Upgrades possible?

[Nmenth 291]

Building upgrades are possible in RA2/YR, right? All the old TS coding is still present... but when I tried making a power plant upgrade for the Allies, it didn't work. I made the art for it and added the codes in Art.ini and Rulesmd.ini, and it was purchasable and could only be placed on top of an allied power plant, but the graphics never changed and no additional power was provided. A second upgrade also was not capable of being installed (as intended), which indicates that the first one did in fact get installed.

Unfortunately, since then I've defaulted the Art.ini and Rulesmd.ini, so I no longer have my codes, but I still have the SHPs and would like to attempt it again.

 

So are upgrades possible as they appear to be without any patches and is there any obscure codes that have to be applied (other than the obvious ones)?

 

I know I've seen mods with upgradeable buildings, but I don't know if they used a patch to do it...

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Post the code you used. I have upgradeable power plants in a couple of my projects and they work fine. But remember, upgrades can only supply three things: power production (including negative), a weapon (requires Primary and Secondary) or provides a Superweapon.

[Nmenth 291]

All I want is a power plant upgrade, so that should be good then.

 

As I said, I defaulted my Art and Rulesmd, the codes I used no longer exist. Since it didn't work, maybe I just made a minor mistake.

 

I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't be wasting my time before rewriting the codes, if it doesn't work again, I'll post my codes then, but I am currently making infantry sprites, which as you may imagine, will be consuming a vast amount of my time for a good while yet.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

All you need is Upgrades=X on your power plant, then the upgrade that has the applicable code and PowersUpBuilding=GAPOWR and PowersUpToLevel=-1. You don't need new art to make this work.

[Nmenth 291]

PowersUpToLevel=-1

-1? I think mine was 1... would that have been the problem? (don't remember for sure)

[Doctor Destiny 41]

It's not a huge deal, but -1 just means "place this upgrade on the first open slot." I just use that because it simplifies the issue.

[Nmenth 291]

Well, it's been a while, but I've finally returned to this project.

 

I've been able to get the thing to work as far as upgrading the power plant is concerned, but the power plant graphics do not change as intended.

 

Here are all the codes:

 

Rulesmd.ini

 

[buildingTypes]

407=GACELLUP

 

[GAPOWR]

Upgrades=1

 

[GACELLUP]

UIName=AddedNew:cellup

Prerequisite=GAPOWR

TechLevel=1

Armor=wood

Sight=1

Owner=British,French,Germans,Americans,Alliance,Russians,Confederation,Africans,

Arabs,YuriCountry

Cost=200

Power=100

Crewed=no

Capturable=no

PowersUpBuilding=GAPOWR

PowersUpToLevel=-1

ThreatPosed=0

BuildCat=combat

BuildTimeMultiplier=1.5

 

Artmd.ini

 

[GAPOWR]

PowerUp1Anim=GACELLUP

PowerUp1AnimDamaged=GACELLUP_D

PowerUp1LocXX=0

PowerUp1LocYY=0

PowerUp1LocZZ=0

PowerUp1YSort=-5

 

[GACELLUP] ; Cell Upgrade anim

Cameo=PWRUICON

NewTheater=yes

Normalized=yes

Layer=ground

Start=0

LoopStart=0

LoopEnd=7

LoopCount=-1

Rate=220

 

[GACELLUP_D] ; Cell Upgrade damaged anim

Image=GACELLUP

NewTheater=yes

Normalized=yes

Layer=ground

Start=8

LoopStart=8

LoopEnd=15

LoopCount=-1

Rate=220

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Mine has the same problem. I think it has something to do with where the animation is. Bump the YSort values up higher so it takes precedence.

 

This is what I use for my art right here;

PowerUp1Anim=GAPOWR_B
PowerUp1AnimDamaged=GAPOWR_BD
PowerUp1LocZZ=-17
PowerUp1YSort=362

 

YSort should probably be 543 instead of 362.

[Nmenth 291]

I tried PowerUp1YSort=543 with no effect...

 

 

I didn't have high hopes for it, but PowerUp1YSort=5430 didn't do anything either...

[Nmenth 291]

I don't know if this means anything, but the Power Plant's active animation's Rate=220, and my upgrade's Rate=220. However, when the upgrade is attached, the Power Plant's active animation plays faster, perhaps even twice as fast...

 

 

Have other modders solved this problem?

[Doctor Destiny 41]

I'm not sure if it's a problem at all. There must be a step I'm missing. I haven't asked anywhere yet though...

[Nmenth 291]

Fixed.

 

Forgot that building animations need to be listed too:

 

[Animations]

608=GACELLUP

609=GACELLUP_D

 

[Doctor Destiny 41]

I hope I didn't forget that. I would be very angry with myself.

 

*Checking...*

 

Nope... didn't forget. ffffuuuuuu.