this fire damage is really cool :yep: Now I'm trying to figure out the best 'time' for fire to consume and destroy the ship.

If we look at a large steamer it has 400HP. A small fire will do max of 3HP damage / 1 minute. So if the small fire is the only fire burning on the ship (in theory) the ship should succumb to fire damage in 133 minutes. Does this sound reasonable? Now if there are multiple fires going it will succumb to fire damage much faster. Large fires do max of 6HP / minute of damage to the ship.

If you could add randomness into the HP then would it matter ?

Can't add randomness into this one. Has to be hard coded.

figured out something better. Now a single fire or two cannot destroy the ship. They can severely damage it and reduce it's HP to next to nothing but it will take multiple fires to destroy a ship by fire.

Great! Out of curiosity, how does it work?

Ain't that what the DLL inject could do?
:DL

no DLL injection with this one. This is making controllers do things they weren't supposed to do ;)

This will work in SH3 and SH4 also.

EDIT:

had a dumb moment there....I added some randomness now....

got some good randomness now. There's even randomness to where the damage is incurred in relation to the fire (+- some random radius from the fire is where the damage will incur).

I'll be sending it out to a couple of people for testing here soon :up:

:D:salute:

Great stuff TDW, even more the reason for me to keep following a damaged ship to see if I need to finish it off. :salute:

I tell you if my sub ever had this same randomness relating to damage when being dc'd.... that would be an awesome thing. :DL

Exactly! One fire will not take a vessel down. Two large fires might. More than two fires there's a good chance it's going down from burning (after some time). 4+ fires it's going down by burning but the question is how long will it take....:D

Testers will have it in hand here in a few and we'll see what they think about it :up:

Random Depth charge damage would be pretty BA...

Now this is pretty cool! I put some shells in a merchant and had 2 large fires and 2 small fires going on it. I stopped firing shells and shadowed it for about 25 minutes. After that time it exploded (succumbed to the fires!) and I got credit for the kill :rock:

awsome.... if you are doing all these cool things today maybe you will remember about smoked depth charges... will be cool to have these tooin sh5:rock:

Those will be simple to make. Might do it after I make the fire damage for SH3 and SH4.

EDIT:

Sober says oil slicks are working correctly! He's going to test the fires now.

This game just keeps getting better!!

Starting to wonder what brand of coffee this man drinks ... fantastic news!

No coffee or Tea...don't like either one!

Got the fires done for SH4 and now working on SH3

:o

:up:

so far feedback from the fires is very positive. I've experienced ship's blowing up from fire damage, Sober has experienced ship's burning and suffering severe damage and on the point of dying but don't, stoianm has experienced ship's taking some damage from fire but not excessive, Magnum has seen them take damage and slip underwater from what appears to be flooding....seems like an excellent random mix of results, just what I was looking for :yeah: No reports of oil slicks standing on end either :rock: