Placing Walls in Chains

AnimalMan · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:45 pm Post subject: Placing Walls in Chains

Is possible with the Firestorm Wall???

To build a line of walls with a single placement? as default, yuri, allied and soviet --- because I cant figure out how.

hotrods20 · Commander **Joined**: 27 Jul 2009

Declaring your building with Wall=yes should inherit the wall placing ability in the base game.

Mig Eater · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:12 pm Post subject:

Walls use the tag GuardRange= to build in "chains", so GuardRange=5 means it can build 5 cells in a row etc.

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AnimalMan · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:21 pm Post subject:

thanks guys

GuardRange=

was missing

I had wall=yes

AnimalMan · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:34 pm Post subject:

turns out you don't need wall=yes you just need ares firestorm code + guardrange

hotrods20 · Commander **Joined**: 27 Jul 2009

That's really good to know. The firestorm code must override walls by default then.

AnimalMan · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:24 pm Post subject:

walls will actually make the firestorm targetable - even with passable=yes tag.

So your own tanks will want to destroy it to pass - if using both wall=yes and firestorm.wall=yes at same time.

AnimalMan · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:39 am Post subject:

Oh, but now I have the problem with the wall segments not being sellable.

Annoyingly, putting a dummy MK makes it sellable but makes its image invisible.

Seems firestorm walls won't sell. With wall tag = yes, they sell, but vehicles will not pass over them.

hotrods20 · Commander **Joined**: 27 Jul 2009

You can make a one frame empty shp for the build frame. Luckily I have one sitting around from my ore extractor. You need a build mk frame for a building to be sellable. Also, can't you take advantage of the ARES IsPassable boolean? https://ares-developers.github.io/Ares-docs/new/buildings/passablestructures.html?highlight=passable

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AnimalMan · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:42 pm Post subject:

thank you for the advice, but I had created a blank 1 frame dummy buildupmk - and tested it --- but as the building is actually a wall - adding an MK caused the firestorm wall segments themselves to go invisibile, but the segments would sell, despite being insivsible. Setting wall=yes makes the building sellable without mk and Ares passable tag will also not make wall=yes passable sadly.

ares passable tag does however remove the overlay error of units moving over the top of the firestorm wall segments though-- in cases where the wall would overlay the unit.

in addition to this,

The Sell cursor works with just firestorm.wall=yes (sorry if tag is inaccurate doing it from memory) but the sell cursor displays - as if the building can be sold - but clicking has no effect.