New Weapon tdf tag

[Uberleechen]

Doesn't commandfire=1 mean that things only shoot once per order to attack? (Eg. nukes)

If so, then bombers would not circle around to bomb the target you have designated (unless I'm just off my rocker. If so please feel free to denigrate me as you please.).

[rattle]

Bombers aren't neccessarily "fire and forget" weapons.

[smartie]

Sorry to bring back an old post, but has anyone gotten this to work? I was trying out a recent build and this tag doesn't seem to do anything. It sounds like fighters should completely ignore ground targets if all their weapons are set to canAttackGround=0;

I set the tag and put both of their weapons as toairweapon=1; but fighters still swoop down at peewee's and stuff, even though they don't fire their missiles.

[Guessmyname]

canAttackGround simply stops units firing that weapon when directly ordered to (in FPS mode or outside of it). It doesn't prevent units shooting at ground targets by it's own.

[KDR_11k]

Ground refers to the terrain here, i.e. an attack order on unoccupied terrain.

[smartie]

Ah, I misunderstood. This would be a nice thing to have though. As it is there's no good way to prevent fighters from going after ground units.

[Tobi]

There's onlyTargetCategory for that right?

[rattle]

Was there a tag for an exception like target everything but this group?

[smartie]

onlyTargetCategory doesn't affect fighters. They will still sloop down at units and act like they are trying to attack them.
I've also tried NoChaseCategory=NOTAIR; and that doesn't affect them either.

[rattle]

NoChase means they won't go after them.

A solution would be to add to everything which isn't a ground unit NOTGROUND as category and set onlyTargetCategory to NOTGROUND.

[KDR_11k]

There's onlyTargetCategory for that right?

It gets ignored for me when I try to set it for the whole unit, only per-weapon works.

[Fanger]

Rattle it doesnt matter what you do to fighters they will still attempt to attack targets, even if their weapons cant fire at them, and they are ordered not to chase that.. least in the current version..

[yuritch]

It gets ignored for me when I try to set it for the whole unit, only per-weapon works.

OnlyTargetCategory is a per-weapon tag (e.g. there is a OnlyTargetCategory1, OnlyTargetCategory2, ..., OnlyTargetCategory16, but no OnlyTargetCategory). But, when applied to fighters, it doesn't work properly: the fighter properly cannot fire at units outside of its OnlyTargetCategory, but it still tries to attack them (it makes attack runs, dives at ground units, but fires no shots). This messes up some of my setups. I want fighters to have so high CruiseAlt that they are out of reach of light AA weapons, but when executing those useless dives at ground units, they come into range of everything.

[Fanger]

Thats not a mess up Yuritch, by Target, it means can fire, so that tag really should read onlyfireatcatagory.. the fighters will still target that, in fact any unit will act this way with this tag, not just fighters, usually however nochase catagory sorts this out, however for fighters this does not apply..