Landmines

Allied General · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:05 am Post subject: Landmines

I can't download the mods cos I don't have the capacity at home but how do moomans or deezires mines work?

Are they buildings?

If so how did they make them undetecable to the enemy.

Apparantly the Invisible=tag causes reconnection issues.

I also tried cloaked generator and this of course cloaks nearby units and prevents automatic explosion.

And spy/mirage logic cannot be applied to structures.

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

I believe it is done using infantry spawn logic. If you can find it, there is more information in the open-source thread at Sleipnirstuff.com

Clazzy · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject:

I suppose you could use the InvisibleInGame=yes tag, but you won't be able to see if yourself. I may be wrong but you should be able to drive over it without a problem.

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Allied General · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:13 am Post subject:

I thought InvisibleInGame would cause even more issues as that is normally reserved for unplayable special house, looks like I need to replace my concussion mine and mine clearer Sad

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Clazzy · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:56 pm Post subject:

InvisibleInGame was used by the invisible light posts in TS and had no issues. If you think it may have a problem due to the house, just make it Owner=Civilian,Special or whatever.

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Allied General · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:48 am Post subject:

well it got a online reconnection issue.

I look at SgtMay's mines are they are "firestorm" walls so you can drive over the object and the mine had legaltarget=no set but this is kinda useless against online foes as they will simply force fire on them.

Also cloakradius can't accept =0.5

Deezire
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InvisibleInGame=
Can be set to 'yes' or 'no' and determines whether or not this object is always totally invisible to all players in the game. Note that the difference between this and the Invisible= statement is that in this case the object cannot normally be targeted or destroyed which could cause problems - for this reason, it should not be applied to player-owned objects.

The player that built the mine can also not see it Sad

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ComradeSpike · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 15 Jun 2003

when I made mines I made them so they don't discriminate between friend and foe... they just blow up when something gets near it try this code:

[MINE]
Name=Limpet Mine
Strength=100
Points=50
Cost=700
Sight=5
Power=0
Armor=wood
CloakGenerator=yes
CloakRadiusInCells=1
CloakingSpeed=.01
Primary=LimpetBomb;USE TERRORIST-like WEAPON FOR SUICIDE BOMB
TechLevel=1
Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
MaxDebris=0
BaseNormal=no
Unsellable=true
IsLimpetMine=true
Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance,Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs,YuriCountry
GuardRange=2
AttackFriendlies=yes
DamageSelf=yes
HasStupidGuardMode=false

**the weapon needs DecloakToFire=no

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Allied General · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:55 am Post subject:

cloaked structures don't seem to automatically attack other units.

Also that mine will cloak any friendly units nearby.

I believe the limpet mine logic is obsolete (in FS you could just use cloakable=yes)

I'm not sure about AttackFriendlies, does that work on buildings?

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ComradeSpike · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 15 Jun 2003

That is a working mine code from my mod...

1. putting DecloakToFire=no on the weapon makes it fire while the mine is still cloaked without taking the time to uncloak then fire... BTW: you're right about cloaked things taking longer to attack so the weapon works best with Speed=100 so units can't drive away before the weapon fires... Wink

2. the unit will destroy the friendly units AS SOON AS they enter the weapon's range so they don't have time to cloak...

3. IsLimpetMine=true has no effect at all in Ra2... it's just leftover from my copy/paste from fs Laughing

4. AttackFriendlies suprisingly does work on buildings... Cool

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