FireTrebuchet

v1.4.8

A trebuchet that throws fire ammunition. The arm, sling, and rope animations match the stone trebuchet. The missile id is the fire shot.

Find placed ones with s:FireTrebuchet. See Filter.

Where you put it

Put it on the trebuchet body. In trebuchet_a_fire the body entity has the same name as the prefab. The grapeshot fire machine is trebuchet_a_grapeshot_fire, and its body is also named trebuchet_a_fire. The body needs children tagged body, sling, rope, rotate, and vertical_adjuster. The shot bone is bn_projectile_holder.

Siege scenes place a trebuchet spawner, not this script.

What you set

trebuchet_a_fire stores these rows. The prefab also stores AIAmmoLoadTag (ammoload_ai) and VisualizeReleaseTrajectoryAngle (1). Those two names are not fields on this script.

Panel field	What to do with it
ProjectileSpeed	Shot speed. Prefab: 45.
IdleWithAmmoAnimation	Sling idle with a shot loaded. trebuchet_a_sling_idle_with_ammo.
IdleEmptyAnimation	Sling idle empty. trebuchet_a_sling_idle_emtpy.
BodyFireAnimation	Body shoot. trebuchet_a_body_fire.
BodySetUpAnimation	Body reload. trebuchet_a_body_setup.
SlingFireAnimation	Sling shoot. trebuchet_a_sling_fire.
SlingSetUpAnimation	Sling reload. trebuchet_a_sling_setup.
RopeFireAnimation	Rope shoot. trebuchet_a_rope_fire.
RopeSetUpAnimation	Rope reload. trebuchet_a_rope_setup.
VerticalAdjusterAnimation	Pitch pose. trebuchet_a_anglearm_state.
TimeGapBetweenShootActionAndProjectileLeaving	Seconds from the shoot anim to the release. Prefab: 1.6.
MissileItemID	The shot. Pot machine: pot. Grapeshot fire: grapeshot_fire_stack.
Focus	AI preference. Prefab: Troops.
StartingAmmoCount	Shots on the machine. The pot prefab stores 20.
TopReleaseAngleRestriction	Highest pitch, radians. Prefab: 1.
BottomReleaseAngleRestriction	Lowest pitch, radians. Fire prefabs store 0.31. The stone trebuchet stores 0.3.
RemoveOnDeployTag	Tag removed on deploy. Empty.
AddOnDeployTag	Tag shown on deploy. Empty.
ForcedUse	Prefab stores false.
PilotStandingPointTag	Pilot point. Pilot.
AmmoPickUpTag	Ammo pickups. ammopickup.
WaitStandingPointTag	Waiting points. Wait.
NavMeshPrefabName	Navmesh under the machine. trebuchet_a_dnm.

The grapeshot fire body also writes ReloadTag reload, AmmoLoadTag ammoload, CameraHolderTag cameraHolder, and ProjectileTag projectile. It writes the ammo count as startingAmmoCount (different spelling) at 20.

What it does

Crew load and shoot like a stone trebuchet. trebuchet_a_fire throws pot at speed 45. trebuchet_a_grapeshot_fire throws grapeshot_fire_stack. The AI prefers flammable engines and other siege engines, and values small or moving targets less.

Where it lives

Modules\Native\Prefabs\props_siege_trebuchets.xml. Stone machines in the same file: trebuchet_a (boulder) and trebuchet_a_grapeshot (grapeshot_stack).

Examples

No scene file stores this script.

Fire pot. trebuchet_a_fire. Missile pot, speed 45, release gap 1.6, navmesh trebuchet_a_dnm.

Fire grapeshot. trebuchet_a_grapeshot_fire, body entity trebuchet_a_fire. Missile grapeshot_fire_stack. Same animations and the same 1.6 release gap.