DeeVee74 Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 How hard would it be to create and script propane tanks that, when shot, spew a jet of flame from the perforation, then blow up and torch everybody nearby in a superbright flash of cleansing fire?Would be cool to roll them at folk then do some magic, or put them in a mod as a 'set-piece.' :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordzues40 Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 LR DLC has the war heads that if you use the laser detonator on. they have a fire spew animation before they explode. remesh to a propane bottle and use activated by any weapon shot. just an idea. P.S. i wouldn't know how to do it just thought I'd put in my 2 cents worth in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senterpat Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Having a propane tank with that effect wouldn't be too difficult, but, having it only come from the point it was shot at would be a different story. Though I suppose you could just script it, if there was a way to detect the exact point a bullet hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladez Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I guess you could just make it come from the side faced towards the shooter. That can be accomplished with a few GetAngle calls. No need for precision, it'd likely topple over and roll a few times anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny159 Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Must.. Refrain... from... Saying... Lame... King of the Hill... Joke... XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 As I remember, the in game propane tanks are a part of the camp trailer and not a separate item. That makes it far more difficult as the modder would have to separate the tank from the trailer, (just making it explode when hit would cause it to explode anytime you hit the trailer anywhere at all) make a new mesh and texture for both the trailer without the tank, and the tank alone, then add the tank to each trailer and any other location in the game - then make another new mesh and texture of the damaged trailer after the tank exploded. A new mesh - A propane tank alone - may be easier to do. And it could be placed nearly anywhere. Just assume those propane tanks on the back of trailers are empty after 200 years. What cannot be done is to use those tanks as a bomb to blow down walls - they would work just like any other explosion in the game. In real life, it is difficult to get a propane or LP tank to explode by being shot - I saw a large one hit by a 7.62mm FMJ round once, (not on purpose, the guy was shooting at a bear) it was full, and did not explode or even catch fire. But you could smell the gas for quite a while. (The guy missed 5 times and the bear got away) The gas company guy that brought the replacement tank said he had never seen one explode, and had seen several that had been shot. He thought the bear story was hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokerine Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Shameless plug - I have the propane tank meshes available as modder's resources here :whistling: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SayinNuthin Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Once more Thermobaric Weapons which is all of the wholesome goodness of a nuclear strike with none of the nasty radiation - right down to the fireball. Whats not to love, IEDs with extreme fire damage, plus limited shrapnel effect and all for the cost of importing that throaty shushing sound of escaping gas to replace the bleep-bleep of a triggered landmine and with a damage radius that sure to meet your requirements. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf***er in the room - Go Thermobaric! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeVee74 Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 Accuracy not 100% necessary, since if you're going for immersion, you're not going to stand close enough to the thing to care.But yeah - just separate little tanks, that explode. No, maybe propane doesn't burst right away, but we're a step above red barrels right now.But, okay, what about a propane tank that releases a gas cloud? We could have two flavors.I'm directing it in my head - for some reason you're running away from Fiends (say there's six or seven thousand of them), you get to a dead end and flip around, and all you can see is their glowing little eyes as they swarm at you. But wait! What is that little thing with the 'don't shoot' warnings on it? Aha! A clever plan!Then, gas cloud, Fiends come into firing range, turn to ash while one little 10MM round zings very wide of you. Or flame jet broils their front line before they're all wiped out. Then the only elected member of Fiend hierarchy, the poor f*#@er way out front with a lead pipe*, is brought to ground simply and cleanly.Awesome stories to tell remain. *Seriously, this guy should be a named NPC for all the times I've seen him Monty Pythoning across the battle field after all his more threatening friends took a 40/70 and went to sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeVee74 Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 Thermobaric hmm. This is outside the scope of this thread, but I'll agree we need more grenades and cunning uses of such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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