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[SkyStrike]

yeah good question, if i want rename unit and her info how can i do this??

Aurora bomber->SuperFighter

and her info...? plz

Edited by SkyStrike, 16 April 2009 - 06:12 PM.

[beng]

Using GarrisonContain for vehicles and tunnel network bug

I saw in a scrren shot of your contra mod that you have technicals with infantry garrisoned inside using firebase style garrisoning. I had done the same thing in my mod (Laser Demo Nuke mod) but i found that when any object using garrison contain enters a tunnel network and then exits it, the occupants become invisible, and when you exit them from the vehicle they become invisible and sty where you exited them. They can shoot at enemies but they cannot take damage, so they cannot be killed.

Did you find the same bug and did you find a way to fix it? I had to revert my technicals to TransportContain.

Similarly my Burton was wble to carry 1 infantry inside him using firebase style garrisoning so he could for example carry a worker across a river to build a tunnel on the other side. However i had the same problem when i had a garrisoned Burton go inside my tardis (basically a teleporting tunnel network) and exit again - the infantry became invisible and unselectable when exited.

Now i only use garrison contain for things that cannot go inside tunnel networks.

A related bug is when a cargo plane carrying units for a paradrop becomes unmanned (like sniped by Jarmen) - the units inside become in limbo and can shoot but cannot be shot. I therefore had to stop letting Jarmen snipe aircraft to make them unmanned. Now his snipe bullets will stun aircraft causing them to crash and explode.

[Madin]

Contra 003 had the same Bug and has such, the ability for infantry loaded in technical's to fire was removed.

[Lukas 45]

How/Where can i change to chose more that 10k in start money? Rly want up to 50k

[Thats me!]

How/Where can i change to chose more that 10k in start money? Rly want up to 50k

my documents--->cnc gen zh data--->skirmishoptions.ini-->startingcash=10000<----change this to whatever you want.


btw,how to adjust building armor?

[Creator]

It is exactly the same as unit armor. There are health and armor type parameters for each building.

Edited by Creator, 02 October 2009 - 06:01 AM.

[Thats me!]

Ok,but in which ini file,are they in the same file where units are.

[Creator]

It is simple. Find building name using automatic search. Note - type the name without spaces (examples - ChinaWarFactory, AmericaStrategyCenter, GLAArmsDealer). It is the best way to find out code location. I use Far Manager for this purpose. It performs search in all INI files and shows all files where the name was found.

The code for buildings is scattered around INIs. Some buildings are in the same files with units, some are elsewhere.

[Thats me!]

Ok,thanks.

[dcesarec]

Creator...i`ve just downloaded Gmax,Renx and W3D imorter...registrated it. Im watching some of your models (opened with big file), now i would try to edit some of them to be able to help you making some units better looking or new modelling. Im newbie with this programs but i do have experience in 3D modeling. So i would like to try.

Which exactly models do i need to extract? When i extract W3D i cant open it with none of programs, dds too. Can you give me please just some basics here, the rest i will figure alone.

[Taran]

Creator...i`ve just downloaded Gmax,Renx and W3D imorter...registrated it. Im watching some of your models (opened with big file), now i would try to edit some of them to be able to help you making some units better looking or new modelling. Im newbie with this programs but i do have experience in 3D modeling. So i would like to try.

Which exactly models do i need to extract? When i extract W3D i cant open it with none of programs, dds too. Can you give me please just some basics here, the rest i will figure alone.

I recommend use 3dmax8+BFME SDK, but GmaX good for butchering or simple editing.

For editing W3D you must use GmaX 1.2 + renX, W3D importer, Nvidia Photoshop DDS plug-in.

1. Open models on w3d viewer - then copy dds files to workdir
2. Convert DDS to TGA using Photoshop (with plugin) or another software
3. Open RenX - run Importer Script (Utilites > MaxSkript > Select from droplist "w3d importer" > Run) Note! w3dImporter.msi must be in renX\scripts\autorun\ folder
4. Weld all vertex on all meshes
5. Auto smooth all polygons on all meshes)
6. Edit a model)))
7. make all new materials for all textures
8. Export model to w3d
9. Check model in w3d viewer

[Creator]

Taran is right. GMax+RenX combo can be used in you can't get 3ds Max 8 for some reason.

And you said that you had experience with 3d modelling. It is interesting for me which programs did you work with?

[dcesarec]

In first year of coledge i had AutoCad and i also learned some basics with ProEngineer and Catya on my own. I remember most of things and because of that i thoguht i can maybe do some modells for contra,but cant promise anything.

[Taran]

on my experience Cad and Max very different) like Photoshop and MS Visio. But basics on Max easy to learn. You can find many tutorials on web.

my advise:

http://cnc3.net/item-155?addview

http://www.derelicts...tnktutintro.php

http://www.derelicts...enstupintro.php

thats all you need for getting started)

[dcesarec]

Thanks Taran!

[Creator]

In first year of coledge i had AutoCad and i also learned some basics with ProEngineer and Catya on my own. I remember most of things and because of that i thoguht i can maybe do some modells for contra,but cant promise anything.

I am familiar with these progams too. Regretably, they have nothing common with 3d max and Gmax. I recommend you to buy a book about 3d max in your language and learn from scratch.

And you need to know that Gmax is simplified 3d max. All basic modelling and skinning tools are exactly the same in both programs. But Gmax was heavily maimed by its creators and does not have many useful things.