[Sauragnmon]

OK... here's the situation...

In my mod, I want a specific general to be able to upgrade the GLA Stinger Site so it spawns different troops in place of the stinger soldiers. Example is one upgrade, which will replace the stinger soldiers with three machinegunners.

My question is... is it possible to make that work, and if so, how do I do that.

[Hostile]

What you need is a seperate Stinger site for each one. You will find in the Object ini for the Stinger Site.

Replace them for each of your differant Stinger types. I've seen people place Patriots and Gattling cannons in Stinger site though they may have actually changed the model not spawned the object.

Behavior = SpawnBehavior ModuleTag_06
SpawnNumber = 3
SpawnReplaceDelay = 30000 ;msec
SpawnTemplateName = GLAInfantryStingerSoldier
CanReclaimOrphans = No
SpawnedRequireSpawner = Yes
SlavesHaveFreeWill = No
End

SpawnTemplateName will allow to change the unit that is spawned.

[mastermind2003]

If you put in multiple SpawnTemplateName's you can place multiple different infantry in the stinger site. There is one problem though, as they will not appear if killed correctly all the time. They are instead replaced from the location in the list that the game last used. It's a clever little trick, but has a few bugs.

[Sauragnmon]

Hmmm... I was hoping to be able to simply swap the troops with an upgrade... guess I'll have to go for the other option and give him four different sites... which means I'll have to do something about his worker's command set, since he doesn't have enough space on one command set to do the construction... maybe replace the fake building command set... *sticks his pencil behind his ear* time to go back to the drawing board...

[Hostile]

Well there is an upgrade called ReplaceObject. That will allow you to change one Stinger site for another after an upgrade. Problem is your health resets and so does you veterency.

Mithral talked about a work around using kill module that somehow retains the info. Have to ask him that.

What you can do is actually an object upgrade. That way the object being upgraded uses his commandset to fire the upgrade, not the worker having to build differant types.

Well you start with your generic Stinger Site, than on your commandset have a button that fires your upgrade, upon upgrade to have your ReplaceObject actually switches your object.

The spawned units HAVE to have the site to survive, so they will probably drop dead but then your new Site should replace them. Not sure how easy it would be to go switching back and forth though.

[Arkane]

I've been away from modding for a long time but couldn't you use an upgrade command that uses the kill switch. That way you could kill off any infantry type within the stinger and replace it with whatever? I think it could be done relativly easy but I wont hold my breath...i'll try it myself and post my failure later.

[Arkane]

Ok told you I would fail...well, I don't give up that easily but I need a few hours of sleep before work. Anyway I'll try again later but as of now I did create an upgrade using the kill switch to keep vet stats and replace them with rebels. The only problem is they die when the structure is destroyed and only rpg troops will survive. Like I said I don't give up so easily, so I'll let ya know later.

[Waraddict]

You could do it but as a player upgrade.

Simply give the stinger infantry a replaceobject module which is triggered by a player upgrade.

Now, given the fact you want to swap them for machinegunners, I would suggest making the upgrade give them a machine gun as additional which is only used against infantry, otherwise you will screw your Stinger Site's AA ability.

another idea would be to have a duplicate stinger infantry (different object) which only has the replace object upgrade (all the others dont have it), and the upgrade only turns that one infantry into a full machinegunner.

[CodeCat]

Waraddict, this topic is 4 months old...

[Waraddict]

I was searching for something, this came up, I read it and responded to it before I noticed the date