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Oceans14 wrote:I'm pretty sure AI repair behavior is dependent on the class label of the prop and the unit, as well as the prop's team. If the class label is something like "destructible building" and the unit is a pilot or engineer class, and the prop is on their team, they'll repair it when it's destroyed or damaged. Check the documentation on AI behavior if you haven't already, and check the classes of props like shield generators and whatnot.

TargetEnemy             = "1"
TargetNeutral           = "1"
TargetFriendly          = "1"

TargetPerson            = "0"
TargetAnimal            = "0"
TargetDroid             = "0"
TargetVehicle           = "1"
TargetBuilding          = "1"
TargetMine              = "1"

LockOnRange             = 4.0
LockOnAngle             = 90.0

VehicleHealth           = 200
BuildingHealth          = 100
BuildingBuild           = 50
BuildingRebuild         = 50
DroidHealth             = 0
MineHealth              = -1000

Oceans14 wrote:https://sites.google.com/site/swbf2modt ... parameters

Go alllllllllll the way down to the "soldier" heading and note those unit types. Some have the ability to repair (pilot, support). I was incorrect when I said it's the unit's class label that matters. It's the unit type.

The fusion cutter settings shouldn't matter. What I would do is add some sort of object that can be damaged, make it friendly to one team, and watch to see if the engineer units (unit class: support) repair it.

Marth8880 wrote:The UnitType needs to be support.

[color=#FFFFFF]ODF Parameters.txt[/color] wrote: Scout
Anti-Armor rocket
Assault rocket
Repair
Support repair
Pilot
Trooper
Special - repair

Ascertes wrote:1. If the unit type needs to be support, why do engineers with the "pilot" UnitType still repair stuff?

Ascertes wrote:2. If I switch the pilot's type in my space map to support, will they not be able to repair the vehicles they are in?

Samee3 wrote:This probably has something to do with AI Goals (Deathmatch, Conquest, CTFOffense, CTFDefense).
So unless you would like to try adding something other than Deathmatch in the script, you're probably not going to get them to do what you want.

SetProperty("spa_prop_liquidgen", "Team", 2)

AnthonyBF2 wrote:It may be because the CIS mainframe is part of the objective, and the republic one is not. I may be wrong because I haven't played the campaigns in ages. Study spa3c_c.lua and also study the scripts it calls for at the top of the file and you might get what you want.

    conquest.OnStart = function(self)
    	conquest.goal1 = AddAIGoal(REP, "Defend", 30, "gatepanel")
		conquest.goal2 = AddAIGoal(CIS, "Destroy", 30, "gatepanel")
		conquest.goal3 = AddAIGoal(CIS, "Destroy", 10, "woodl")
		conquest.goal4 = AddAIGoal(CIS, "Destroy", 10, "woodc")
		conquest.goal5 = AddAIGoal(CIS, "Destroy", 10, "woodr")
		conquest.goal6 = AddAIGoal(REP, "Defend", 10, "woodl")
		conquest.goal7 = AddAIGoal(REP, "Defend", 10, "woodc")
		conquest.goal8 = AddAIGoal(REP, "Defend", 10, "woodr") 

Oceans14 wrote:I honestly don't think AI goals or objective scripts have anything to do with repairs. That said, they're always good to use. I'm interested in this myself now, so when I'm off work I'll run a few tests and report back.

Oceans14 wrote:Got it. Here's what I did:

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1) Set my prop's classlabel to "armedbuilding".  In the odf for several space conquest props (poke around in BF2_ModTools\space_template\Worlds\@#$\odf) it is actually noted "was armedbuilding.  needs to be armed in order to regen health/shields".  So they actually tell you how to get ai to repair stuff, just not very clearly.  Anyway...  

2) Set prop to team 1 in ZE, since I wanted to see the clone engineer repair the prop once damaged.  

3) Save, munge, play.  The engineer began to repair the prop immediately after I put a few shots into it.  It's worth noting that in subsequent rounds of gameplay the engineers would ignore the prop when engaged in heavy combat.  Also, because the prop was set to team 1, team 2 sporadically shot at it.  (If desirable, ai goals could be used so that the enemy team (or your team, whatever) focuses more directly on destroying the prop.)

Proof:

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Oceans14 wrote:Well hang on. A hardpoint is a node on a model that effects and odfs and even unit models can be attached to. AI will never repair hardpoints because they don't know what a hardpoint is. They'll repair props (which I know is what you meant, but I wanted to clarify the terminology). And no, tbh that doesn't explain why they won't repair armedbuildings in space. From what I can tell, their attention isn't fantastic and they'll only repair something if they sort of stumble across it. Since that's the case, you could use the defend goal in combination with hint nodes and pathing to keep some units close to your prop. That way when it takes damage they should already be in the vicinity to set about making repairs.

Also I might point out that if all else fails, you can set a prop to regenerate its health over a period of time with the AddHealth and MaxHealth odf lines.