance though.

take the case of a high arc projectile, it would have very low to 0 resistance at peak, where a low flight projectile would have a high resistance from begin to end.

just a thought.

Well, isn't this sort of already in effect? Wind pushes all projectiles. If
you fire into the wind, it's blown into a different trajectory.

velocity drag slowing it as it moves is pretty much the same, isn't it?

TBH, I haven't really played with this yet, but the drag works as a factor of the velocity. The drag value applies a force (each time step, 66 times per second by default), as follows:
force = -drag * velocity
Where the drag is the value from the xml, and the velocity is the current velocity of the projectile.

In short, yes it applies less force when the velocity is low (like at the apex of a high angle shot).

IDEA !

how about a tag <when hit water action>

to make inflatable weapons that float when they touch the water... and torpedoes as underwater hogs, that activate on touch of water, or stabilize the vertical velocity when they hit the water... etc ?

\
..\
....\ <-- torpedo coming down
......\
------------------- <-- water level
.........\
............------------> <-- torpedo goes to flat and aims for targets in . a restricted range...

@picci

The idea of weapons that act different in water is very, very wanted, and has been for the last few version

way cool, just checking. It seemed like this was going to be just the same as the WeaponAccelerate.

I dare someone to fine tune a weapon to have the right amount of thrust and time thrust combined with drag to result in the same trajectory as the current bombs with neither feature

aww man, there are so many cool missiles and bombs to try to duplicate! Freekin A!

If all this thrust, drag, water effect, mass and wind resistance become available in the next version, think of the possibilities...

-Tons and tons and tons of new weapons...
-Better gameplay...
-A more realistic feeling...
-Great effects...
-More strategy...

OMG OMG OMFG!

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!