In this tutorial we’ll set up the grenadier’s flamethrower attack.

The flamethrower is a ranged attack, dealing damage to every combatant staying in it’s damage dealer’s trigger. The flame effect is started and stopped using tragged machines.

We’ll set up:

• schematic to start particle effects
• schematic to stop particle effects
• flamethrower schematic
• flamethrower ability
• flamethrower battle AI
• update the grenadier’s combatant (add the ability and battle AI)
• update the grenadier’s prefab (add the tagged machines)

Let’s start a fire!

Play Effects Schematic #

This’ll be very simple – we just start emiting particles.

Navigate to Schematics and start working on a new schematic.

Emit Particles #

Add Node > Game Object > Component > Emit Particles

We’ll start emiting particle effects on the Machine Object (our tagged machine will be on the game object of the particle effect) and all it’s child objects.

And that’s it for the schematic. Click on Save Schematic to save it, e.g. as PlayEffects.

Stop Effects Schematic #

The stop effects schematic is pretty much the same, just stop emiting – so we’ll continue working on this schematic.

We’ll simply change what we need to for this variation and use Save Schematic As to save it as a new schematic.

Emit Particles #

Stop emiting particles.

And that’s it for the schematic. Click on Save Schematic As … to save it, e.g. as StopEffects.

Flamethrower Schematic #

The flamethrower schematic is similar to the grenadier’s punch attack schematic – so we’ll just build upon that.

Open the GrenadierPunchAttack schematic.

We’ll simply change what we need to for this variation and use Save Schematic As to save it as a new schematic.

Combatant Animation #

We’ll change the used animation type and the normalized times.

Play Sound #

We’ll play an audio clip instead of a sound type.

Start Tagged Machine #

Add Node > Machine > Start Tagged Machine

We’ll start the tagged machine that’ll use the PlayEffects schematic – it’ll use the tag flameOn.

This node is added after the Play Sound node.

Wait #

Add Node > Base > Wait

We’ll wait for a bit to give the effect time to light up before activating the damage dealer.

This node is added after the Start Tagged Machine node and connects to the first Activate Damage Dealer node.

Start Tagged Machine #

Copy the first Start Tagged Machine and add it after the 2nd Wait node (i.e. the first one waiting for the stored duration).

We’ll stop the flame using a different tag: flameOff

This node connects to the second Activate Damage Dealer node.

And that’s it for the schematic. Click on Save Schematic As … to save it, e.g. as GrenadierFlamethrower.

Flamethrower Ability #

The flamethrower attack is the same as the spin attack, just with a few changes.

Navigate to Status > Abilities and copy the Grenadier Spin Attack.

Target Settings > Target Changes > Target Change 0 > Status Change 0 #

This is a ranged attack, so it’ll use the RATK status value for the change value instead of ATK.

Battle Animation > Battle Animation 0 #

Battle Animation > Damage Dealer Settings #

We’ve already set up the damage dealer using the activation tag flame.

Flamethrower Battle AI #

The flamethrower is used when enemies are away further than 4.5 world units – just like the spit battle AI.

Navigate to Battles > Battle AIs and copy the Spit battle AI.

Battle AI Settings #

Check Distance #

Ability #

Updating the Grenadier #

And once again, we’ll update the grenadier’s combatant.

Navigate to Combatants > Combatants and select the Grenadier.

Attacks & Abilities > Ability Development #

We’ll add the flamethrower ability.

Battle Settings > Battle AI #

We also need to add the Flamethrower battle AI, we also want to use it with a higher priority than the melee attacks, so we need to add it before the already added Grenadier Melee battle AI.

Save Changes #

That’s it for the editor setup.

Don’t forget to save your changes by clicking on Save Settings at the bottom of the editor.

Updating the Prefab #

Finally, we’ll add the tagged machines to the grenadier’s prefab.

Open the Grenadier Variant prefab for editing – you can find it in Assets/Tutorial Assets/Prefabs/Combatants/.

Select the FlameStream child object (where we already added the flame damage dealer).

Flame On Tagged Machine #

Add a Tagged Machine component to the FlameStream child object using the component menu.

Start Settings #

Machine Execution Settings #

Flame Off Tagged Machine #

Add another Tagged Machine component to the FlameStream child object using the component menu.

Start Settings #

Machine Execution Settings #

And that’s it for the prefab – save the changes.

Testing #

Hit play and check in on a grenadier.

Yeah … burn it to the ground!

 

Next, we’ll add item pickups dropped by enemies.