Speeding up animation of war factory/war factory door.

Dbzruler72 · Civilian **Joined**: 09 Aug 2007

I believe many have encountered this problem before. When making the BuildSpeed less or lowering the price, units are built faster. For units or aircraft, this isn't a problem. But with vehicles, the war factory doesn't close its door fast enough to let the next vehicle out.

For example, BuildSpeed=.5 & two Wolverines are created. The first one walks out the war factory, & as the war factory door is closing, the other Wolverine has finished the build animation--but the Wolverine is no where to be found. Basically, credits have just been wasted.

Is there a way to fix this problem?

Blade · Cyborg Commando **Joined**: 23 Dec 2003

I believed you actually get the credits back if that happens and a unit can't be created, I guess I'll have to pay more attention.

soader · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 28 Sep 2005

i dont know about speedin up animation, maybe delete a few frames, or just buy another war factory

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Judeau · Commander **Joined**: 28 Feb 2004

soader wrote:

i dont know about speedin up animation, maybe delete a few frames, or just buy another war factory

you can also try editing the "DeployTime=" on the war factory

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DragonFly · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:40 am Post subject:

can't test right now but what about adding this to art.ini?

Code:

;the door anim for the GDI war factory
[GAWEAP_D]
Rate=

;and the nod one...
[NAWEAP_B]
Rate=

then set the rate higher than the default

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

Door anims dont have an own entry in art.ini
All stuff the game needs to know is in the factory entry itself.
There you have
DoorAnim= ;the shp file
DoorStages= ;number of frames
DamagedDoor=yes/no
So the game knows everything it needs about the dooranim.
I would agree that DeployTime= in rules.ini is the key for speeding up the anim.

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Dbzruler72 · Civilian **Joined**: 09 Aug 2007

This is actually for an online map, so I don't think art.ini would help. But DeployTime did help. Thanks for the help everyone.

Blade wrote:

I believed you actually get the credits back if that happens and a unit can't be created, I guess I'll have to pay more attention.

I didn't know that. I checked just now, & yes, that does happen.