Vehicles with DeployFire and Yuri-like weapons

[Parasite03]

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Okay, so you want to make deployable vehicle. There are six things you need to manage to get it working:

Main things:
1. Primary
2. Secondary
3. IsSimpleDeployer
4. DeployFire


Primary - the weapon the unit will fire in the non-deployed state.
Secondary - the weapon the unit will fire in the deployed state.
IsSimpleDeployer - activates the deploying logic.
DeployFire - Makes the vehicle be able to fire while deployed and use secondary instead of Primary.

With these set, you will have a vehicles that usually fires Primary but when deployed (that will happen instantly) will fire the secondary weapon.

You can also have a deploying animation and a different deployed image.

Secondary things:
1. DeployAnim
2. UnloadingClass
3. DeployTime


DeployAnim - the deploying/undeploing animation
UnloadingClass - the deployed vessel's image.
DeployTime - the extra time (in minutes) that it will take to deploy/undeploy this vehicle.

There are a couple things I would like to add:

1. The UnloadingClass must be the same TechnoType and must have an art entry otherwise once deployed your vehicle will be invisible. It must have the turret too asit's image is also taken from UnloadingClass so you can change it.
2. The deploy animation is only one-sided and the side the vehicle will face before deploying is specified in DeployDir. Default - East (Right). Ignore what OrangeNero said about it.

Also, as suggested by

Atomic_Noodles wrote:

mevitar mentioned one time that its best if a unit has deploy weapons it should have MinimumRange set on the primary weapon as otherwise the unit would fire its primary on the ground sometimes.

So, at this point I can end the tutorial.

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An addition to the tutorial: yuri-like deploy weapons. Very easy, very simple.

Weapon:
Main things:
1. AreaFire

AreaFire - this makes this weapon be fires by deploy command.

Secondary things:
1. Anim
2. FireOnce

Anim - this is the animation that will be triggered once the weapon is activated.
FireOnce - this prevents the unit from keeping firing the weapon. You could use this while making your mod.

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[OrangeNero]

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As awesome as it is there's really no need for the hostility. So duploy yourself xD

The Deploy animation is one sided yea but the unit after the anim played will look into the direction that it looked before deploying. So you can send a tank into the north, then deploy anim will look east, then the deployed unit will look north again.

Also I wonder if I have copyright on my tut so you should be insta banned. jk

You gonna make such a quality remaster only of my tut or of everyone? Oh now I feel so privileged.

Also this is just simple vehicle deploy. If you want to be even more better than me then cover the ones deploying into a building too and then there's deploy for a yuri clone weapon and then there's deploying for letting units out and deploying for all sorts of ares shenanigans. What about the dummy unit? What about flying units?

You lack stars btw and more information. Ares required yes no? YR yes no?

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[Lin Kuei Ominae]

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OrangeNero wrote:

Also I wonder if I have copyright on my tut so you should be insta banned. jk

what you did was a wall of code, not a single explanation about the keys and how they work.

This is actually a quite nice tutorial. Good job Parasite.
But please fix a few typos and fix the topic title (no need to mention OrangeNero in any way, his topic will surely be crapped soon anyway. So just write this tutorial like he never existed or wrote anything, which makes it more professional looking also in future.)

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The building deploy one is not more that DeploysInto and I'll consider doing something about the yuri-like weapon. Sure it's not much.

And yeah, I'll fix the typos.

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[ApolloTD]

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Now thats a tutorial, it actually explains how things work than giving you bunch of code.

BTW, You can leave unloadingclass tag/key entirely out if no need for art change, I've tested this works fine with my tank but of course if do insert entry to it, it must be valid or invisible indeed

SimpleDeployer requires plain YR obviously.

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Parasite03 wrote:

The deploy animation is only one-sided and the side the vehicle will face before deploying is specified in DeployDir. Default - East (Right).

Footnote: The deployanim is not neccessary tho. And if it's unspecified, it'll ignore DeployDir and such and will face where it faced before.

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I know that it's unnecessary so I've left them as secondary tags.

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Great tutorial P3. I'm about to start working on artillery voxels after I finish MBT voxels for my mod. This is sonething I will read. Bookmarked.

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[Atomic_Noodles]

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In contributing to the topic... that idk if it will still apply since topic states its for vehicles and I've been too busy to reconfirm...


mevitar mentioned one time that its best if a unit has deploy weapons it should have MinimumRange set on the primary weapon as otherwise the unit would fire its primary on the ground sometimes.

There is also UndeployDelay which you can set to add a delay so you can further lengthen how long it should be able to fire aside from the Weapons ROF.

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[Parasite03]

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Didn't know about the minimum delay
And forgot about the DeployTime.

Thank you Banshee for stopping this.

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