Hi. I'm trying to make it so that the rocket launcher can only be used while crouching. Would this kind of thing be made possible through a combo file, a new custom animation, or in the weapon's or character's odf? Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure if that's possible, but you could edit the weapon's ODF to make the rocket launcher highly inaccurate while standing and much more accurate while crouching.

jedimoose32 wrote:made possible through a combo file

Only melee weapons call for combo files if I'm not mistaken. I seriously doubt anything like this is possible. I sure haven't stumbled across a way to access the posture animation and use this to affect the possible weapons you can use.

If you can do this, the only way I see it working would be to add a rocket launcher to the unit upon crouching and take it away upon leaving crouch. Each time you did this, you would have to respawn the unit to have the weapon choice be affected, and then it would affect the whole class and not just a particular unit.

I'm going to go ahead and say no, not possible.

By creating a custom animset, it would be possible to put him in a permanent crouch, wouldn't it?

But to have it exactly the way you want it, probably not.

Fiodis wrote:By creating a custom animset, it would be possible to put him in a permanent crouch, wouldn't it?

But to have it exactly the way you want it, probably not.

No. It would look like it, but the firepoints and collision of the unit wouldn't change when he was "standing."

Xavious wrote:...you could edit the weapon's ODF to make the rocket launcher highly inaccurate while standing and much more accurate while crouching.

I like this. It may be possible to actually make the weapon not fire at all when standing.

Frisbeetarian: In "data_***/common/config" I saw a file that controlled all the regular soldier animations. Looked kinda like a combo file, just thought I'd throw it out there.

jedimoose32 wrote:In "data_***/common/config" I saw a file that controlled all the regular soldier animations. Looked kinda like a combo file, just thought I'd throw it out there.

It looks like a combo file because it uses some of the same commands.

http://www.secretsociety.com/forum/downloads/BF2Docs/Animations/AnimationSystem.txt wrote:Data/Common/config/SoldierAnimation.SANM file
A config format file containing data controlling the looping, blending, and other animation properties of all standard high-res soldier animations. See combo.txt for formatting information - the format is the same as Animation tags from that combo config files.

Frisbeetarian wrote:...add a rocket launcher to the unit upon crouching...

I don't know of any way to detect someone crouching through Lua.

I like the accurate/inaccurate solution. Which ODF parameters do this?

[RDH]Zerted wrote:I like the accurate/inaccurate solution. Which ODF parameters do this?

StandStillSpread, StandMoveSpread, CrouchStillSpread, and CrouchMoveSpread.

Yep. I used the StandMoveSpread/StandStillSpread technique and made it hugely inaccurate while standing, walking, and crouch-walking. The only way you can get near-perfect accuracy is while sitting still and crouching. Thanks for the help, everyone!

According to your quote, Frisbeetarian, it essentially is a combo file... And has anyone actually tried telling a non melee weapon to call for a combo?

Tourny wrote:According to your quote, Frisbeetarian, it essentially is a combo file... And has anyone actually tried telling a non melee weapon to call for a combo?

It is not. And that is not a property of any weapon other than a melee weapon.

Have you tried it?

Tourny wrote:Have you tried it?

No, but neither have I tried starting my car with a banana.

1. They are not nearly the same.

2. If my Grandpa can start his car with a pen and some chewing gum, than why not a banana?

Do I really need to spell this out (not even delving into inane responses to the rhetorical)? An .sanm file uses some similar parameters to a .combo file, but that does not make them the same or interchangeable. Even then it is a huge jump to just guessing that you should try using a combo file in a different weapon, even though it is clearly documented as a melee-only property. Have you looked at a combo file recently? Have you ever looked at an .sanm file? All it does is define blendtimes.

While you were busy thinking up responses, there would have been plenty of time for you to check it yourself, had you really wanted to. The point of my tongue-in-cheek comparison to using fruit in a car's ignition was just to say that not everything needs to be empirically tested to be known. By all means, try, of course. Don't let anything I say stop you.

Wow. Rocked!!

Anyway, thanks for trying, guys.