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[Help!] Terran Cloak Generator...
Sep 6 2009, 11:03 pm
By: Taligaro  

Sep 6 2009, 11:03 pm Taligaro Post #1



Okay, here is what I'm trying to do...

I'm trying to remember how I created a 'new' Terran building from 7 years ago, from a mod I never finished or released.

It's a Cloak Generator and it used the unused Cantina special building with the BASE graphic of the Missile Turret. IE the Turret part that spins on the Missile Turret wasn't placed on the Cloak Generator. It was a 2x2(ingame) building like the Turret and I had gotten it to be build by the SCV from the Advanced Building tab, and it would cloak all Terran units and buildings around it except for itself and other Cloak Generators. (the idea came from NOD Disruption Towers in C&C games, lol)

I'm using the special building "[181] Cantina (Unused)"
So far in DatEdit here is what I've done...
Units Tab:
(Note: Image is an animated GIF with about 10 seconds between frames[6 frames so 60seconds], this was easier then uploading and posting several images)


For the life of me, this is all I can remember of what I did 7 years ago. ><

I've been racking my brain for the last month trying to remember exactly what I did, but it was 7 years ago and I don't have any of the files from the mod I started back then. ><

So I guess I'm asking for some help in re-creating what I created back then, lol.

I'm using SCBW 1.15.1 with DatEdit v1.5d, Firegraft v0.93, WinMPQ, MPQDraft, and IceCC programs. Firegraft is new to me but rather simple to understand, when it comes to the buttons anyway.



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Sep 6 2009, 11:17 pm l)ark_ssj9kevin Post #2

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I don't mod, but are you editing the iscript at all?



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Sep 7 2009, 10:49 pm Hercanic Post #3

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Iscript has absolutely nothing to do with area-cloak. It's all in units.dat. Just set the "AI Orders" to 130 (Cloak Nearby Units) on AI and Human Idle, and make sure the unit/building has an air weapon (weapon range determines cloak range). Iscript would only be involved with the attack script if the unit/building doesn't normally have a weapon, to avoid an iscript crash.




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NudeRaider -- blessed innocent soul knows nothing of the strife we had before EUDs were discovered :teehee:
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Ultraviolet -- :wob:
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Symmetry -- :wob:
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