[duke_Qa]

im helping out a bit on a little warhammer40k mod, and one thing ive been trying to make is a little twitch to the construction of buildings for a certain side. its quite advanced so i dont know if its possible, so thats why i thought i might give it a shot in here.

step by step here now:

1. constructor unit places out "beacon" and a few barricades around the beacon.
2. drop pod enters the atmosphere (maybe slows down a little right before it hits the ground, but that is tricky)and hits the beacon
3. building starts to build


since it is only one team that is going to use this construction type, one might have to go deeper into the .ini's, and perhaps even into the game engine itself. pity we are not allowed to do that now

[Proclone]

just make a "dropping in" animation and hard-animate the construction animation (ditch teh auto-rise-from-ground animation entirely).

The entire sequence would be the placement of the beacon, followed by the drop pod thing and it's retros fireing, then it hitting the ground. Beyond that the game would switch to the default conditionstate which would sue the standard building.

That should work if done properly, but who knows since I haven't tried it.

[duke_Qa]

hmm, it seems logical, but still, if i sent away the worker right before the projectile hits, it would just stop in the air. i guess that it might be harder to stop that from happening, but it would still look good.

while im here, how can i add new animations to troops? we got ourselves an space marine that walks like a ranger atm and i dont really like that...

[Proclone]

learn to animate n.n

[Hot_Trout]

On build have something like the paradrop drop the builder in changing the models obv and then have it cause the thing to animate and then replace the thing with a building (at the end of its lifetime or something)

[Henford]

read the gmax tutorials on how to animate