(deployable) miner

whys · Medic **Joined**: 04 May 2008 **Location**: Bucharest

I want to make a drone-miner that hovers but when it mines it sticks 3 legs in the ground and use a pomp to harvest the ore.

For this I thought of deploying it; is there a straighter way, like a specific animation before it starts mining?
When done, it would pack up its pomp and legs, and go to another spot.

Vinifera7 · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject:

Couldn't you simply use deploy and undeploy animations for that? Just like the slave miner..

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Apex · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject:

The slave miner itself doesnt mine though, it sends out slaves to mine. And I think harvisting animations are impossible.

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Vinifera7 · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:43 am Post subject:

Oh, I guess I misread his question. My bad..

Apex is correct; the only harvesting animation (the one of ore being sucked in) is shared by all "normal" harvesters, which means that your drone will use it too if it's a vehicle.

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Ickus · General **Joined**: 25 Nov 2002 **Location**: @__@

simply have a deployable "oil derrick" with a low credit rate and that spawns ore for normal harvesters.

pretty unbalanced but could be expensive or country-specific and it only spreads a few bits for normal harvesters. Unfortunately it won't move to another spot, unless you order it. it could nifty though since it spreads ore so manually moving it to a nice open spot wouldn't be so bad. ? Neutral

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IcySon55 · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003 **Location**: Overworld

@OP: Vehicles cannot deploy on top of ore, and everything else you mentioned also cannot be done. So there goes that idea. #Tongue

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Gangster · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:43 am Post subject:

Slaves does have a harvesting animation, what if harvester will be an infantry type..

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Vinifera7 · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

In that case, its harvesting animation is determined by its Shovel= sub-sequence.

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whys · Medic **Joined**: 04 May 2008 **Location**: Bucharest

thanks. you dudes are imaginative.
It's good to consider the tech building deployable idea.

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deathrider1991 · Light Infantry **Joined**: 19 Mar 2008

IcySon55, that isn't exactly true. I'm not sure as to which ini file it is, but it had all of the terrain types you could build on. And I think that ore/Tiberiam/Whatevershitiscalled was able to be edited so you can build on it.

I lied. There isn't a way that i can think of right now, but I do remember having it so i could build on the tiberium...I have to go and thingk.

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GameMaster0000 · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:56 am Post subject:

deathrider1991 wrote:

IcySon55, that isn't exactly true. I'm not sure as to which ini file it is, but it had all of the terrain types you could build on. And I think that ore/Tiberiam/Whatevershitiscalled was able to be edited so you can build on it.

I lied. There isn't a way that i can think of right now, but I do remember having it so i could build on the tiberium...I have to go and thingk.

Still impossible cause ore/tiberium is "Overlays" type building can't build overlap on the overlays althought that terrain of it is set to "Buildable=yes" or not

In TS I try to make building can place on VEINS but fail cause that reason.

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