Subterranean travel, crates, skirmish music & player power

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

1. I have a Tiberian Sun style Devil's tongue that uses 'subterranean' travel.
The trouble is that I can't prevent it from being selected when it is 'burrowed'
You can still drag select the unit, which kills the belief of subterranean travel.
I tried the code below, but the unit is only unselected after it surfaces, any ideas?

Code:

2. Crates. I'm impressed with how limited the crates code seems. The unit crate will only allow me to spawn individual infantry, not squads.
Has anyone tried/managed to get whole infantry squads out of unit crates?

3. Still on crates, is there any chance at all at getting something like an armour upgrade crate pick-up or a stealth field crate?

4. How would I go about adding a couple of classic C&C tunes to C&C 3 skirmish music? I had a look at the audio.XML and I could not fully understand it. Red/Yellow/Blue zones etc.

5. I have a seed blue tiberium power that comes has part of an upgrade. I'd like it to replace the normal seed tiberium powers button, but the best I can do is to get the old seed tiberium power greyed out.
Is it possible to have a player power button replaced in game?

Again thanks for any help! Confused

Stygs · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:30 am Post subject:

2)
Only with a workaround:

Code:

<GameObject
   id="UnitCrateMP_Dummy"
   inheritFrom="UnitCrate"
   EditorName="UnitCrateMP_Dummy"
   Description="DESC:Crate">
   <DisplayName
      xai:joinAction="Replace" xmlns:xai="uri:ea.com:eala:asset:instance">NAME:Crate</DisplayName>
</GameObject>


<GameObject
   id="UnitCrateMP_GDIRifleSoldierSquad"
   inheritFrom="UnitCrateMP_Dummy"
   EditorName="UnitCrateMP_GDIRifleSoldierSquad">
   <Behaviors>
      <UnitCrateCollide
         xai:joinAction="Replace"
         id="ModuleTag_CrateCollide"
         UnitCount="1"
         UnitType="CrateDummy_GDIRifleSoldierSquad" />
   </Behaviors>
</GameObject>

<GameObject
   id="CrateDummy_GDIRifleSoldierSquad"
   Side="Neutral"
   EditorSorting="UNIT"
   CommandSet="EmptyCommandSet"
   KindOf="IMMOBILE INERT UNATTACKABLE NO_COLLIDE"
   RadarPriority="NOT_ON_RADAR">
   <ArmorSet
      Armor="NoArmor" />
   <Draws>
   </Draws>
   <Behaviors>
      <SlowDeath
         id="ModuleTag_Death"
         DestructionDelay="0.1s">
         <OCL
            Type="INITIAL">
            <OCL>OCL_UnitCrateMP_GDIRifleSoldierSquad</OCL>
         </OCL>
         <DieMuxData
            DeathTypes="ALL" />
      </SlowDeath>
      <LifetimeUpdate
         id="ModuleTag_LifetimeUpdate"
         MinLifetime="0.1s"
         MaxLifetime="0.1s" />
   </Behaviors>
   <Body>
      <ActiveBody
         id="ModuleTag_Body"
         MaxHealth="9999999.0" />
   </Body>
   <VisionInfo
      VisionRange="0"
      ShroudClearingRange="0" />
</GameObject>

<ObjectCreationList
   id="OCL_UnitCrateMP_GDIRifleSoldierSquad">
   <CreateObject
      Options="IGNORE_ALL_OBJECTS"
      Disposition="ON_GROUND_ALIGNED"
      Count="2">
      <CreateObject>GDIRifleSoldierSquad</CreateObject>
   </CreateObject>
</ObjectCreationList>

It looks a bit complicated, but basicly the UnitCrateMP_GDIRifleSoldierSquad crate creates a dummy that spawns the units through a death OCL.

If you want different units, you can easily use inheritfrom:

Code:

<GameObject
   id="CrateDummy_GDIMissileSoldierSquad"
   inheritFrom="CrateDummy_GDIRifleSoldierSquad">
   <Behaviors>
      <SlowDeath
         xai:joinAction="Replace"
         id="ModuleTag_Death"
         DestructionDelay="0.1s">
         <OCL
            Type="INITIAL">
            <OCL>OCL_UnitCrateMP_GDIMissileSoldierSquad</OCL>
         </OCL>
         <DieMuxData
            DeathTypes="ALL" />
      </SlowDeath>
   </Behaviors>
</GameObject>

5)
You can easily replace the specialpower (like replacing the green tiberium seed with a vertigo that seeds blue tiberium), but no idea how to replace the button :/

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

How did you do the underground travel? I have an idea of how it would be done in Generals, which would be done via riders with two sets of behaviors, the underground version would have the locomotor which makes it go underground and a stealth update so the enemy doesn't know it's there (unless they have detectors).

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

Thanks! the squad code works great!
So using your idea, I tried an 'Armour' upgrade crate.
Doesn't work, most likely because I got the weapon code wrong.

Code:

Code:

Code:

Can you see were I went wrong? Confused

purplescrin · Light Infantry **Joined**: 21 May 2008

For question 1, ask Carnius via PM in Moddb. He has done a subterranean vehicle in the Tiberium Essence mod. No one else has known how to use that unit ability.

Golan · Flamethrower **Joined**: 21 Nov 2007

Carnius uses Firehawk-teleporting, TSR uses Shadow locomotor switches with negative height aircraft locomotors, God uses Bibber, the possibiliies really are limitless here.

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Stygs · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:57 pm Post subject:

@ Madin

Your problem may be the filter:

Rule="NONE"
Include="VEHICLE HUGE_VEHICLE"

That means that only units with both KindOf are affected, you might want to try ANY instead of NONE.

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Alex06 · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:14 am Post subject:

So it works like in TS?
Mind putting up the full code and posting a video demonstration on youtube?
This could come in handy for many mods!

purplescrin · Light Infantry **Joined**: 21 May 2008

Golan wrote:

God uses Bibber, the possibilities really are limitless here.

Bibber is not God yet. Razz

Stygs, please remove your signature referring to my quote. Bibber can do it, if only he's got something rare with him.

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

Stygs wrote:

@ Madin

Your problem may be the filter:

Rule="NONE"
Include="VEHICLE HUGE_VEHICLE"

That means that only units with both KindOf are affected, you might want to try ANY instead of NONE.

Right I'll give that a try.

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

Golan wrote:

Carnius uses Firehawk-teleporting, TSR uses Shadow locomotor switches with negative height aircraft locomotors, God uses Bibber, the possibilities really are limitless here.

When using Shadow style locomotor switches, is there anyway around the tendency, when you have multiple selections of the same unit, for all the selected units to attempt to 'surface' (land, dig-in etc) in the exact same location?

This one has me puzzled! Confused

Ju-Jin · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:46 am Post subject:

Just use a special power instead of a targeted special power, they use the position they are currently in then.

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

Thanks!, still I'd still have to come up with a pleasing way to let players know that their Devil's Tongue is 'under' the map terrain, even when the Devil's Tongue is not selected.
No doubt the TSR crew have found some nice way to implement this.

Also it'd have to be coded to be detectable, but not attackable, etc.

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huhnu · Cyborg Engineer **Joined**: 16 May 2009

You could give it a second scriptedmodeldraw with no parse_default, but have a parse_normal with the conditionyes="SELECTED", then still no model but put a decal into it. That should be convincing enough.

Ju-Jin · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject:

There is a decal already if you select it. But for the other cases it is a valid solution.

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