dogfights

Death3464 · 04-17-2005, 11:22 PM

i was just thinking, when i came up with an idea on making dogfights work in YR/RA2, and i thought, if you maybe do one of these two things, you can make it work:
1) make it a Jumpjet (the allied jumpjet unit can do dogfights), and change its movement zone.....or make it a jumpjet and change its Locomotor,
OR
2) create an infantry unit, that looks like a plane, and is a jumpjet, and is exactly like the Allied Jumpjet unit, BUT looks like a plane and shoots like a plane. Im not sure if the 1st one will work, i havent tried it yet, but the second will work, i tested it.........Anyway, thats an idea brought back to life, and if it for someone reason doesnt work, then maybe it was just a bug......but i would like opinions on this, but PLEASE, no links to RTFM, thing about this being WAY out of date and such, i already know....

AlliedG · 04-18-2005, 06:01 AM

those aren't aircraft.

Its not new, have you even bother to use an [SHAD] against an [ORCA] or [BEAG]

[AircraftTypes] vs [AircraftTypes] is impossible.

Death3464 · 04-18-2005, 09:47 AM

thats why i said, make an infantry unit lookinglike a plane. its not in the aircrafttypes, and it LOOKs like a plane, with all the functionality of a plane. I read somewhere that the ride height was diff when you do that, but it isn't......

Renegade · 04-18-2005, 10:52 AM

Dude. It's just not new, okay? It's been done. Let go.

tesla3090 · 04-18-2005, 07:36 PM

Even if the planes do dogfight it's screwed anyway. They just sit there and fire they don't actually move. :/

P.S. maybe if you used the FlyBy= tag it could solve that. I'll have to test that theory.

Death3464 · 04-18-2005, 10:07 PM

hmmmm......maybe, ill test that one out too.

AlliedG · 04-19-2005, 05:44 AM

its an tag which defaults to aircraft, i don't see the point, it looks stupid anyhow see an hovering, silent aircraft unit which have to land on the ground anywhere and have ulimited ammo

Death3464 · 04-19-2005, 09:49 AM

i can use ammo on infantry......i have tried it before. its just a bit glichy, that's all. anyway, i have a question, can an armory be ANY building, like for example, the construction yard, or the barracks? and how do you make a tank armory? i know infantry armory is armory=yes, but that doesn't work with tanks, does it?

DCoder · 04-19-2005, 11:27 AM

Ammo on infantry - bugged.
Anything as armory - yes, but the AI doesn't like it.
Tank Armory - you can't.
Armory=yes on tanks - no, it doesn't.

You could learn all that by RTFM... we discussed infantry ammo last week, and armory is also well documented. Lazy...

Renegade · 04-19-2005, 01:52 PM

That's why you shouldn't support it by answering, but link RTFM instead...