Hi all, I'm working on a map in which Fambaas will be playable units. I have two questions. First of all, is there any way to remove the shield generator from the Fambaa's back, by editing the .msh directly? I've tried playing around with alpha channels of the texture, but it just makes the shield generator completely black.
Also, I would like to add an offhand flamethrower. So far, I have gotten a melee weapon to work, using the animations of the Acklay, but the offhand flamethrower causes an (unlogged) crash when fired, presumably because the Acklay does not have any offhand animations. Is there any way to edit the weapon ODF to prevent ANY animation from playing, and avoiding the crash this way? I don't mind having no animation. Thanks in advance.

The fambaa unit ODF: the melee weapon ODF: the offhand flamethrower ODF: the log:

I'm no expert at weaponry, animations, etc., but I have noticed some things.

Melee Weapon ODF I think it would be a good idea to take out those lines entirely, it seems like it's trying to read a file named " ".

Offhand Flamethrower The same applies here.

As for the log, I didn't see any severity 3 errors, but I would keep checking it every time. That's all I know.

The use of an offhand weapons sounds like the correct thing to do but I think it needs at least some kind of mesh, too. You could try using some invisible mesh. Furthermore I think the off-hand weapon is missing an hp to fire it's ordnance from. Not sure about the weapon class as well.
The code in this thread might lead you in the right direction.

PS: You can get rid of the red memory pool errors by adding SetMemoryPoolSize("SoldierAnimation", 500) respective SetMemoryPoolSize("AcklayData", 100) to your lua.

razac920 wrote:Hi all, I'm working on a map in which Fambaas will be playable units. I have two questions. First of all, is there any way to remove the shield generator from the Fambaa's back, by editing the .msh directly? I've tried playing around with alpha channels of the texture, but it just makes the shield generator completely black.

It turns black because you need to do the following first:

[b][color=#FF8000]The FAQ / Everything You Need Thread Version 2.0[/color][/b] wrote:...
Model (msh)
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• How to hex edit a msh to enable transparency

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Use 14 instead for complete transparency.

As for your flamethrower, remove the FireAnim line, and set InstantPlayFireAnim equal to 1. It should use the OffhandAnimation specified in your .combo file.

@bestdude101: Doing those things are unnecessary and have no effect on the weapons' functioning.

AQT,

Thank you for the heads up on the transparency issue. This worked and the generator is gone (there are some ropes still floating that were attached to it, but I will figure something out).

As for the flamethrower, well my problem had been that the skeleton I was using did not have any offhand animations, but by going to the .combo file as you said, and deleting the offhand animations that were defined in there, I managed to get it to work! Thanks again. This thread can be locked.