Copy EXACTC SAME building and animations

sooy_damy · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 17 Mar 2010

I`ve been trying to make a copy of some buildings in the game, more specific with the Firestorm Generator and Firestorm Wall Section.

What I want is copyng the exact buildings(recolored) and the exact animations(recolored). But I just cant get them to work Confused

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I tried many ways but I just cant make it Sad

... the problem is that the buildings didnt show up, well the Firestorm generator did, but only a half XD... I think it is because a animation problem

And the Firestorm Wall Section just didnt appear in the construction sidebar...

SO the thing is: how can I make the copy of the building I have to do everything like the original building and just use other colors in the animation and in the building??

PD: I`ve made the inis, if someone want to see the problem in action I can upload the files, but please help me Wink

Ordosherrscher · Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 6:02 pm Post subject:

I fear the firewall is hardcoded. You can't have a second FS generator at all, but I may be wrong

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sooy_damy · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 17 Mar 2010

Well but so... how is it? are you sure? Confused

Ordosherrscher · Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject:

Im pretty sure, just like the nuke silo. Its also hardcoded to being just one

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High Templar X · Cyborg Firebomber **Joined**: 26 Apr 2010

You can replace the graphics it uses, but you can only ever have one properly working FireStorm Generator.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

I've never tried a second firestorm generator, but due to the hack section with the key GDIFirestormGenerator=GAFIRE do i doubt that a second generator would work.
Though this should be tested and maybe this key accepts multiple entries.

However i know that a second firestorm wall works (tested). The only problem is that it uses the activeanim from the normal firestorm wall and both firestorm walls will go online if they belong to the same player.

Though this doesn't explains the problems from sooy_damy. The buildings should appear none the less ingame.
It sounds more like a simple graphical problem:
-shp's of the building copies not stored correct in a mix or not complete (e.g. gafire.shp also needs a gtfire.shp to show on temperate maps due to the prefix ga/gt)
-building copies not set up correct in the inis

sooy_damy, show your code and your shps so we can have a look at them.

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