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[Nighthawk]

I'll post any screens here of things I've done wrong. At the minute I only have one, but I most likely will have more.

Screen 1: Accidentally overpowered the Napalm MiG Airstrike



There used to be about 9 or 10 Soviet buildings in there, including an Iron Curtain and a Conyard. I think need to reduce the CellSpread and Damage here

Also, the orange tinge is the new Napalm 'Radiation' left by the bombs which is more potent to infantry and vehicles than the normal stuff. I can't seem to get rid of the melting anim for it though.

Edited by Nighthawk200, 20 April 2006 - 08:03 PM.

[Allied General]

just called it airstrike or napalm strike lol

and don't use daz's tiny, dodgy normals MiG its not Generals

[Mig Eater]

umm.... ouch!

[Athena]

btw I think this is a good idea for a topic, it can make people laugh and it also shows a mod isn't made in an instant.

[Nighthawk]

Thanks for your comments guys.

Here's another mess-up from a while back when I first coded in the Defiant. I messed up the ROT on the torpedo projectile and ended up with torpedoes flying in a circle around the area. The torps are meant to be hitting the Air Force Command.

[Gosho]

How did you do that again?I never saw projectiles do THAT!

[Nighthawk]

It was meant to be a homing torpedo, but I screwed up somewhere and didn't give it a good enough ROT, so it kept trying to find a suitable path to the target, but as I was so close to its target (the Air Force Cmd) it couldn't get one and just went mad, I think.

[Gosho]

This really makes me laugh!

But nseriously-did you fix it?

[Nighthawk]

Yes, it works in the current beta (I hope)

[Nighthawk]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to grab a printscreen of this before the game had an IE, but I swear it did happen. I've made nearly all of the game's infantry garrisonable, so to test it I tried to garrison a Soviet Attack Dog into a Battle Bunker. Then I tried to force fire on the ground and the Battle Bunker disappeared and turned into a flying attack dog. When I say flying I don't mean something like Superdog (if it exists), the image of the dog was sitting and it sort of hopped into the air and landed on the ground where I force fired. The IE happened when it hit the ground so I by the time I got a grip on myself I wasn't able to grab a screen of it. Try it and see, just add Occupier=yes to a Soviet dog and garrison it in a Battle Bunker and forcefire not too near to the bunker.

[Nighthawk]

Another mess up for you. This is again to do with garrisoning infantry. Anyway, I made it so that when a Crazy Ivan garrisons a building he throws an explosive out at units, the explosive worked, only there were far too many of them. It made the game run at the speed of a snail.

EDIT: Also, the bomb projectile was too big, it's fixed now though

Edited by Nighthawk200, 19 April 2006 - 01:01 PM.

[Beowulf]

Good one.

[Lee]

lol

[Athena]

It's nice to see some funny stuff like this every once in a while, even though it wasn't supposed to happen.

[ZeroSamuraiX]

this is a good thread idea, i agree
could help other modders, may prevent them from making mistakes
nd delyaing release dates
good job woooot

[Nighthawk]

I don't think it's delaying release dates, for two reasons, 1. they are all complete accidents, and 2. do I have release dates ?

[Gosho]

Man,about the dogs garrisoning bunkers-WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!

[Nighthawk]

I was trying to make it like Generals where you can garrison practically any infantry in a building, even Workers, but they didn't fire a weapon. It's just basically to give the infantry added protection, and some of them will fire out. The only infantry I am making non-garrisonable are the 4 engineers (causes problems with repairing the building)

[Gosho]

You should also not include the dogs (obviously),the Brute and maybe the snipers.Because they simply get a 5 range,which is kinda dumb...

[Nighthawk]

I'm giving each of the garrisoned troops their own weapon. Snipers will keep the Sniper weapon, Brutes and dogs would not have a proper weapon when garrisoned. They get a fire cursor, but it does no damage or show any anims. It adds a touch of realism, the GIs, Conscripts and Initiates shouldn't be the only infantry who are capable of walking into a building.

EDIT: Just realised, Engineer go into buildings and so do people using C4

Edited by Nighthawk200, 22 April 2006 - 06:35 PM.