soviet paratroopers

Nikademis Von Hisson

With help from a friend we managed to get the paratrooper issues resolved, now I want to make the soviets build a air force command. I have the building & planes, but I want them to build their own troopers.instead of using the allied sided ones.The button shows up but i cant drop anything. I have the following things added:

SoviParaDropInf=SOVI ;Types of infantry for the planes to drop
SoviParaDropNum=9 ;How many of each of those infantry

under buildings:

423=RAMRADR ;Soviet Air Force
424=SOVAIRC

under animation list

1121=SOVAIR_A
1122=SOVAIR_B
1123=SOVAIRBB
1124=SOVAIRMK

under super weapons:

13=SovietParaDropSpecial

under [AI] controls

BuildRadar=GAAIRC,AMRADR,RADARUNIT,RAMRADR,SOVAIRC

under special weapons type (near the bottom of rulesmd)

[SovietParaDropSpecial]
UIName=Name:SPara
Name=Soviet Paratrooper Drop
IsPowered=false
RechargeVoice=
ChargingVoice=
ImpatientVoice=
SuspendVoice=
RechargeTime=4
Type=SoviParaDrop
Action=SoviParaDrop
SidebarImage=APARICON
ShowTimer=yes
DisableableFromShell=no ; gs this determines which superweapons are turned off by the checkbox

now i see this how would i include my soviet paratroops, FYI ALLI is the old E1

PParatrooper=ALLI ; infantry that is dropped as a paratrooper

John Galt · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:00 am Post subject:

Hahaha. Do you ever search the forums to, I don't know, see if that's been tried before? Or, maybe, to figure out what the INI flags do instead of ass-u-ming they do what you want them to?

Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:11 am Post subject: paratrooper

yes i do search the forums. i havent found anything of usefullness. if people made the post with the name insetad of help me, or game crash maybe it would be easier to find.My building works to show, but i can not drop paratroopers... off topic question.....do you have a read map of Vilinus, the capital of Lithuania. If I ever get my stuff working I'm gonna need it for a mod. where in Lithuania do you live, my grand parents were born there.

Allied General · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:31 am Post subject:

Hardcoded

Use NPatchSE

If adding a new superweapon was so easy, every mod would have multiple paradrops by now.

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:39 am Post subject: NPatchSE

NPatchSE what will this do??? and where do i get it, did a google search & nothing

Allied General · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:47 am Post subject:

do you know how to use google and like click links? or for that matter read?

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Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:06 am Post subject: google

ok, now it appears you are being nasty. i did a search & it came back with 5 japanese writings. nothing................i repeat nothing that stated red alert 2, yuri revenge or commabd & conquer

John Galt · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:17 pm Post subject:

Actually, it appears you are being clueless. I searched the RA2 forum for "paradrop" and among other things found http://ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15560&highlight=paradrop . Good job not looking stupid.

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

without ever playing with paratroopers before, I'm just going to make an assumption and see if it works:

When you capture an airfeild as the Soviets, you get soviet paratroopers. I'm gonna assume that the airfeild has the paratrooper thing attached to it, so just copy and paste that unto you soviet airfeild to see if it works. (totally random guess, but see if it works).

This may sound ambitious, but someone needs to go through all the "HELP ME PLZ!!11!1" topics and rename them according to what they are actually talking about, thus making it easier to search for stuff (when scrolling through the indexi).

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John Galt · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

Quote:

This may sound ambitious, but someone needs to go through all the "HELP ME PLZ!!11!1" topics and rename them according to what they are actually talking about, thus making it easier to search for stuff (when scrolling through the indexi).

Why should we waste our time fixing the mistakes of the incompetent? I say just lock uselessly named threads on sight until the author learns to name them adequately.

Allied General · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

If you actually google npatch se

1, You get mental omega readme

2. If you read it it has a link to NPatch SE

3. If you read help file (which comes with the mdk) it will explain how to add paradrops

4. Stop being a dumbass

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Lt Albrecht · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject:

5) AG, calm down.
Just put a link and say something like "how the hell did you screw that up?"

But it is quite funny that he managed to miss all the Npatch stuff...

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Allied General · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject:

I'm not even angry, I feel so abused by the stupidity of this thread its not even funny.

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John Galt · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject:

And let us note that the original poster made the thread in Mapping Discussion. Again. Almost as if the original poster doesn't comprehend the fact that there are RA2 editing forums outside it. Almost as if the original poster doesn't think.

Lt Albrecht · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

Ok, now that I didn't know...

Where's my flamethrower?

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wardeathfun · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject:

lol, my topic.

Team SomeGuy · General **Joined**: 18 Aug 2006

There is a method for doing multiple paradrop types in RA2/YR.

However, it is limited to 2 factions maximum.

First up, Superweapon=ParadropSpecial. <------- Tech Airport Superweapon. Use that as one sides.

Second, Superweapon=AmericanParaDropSpecial. <---------- American Air Force Command Center paradrop Superweapon. Use that for the other.

NOTES:

Limited to 2 factions tops. (or any amount of countries each Side= has)
Must be modified to change amounts, cargo (soldiers), and frequency of drop.
Aircraft used for Paradrop will be the same (unless you know of a method without NPatch to separate the two)
Will disable the Tech Airport if you keep it in your mod. (well one side will)

Enjoy!

Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: paratrooper

first of all when i started this post it was in mapping discussion. is this not mapping discussion?

second when i did a google search i got the attachment

third when i search the forums for paratroopers or paradrops i get stuff that does not pertain to what i am looking for so i make a post. i know from experience that my friend does searches for his paintball business & doesn't always get the same results that i do when he asks for some help

i can capture tech airports & they do create soviet paratroopers. i was looking for something that when you build an air force command that they would build paratroopers. i got a tab on the defense section for the troopers but there is no parachute for them to deploy like you get on normal paradrop.

Lt Albrecht what are talking about??? you lost me with the flamethrower, lol

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

lol, that attempt at crop was made of epic fail.

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Tratos · General **Joined**: 01 Jan 2003

To be fair to the guy if you search "NPatchSE" you do get 5 results of rndom chinese iconography, if however you use your head and then search NPatch, guess what the 1st resulkt is, yes, the NPatch homepage.

Nikademis Von Hisson · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:48 am Post subject: paratrooper

thanks tartos, how do i download it? I don't see a tab that sounds download

John Galt · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:25 am Post subject:

"Then my teacher said: 'Even you, miss Bundy, are not that dumb.'" "But he was wrong, wasn't he, Kel?"

4StarGeneral · General **Joined**: 14 Sep 2006 **Location**: Limbo

Indubadibibily.

The best way to do it the way he wants to is by using NPatch or RockPatch. And if he can't find it in the first 5 topics in google, well sorry if he has to actually look...

Secondly, this thread is made up of DCoder's sig. which I support for this, even when its in direct conflict of my teachings. I'm sorry but some people cannot be helped.

Use NPatch, documentation is included and if not, ask CNCVK. Download

End of story.

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Elerium-155 · Commander **Joined**: 07 Mar 2005

Topic locked due to flame generation and question answered.

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