A few questions?

Chaotic General

all right, I have a few questions about things that can and cannot be done in TS/FS, and maybe in RA2/YR also.
(note: I do not have TS or RA2 with me at the moment, I have just been working out a mod/TC idea on paper, and thought of some things that I would like to implement into it when I do have TS or RA2.
I am just asking if they would work now, so that I dont have to many headaches later.)

now to the questions;

1: Is it possible to have a structure deploy/change into another structure, or would I have to make a non-movable structure-looking vehical in order to get the same effect?

2: Is it possible to have a vehical-deployed structure take up power?

3: What is the limit on how many terrian sets I can have?
(Clear, Rock, Road, Water, etc....)

well that should do it for now.
I might have a few later.
thanks for the responces.

Chaotic

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MT · Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:45 am Post subject:

1. A structure can not deploy directly into another structure. It can, however, undeploy into a vehicle, and then that vehicle can deploy into another structure.

2. Well, the structures that vehicles deploy into can do about everything a normal structure can, as they are practically the same. So yes, they can take up power.

3. You can add as much terrain sets and tiles as you want. Replacing the originals is easier, though.

One thing to remember is that for transition pieces, the Final Sun only automatically places the original number of LATs. So if you replace an original LAT they should still be autoplaced, but creating a new one you have to face that you probably have to place the transitions all manually.

Oh and if you are referring to movement types, it is limited to the originals afaik. I don't have experience with movement types editing though.

Hope that helped.

Chaotic General · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:13 pm Post subject:

Yay, that was waht I was thinking, but I though I would ask about it. thanks MT

another question:

Is it possible to have a damaged structure also effect other structures (kind of how the walls work)
or can only walls do that?
(example: I attack one wall section, and the two next to it also get damaged, could I do that with other structures too?)

Thanks for the help

Chaotic

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Lord Unforgiven · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:32 am Post subject:

I think the only way to obtain this effect is using AmbientDamage (e.g. Sonic warhead, Railgun), the old fashioned way. The effects of the wall crumbling down is hardcoded.

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

AmbientDamage and Railgun don't work on all weapons and also don't do area damage in all directions (thus not all adjacent buildings next to the attacked one will be damaged)

That's why i would suggest using a particlesysem. Create one which does once a certain amount of area damage and apply it to the DamageParticleSystem of the building.
If the building is shot in the yellow range, the particlesystem is fired which will damage buildings next to it.

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Chaotic General · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:47 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the comments.

Just a few more,

1. Is it possible to make it so that a unit cannot deploy if there is not enough power?

2. Can an animation be House-Specific?
(example: An airfield/warfactory that has two different airdrop/opening animations depending on which House owns it)

Just some more things I was thinking about.

Chaotic

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

1. no
2. clone the building so it has 2 art.ini and rules.ini entries (one for each house). Then change the anim in art.ini for the respective house.

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Chaotic General · Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks LKO.

I am wondering if I can capture a structure, and depending on which team owns it, it plays a different animation.

I want to have some kind of airfield/dropzone and two different dropships, one for each team.
Is that possible? if not, I can do something else.

Chaotic

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Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

I don't think this is possible. The animations are linked to the objects coding and art settings, and there is no Ownership for an animation. This would be useful though if you wanted to have say, animation of Nod flags over buildings when captured, but if your GDI it displays a GDI flag.

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Chaotic General · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject:

What if I link the structure and dropships to a trigger?

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