View source for Making a Self-Mutating Infantry

This is a tutorial for making an infantry that can "deploy" into a brute. It involves the use of gas particles to mutate the deploying infantry. ''This tutorial was made by me (Professor_Tesla), but the credit for the gas particle code goes to rc22fires (his name on DGNF, dunno his name elsewhere).''
=== The Infantry code ===

Follow the standard procedure for adding a new infantry unit, and then add these tags to it if they are not already present:

<tt>
 [INFUNIT]
 [[Secondary]]=DeployM ;The infantry's "self-mutation" weapon
 [[Deployer]]=yes
 [[DeployFire]]=yes
</tt>

=== The Self-Mutation Weapon ===

This is the weapon the Infantry uses to mutate himself, but since this is not done directly, but by gas particles, you will have to make a weapon with minimal damage and a fast rate of fire:
<tt>
 [DeployM]
 [[Damage]]=1
 [[Range]]=1
 [[ROF]]=10
 [[Speed]]=100
 [[Projectile]]=Invisible
 [[Warhead]]=DeployMWH ;The warhead that creates the gas particle
 [[AreaFire]]=yes
 [[FireOnce]]=no
</tt>

=== The gas creating warhead ===

The warhead for the Infantry unit's weapon needs to create a gas particle, so create a warhead with these tags:
<tt>
 [DeployMWH]
 [[CellSpread]]=.0000001 ;This is low so the weapon does not affect nearby infantry units
 [[Verses]]=100%,100%,100%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%
 [[Particle]]=MutateSys ;The mutation gas particle system
</tt>

=== The mutation gas ===

Create a gas particle system with the following tags and values:
<tt>
 [MutateSys]
 [[Spawns]]=yes
 [[Slowdown]]=.0025
 [[HoldsWhat]]=MutateP ;The name of the gas particle
 [[BehavesLike]]=Gas
 [[ParticleCap]]=60
 [[SpawnCutoff]]=15.0
 [[SpawnFrames]]=5
 [[SpawnRadius]]=10
</tt>

Then create a gas particle with the following tags and values:
<tt>
 [MutateP]
 MaxDC=1
 MaxEC=2
 Damage=50
 Warhead=PMutation ;The mutation warhead
 EndStateAI=20
 Persistent=yes
 StartFrame=0
 WindEffect=0
 BehavesLike=Gas
 DeleteOnStateLimit=yes
 StateAIAdvance=4
</tt>

=== The Mutation warhead ===

Finally, create a warhead with Infantry death type 9 (mutation):
<tt>
 [PMutation]
 CellSpread=.0000001 ;This also is low for the reasons described above
 Verses=100%,100%,100%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%
 InfDeath=9 
</tt>
== Alternate method ==
This is an alternate method for making a self mutating infantry. It makes use of tags that (believe it or not) I was previously unaware of, and reveals the above tutorial to be somewhat of a Rube-Goldberg way of doing it.

=== The Self Mutating Infantry: ===
Repeat steps 1 and 2 of the above tutorial, but modify the infantry as follows:
<tt>
 [INFUNIT]
 Secondary=SelfMutate ;The infantry's "self-mutation" weapon
 Deployer=yes
 DeployFire=yes
 '''DamageSelf=yes''' ;This is needed so the Infantry unit damages himself.
</tt>

and modify the weapon like so:

<tt>
 [SelfMutate]
 Damage=1000
 Range=1
 ROF=10
 Speed=100
 Projectile=Invisible
 Warhead=SelfMutateWH ;The warhead that mutates the infantry unit
 AreaFire=yes
 FireOnce=no
 AffectsAllies=true
</tt>

Then create a warhead with these tags and values:
<tt>
 [SelfMutateWH]
 CellSpread=1
 Verses=100%,100%,100%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%,0%
 InfDeath=9
</tt>

== Glitches ==
Occasionally (I have seen it twice), if two Self-Mutating Infantry units are standing in the same cell and they deploy simultaneously, one of them will use the animation palette for the mutation animation, and a neutral brute will be spawned instead of a player-owned one. This can happen with either of the above methods.

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