Making projectiles shrink with time?

[20percenttaco]

Heya!

I have tried to create a flame turret mod, and want the fire projectiles to decrease in size with time. I thought I could use the speed variable for this, since there's acceleration.
So what I did was add this to my projectiles.lua file -


(everything that's there - this stuff works)

data:extend({

{
type = "projectile",
name = "flame",
flags = {"not-on-map"},
acceleration = 0.003,
action =
{
type = "direct",
action_delivery =
{
type = "instant",
target_effects =
{
{
type = "create-entity",
entity_name = "flame-bubble"
},
{
type = "damage",
damage = { amount = 5, type = "laser"}
}
}
}
},
light = {intensity = 1.0, size = 20},
animation =
{
filename = "__NewEnemies__/graphics/flame/flame.png",
tint = {r=1.0, g=1.0, b=1.0},
frame_count = 1,
width = 24,
height = 66,
priority = "high",
blend_mode = "additive"
},
speed = 1.00
},




{
type = "explosion",
name = "flame-bubble",
flags = {"not-on-map"},
animation_speed = 1,
animations =
{
{
filename = "__NewEnemies__/graphics/flame/flame-bubble.png",
priority = "extra-high",
width = 8,
height = 8,
frame_count = 5
}
},
light = {intensity = 1, size = 10},
smoke = "smoke-fast",
smoke_count = 2,
smoke_slow_down_factor = 1
}



if (flame.speed >= 0.06) then
flame.animation.height = flame.animation.height - 1
flame.animation.width = flame.animation.width - 1
end


})



this doesn't work though, I get an error saying I'm missing the } to close the { on line 3. Anyone have an idea how to do this?

Thanks :3

[Klonan]

if (flame.speed >= 0.06) then
flame.animation.height = flame.animation.height - 1
flame.animation.width = flame.animation.width - 1
end

You can't do scripting like this in a prototype definition,
And also we are making our own flamethrower turret so it might not be worth your time to work on your own version

[20percenttaco]

if (flame.speed >= 0.06) then
flame.animation.height = flame.animation.height - 1
flame.animation.width = flame.animation.width - 1
end

You can't do scripting like this in a prototype definition,
And also we are making our own flamethrower turret so it might not be worth your time to work on your own version

ah, I had no idea. thanks