CraterLevel

Flag:	CraterLevel
File(s):	rules(md).ini
Values:	Signed integers: All whole numbers from -2147483648 to 2147483647; in rare cases, only from -32768 to 32767.
Default:	4
Applicable to:	General
Logic related to CraterLevel, as a whole or in part, is obsolete in Red Alert 2 and/or Yuri's Revenge.

The size of the crater created when a shape or voxel debris with IsMeteor=yes lands.

Notes

Reverse-Engineered Content

The following page/section possibly contradicts several ideas accepted by the community. However, it contains information reverse-engineered from the game's executable code, not observations or theories, and as such should be considered more likely to be correct.

The craters here do not create SmudgeTypes of Crater=yes on the ground, but instead use the proprietary terrain destruction function of Tiberian Sun to depress downward a crater-like terrain that truly exists in logical space.

Available values	Effect overview
<=0 (Otherwise)	Whenever processing is performed, attempt to create a crater at the center.
	Attempt to create a crater once at the landing point;
0	Processing is only performed if CraterLevel is non-zero.
	Do not create craters.
1 (Otherwise)	Whenever processing is performed, attempt to create a crater at the center.
	Attempt to create a crater once at the landing point;
If CraterLevel > 1, enumerate the 8 direction indices [0,7], and attempt to create a crater in the adjacent cell in the direction of the index value if the index value % 2 || CraterLevel > 2.
2	If 1 < CraterLevel <= 2, then attempt only when the indices are 1, 3, 4, 7 in these directions.
	Attempt to create a crater once at the landing point and at each of the 4 adjacent cells in the intercardinal directions;
3	If CraterLevel > 2, then attempt in the adjacent cells of all 8 directions.
	Attempt to create a crater once at the landing point and at each of the 8 adjacent cells;
>=4	If CraterLevel > 3, additionally attempt to create a crater at the center once more.
	Attempt to create a crater once at the landing point and at each of the 8 adjacent cells, and then additionally attempt to create a crater once more at the landing point.

Each attempt to create a crater will randomly sink down one cell among the cell (X,Y) itself and its three adjacent cells in the southeast direction, which are (X+1,Y), (X,Y+1), and (X+1,Y+1).

From this, the theoretical maximum number of subsidence times for each cell is as follows:

0	1	2	3	4
-1 0 1 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0	-1 0 1 2 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0	-1 0 1 2 -1 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1	-1 0 1 2 -1 1 2 2 1 0 2 4 4 2 1 2 4 4 2 2 1 2 2 1	-1 0 1 2 -1 1 2 2 1 0 2 5 5 2 1 2 5 5 2 2 1 2 2 1

Footnotes

See Also

• Craters