I'm trying to make all Predators appear to be mounted by SCVs.

So I made a new actor with the SCV Model
Actor Type: Model
Based on: Model Animation Style Continuous
I made its hosting site operations "SOpAttachCenter"

I made an event for the actor...

UnitBirth.Predator
Create

But the SCV I'm trying to attach doesn't appear in game. How do I get this working?

Did you check the article on GalaxyWiki? I think I added both the data and trigger methods of doing it.

Still won't show up. I hadn't checked Play Forever before. That didn't seem to fix anything though.

Try "Model Animation Style One Shot" instead of "Continuous."

And did you change "Hosting - Host +" to "_Selectable?"

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on May 8 2011, 9:00 am by DevliN.

Can't find where to change either of those.

That's why I suggested using the GalaxyWiki article.

To change the model to "Model Animation Style One Shot," double click on the Actor in the Data Editor and change the "based on" part to "Model Animation Style One Shot."

Then find "Hosting - Host +" on the Actor and double-click the space next to it to open a new "Object Values" window. Under "Subject" click the button next to "Alias" and in the textbox, type in "_Selectable." Click "OK" to close the window.

It probably wont show up because it has no Selectable host.

It worked. Thanks

But is it possible to change the attachment's X,Y,Z offset from its attached point?

Also whenever the predator attacks, it lunges forward a little, but the "rider" doesn't move forward with it. Any way to get that to happen?

You may be able to change the position via validators, but I haven't messed with that.

It should move with it if the attachment point moves, but otherwise I'm not sure how to get that to work.

In a similar vein... How about getting a model to be attached to a unit through an effect?

I have a launch missile which targets a building, and on impact, I want the missile to attach to the building and apply a behaviour. Am I looking in the wrong place? Is this controlled through the unit (building in this case) and not from the ability / launch / effect side of things?

You would have to attach the model in the events for the actor of the missile. Instead of UnitBirth // Create (or whatever), you would have it as Effect.NAMEOFTHEEFFECT.End // Create, or something similar.

I can go into detail when I open the editor later.

I managed to get it to work.

However the problem I Was facing was that my custom 'Wall' model didn't export with attachment points.

What I'm doing is causing a firebat to throw a grenade at a wall, which spawns a rotated and scaled hunter seeker missile facing north, east, south or west (depending on the wall, corner, straight etc) and the location of the firebat. The hunterseeker model will then display it's beam animation, flashing 3 times over 3 seconds, before becoming permanent.

Then, any unit which crosses the 'beam' will cause the claymore mine to explode xD

In theory it looks cool as hell and works perfectly. But I cannot seem to get the validation to work correctly (location of firebat, orientation of wall) - which will in turn calculate the facing of the claymore mine.

I think I may have to resort to triggers and 'replace' the targeted wall object with a new unit to handle the search area behaviours etc - since the walls are created randomly by a dungeon generation script and their hitpoints reflect their orientation.

Hope that makes sense