View source for Adding A Kamikaze Airstrike To RA2/YR

This is a fairly easy method of adding a suicide bomber aircraft and/or it's superweapon. ''Note: Requires RockPatch 1.06 or later.'' ''Note: All credit for the warhead, projectile and airplane goes to Renegade, while Electro designed the superweapon code.''

=== The Missile Code: ===

The missile code is placed in the {{Ini|rules}}. Of course you may tailor it to your needs.

<tt>
 [MissileJump]
 Damage=40              ;Determines the amount of damage caused
 ROF=45                 ;Determines the Rate Of Fire
 Range=6                ;Determines the range at which the plane will start diving into it's target
 Speed=80               ;Determines the speed of the diving plane
 Warhead=CruiseAP       ;Determines which warhead will be used for the missile
 OmniFire=yes           ;See [[OmniFire]]
 Projectile=SCDMISSILE1 ;Set's which projectile to use as the payload
 LimboLaunch=yes        ;Here's the limbo launch trick
</tt>

=== The Warhead Code: ===

The warhead code is also placed in the {{Ini|rules}}. Of course you may tailor it to your needs.

<tt>
 [CruiseAP]
 CellSpread=1.3                                          ;Determines the radius of the warheads blast
 Wall=yes                                                ;Determines if the warhead can destroy walls
 Wood=yes                                                ;Determines if the warhead can damage terrain
 Verses=25%,25%,15%,75%,100%,100%,100%,95%,90%,100%,100% ;See [[Verses]]
 Conventional=yes                                        ;See [[Conventional]] 
 InfDeath=2                                              ;See [[InfDeath]]
 AnimList=MININUKE                                       ;Determines anim played when warhead explodes
 ProneDamage=100%                                        ;See [[ProneDamage]]
 MinDebris=1                                             ;See [[MinDebris]]
 MaxDebris=2                                             ;See [[MaxDebris]]
</tt>

=== The Projectile Code: ===
The projectile code is also placed in the {{Ini|rules}}. Of course you may tailor it to your needs.

<tt>
 [SCDMISSILE1]
 Image=FALC            ;Determines the image of the projectile, currently set to Harrier's image
 AA=no                 ;Determines if the projectile can damage airborne units
 Arm=2                 ;See [[Arm]]
 AG=yes                ;See [[AG]]
 ROT=8                 ;Rate Of Turn, requires to use Rotates
 Shadow=yes            ;Determines should a shadow be drawn on the ground
 Proximity=no          ;See [[Proximity]]
 Ranged=no             ;See [[Ranged]]
 [[FirersPalette]]=yes     ;This tag can only be used on SHP projectiles, so it's useless here
 SubjectToCliffs=no    ;See [[SubjectToCliffs]]
 SubjectToElevation=no ;See [[SubjectToElevation]]
 SubjectToWalls=no     ;See [[SubjectToWalls]]
</tt>

=== The Kamikaze Airplane: ===
This is the kamikaze airplane code. It is placed (again) in {{Ini|rules}}. It has to be specified in [[AircraftTypes]]. You should also add the appropriate string into [[Ra2md.csf]]. You may tailor it to your needs.

<tt>
 [CRUISEM]
 [[Image]]=FALC
 [[UIName]]=Name:CRUISEM
 [[Name]]=Kamikaze Airplane
 [[Primary]]=MissileJump         ;Weapon to use when it kamikazes into it's target
 [[DeathWeapon]]=HornetCollision ;Alternate weapon when it gets shot down
 [[CanPassiveAquire]]=no
 [[CanRetaliate]]=no
 [[Strength]]=120
 [[Category]]=AirLift
 [[Armor]]=light
 [[TechLevel]]=-1 
 [[Sight]]=0
 [[RadarInvisible]]=no
 [[Landable]]=yes
 [[MoveToShroud]]=yes
 [[PipScale]]=Ammo
 [[Speed]]=16
 [[PitchSpeed]]=1.1
 [[PitchAngle]]=0
 [[OmniFire]]=yes
 [[Owner]]=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance,Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs,YuriCountry
 [[Cost]]=1000
 [[Points]]=20
 [[ROT]]=3
 [[Ammo]]=1
 [[Crewed]]=no
 [[ConsideredAircraft]]=yes
 [[AirportBound]]=no
 [[GuardRange]]=1
 [[Explosion]]=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
 [[MaxDebris]]=3
 [[IsSelectableCombatant]]=no
 [[VoiceSelect]]=ChaosDroneSelect
 [[VoiceAttack]]=ChaosDroneAttackCommand
 [[VoiceMove]]=ChaosDroneMove
 [[VoiceFeedback]]=
 [[VoiceCrashing]]=ChaosDroneDie
 [[DieSound]]=
 [[MoveSound]]=IntruderMoveLoop
 [[CrashingSound]]=IntruderDie
 [[ImpactLandSound]]=GenAircraftCrash
 [[Locomotor]]={4A582746-9839-11d1-B709-00A024DDAFD1}
 [[MovementZone]]=Fly
 [[ThreatPosed]]=20
 [[DamageParticleSystems]]=SparkSys,SmallGreySSys
 [[AuxSound1]]=IntruderTakeOff
 [[AuxSound2]]=IntruderLanding
 [[Fighter]]=yes
 [[AllowedToStartInMultiplayer]]=no
 [[ImmuneToPsionics]]=yes
 [[ImmuneToRadiation]]=yes
 [[PreventAttackMove]]=yes
 [[Trainable]]=no
 [[Spawned]]=yes
</tt>

