Problem with spawning units

[electriceel 0]

I have this idea of making an aircraft carrier units that is capable of spawning kamikaze bombers. At the moment, it works, but refuses to regenerate the lost units, i.e. it fires off one salvo of the kamikaze bombers, then refuses to reload. Below is the relevant code:

 

[sUICAR]

...

Primary=KamiLauncher

LandTargeting=0

DefaultToGuardArea=yes

CanPassiveAquire=no

Spawns=KAMI

SpawnsNumber=1

SpawnRegenRate=20

SpawnReloadRate=0

FireAngle=32

ToProtect=yes

...

[KamiLauncher]

;identical to the original HornetLauncher, but with a different range

 

[KAMI]

;identical to the ASW (I also tried cloning it from the Hornet, but that didn't go down well), except:

Image=HORNET

Primary=Maverick10

DeathWeapon=CRNuke

 

[Maverick10]

...

Projectile=Kamikaze ;GEF was AAHeatSeeker2 ; was HeatSeeker

...

RadLevel=800

Warhead=CRNUKEBOMBWH

Report=NukeExplosion

LimboLaunch=yes

 

[Kamikaze]

Image=HORNET

SubjectToElevation=yes

 

Any idea how I can make so regenerate the spawned units normally?

Edited August 29, 2010 by electriceel

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Pretty sure it's your SpawnReloadRate. That's a special case for aircraft with MissileSpawn=yes. Try setting MissileSpawn=yes on your Kamikaze Fighter. Failing that, set SpawnReloadRate to something greater than zero.

[electriceel 0]

Hmm, I've tried your suggestions and it still doesn't work; not with MissileSpawn=yes, or with a nonzero SpawnReloadRate (the reason that it was zero in the above post in the first place was because I tried a nonzero value first and then found it didn't work, so resorted to zero for the SpawnReloadRate, which still doesn't work)

 

On a different note, is there any way of making squads of infantry come out of barracks? I'm thinking Generals Red Guard-style or Tiberium Wars style, so that less clicking is required.

 

One more thing; I've got a new animation I want to add to the mod, but how do I go about doing this? I can't remember where weapons animations are stored.

Edited August 31, 2010 by electriceel

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Hmm, I've tried your suggestions and it still doesn't work; not with MissileSpawn=yes, or with a nonzero SpawnReloadRate (the reason that it was zero in the above post in the first place was because I tried a nonzero value first and then found it didn't work, so resorted to zero for the SpawnReloadRate, which still doesn't work)

Strange. Have you tested your new unit with a normal spawned plane to test whether its that causing an issue?

 

On a different note, is there any way of making squads of infantry come out of barracks? I'm thinking Generals Red Guard-style or Tiberium Wars style, so that less clicking is required.

Not possible.

 

One more thing; I've got a new animation I want to add to the mod, but how do I go about doing this? I can't remember where weapons animations are stored.

All new art is referenced in art(md).ini.

[Nmenth 291]

On a different note, is there any way of making squads of infantry come out of barracks? I'm thinking Generals Red Guard-style or Tiberium Wars style, so that less clicking is required.

Not possible.

Suppose you made an infantry unit that looked like three units and only occupied one cell just like as if you placed three units on the same cell?

 

Can you not disable multiple infantry single-cell occupation and add three bursts to your unit's weapon?

 

The infantry sprite may be a pain to make, but could this simulate a squad? Since it's fake anyway, I expect you could make a squad of five rather than three too...

[Doctor Destiny 41]

That would be feasible but it would look silly.

[Nmenth 291]

Probably, but I've thought squads were a lousy idea ever since they did it in Generals. I just try coming up with unconventional ideas to make things work when they shouldn't, after all, that's how I made it as a modder this long before finally needing Ares.

[electriceel 0]

Strange. Have you tested your new unit with a normal spawned plane to test whether its that causing an issue?

Well, with a normal spawned plane it works completely fine - since I cloned the coding from the original aircraft carrier, it just worked like a normal carrier. Could it possibly have anything to do with the LimboLaunch tag?

[Doctor Destiny 41]

If LimboLaunch doesn't count the unit as being erased, then I would surmise yes. In effect, the unit's really not dying, which is why the Carrier wouldn't reload them.

 

Test without LimboLaunch and see what happens.