continuous_damage_effect

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Continuous damage effects create camera shake and controller vibration for players within a radius of a sound_looping. They are similar to a damage_effect but more limited in what they can do. This tag is unused by any of the stock game's maps and may have been leftover from earlier in development.

Known issues

Although this tag contains fields related to damage and damage modifiers, these fields are unused by the game. The camera shake also only applies while a non-firing damage damage_effect is playing, such as when near a rocket explosion. This is likely a bug.

Controller vibration cannot be felt in H1CE. It is unknown if the vibration works in H1A.

Structure and fields

Field Type Comments

radius

Bounds

Unit: world units

The minimum radius (falloff start) maximum (cutoff) fade the scale of the effect's camera shake linearly by distance from the sound_looping source which references this tag class.

Field	Type	Comments
min	`float`
max	`float`

cutoff scale

float

Unused
Min: 0
Max: 1

This value does not affect the cutoff radius or effect scale.

low frequency

float

Min: 0
Max: 1

Power of the low frequency controller vibration. This is scaled by distance but not the wobble function.

high frequency

float

Min: 0
Max: 1

Power of the high frequency controller vibration. This is scaled by distance but not the wobble function.

random translation

float

Unit: world units

The maximum distance that the player view can move for camera shake. It is scaled by distance and wobble.

random rotation

float

Unit: degrees

The maximum angle that the player view can rotate for camera shake. It is scaled by distance and wobble.

wobble function enum

Option	Value	Comments
one	`0x0`
zero	`0x1`
cosine	`0x2`
cosine variable period	`0x3`
diagonal wave	`0x4`
diagonal wave variable period	`0x5`
slide	`0x6`
slide variable period	`0x7`
noise	`0x8`
jitter	`0x9`
wander	`0xA`
spark	`0xB`

wobble function period

float

Unit: seconds

Controls the repeating duration of a periodic wobble function.

wobble weight

float

Min: 0
Max: 1

Sets the influence of the wobble function in dynamically scaling translational and rotational camera shake. A value of 0.0 signifies that the wobble function has no effect and the shake strength is based purely on distance; a value of 1.0 signifies that the shake strength is scaled by both the wobble function and distance equally.

damage side effect

enum

Unused

Option	Value	Comments
none	`0x0`
harmless	`0x1`
lethal to the unsuspecting	`0x2`
emp	`0x3`	Completely depletes target units' energy shields, no matter their amount.

damage category

enum

Unused

Option	Value	Comments
none	`0x0`
falling	`0x1`
bullet	`0x2`
grenade	`0x3`
high explosive	`0x4`
sniper	`0x5`
melee	`0x6`
flame	`0x7`
mounted weapon	`0x8`
vehicle	`0x9`
plasma	`0xA`
needle	`0xB`
shotgun	`0xC`

damage flags

bitfield

Unused

Flag	Mask	Comments
does not hurt owner	`0x1`
can cause headshots	`0x2`	If enabled, any headshot against an unshielded enemy will kill it regardless of the amount of damage inflicted. Even a 1-damage pistol still instantly kills a Hunter because of this flag. It is an instant kill even if the shield threshold is met with a headshot (after shields have been reduced to 0 by the damage effect but health is full). For example, even though the pistol deals 25 damage and players have 75 shield vitality, if the final shot is a headshot the player dies. Although there is also a can cause multiplayer headshots flag, it has a separate meaning and this flag applies to both SP and MP. A model's headshot area is determined by its `head` region.
pings resistant units	`0x4`
does not hurt friends	`0x8`
does not ping units	`0x10`
detonates explosives	`0x20`	If enabled, causes the effect to trigger the explosion of dropped grenades within its radius, used for explosion chaining. This only applies to maps loaded in singleplayer mode. Note that the item receiving damage (e.g. the grenade equipment) must also have its destroyed by explosions flag enabled. If the grenade has been placed within the scenario in Sapien, the does accelerate flag will also need to be checked in the properties window.
only hurts shields	`0x40`
causes flaming death	`0x80`
damage indicators always point down	`0x100`
skips shields	`0x200`
only hurts one infection form	`0x400`
can cause multiplayer headshots	`0x800`	Applies a 2x damage multiplier to headshots in multiplayer (based on how the map was loaded, not scenario type). This multiplier stacks with material modifiers below, so for example a cyborg armor modifier of 2 with this flag enabled results in a 4x headshot damage modifier. A model's headshot area is determined by its `head` region.
infection form pop	`0x1000`