A locomotor for a Hover MRLS

Madin · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 05 Apr 2009

So I have a Hover MRLS. I'd like for it to able to hover over water, has it did in Tiberian Sun, but I'm having problems.

The 'Hovercraft' Locomotor, apart from looking awful on land, refuses to to enter into water (I only tried default skirmish maps). I then tried modifying the Devourer tanks locomotor to include 'WATER' & 'DEEP_WATER' in it's 'Surfaces' attributes, but I'm still unable to enter water.

There seems to be path finding issues with the 'Hover' locomotor as well.

Any solutions that work & look good on land and sea?

DaFool · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Nov 2006

Assuming that C&C3 is similair to Generals in this regard, you may want to look at the maps themselves because often the beaches were painted with the impassibility brush to prevent anything from crossing it. Also look into seeing if you can have two locomotors, one for land and one for over water.

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Sedistix · Cyborg Engineer **Joined**: 27 Mar 2010

Could try something similar to this. I originally made this for buzzers that could go anywhere on the map, including over cliffs, it seems to work well enough for them. With some slight modifications I don't see why it won't work with your vehicle. When I first tried implemented a hovering unit that could go anywhere, I kept running into a strange problem where the unit would bounce along when ever it was moving, but I was able to correct it. The buzzers appear exactly as they usually do, but can go anywhere.

Code:

   id="AlienBuzzerLocomotor"
   Name="AlienBuzzerLocomotor"

   Surfaces="GROUND RUBBLE CLIFF WATER DEEP_WATER"
   TurnTimeSeconds="0.0s"
   TurnTimeDamagedSeconds="2.0s"
   MaxSpeedDamaged="75%"
   AccelerationSeconds="0.5s"
   Lift="120%"
   LiftDamaged="80%"
   BrakingSeconds="0.5s"
   SlowTurnRadius="0.0"
   FastTurnRadius="15.0"
   MinTurnSpeed="0%"
   PreferredHeight="1"
   AllowMotiveForceWhileAirborne="true"
   BehaviorZ="SURFACE_RELATIVE_HEIGHT"
   Appearance="HOVER"
   MaxTurnWithoutReform="45d"

   AirborneTargetingHeight="30"
   LocomotorWorksWhenDead="true"

   TakeOffAndLandingSpeed="6.0"
   TakeOffAndLandingSlowDownDelta="25.0"
   TakeOffAndLandingSlowDownTime=".5s"

   ClampOrientationToPathTangent="true"

Hope this helps.

Dutchygamer · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:25 am Post subject:

Funny to see that even it's XML, I still recognize many tags from Generals Locomotor stuff #Tongue

Madin · Plasma Trooper **Joined**: 05 Apr 2009

DaFool wrote:

Assuming that C&C3 is similar to Generals in this regard, you may want to look at the maps themselves because often the beaches were painted with the impassibility brush to prevent anything from crossing it.

This is correct, all that lovely inviting water wasted!

Phantom139 · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 04 Oct 2009 **Location**: US

oh hey, I'm having the same issue with one of my units, a hover tank to be precise, I'll do some more research into this sometime this week and post back.

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