I've been trying to get deployables (in this case an autoturret) to spawn very high up and drop down. The only way I've found to offset the location something spawns when a unit uses it is to deploy it from an orbital strike. The orbital strike beacon, however, will not spawn a deployable, but it will spawn a bolt. I know you can spawn units from launching a recon droid using LUA coding. Is it possible to LUA code so that when the laser below spawns an autoturret spawns with it? Also, will the autoturret then fall to the ground as normal?

Laser ODF (cis_weap_deployer_ord)

no, you wont be able to do that, atleast not directly. the reason why you can spawn units when an autoturret is deployed is that you can check whether a dispenserweapon and only a dispenserweapon was used via lua.
you could however probably offset the matrix of the autoturret when its deployed so its higher up, but im not sure, i never did anything with matrixes.

Trying to make an air drop, so I need the turret to spawn convincingly high and then fall down.

It's perfectly possible to teleport the turret to a higher matrix directly after it's spawned. I'm not sure if it would fall down though; do turrets follow unit/vehicle "physics"?

You'd run into trouble when trying to use it indoors or under a protrusion, also.

You keep talking about this matrix thing and I have no idea what it is.

yeah, too bad

If it involves ZeroEditor I won't be able to use it here.

It's a LUA thing. You won't need ZE.

my guess would be that: i used firefangs disguisekit-code as base

I'll try that out shortly and report back on what happens.

hmm i would think that just changing the ordanance would to the autoturret itself would make it work, i haven't tryed it with auto turrets but i have with rockets and various other bullets.

Not sure I understand.

well i just copy the auto turret.odf and then i go to the ordanence of the orbital then i delete all of that and then paste the auto turret odf words in its place. i always keep a back up of both files in case of problems.

the problem is that entitys such as turrets, mines etc. can only be deployed with dispensers, if you could do that with any weapon, it would defeat the purpose of dispensers, right?

i wonder if we could set the orbital strike odf up to be a dispenser... i'll have to test that later.

Already tried setting the beacon ordnance as a dispenser, and it failed.

1) You need the player to use a weapon or do an action that triggers a Lua event callback. It doesn't matter if it's a deployable event, an object destruction of a recon droid, or something else. Use whatever fits your map best.
2.1) If that weapon dispenses a turret, teleport it into the sky. Units fall when teleported into the air so I would assume the turret falls as well.
2.2) If that weapon or action doesn't dispense a turret, use CreateEntity() to make one at a matrix offset into the sky. You could offset from the character's position (matrix), from the recon droid's last position, or whatever.

Did that help?

(This is how to do it through Lua, I would't know how/if it could be done though an OFD change)

Couldn't you just make the ThrowStrength really strong and then add the ShotElevate to 90 degrees(straight up)? Wouldn't that make it fly up and then fall down like you wanted?

CalvaryCptMike wrote:Couldn't you just make the ThrowStrength really strong and then add the ShotElevate to 90 degrees(straight up)? Wouldn't that make it fly up and then fall down like you wanted?

hmm out of all of us we were thinking something more complicated... but...
THAT IS PERFECT!!!

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CalvaryCptMike wrote:Couldn't you just make the ThrowStrength really strong...

ThrowStrength does not exist, but there are Range and Velocity.