You could set the dead unit of the projectile to a 0 hp self destructing unit with blast damage.

Thanks for your reply

Do you know how i can do this exactly? I cant get my dead unit to do any dammage.

Thanks☺

Set the dead unit ID to something like a saboteur or a petard. What you should do though is copy either one of them, and make this new unit (Blast Area). Then set its HP to -100, or some other negative number. A higher one would be better if any techs raise this above 0. When it spawns it will automatically die triggering the effect you desire, I hope. I'd set the graphic ID's to be different though. Probably -1 on everything except for the death animation which would be a cool effect.

What wounduporange said, with one caveat. If you don't have Userpatch, self-destructing units are hardcoded. You'll have to change the petard, saboteur, or a demolition ship to your blast area object.

If you do have UP, set Hero mode to 32 to make a self destructing unit.

Thankyou for your relpys. However i still cant get it to work quiet the way i would like.

I have userpatch, and setting the unit to hero 32 did work to make it self destructing ( how do you even know this 😮
). The problem is the unit has 100% attck for the whole blast area. I was hoping for the affect where it does full damage at the center and lessesns as you move out away. I feel like 100% for the entire area is still to powerful on things like scorps and horses.

Unfortunatly for me, both the hardcoded petard and saboteurs do this 100% damage to the area attack. The demo ships work the way i would like, but once they are copyed and given hero 32 they loose this affect and become like petards. I dont want to sacrifce a demo ship for my projectile.

So my question is, is it possible to change this 100% damage to the whole area into the other where its less as you go out? Why does my trebuchet have the desired affect when i give it blast damage, but not petards? Can i even change a hardcoded saboteur or petard to do this?

Thanks so much for your help, you guys are lengends😃. Even as it is, its better than i had it before.

Edit
Ive got it to work!

I found that note about hero mode number 32 in the userpatch changes, just bellow it says changing to 64 will give distance based area attack.

I only know how to give it one hero number or the other, i thought the userpatch said you can add them on to each other but i couldnt figure out how. Wasnt able to create a self destructing, distance based blast attaking unit, but i could use the hard coded petard to make him have the distance based attack, then just copy another petard with hero 32 to replace the hardcoded guy i am now using.

Thanks so much vardamir and wounduporange! Would have never been able to do it without you guys!!!!

[This message has been edited by Jarrado (edited 01-28-2019 @ 12:19 PM).]

Jarrado: The modes are bit flags, so you can mix-and-match the different effects. For example, you could make a regenerating and self-destructing unit by combining the values of regen (4) and self-destruction (32) for a final value of 36. To achieve what you wish, use a value of 96.

Im not sure what bit flags mean, but i understand how adding the numbers work☺. Perfect, thankyou, does exactly as you say it would😃.

I have another question...
Does anyone know how to make a projectile die when it hits the ground? It seems to only turn into my dead unit when it hits a unit, not dammageing if landing next to.

I thought i fixed it by making the projectile size bigger (at least as big as the blast radius of the dead unit) and setting hit mode to a 1 or 2. It does the job mostly, but it seems to prefer to fully hit a unit and kill it rather than pass by his head and hit the ground and only partialy damage him.

Is it possible to leave hit mode on 0 and have the projectile die on hitting the terrain?

Thanks so much everyone for your help, never would have worked this stuff out on my own