Question about fire

[Matt115]

This is more technical question not connected directy with A21 so i'm writing about that here. This could be possible to implement "burning out" wooden blocks? i mean by this - throwing molotov will set house in fire and change blocks into burned one. It would be possible without bigger optimalisation problems?

[doughphunghus]

8 minutes ago, Matt115 said:

This is more technical question not connected directy with A21 so i'm writing about that here. This could be possible to implement "burning out" wooden blocks? i mean by this - throwing molotov will set house in fire and change blocks into burned one. It would be possible without bigger optimalisation problems?

I don’t know the answer. But I have thought about this.. my belief: the only way to do this is for a block to “know” what type of damage it’s receiving (bullet vs tool vs fire, etc) so it knows to downgrade to a burned block.  I’m not sure this mechanic exists (a block can downgrade to another block, but I don’t think it can choose how to downgrade based on what damage it took). 

I personally wanted to find a way to make fire “travel” with some percentage of “fire can infect next block” (so a Burning house that keeps burning is possible) but I’m guessing it’s not really possible without maybe a c#/dll or server manager code, calculating it “behind the scenes” vs it being tied to the blocks or fire “effect”/buffs itself?

 

maybe a “fire item” could turn into a “fire entity” or block that would damage nearby blocks and then (some chance) of spawning another fire entity/block (and that block would be a burned wood one?) Just making it all “firery” in general for a long time? 

 

im very interested in the answer to this.

Edited March 18, 2022 by doughphunghus (see edit history)

[Spiked_Coffee]

Someone somewhere a few years ago had a mod that created self spreading fire maybe circa A18 or earlier. I'm sure someone remembers

[Ornias]

Remember the campfire defensive rings?

[Maharin]

I certainly burn easily enough.

 

[Matt115]

3 hours ago, Maharin said:

I certainly burn easily enough.

 

Hm.... this looks strange

 

[meganoth]

On 3/18/2022 at 9:32 PM, Spiked_Coffee said:

Someone somewhere a few years ago had a mod that created self spreading fire maybe circa A18 or earlier. I'm sure someone remembers

 

I think it was around A16. And I may be misremembering but it think it was quite good at tanking your FPS.

 

It needed changes to lower level code. And I assume that would be true today as well.

[Gamida]

On 3/18/2022 at 6:02 PM, Spiked_Coffee said:

Someone somewhere a few years ago had a mod that created self spreading fire maybe circa A18 or earlier. I'm sure someone remembers

 

5 hours ago, meganoth said:

 

I think it was around A16. And I may be misremembering but it think it was quite good at tanking your FPS.

 

It needed changes to lower level code. And I assume that would be true today as well.

 

 

 

 

 

[Maharin]

Burning a corn field should totally make popcorn.

[Gamida]

I also loved his Halicopter idea.