[hekp]Make airdrop drop tanks in fa2

nicoandreasj · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 22 Mar 2018

Hi, does anybody know how i make the airdrop drop tanks with fa2/rulesmd.ini?

TAK02 · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:42 am Post subject:

You mean like the tankdrop in MO? Please be more specific.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:56 am Post subject:

You need to use Ares in order for tank paradrops to work. See the documentation here for more information.

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

you sure?
Even in TS a team with an aircraft and some other units (including vehicles) spawned as reinforcement will have all the units inside the aircraft as passengers.

Then all you need is to give the aircraft a weapon and let it force fire on the ground to paradrop out any of its passengers.

Since the initial question was about FinalAlert, mapping alone and a few tiny code additions into the map should be enough to get this done.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:25 pm Post subject:

For the paradrop Superweapons it doesn't work at all (it only reads infantry, Ares added new tags specifically for units).

For aircraft manually loaded with units & dropped via a force fire weapon it can be done in RA2 too. The units will have messed up shadows after they are dropped & can sometimes get stuck tho.

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nicoandreasj · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 22 Mar 2018

TAK02 wrote:

You mean like the tankdrop in MO? Please be more specific.

i saw this in another map, all vihicles were dropped by a plane, now i wanted to make the normal airdrop you take with an angineer make doing the same thing.

Allied General · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:11 pm Post subject:

nicoandreasj wrote:

TAK02 wrote:

You mean like the tankdrop in MO? Please be more specific.

i saw this in another map, all vihicles were dropped by a plane, now i wanted to make the normal airdrop you take with an angineer make doing the same thing.

Paradrop vehicles in non-Ares RA2/YR without glitches is only possible with the map reinforcement trigger

e.g. Soviet Mission New York

You cannot have a superweapon paradrop drop tanks in vanilla via a controllable SW without it being buggy.

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McPwny · Chem Warrior **Joined**: 29 Jan 2018

^ hes right. the only way to paradrop tanks is to use trigger action 80 Reinforcement (team) [at waypoint] to reinforce a team of tanks with Cargo plane and OnTransOnly checked. but even then you can only reinforce neutral and JP house units on a skirmish map

EDIT: i was wrong you dont even need the OnTransOnly checked for cargo planes.

EDIT 2: also you CAN reinforce player house units via paradrop by entering the owner on the team, and firing the team via Reinforcement (team) [at waypoint], from a civilian owned trigger.

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TAK02 · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:12 pm Post subject:

Regarding the reinforcements by plane: is there some way to have the planes spawn at specific points instead of randomness? I chked the first Soviert mission and found nothing.

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McPwny · Chem Warrior **Joined**: 29 Jan 2018

when you use reinforcment (team) [at waypoint] with a cargo plane team the waypoint on the trigger is used as the dropzone, Transport waypoint on the team specifies where the plane spawns, and the normal team waypoint is ignored. if transport waypoint isnt specified it comes in from random map edge it seems. it always leaves randomly.