Is there a cell limit for nuke damage in red alert?

w20adm · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 02 Mar 2019

Hi.

I've looked all over but can't find a solid answer. Is there a max cell limit for the nuke damage range? Been trying to create a "tsar bomba" style badger dropped nuke, but damage radius doesn't get bigger on testing.

Also, why are my rules.ini changes working on campaign but not skirmish?

w20adm · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 02 Mar 2019

OK so I solved the skirmish rules.ini issue, I had a mod active that needs any changes placed in a separate skirmish.ini file in the mod folder, but still no luck altering the nuke radius, just its damage.

NCoder · Soldier **Joined**: 22 Mar 2015

Spread is broken (or else does something very different from what it's supposed to do); there is no way to noticeably increase damage radius on a warhead prior to RA2's CellSpread option.

Nyerguds · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:08 am Post subject:

The nuke doesn't use normal spread rules; it has a footprint defined in the game, using the same system used to define building footprints.

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w20adm · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 02 Mar 2019

Thanks for the replies guys, so I guess range increase is a no go.

Nyerguds · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:13 pm Post subject:

Of course it's possible. We have the source code. Anything is possible.

But not just through some rules.ini tweaks, no.

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w20adm · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 02 Mar 2019

Nyerguds wrote:

Of course it's possible. We have the source code. Anything is possible.

But not just through some rules.ini tweaks, no.

What about putting missile silo Nike on campaign? I've heard it takes some serious tweaking or cant be done at all.

NimoStar · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2023 8:46 am Post subject:

NCoder wrote:

Spread is broken (or else does something very different from what it's supposed to do); there is no way to noticeably increase damage radius on a warhead prior to RA2's CellSpread option.

Spread works as it was designed.

It spreads damage in relation to distance.

The longer the distance, the spreader the damage.

Actually I think its a shame this seems to no longer work on RA2 (at least modenc says as much https://modenc.renegadeprojects.com/Spread#On_Warheads)

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Mig Eater · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2023 1:07 pm Post subject:

RA2 uses PercentAtMax instead of Spread. Both do the same job of deceasing the damage received the further the object is from the weapon's point of impact.

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NightFalcon101 · Civilian **Also Known As**: Falcon **Joined**: 30 May 2024

To increase nuke spread you'll have to change the radius displayed in Do_Atom_Damage in ANIM.CPP in the image, 256 covers the entire map while 12 covers the entire screen when zoomed out.

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