BINA/ONIE: impact effects

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More than one particle possible in particle part.
Location #5: particle is fixed to character if origin is particle-character collision, not fixed if origin is character-character collision*. (* example: look up plasma shot "w3_phr_x02" and add it in particle section of <Impact Name="Kick_Hit">)

Orientation and Location often used in this combination.

Visual guides: weapon, melee, environment

Note about philosophy in here:

These visual guides don't claim be hundred percent right in technical way. I can't look into engine. But they should give a good hint which files are worth to care about and how to debug a mistake: going through all important files, e.g. Could it be that my new texture is not registered in TMBD?

However, if you think you should add information or shape this in a more accurate way then do it. =)

overview of involved files when modding ONIE in relation to weapons

if weapon shall have impact effect on environment

if weapon shall have impact effect on characters

weapon fires a particle
particle creates a sound and hits textured environment
texture’s material name is looked up in TMBD (decals do not work)
material file is looked up (can hold parent material)
effect is chosen from ONIE by weapon and material
if parent material* exists then it is possible that a second effect is lunched
ONIE effect leads to a particle and sound file which means the effect (however, sound can be also played from released particle)

* Loser’s material “Explosive” has “Glass” as parent material which shatters objects when hit; this can destroy any object - not just the "glassworld".

weapon fires a particle
particle creates a sound and hits character part
character part has an Id (probably through TRIA), Id is sent to CBPM
material file is looked up (can hold parent material)
effect is chosen from ONIE by weapon and material
ONIE effect leads to a particle and sound file which means the effect (however, sound can be also played from released particle)
it seems that effects on characters cannot be created through TMBD (still you can see a not working test there called "Character")
custom materials can be used for characters in case they are registered in ONIE

overview of involved files when modding ONIE in relation to animations

special attack

normal attack

Character performs special attack and shouts attack's name (registered in ONCC).
TRAM holds link to ONIA, for example: Eliflash1
ONIA holds impact type, for example: <Type>Eli_Super_Kick</Type>
Impact file is looked up, data is sent to ONIE.
Okay, back to TRAM which hits enemy.
Enemy's bone is hit, TRIA is looked up and data sent to CBPM.
CBPM checks material, data is sent to ONIE.
So, final effect is chosen from impact type and material.
Particle and sound becomes released.

ONCC(ONIA) holds special attack modifier information (Any/Light/Medium/Heavy) for ONIE.

Main difference is that ONIA is not used here but CBPI.

Hurt sounds:

So far, I'm not sure how hurt sounds (Light/Medium/Heavy) are chosen to be played.

overview of involved files when modding ONIE in relation to characters

if character hits ground

something left ?

Character hits textured environment.
Texture is registered in TMBD and leads to material for ONIE.
The bone Id is used for the character's impact.
Now actual impact file (Impt) is looked up.
Effect (particle and sound) is chosen from impact and the material: trough ONIE.

For example, this is used when running around. Every step will trigger a step sound, different to ground's material: dirt, snow, metal, etc..

ONCC holds impact modifier information (Any/Light/Medium/Heavy) for ONIE.

Footstep_Walk
Footstep_RunMain
Footstep_Crouch
Fall_Slide
Fall_Land
Fall_LandHard
Fall_Knockdown
Fall_Knockdown
Fall_Knockdown
Footstep_Turn
Footstep_RunStart
Footstep_SingleStep
Footstep_RunStop
Footstep_WalkStop
Footstep_RunSprint

examples

Particle - Character

Extra damage for head hits

Okay, here's a beta. w1_tap and w2_sap deals additional damage, amount depends on material "head"/"helmet". Feel free to extend/tweak/criticize.

>> put files into level0_Final

damage overview:

w1_tap

helmet: 4-5 damage; 0.6-1.7 knockback

head: 8-10 damage; 1.7-2.8 knockback

w2_sap

helmet: 2-3 damage; 0.3-0.8 knockback

head: 4-5 damage; 0.8-1.4 knockback

basic modifications / new files:

MtrlHelmet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Oni Version="0.9.37.0">
    <Instance id="0" type="Mtrl">
        <ParentMaterial>MtrlArmor</ParentMaterial>
    </Instance>
</Oni>

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MtrlHead.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Oni Version="0.9.37.0">
    <Instance id="0" type="Mtrl">
        <ParentMaterial>MtrlFlesh</ParentMaterial>
    </Instance>
</Oni>

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ONCCelite_hard_01.xml (Helmet is registered in eleventh link)

[...]
    <Instance id="3" type="CBPM">
        <Materials>
            [...]
            <Link>MtrlHelmet</Link>
            [...]
[...]

