Armor Issues? (modding)
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:35 pm
I've been working on making a mod recently and one of the big problems I've run across is the Armor instant unit.
It seems to be that you may only place 1 Armor unit on any given level, despite whether it is in a different instant unit or not.
Placing any more than 1 armor via the Instant Units tool crashes the game upon loading the level for me.
Does anyone else know about this and/or how I can try to work around it?
I was originally suspicious that the game was crashing because they were spawning inside of each other, but that apparently was not the case since it still crashed when I placed two instant units of 1 armor each far enough apart.
Also, i'm not sure if this is relevant, but the flag raised by the armor unit tends to be a bit odd. Sometimes it will be pure white, and other times it will show one of the research icons (like laser or officer...?)
EDIT:Armor seems to be a very picky Instant Unit. Its waypoint defaults to the Origin (0,0) so it will always go to the topleft corner of the map as soon as it starts.
Even if you set the waypoint in the mission_thismapthingey.txt to a different location, the waypoint will return to (0,0) in the mission files saved for users. (any time you restart the map, the armor will head straight for the corner of the map).
EDIT EDIT: LOL now it won't even let me use 1 Armor.
Oh well, I tried
It seems to be that you may only place 1 Armor unit on any given level, despite whether it is in a different instant unit or not.
Placing any more than 1 armor via the Instant Units tool crashes the game upon loading the level for me.
Does anyone else know about this and/or how I can try to work around it?
I was originally suspicious that the game was crashing because they were spawning inside of each other, but that apparently was not the case since it still crashed when I placed two instant units of 1 armor each far enough apart.
Also, i'm not sure if this is relevant, but the flag raised by the armor unit tends to be a bit odd. Sometimes it will be pure white, and other times it will show one of the research icons (like laser or officer...?)
EDIT:Armor seems to be a very picky Instant Unit. Its waypoint defaults to the Origin (0,0) so it will always go to the topleft corner of the map as soon as it starts.
Even if you set the waypoint in the mission_thismapthingey.txt to a different location, the waypoint will return to (0,0) in the mission files saved for users. (any time you restart the map, the armor will head straight for the corner of the map).
EDIT EDIT: LOL now it won't even let me use 1 Armor.
Oh well, I tried