README.weapon

Instructions on creating new weapon for Scorched Earth 2000
draft
Mikhail Kruk
20/02/2001

                  
new class in the weapons package must be created with the
name of weapon you want to add. It must extend class Weapon
and (usually) contains just the constructor which looks
like: (let's say you are creating weapon called MyWeapon)
                  
type = MyWeapon;
price = [integer];
argument = [any constant you might need or nothing];
explosionClass = "MyWeaponExplosion";

Now you go to file Weapon.java and add two things here:
pubic static final int MyWeapon = [some number which is not
yet used by other weapons]
and add string to the array names. This string will be "My
Weapon" and it will be displayed as the name of new weapon.
At the same time it will be expected that class has the same
name. Spaces will be omitted.
Now you have to create class MyWeaponExplosion which is kind
of hard to explain, look just at the other explosion
classes, they are fairly short and can be understood.
Now if you have created a new explosion which can be used
for tank death sequence (unlike roller or digger explosions)
you should go to ScorchField.java and change randomExplosion
method. 

Now there is one more thing: if you've added some kind of
really weird weapon which behaves unlike MIRV-style missiles
and unlike generic missiles you will need to write new
missile class (extends GenericMissile) and edit method fire
in class ScorchField to use the apropriate missile class.