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BINA3RAPhitheadW2_e01.xml
[...]
       <Events>
           <HitCharacter>
               <DamageChar>
                   <Damage>
                       <Random Min="4" Max="5" />
                   </Damage>
                   <StunDamage>0</StunDamage>
                   <KnockBack>
                       <Random Min="0.8" Max="1.4" />
                   </KnockBack>
                   <DamageType>0</DamageType>
                   <SelfImmune>1</SelfImmune>
               </DamageChar>
               <Die />
           </HitCharacter>
           <Create>
               <FindAttractor>
                   <DelayTime>0.1</DelayTime>
               </FindAttractor>
               <AttractHoming>
                   <TurnSpeed>400</TurnSpeed>
                   <PredictPosition>10</PredictPosition>
                   <HorizontalOnly>0</HorizontalOnly>
               </AttractHoming>
           </Create>
       </Events>
   [...]

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BINA3RAPhithead_e01.xml, BINA3RAPhithelmet_e01.xml, BINA3RAPhithelmetW2_e01.xml similar to above

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BINAEINOimpact_effects.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Oni Version="0.9.37.0">
    <ImpactEffects>
        [...]
        <Impact Name="w1_tap">
            [...]
            <Material Name="Helmet">
                <ImpactEffect>
                    <Component>Impact</Component>
                    <Modifier>Any</Modifier>
                    <Sound>
                        <Name>ap_hit_hard</Name>
                        <AICanHear>false</AICanHear>
                        <AISoundType>0</AISoundType>
                        <AISoundRadius>0</AISoundRadius>
                    </Sound>
                    <Particles>
                        <Particle>
                            <Name>hithelmet_e01</Name>
                            <Orientation>0</Orientation>
                            <Location>0</Location>
                        </Particle>
                    </Particles>
                </ImpactEffect>
            </Material>
            <Material Name="Head">
                <ImpactEffect>
                    <Component>Impact</Component>
                    <Modifier>Any</Modifier>
                    <Sound>
                        <Name>ap_hit_body</Name>
                        <AICanHear>false</AICanHear>
                        <AISoundType>0</AISoundType>
                        <AISoundRadius>0</AISoundRadius>
                    </Sound>
                    <Particles>
                        <Particle>
                            <Name>hithead_e01</Name>
                            <Orientation>0</Orientation>
                            <Location>0</Location>
                        </Particle>
                    </Particles>
                </ImpactEffect>
            </Material>
            [...]

Mod ideas

How about melee attacks dealing more damage on head/helmet?

Could be more easily\accurately done with an attached particle on the hit_head animations. Gumby 03:54, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

For example, Ninja's PPK looks like it doesn't care whether it hit the head or an arm. It just has <HitAnimationType>HitHead</HitAnimationType> and this is played on target as long as PPK wasn't blocked, right? :/ Paradox-01 13:41, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Footprints in snow. Should be possible through character-environment collision plus decals or particle which becomes fixed to the ground.

Not quite. What would need to be done is have a particle attached to the character by spawning them and doing a single frame (basically 0, if interpolated, i think) animation to activate some attached particles that spawn decals. :)

I think I know what you mean. The decal is every time dropped in first TRAM frame. An alternative might be to set CollideWithWalls=true in attached particle and use HitWall event to drop the decal. Paradox-01 13:41, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

We could also have this activate cold breath effects. :) The former would only be good if we had an actual snow level (or dirt :P), but the latter would be good for Compound. Gumby 03:54, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that would be fun. ^^ Paradox-01 13:41, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Guns doing more damage to flesh\cloth than armour\metal.

I had the same thought as you a while ago, when we first had ONIE modding unlocked for us. However, I think a better application might be for guns to deal less damage to armour than to flesh. In fact, all the neccessary materials are already in place, there are seperate effects for bullet hits already. :) Gumby 03:54, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I will add damage dealing particle for flesh/cloth material around next week. Paradox-01 13:41, 10 May 2009 (UTC)