Entering A Building Triggers ParaDrop ?

adamstrange · Tiberian Fiend **Joined**: 07 Mar 2013

I want to have an engineer enter a specific building [Einsteins's Lab] to trigger a ParaDrop...how do I do this ?

Mig Eater · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:32 pm Post subject:

Is this for a skirmish map or a single player map? Do you want the paradrop to be an automatic one time reinforcement or a recurring superweapon etc?

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adamstrange · Tiberian Fiend **Joined**: 07 Mar 2013

It's for a skirmish map and one time only.

Before I posted for help, I tried to do it, but the game would instantly freeze when the map opened.

Mig Eater · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:15 am Post subject:

Easiest option would be give the building a superweapon & use Ares to limit it to only one use & make it automatically fire after it has been captured by the engineer.

You could use map triggers but it would be quite complex to set up, especially in a skirmish map where you would need to make copies of every trigger/event for each player.

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G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

If it's not a custom paradrop, you could just attach the regular paradrop superweapon to the building?

Alternatively if this is a mod map, you could consider making a custom superweapon with Ares in your rules.ini that you only use for your map. It seems redundant, but are you worried about a few bytes of space? I have a number of weapons and alternative voxel art that are only ever referenced via the maps.

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adamstrange · Tiberian Fiend **Joined**: 07 Mar 2013

In my mod, all tech centers have the paradrop superweapon which shouldn't even be called a superweapon because it only drops 6 or 8 units, so I increased paradrops to real world figures for battles dropping around 70.

What I did for the map CITY UNDER ATTACK was to remove almost all the already placed civilian units and increased all the enemy paradrop units and the supply base reinforcements.

This map is just for fun as I'm up against 2 American bases and huge reinforcements, which I got to work.

The trigger that I want just for my side is if I can make it to Engstien's Lab and go inside, it will paradrop special units at a waypoint.

This is the trigger that I tried, but when the map opens, it crashes the game.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2023 3:35 am Post subject:

For skirmish maps the House setting in the trigger needs to be <Player @ A>, <Player @ B>, <Player @ C>, <Player @ D>, <Player @ E>, <Player @ F>, <Player @ G> or <Player @ H>, A-H being the player numbers 1-8 on the map.

This is because there could be multiple players using the same "Russian" house etc & the game wouldn't know which one is which. So in skirmish maps you instead use the player number/starting position as the house.

As the trigger's owner is linked to the player starting position if you only make one trigger with <Player @ A> then it will only work for the player at starting point 1. So You'll need to make a copy of the trigger for each possible player on the map.

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adamstrange · Tiberian Fiend **Joined**: 07 Mar 2013

I tried it and it crashes the game.

I want the civilians to be american so I set it to that.
american being player 1 so all the civilian forces are now american.

I set it the way you said but the game crashes.

The allied factory in the middle of the map with pill boxes i set that to american.

The reason I can't use ares is because im using a old 43 inch LCD screen and when i start up ares there is a error sound that comes up and the screen stays black.

i tried resizing the screen but i can't see the error message like i use to when using a 27 inch computer monitor

Here is the map that im trying to get this to work

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G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

Why don't you lower your resolution on the 43"? I use a 55" at 1080p, but it will display 720p as well.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 10:09 am Post subject:

Pre-placed units/buildings on skirmish maps can only be owned by the Civilian house. Because again, if there are multiple players that use America the game wont know who to give the the units to.

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