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[lurker]

It's roughly 10x better and still easy to block the sharing of limited units only. Please do that.

[[Krogoth86]]

BTW:

I'll make a quick gadget to stop building on top of mines. Someone yell at me if I've forgotten and haven't finished in 12 hours.

[lurker]

Yes. I noticed this part of the thread while closing the tabs. It's too late now for a reminder. I'll get to it today.

[KDR_11k]

It's roughly 10x better and still easy to block the sharing of limited units only. Please do that.

Well, Spring will automatically block sharing of units the other guy has reached the limit for...

[bobthedinosaur]

okay, what about the lua super build functions, that allow the que of one unit and several units are built at once (infantry in s44 and other mods)? if i throw a unit limit on say "platoon commander" and it is reached, can i override that limit with that multi que function, that builds a platoon commander and the regulars in the same que?


also, non que and limit related. im thinking of making communications a possible aspect of game play, such as a 'radio operator' which with out your men can still attack but maybe you cant see them unless you get com back with them... any ideas on how that might be done?

[KDR_11k]

Lua does what you tell it to, if you tell it to respect the limit it will.

[[Krogoth86]]

Now for something completely different:
Does anyone know a good, free flamethrower sound? I've been searching for a good one to get rid of those OTA-sfx spamming whenever flamethrowers are ingame and just use one nice sound when firing. Unfortunately what I found either wasn't free or just sucked...

So anyone knows a good source?

[ironized]

microphone + a mini blowtorch...

[Snipawolf]

We need streaming sounds for firing things that repeat, not play multiple times.

[ironized]

you mean looping sounds or what... i might be able to help..

[[Krogoth86]]

Well I think it hasn't to be loopable but in case you have a unit that has an instant flamethrower and not just burst the beginning of the sound shouldn't be totally different from the rest.

It's much more important that the sound's length matches the usual burst length used in TA mods...

[rattle]

Google for some free sounds and use a sound editor to mix it to your likes, it's not that difficult.

[[Krogoth86]]

Google for some free sounds and use a sound editor to mix it to your likes, it's not that difficult.

I tried but except for one which unfortunately is a bit too short they all sucked... ^^

[[Krogoth86]]

Well I want to remove all flanking bonus from bombers so they actually receive full damage even when advancing an enemy and not just after passing them and getting rockets on their tails. This is what the wiki says about it:

coming soon: how to set per-unit in cob

So could someone please point out how to do this?

[KingRaptor]

I think per-unit refers to the attacker rather than the defending unit.

Splice this into your .fbi:

Code: Select all

flankingbonusmode=0;

[[Krogoth86]]

So you mean I should put this into the bombers' fbi in my case?

Should be added to the wiki's FBI command list then because currently there's no entry for flanking and so I thought it just would be about the modrules.tdf and that mysterious COB possibility...

[bobthedinosaur]

its not a fbi command its a mod type, or am i confused?

[KingRaptor]

The tag can be specified in modrules as a default, and also on a per-unit basis.

[[Krogoth86]]

Well I tried it on a per-unit basis but it didn't have an effect for me. The modrule's default still is having flanking enabled is it?

[bobthedinosaur]

i think its only mod rules