Help needed! : Airstrike base defense

Void · Medic **Joined**: 23 Jun 2015

Hi
am trying to make a building use an airstrike as a base defence

the problem is, the building doesn't auto target anything, and also I couldn't remove the red effect from the building, am sure my code is all wrong as all i did was copy the exact code from Boris to the building.

Am using it in a special campaign map only.

Should I use spawned units ( like the naval carrier's ) instead of the airstrike?
if so, can anyone help with the code?, and thanks in advance Smile

Mig Eater · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 7:52 am Post subject:

Spawned units would be better, that only works with a 1x1 building tho.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Spawned units work with any foundation that has a central cell, as far as I know. 1x1, 3x3 and 5x5 for example.

Agent Z · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:40 am Post subject:

The building would need CanPassiveAquire=yes, and GuardRange same as weapon range. (Not sure if there must be something more, or if buildings works with airstrikes at all.)

A reason for why spawning is better, is that when the airstrike weapon targets an unit, it targets the ground beneath the unit, and does not update the target if it moves but is still in range.

Void · Medic **Joined**: 23 Jun 2015

Thanks!
Tried on 1x1 and it worked out Smile

But i wish it could've been attached to a 2x3 building such as AMRADR Sad

I'll do some trial and error and see what I can get.

The last thing i did was make an invisible unit spawn the units while attaching a trigger to destroy it when that building is destroyed.

Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 7:53 am Post subject:

Aro wrote:

Spawned units work with any foundation that has a central cell, as far as I know. 1x1, 3x3 and 5x5 for example.

Research into building spawners

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Interesting. Thanks for the link. Smile

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

Mig Eater wrote:

Research into building spawners

MCV in Research into building spawners wrote:

It seems that on buildings, the HORNETs are spawned from the topmost corner square, but insist on landing in the centre of the building. And since these only correspond on 1x1 buildings, the spawned aircraft can't launch.

If I could figure out how to make them be spawned at an offset equal to the centre square, I could see if that works, but I'm seriously doubtful. Sad

Use PrimaryFirePixelOffset or PrimaryFireFLH to set the launching point to the center? Question

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Mig Eater · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:20 pm Post subject:

They effect the weapon, which is a dummy only used for targeting. The Spawn location is separately hardcoded.

Ares recently added the ability for jumpjet units to spawn aircraft, I wonder if that also effected buildings...

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