Any new ways to...

[Falconius]

From what i see it seems DuneEditing has come a long way since 14-Apr-02 when i added my first mod.

It was downloaded 465 times and got 6.38/10 (8 votes).

Seeing as i do have time it might be possible to revamp the old mod - maybe there are things one can do now that we didn't know about then.

My biggest problem was the SeigeTank. It was supposed to be a self-propelled howitser. It had a tendancy to try and park next to the target -> even though it had a emense range. There was problems with guardrange/viewrange/weaponrange somehow.

The IA was also a trouble-spot. It couldn't seem to use the new units. Especially the combat engineer. Terribly important unit that. i remember it even though i thought it fairly irelevant at the time -> my interest always was with multiplayer only.

i got the impression that alot of the realy interesting units had their properties hardcoded and directly linked to their xbf file like ->

cobra=true

mcv=true

ect.

It would have been nice if the saboteur could be modded to do this:

drop a invisible leechlarva on unit that wear it down but doesn't hatch

or lay landmines... a saboteur and a suicidebomber are not the same thing.

but i remember these things were not do-able last time... :P

[Apollyon]

your problem with the siege tank is related to turret rotation.

your problem with the AI is probably because the new units had either no AI string or had AISpecial = TRUE (should have AITank=true or AIFoot = true).

as for the last two things, I dont think either are possible, im afraid.

[Falconius]

i remember also thinking it was turret rotation so i spent alot of time experimenting with it but it did not solve my problem. i think the extreme range used to work randomly. Obstacles like rockformations was also having a effect. That didn't make sense since all firing was balistic (with a very high arched projectile path).

i intended to post all the code but DuneEx doesn't work on my PC anymore. No idea what is wrong -> System error &H8007007E (-2147024770). ???

Scary stuff.

[Apollyon]

maybe you need to get a new version of duneex?