Ship oil fire effect script

[salmo]

Hi LookaLoft, Here's the script again with annotations & detailed comments that may help you get a better understanding of what some of the commands are doing. Copy/paste into Visual C# Express.

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The int i = random.Next(1, 100 + 1); line generates a random integer between 1 & 100 (inclusive) & stores the value in the variable called i. Hence it's used to determine the "percentage" (1-100) chance of the oil fire occuring. The random integer generated needs to be less than the percent chance you specify for the variable j (int j = 10; ) for the fire object to be spawned. You could change the variable j value to 100 & an oil fire would occur every time a cargo ship was sunk (ie fire occurs 100% of the time), but I thought that might be a bit too boring so I made it just a 10% chance of a fire. I would have liked to have the fire burn for a small (random) length of time, but unfortunately there seems to be no method to de-spawn (destroy) a stationary object via script.