Missile Explosions and Hull Damage Detection

Absolutely amazing M0tah

Thanks

now i can continue my work in peace.

(and motah, is their a way i can download 88flak’s server.dll with the hack?)

In single player, this hack will generate additional damage. For example, I changed the Javelin to do 10 damage and Flint to a Rheinland battleship (rm_r_battleship). Firing a missile into the center hits two groups (Rh_main_lod1/DpMain & Rh_midfrnt_lod1/DpMidFrnt) for 20 damage. Applying the patch then does 30 damage - the two groups plus presumably the ship as a whole.

The damage is actually found a little further down, in the function at 0x(6ce)9690. In SP, GetRadius returns a valid value, but in MP it is returning 0. I think the real problem is with something used by GetBoundingSphere. That’s as far as I went, back to you, M0tah…

It won’t be a problem for any model without subcomponents.

Nice work M0tah!

adoxa wrote:
In single player, this hack will generate additional damage. For example, I changed the Javelin to do 10 damage and Flint to a Rheinland battleship (rm_r_battleship). Firing a missile into the center hits two groups (Rh_main_lod1/DpMain & Rh_midfrnt_lod1/DpMidFrnt) for 20 damage. Applying the patch then does 30 damage - the two groups plus presumably the ship as a whole.

The damage is actually found a little further down, in the function at 0x(6ce)9690. In SP, GetRadius returns a valid value, but in MP it is returning 0. I think the real problem is with something used by GetBoundingSphere. That’s as far as I went, back to you, M0tah…

Did some more testing, and I couldn’t get CArchGroup::GetRadius to be called at all, in either MP or SP (though 0x9690 is). You are referring to that call in 0x9690, correct?

in a quick test i just did i also couldnt break on getradius within the mentioned function

It seems that part of the function is only called if the object has collision groups (restoring the original Flint still broke; commenting the [CollisionGroup] entries failed to break). Even so, these particular collision groups are different to the battleship ones, generating a radius of 0 (it skips the bounding sphere altogether).