[Xenomorph]

I've a few modding questions that I've been trying to work out on my own for a while now without any luck, so I was wondering if anyone could help me with them.

1.) How do I create a turret on top of a turret that won't inherit it's parent turret's rotation, but will move with it? For instance, I've been trying to create a machine gun turret on top of the main gun turret of a tank, but the MG turret is always facing the wrong way when firing because it adds the main turret's rotation angle to its own. Like the Overlord's gattling turret.

2.) How do I set a custom camera hight for shell maps that doesn't use default (max) setting, as defined in GameData.ini?

3.) How do I set up a suicide OCL that doesn't make a "Unit Lost" audio to play? I'm trying to create a "deploy" unit that uses a suicide weapon and an OCL to create the deployed unit, but I always get the Unit Lost played when it happens. Is it possible to circumvent this, or am I just SOL?

Thanks in advance to any advice or help.

[CommieDog]

Originally Posted by Xenomorph";p=&quot

1.) How do I create a turret on top of a turret that won't inherit it's parent turret's rotation, but will move with it? For instance, I've been trying to create a machine gun turret on top of the main gun turret of a tank, but the MG turret is always facing the wrong way when firing because it adds the main turret's rotation angle to its own. Like the Overlord's gattling turret.

If you're using the AltTurret code for that, I don't think it will ever work properly. You'll have to convert over to OverlordContain logic.

Originally Posted by Xenomorph";p=&quot

3.) How do I set up a suicide OCL that doesn't make a "Unit Lost" audio to play? I'm trying to create a "deploy" unit that uses a suicide weapon and an OCL to create the deployed unit, but I always get the Unit Lost played when it happens. Is it possible to circumvent this, or am I just SOL?

Add SUICIDE to the weapon's RadiusDamageAffects= line.

[Xenomorph]

I'm already using the Overlord Draw and Transport codes, but I'm still getting that problem. Are there some settings I have to enable in gmax on the model?

As for the suicide weapon, I already have SUICIDE in there.

Weapon GladiatorSuicideWeapon
  PrimaryDamage = 999999
  PrimaryDamageRadius = 1
  SecondaryDamage = 0
  SecondaryDamageRadius = 0
  AttackRange = 999999
  DamageType = PENALTY
  DeathType = EXTRA_2
  RadiusDamageAffects = SUICIDE SELF ALLIES NOT_SIMILAR
  WeaponSpeed = 999999
  ClipSize = 1
  ClipReloadTime = 999999
  DamageDealtAtSelfPosition = Yes
  LeechRangeWeapon = Yes
End

Is there something in this code I should put there?

[beng]

Check is the OverlordContain module has
PassengersInTurret = Yes
This tells it to take into account the parent turret's angle.

Also check that the turret turn rates in the AI module of the parent unit and the portable structure are the same. If they are different it will mess up the angle of the portable structure turret.

Another way is to not use overlordcontain but just have 2 turrets in the parent object. Turret and AltTurret, see the battleship for example.

If the other turret is in a seperate W3D model (a la technical gunner), it should attach to a bone in the parent vehicle model that is not part of the parent vehicle's turret, ie that does not turn.

As for deployable units, why not just use DeployStyleAIUpdate?
See the ChinaVehicleNukeLauncher and AmericaVehicleSentryDrone for examples. You can have the Draw module use different models or animations for the packed and unpacked states, see the nuke cannon for example.

If you want to use the suiciding method, see the teleporting Tardis in my Laser General mod 1.0, or the laser drone that converts into a laser turret building in my America Mission 8 for Zero Hour single player mission. Somehow they do not say "Unit Lost" when they suicide.