Capturable Super weapons?

Rider · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 13 Jan 2010

I was wondering about this. Is it possible to make super weapons buildings capturable, but in a way that their Super weapon is usable even with super weapons disabled for that game?

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Yes you can, I think all you have to do is place the super weapon on a map with FA and give it the Capturable=yes tag. Though it's been awhile since I've done something like this, I think thats all you need to do.

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Allied General · Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:30 am Post subject: Re: Capturable Super weapons?

Rider wrote:

in a way that their Super weapon is usable even with super weapons disabled for that game?

If checkbox for superweapons is off you can't use supers, even if neutral one on map and captured however if you set the superweapon to have DisableableFromShell=no then the superweapon can be used regardless of having superweapons on/off. This of course has problem of super weapons always bein buildable on map, however if you add TechLevel=12, AIBuildThis=no then this disables it.

Thus the middle ground solution is for example soviet nuke is

[NAMISL]
TechLevel=12
AIBuildThis=no
Capturable=yes

[NukeSpecial]
DisableableFromShell=no

This would be for a map with a neutral nuke silo.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Sorry AG, that is not true. You can capture a "Neutral" NukeSilo and still be able to use it, even with the SuperWeapons turned off. You only have to add Capturable=yes and AIBuildThis=no to the NAMISL settings. TechLevel does not matter as long as SuperWeapons are turned off. Actually I dont even think AIBuildThis=no even matters with them turned off, so basically like my first post all you need is the Capturable=yes

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

all I did was add this to map file.

[NAMISL]
Capturable=yes

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wardeathfun · Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:29 am Post subject:

Also thought it should be mentioned, AI can not build anything Tech Level 11 and over... Thats how they got the AI to work for skirmish modes like Naval Wars and stuff... Just made everything TechLevel=11

I have everything I do not want my ai or me being able to build 11... :p just so i dont have to use more text and make my rules that much more in memmory xD (it actually does add up)

Shadow Hunter · Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:34 am Post subject:

yes, Cranium is absolutely correct, also, if i can recall, the only way to make an nuclear silo gets without it superweapon its removing its SuperWeapon code, which i did one time and gets some problems as some animations just play with the superweapon attached to the building!

Starkku · Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:15 am Post subject:

To clarify some things, just having Capturable=yes on your SW building only works in Red Alert 2. In Yuri's Revenge, YOU DO NOT GET the superweapon if it has DisableableFromShell= set to yes, even if you are able to capture the structure. So solution depends on whether OP is modding RA2 or YR.

Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

Starkku wrote:

To clarify some things, just having Capturable=yes on your SW building only works in Red Alert 2

I see, so AG was right as well, My bad AG!

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Nyerguds · Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:55 pm Post subject:

The problem with all of these ini changes is that superweapons will ALWAYS be disabled on the map, no matter what you select in the game setup.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

I keep forgetting that RA2 has some features that YR dosent. Why they would change something like this for YR is beyond me. You should be able to capture any civi building and make it functionable IMO. Of course they probably didnt intend for civi's to have superweapons though Twisted Evil

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