[Mishkin]

Okay... what I want is once I get Sneak Attack Tunnel on the field, I want to select it, and then spawn another sneak attack tunnel from it's commandset. Sounds simple, right? For some reason I can't get this to work. What am I missing

Object GLASneakAttackTunnelNetwork

Behavior           = OCLSpecialPower ModuleTag_29
    SpecialPowerTemplate = SuperweaponSneakAttack2
    OCL                  = OCL_CreateSneakAttackTunnelStart
    ReferenceObject      = GLASneakAttackTunnelNetwork
    CreateLocation       = CREATE_AT_LOCATION
  End

SpecialPower

SpecialPower SuperweaponSneakAttack2
  Enum                          = SPECIAL_SCUD_STORM
  ReloadTime                    = 150000   ; in milliseconds
 ; RequiredScience               = SCIENCE_SneakAttack
  PublicTimer                   = No
  InitiateAtLocationSound       = SneakAttackActivated
  SharedSyncedTimer             = Yes
  RadiusCursorRadius            = 50
  ShortcutPower                 = Yes     ;Capable of being fired by the side-bar shortcut.
  AcademyClassify     = ACT_SUPERPOWER ;Considered a powerful special power that a player could fire. Not for simpler unit based powers.
End

OCL
Didn't touch anything here. I used what the original sneak attack tunnel uses...:

ObjectCreationList OCL_CreateSneakAttackTunnelStart
  CreateObject
    ObjectNames = GLASneakAttackTunnelNetworkStart
    Disposition = LIKE_EXISTING
  End
End

ObjectCreationList OCL_CreateSneakAttackTunnel
  CreateObject
    ObjectNames = GLASneakAttackTunnelNetwork
    Disposition = LIKE_EXISTING
  End
End

CommandButton

CommandButton Command_SneakAttack2
  Command           = SPECIAL_POWER_CONSTRUCT
  SpecialPower      = SuperweaponSneakAttack2
  Options           = NEED_SPECIAL_POWER_SCIENCE
  Object            = GLASneakAttackTunnelNetwork
  TextLabel         = CONTROLBAR:SneakAttack
  ButtonImage       = SUSneakAttack
  ButtonBorderType  = ACTION ; Identifier for the User as to what kind of button this is
  DescriptLabel     = CONTROLBAR:ToolTipGLASneakAttack
End

Obviously, I put the spawn second sneak attack button it in the commandset of the original sneak attack tunnel...

Here is what I get in-game.
I create the first Sneak Tunnel. I click on it, then click on create sneak tunnel in it's commandset. I hover the mouse on the battlefield. I see the transparent sneak tunnel structure. Once I click it, an d let go of the button, nothing happens though. The tunnel is not created. why?

[Mishkin]

Can anybody help me here? Why doesn't it work... then?

[CommieDog]

Have you tried making the Sneak Attack tunnel fire another OCL-based power?

[copperhead]

Well from playing around with superweapons in Generals before, i've found that some of them just simply doesn't launch from anything but a commandcenter and in such most often the commandcenter normal for that specific superweapon. You get the marker and everything but the weapon itself just doesn't fire. This was the exact lapse of the GLA Antraxbomb (the one dropped from a plane) in the original Generals i believe, it just wouldn't fire from anything but the GLA-commandcenter. It seemed like it was hardcoded into the game for just that perticular weapon. :/

I do know that they probably did take a few shortcuts in the original Generals, my guess is that they didn't have the time to get it right all the way considdering of among things some comments in the .ini-files and also what they apparently left out. Anyway, i don't know if they have fixed this in the Zero Hour expansion or if you just happened to stumble upon yet another hardcoded shortcut. :|

..but what do i know?

[Mishkin]

No, that's not the case here. I am able to fire it from a totally different structure (Not commandcenter), but when I try to fire another one closely based on the first one (modified time an enum so they dont conflict), it just doesnt fire... I don't know what the hell is going on.

I tried it with other OCL's, but same thing.

[copperhead]

How do you intend this to work anyway? Why create a second one instead of using the first one as it is?

[CodeCat]

He wants to create the second one from the first, as to create some kind of "portal" between two locations.

[copperhead]

That makes no sense Immoman. You already get the "portal" function through the sneakattack and other tunnels.

What i mean is why use another sneakattack superweapon instead of just putting the original one inside the sneakattacknetworktunnel as a button? :|

[CodeCat]

It does make sense, he's doing it for our mod so I'd know what he's on about...

Our mod is a RA TC and this is for the Chronosphere. So there are no tunnels, besides the two he's trying to create. He can create one, but then he wants that first tunnel to create the second. Then you have a portal you can send units through, until the portals vanish.

[copperhead]

Ahh.. i seeeeee.. How neat!

So the second sneakattacktunnel is to be launched without timer then i guess and that's why he's put it into a second sneakattacktunnelweapon?