How to get Building Units to fire on attackers?

[PicassoCT]

A unit is building something- meanwhile it gets attacked. It has a a weapon, yet the weapon refuses to fire.

Hoko mentioned one of the call-ins - but i couldnt find a description for it on the wikki.
https://springrts.com/wiki/Lua:Callins

Help and advice would be welcome

[hokomoko]

not me

[FLOZi]

Think you might be referring to https://springrts.com/wiki/Lua:Callins# ... erHoldFire but not sure it does what you want

[Google_Frog]

With this https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/blo ... d_fire.lua

[PicassoCT]

Thanks google frog :)

Also thank you FLOZi, you where right after all.
Just seems - strange decision to put this logic in a gadget call. Who wrote this and why this approach?

[Silentwings]

I wondered this too, feels like it ought to be a unitDef property to me.

[PicassoCT]

the problem is, it shouldnt exist at all.

You can allow or deny fire within the weapon calls. And you can acess a unitscript from gadgets. So there are ways allready existing to use both approaches

[hokomoko]

the problem is, it shouldnt exist at all.

You can allow or deny fire within the weapon calls. And you can acess a unitscript from gadgets. So there are ways allready existing to use both approaches

yup, it's probably there to save people from editing lots of .bos files or something

[PicassoCT]

The whole configuration thing is difficult and i can understand anyone who wants to reduce tags - in particular on behavior that consists of multiple tags interacting. Better gamedev to code rule state machines, then to have them internal .

Another nightmare is behaviourristics of fast units. As in planes movement behaviour when comandereed into dangerzones. But i digress..