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List of all visual gear types
Updated Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:27:30 +0100 by Wuzzy

This is a list of available visual gear types.

For a current list of the visual gear types look at hedgewars/uTypes.pas at the TVisualGearType enumeration: https://hg.hedgewars.org/hedgewars/file/default/hedgewars/uTypes.pas#l115

List of visual gear types

Environment

Variable name Short description
vgtFlake Theme flake
vgtChunk Theme chunk (spawns when blowing up land)
vgtCloud Cloud
vgtDust Dust cloud (e.g. of mudball)
vgtSplash Water splash
vgtDroplet Water droplet
vgtBubble Underwater bubble
vgtSteam Steam cloud (when fire hits water)
vgtFire Small decorative/harmless flame
vgtSmoke Gray smoke cloud
vgtSmokeWhite White smoke cloud

Explosion

Variable name Short description
vgtExplosion Small explosion (complete animation)
vgtBigExplosion Big explosion (complete animation which also makes screen shake)
vgtExplPart Small explosion particle, part of explosion animation
vgtExplPart2 Another small explosion particle, part of explosion animation
vgtSmokeRing Smoke ring, part of explosion animation

Weapons and projectiles

Variable name Short description
vgtNote Piano note
vgtBeeTrace Random colored flower (bee particle)
vgtEgg Broken egg shell particle
vgtFeather Birdy's feather
vgtSmokeTrace Strange smoke-like cloud from mortar
vgtEvilTrace Strange red cloud from hellish hand-grenade
vgtShell Bullet shell
vgtBulletHit Bullet impact animation
vgtLineTrail Straight shot line from e.g. desert eagle and the likes

HUD

Variable name Short description
vgtCircle Simple circle. Highly configurable!
vgtNoPlaceWarn Overlay when the placement of something failed
vgtAmmo Briefly displays an ammo icon. Appears when collecting a crate
vgtSmoothWindBar Changes the wind bar smoothly
vgtTeamHealthSorter When added, updates the sorting of the team health bars
vgtHealthTag Hedgehog health tag
vgtSmallDamageTag Small damage tag after hog damage.
vgtSpeechBubble Speech bubble with text.

Misc.

Variable name Short description
vgtStraightShot Moving sprite

Detailed visual gear reference

Here you will find a (more or less) detailed references of the various possible values for the visual gears (for SetVisualGearValues ). This is useful to customize your visual gears.

If not specified otherwise, the visual gear values have the meaning as defined in SetVisualGearValues (See LuaGears).

This section is still under construction!

vgtCircle

A simple circle which doesn't move. It is one of the few visual gears which is not removed automatically. It can be drawn in 2 different styles. With dX , dY and FrameTicks , you can set the circle to pulsate in opacity.

  • dX : Minimum opacity (0-255)
  • dY : Maximum opacity (0-255)
  • Angle : Circle style. 1 = Radial gradient ( sprVampiric sprite). 0 = Simple circular line
  • FrameTicks : Period length of opacity change. Set to 0 to disable.
  • State : Radius
  • Timer : Line thickness (only if Angle does not equal 1 )

vgtAmmo

Displays an ammo icon.

  • Frame : AmmoType ID of ammo to display (see AmmoTypes)

vgtHealthTag

A health/damage tag for hedgehogs. It shows a whole number surrounded by a simple border. dX and dY can be used for moving it around.

This is shown at the end of a turn to show the total damage received by each hedgehog in that turn, or when a hedgehog drowned. But this visual gear is also very useful to show an arbitrary whole number on the screen.

By default, it is white and moves upwards a few pixels before it disappears. Set dX and dY to 0 to disable movement. If this visual gear was spawned below the water line ( Y>WaterLine ), it will disappear as soon Y-10<WaterLine is true and Timer is ignored.

  • Angle : Scale ratio (only has an effect if Frame is non-zero). 0 or 1 = 100%
  • Frame : If 0 , its position is relative to the landscape. If non-zero, it will align to the screen instead
  • State : Number to display (must be a whole number). NOTE: Can only be set in the same tick in which it was spawned, not later
  • Timer : Expiration timer (not used if spawned below water line ( Y>WaterLine ))
  • Tint : Color of number and border
  • Scale : Unused. Use Angle for scaling instead

vgtSmallDamageTag

NOTE: Due to a bug, this cannot currently be used in Lua scripts.

Damage indicator, displays a damage value. Hedgewars uses this as the "small" damage tag used to instantly show damage of a single hit.

Looks and behaves similar to vgtHealthTag , but is slightly smaller.

vgtSpeechBubble

Displays a speech bubble with text. In Lua, you cannot change the text after this has been created. Use HogSay in Lua to spawn a speech bobble properly.

  • Frame : ID of the gear to which the speech bubble belongs
  • FrameTicks : Speech bubble type ( SAY_SAY , SAY_THINK or SAY_SHOUT )
  • (Text is stored internally that cannot be accessed by Lua)

vgtStraightShot

Displays an arbitrary sprite which moves in a random direction (can be overwritten in dX and dY ) and fades out after a short time.

  • State : ID of the custom sprite (use an ID from Sprites) (default: sprSnowDust )
  • Frame : Frame of custom sprite (default: 0)
  • FrameTicks : Life time in milliseconds (default: random between 750 and 2000)

vgtLineTrail

A straight thin yellowish line between two points which fades out after some time. As if a bullet has been fired. A vgtLineTrail has a start and an end point. The default Timer is too low so you must set it manually

  • X , Y : Start point of line
  • dX , dY : End point of line
  • Timer : Life time (default: 0)
  • Tint : Opacity (0-255). The color itself can't be changed