[heartless_ali]

i have not done any general codings for a few monthes and i want to get back in the game, however after our old project was scraped, (we got lazy even thought it was all going good). i am offering to do any bits of code for any one just to keep me sort of in the coding scene, so any minor coding beucase im not that good, i'll do my best, thank you.P.S: ITS GOOD TO BE BACK!

[Vger]

Hmm... I got one. Try to make the prism support, like how it is in RA2, work in Generals.

[heartless_ali]

prism support, u mean prisum tower fire, that light beam, or like get it charged off of like 3 other tower near by. by the way i can only mod gen.

[Vger]

I meant having towers powering up one tower like it was in RA2 but make it work in Generals,
The current patriot assist is a step but it does not solve the problem.

[Waspo]

That isn't hard, lol!

[Vger]

The patriot assist dosen't give the same results because with that the others fire a beam at the target as well, yet in RA2 they just power up one of them.
I guess I could mimic it by having the other towers fire invisible projectiles as the assist weapon but that isn't what I want to do.
I also don't want to have do it via the horde bonus code since it still doesn't look nor feal right.
Maybe if I combine the two but then again after having one supporter the horde bonus doesn't keep adding for each one, which makes it pointless to have multiple supporters.
So if it is easy to do Waspo then why don't you do it and put it down.

[heartless_ali]

well this was what i was thinking, the patriot support system where they help a each other but insted of the others fireing their missiles it just goes the green thing where it links, (if you know what i mean) also like the tommahawlk assist one where they fire togehter, im sure u can change the green thing to a red thing or somehting else(the lazer beam) fullstop, im sure i could et it look like its linked up adn powering one of the prisim towers, and set the properties so if its assisting it does not fire, and as for the prisim tower have it so the condisiton state is if it is being supported (powered up) it fires like a seconadry powerful beam (weapon)

[Vger]

Remember the strength of the main beam increased depending on the number of supporting beams.
From what I done, the patriot assist doesn't do it right and this is why I am asking for another way.

[Blbpaws]

We experimented with this in the All-Star Mod (http://allstars.cncgeneralsworld.com/), and the conclusion we came to was that it is possible in Generals (I think our coder used the Patriot relay) but not in Zero Hour, which is what our mod is designed for.

[CodeCat]

Well I have a solution I think:

Imagine you have a few prism towers. Each prism tower acts like like the patriot, so if one of them fires, the others nearby fire their support weapons at the target. Well here's the trick. The normal weapon shows the laser from the tower to the target, like it normally does. But when a prism tower is supporting another, you don't see the laser, but it does the damage. So basically you only see one laser: the one from the original prism tower to the target, which is what we want.

Then there's the support beams. The patriot logic displays a laser-like object between the supporter and the main tower, and between the main tower and the target:

Behavior = AssistedTargetingUpdate ModuleTag_07
  AssistingClipSize = 4                       ; How many shots to make when asked by someone of my kind who has a RequestAssistRange weapon
  AssistingWeaponSlot = SECONDARY             ; And the weapon to use.  Should have huge range and no natural clip.
  LaserFromAssisted = PatriotBinaryDataStream ; Stream to draw from the requestor to me
  LaserToTarget = PatriotBinaryDataStream     ; Stream to draw from me to the target
End

Now what if LaserToTarget is just a dummy invisible object? Then you only see a beam from the main tower to the support towers. Which is exactly what we're looking for!