Need: "empty" unit with no model

[knorke]

I need a "empty" unit that is basically invisible and does not influence gameplay in any way. So a empty .s3o but a piece defined that can emit stuff and fire weapons and blabla. Basically a invisible point-unit.
Has anybody made something like this by chance? It is probally a quick job for someone who knows upspring. Sadly, I do not.
(i only need the .s3o file, can make unitdef)

[Das Bruce]

http://filebin.ca/osjjqx/point.s3o
Piece name is 'point'

[Wombat]

Brain. What are we going to do tonight?

[Das Bruce]

The same thing we do every night pinky.

[knorke]

excellent, thanks :)

[knorke]

hm
every time i try to use point.s3o in a unit, spring crashes.
bit strange as usually changing objectName =
to something else always worked (of course needs removing references to pieces in the unit script)
i thought maybe it needs a point.tga texture but that did not fix it. what else could it be?

[FLOZi]

You'll have to assign the point.tga texture to the s3o in Upspring.

[knorke]

i dont even know wat.
if its just a point, does it even need a texture?
thats why i asked in the first place

[FLOZi]

I believe an s3o with no texture1 assigned will indeed crash Spring but I'm not 100% sure on that.

[knorke]

seems so.
i put a texture and now it does not crash.
sad spring gives no messages for stuff like that...

[FLOZi]

seems so.
i put a texture and now it does not crash.
sad spring gives no messages for stuff like that...

Some related (content error) issues are fixed in master, this might be as well.