=== Superweapon Code: ===

The superweapon code is (again) placed in the {{ini|rules}}. You must list the superweapon in [[SuperWeaponTypes]]. I don't recommend editing anything here but: [[RechargeTime]], [[IsPowered]], [[Spyplane]], [[SpyplaneNums]], [[ShowTimer]], [[SidebarImage]] and [[EvaReady]]. You must add a different action. See [[RockPatch Docs:Adding custom Actions|Adding Custom Actions]] for help.

<tt>
 [AirstrikeSpecial]
 [[UIName]]=Name:KAZI
 [[Name]]=Kamikaze Airstrike 
 IsPowered=false             ;Defines whether this superweapon requires base power to be online
 RechargeTime=4              ;Time until it charges up
 Type=SpyPlane               ;SpyPlane is the type for SpyPlane clones or Airstrikes
 Action=Kazi                 ;check out the Adding custom Actions page to find out more about this
 SidebarImage=KAZICON        ;Cameo in the sidebar
 ShowTimer=no                ;Should everyone be allowed to see the timer
 DisableableFromShell=no     ;Defines can this superweapon be disabled by turning off superweapons 
 FlashSidebarTabFrames=120   ;See [[FlashSidebarTabFrames]]
 AITargetingType=1           ;Defines where will the AI use this superweapon. See [[RockPatch_Docs:Making_the_AI_use_custom_SuperWeapons|AI Targeting]] for info
 SpyPlane=CRUISEM            ;Sets which plane will be used for the airstrike
 SpyPlanesNum=3              ;The number of planes which will kamikaze
 IsAirstrike=yes             ;Defines is this an airstrike or spyplane
 EvaReady=EVA_AirstrikeReady ;The sound which is played when it's fully charged up
</tt>

==Without RockPatch==
Attempting to create a Kamikaze plane based on ''LimboLaunch=yes'' in RA2 will result in having the engine count the airplane as if it still existed, even when it has been limboed, thus a dot will be seen on the radar map on the location it detonated, although it is not really there. And ''Suicide=yes'' on an aircraft-fired weapon results in an [[IE]]. This is obviously not what you'd want. Thus: 

Create an airplane and give it a primary weapon with the following flags: 

rules.ini:
<tt>
 Damage=1
 Projectile=Invisible   ;THIS IS IMPORTANT
 Anim=SUICIDE_ANIM      ;A NEW ANIM. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!
 Range= ''This should be equal to the distance the plane travels while falling (when being shot). 
For those with Fighter=yes, it should be about 5, those with Fighter=no drop vertically.''
 Warhead=NullWH ;any dummy warhead
</tt>

Then, give the plane a powerful ''Secondary='' or ''DeathWeapon=''. This should be the weapon you want the plane to hit your enemies with in in its suicide attack.

Then, open art.ini and create an animation called ''SUICIDE_ANIM'' (or whatever the name of Anim of the weapon was). You can give it any animation you like. Give it a ''Damage='' at least equal to the ''Strength='' of the Kamikaze Plane.

Now, once the plane gets in range of its target and fires, the firing animation the weapon sets off will cause damage to the airplane and destroy it. If the primary weapon's ''Range='' was set to the right distance, the plane will then crash into whatever was targetted. 

Note however, that this cannot be put on a superweapon in RA2, since the only plane spawned by a SW action is the Paradrop Plane, which doesn't really fire its weapon.

This also works in TS.

[[Category: RA2/YR Tutorials]]

==With vanilla RA2 NO animation required==

The simple DetonationAltitude=1 method:



[HornetBomb]
OmniFire=yes
Projectile=SuicideP
; Make sure I have Damage=x enough to kill myself. Default value is strong enough already

[SuicideP]
DetonationAltitude=1
Dropping=yes
Image=none



All this does is set the DetonationAltitude to an impossibly low number meaning that this projectile will explode whenever it's fired above that height

This works so long as the unit caries a weapon / warhead combination powerful enough to kill itself. This is a universal technique that works on jumpjet, pad aircraft as well as spawned ones and is useful as spawned aircraft do not support firing animations.

Very rarely this may fail due to extremely fast units with high speed. To fix this, increase the damage and add a cell spread value to the warhead