I am making a pseudo-sides mod, along the lines of BFX.

For it, I thought it'd be great if the commanders had a "spawn beacon". I don't see it on the BF2 limitations list, so I think, why not?

So I attempted to rig a recon droid to be a command vehicle. It doesn't crash, in-game, but on problem with it is that, well....

You know how with a normal recon droid you can press "e" to exit and go back to your main unit, and walk around as him with the recon droid still there? When I try that with the spawn beacon, I become the "invisible man". I have no geometry. I am totally invisible, and enemy shots pass right through me. I even fall through terrain. Is there any way to fix this?

My rep_weap_inf_spawn odf and ord.odf:
and the ord: I copied the spawn lines out of the AT-TE's odf.

http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 6&start=20

Only way to really do it. Warning: you will have to learn how or know how to do some .lua coding.

Thanks, Mav! That was really helpful!

I tried setting the ordance to be that bldg_fowardcenter thing, and it does drop that foward center, and it does show up on the map as a spawn loaction, but I can't select it. All the other methods in that post seemed way too advanced for me, so if I can get this method to work that'd be great!

I think the can't-select problem is caused by it not being properly loaded in the LUA. Like, you know how if you add a command walker you have to add a line in the LUA specifying how many there are? And the same for flyers? What exactly would I put for this? Because it's not a walker, or a flyer; it's an object.

EDIT - D'oh! I'll look at the Hoth LUA and see how they set up the shield generator. Maybe that'll help; if not I'll edit this post.


EDIT 2 - I saw in the Endor and Hoth LUAs that they add an extra AddCommandPost line at the top, and no memorypool thing. My question is: how do I find the name of the command post I add? For that shield generator, it was CP7, for the Endor bunker, it was CP10. How to I find it for the forward center?


EDIT 3 - Saw Mav's post. I'll try to stumble through those formidable LUAs.

EDIT 4 - Mav, won't that just teleport them to you where ever you are, and it won't be onder their control? What I want to make is a trully dispensable cp. I know you say it absolutely can't be done - but then you "can't" make a grappling hook either. Basically, I want it to function like that beacon in BF2142, where you can choose it on the map and spawn to that location if you wish.

You can't dispense a command post (and have it work as such), if you read through the thread. The solution starts on page 2 or page 3, and it involves using a LUA weapon (specifically a null dispenser) to teleport units to you on command.

@Fiodis: also, you should be aware that only one unit (per team I think) can use it at a time. So don't give it to a unit that there can be more than one of.

Fiodis wrote:EDIT 4 - Mav, won't that just teleport them to you where ever you are, and it won't be onder their control? What I want to make is a trully dispensable cp. I know you say it absolutely can't be done - but then you "can't" make a grappling hook either. Basically, I want it to function like that beacon in BF2142, where you can choose it on the map and spawn to that location if you wish.

You can't make a grappling hook and you can't dispense a command post. I made a .lua workaround to a grappling hook, this is the .lua workaround to the command post.