Is it possible to have a missile spawn particles on fragment

[Song]

I'm trying to find a way to have a missile hit a target, and spawn a spherical effect using the "particles" type of fragment, rather than the "missile" type of fragment. But I'm not sure if this is possible, or if so how I would do such a thing. Has anyone else tried this out?

[Song]

So I'm guessing from the thunderous response, either it's not possible or no one knows how to get it working. Pity.

[PM]

The plasma explosions used by exploding Ringer/Teraton stations and Iocrym ships are particles (based on Iocrym Fracture Cannon).

Otherwise, a combination of the <OnFragment> event and a loop containing (sysCreateWeaponFire ...) should do the trick.

[Song]

I'll probably have to do the latter. The problem is that the iocrym explosions are (like all of the games ship/station explosions) virtual weapons: they're not actually fragmentation events. It may or may not be possible to port the code over.

[digdug]

sorry, just saw this.
Actually you can create particle clouds using <ParticleExplosion> effect in a <HitEffect>:

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<HitEffect 
							sound=	"&snArmorHit1;"
							>
						<ParticleExplosion
								particleCount=		"20d4"
								particleSpeed=		"30"
								particleLifetime=	"40"
								>
							<Image imageID="&rsDebris1;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="4" imageHeight="4" imageFrameCount="8" imageTicksPerFrame="3"/>
						</ParticleExplosion>
					</HitEffect>

This is used to add clouds of particles for some missiles like the NAMI heavy, I think.

Of course, in the <Image> you can use any loaded image you want (or custom made) and create clouds of them. The vanilla one uses animated debris particles but I'm pretty sure that it can accept other stuff too.

[Atarlost]

You could use a 30 degree particles weapon type with a fragment count of 6 if it's damage you want.