research for repair weapon purposes Options

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

I recently realised that my deployed units are still repairable with the modile repair vehicle. So i tried to make all other buildings repairable with this too, but without success. It seems that the UndeploysInto= key makes this possible.

The reason why i want this to be possible is either a unit or building that automatically repairs buildings and keeps the base intact, so you don't have to click every few seconds on a slightly damaged building.

The problem i encountered was, that buildings with UndeploysInto= can't be repaired or sold anymore. The repair/sell cursor just don't work on them.
And [IQ] RepairSell=0 isn't an option too, due to the auto sell.
And if i give a building a repair weapon, it only repairs when forced to fire and they don't stop when the building/unit is repaired.

So has anyone any experience in repair weapons, auto repairing buildings etc?

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: May 13 2008, 11:05 AM

[The DvD]

LKO just said that buildings cant repair other buildings correctly

BTW, wouldn't putting a negative value in the Damage tag in an animation (art.ini) heal any unit that drives through? I never tested this. BTW Sticky=yes makes the animations stick to units.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

i once heard that art.ini damage can't be negative, but i have to test this.
I didn't knew the Sticky= key. Thank you very much. I really searched for something like this for a long time. I always wanted to make a napalm bomb that sets the units/buildings on fire and let them burn even when they move. Crazy that i've never tested BURN-S M or L, while these have this key and i certainly would have noticed the difference.

\EDIT
the Sticky key doesn't work. I've tested it as the anim on the [AP] warhead and it didn't followed the unit.
Then i took a look in game.exe where only one sticky key is present, the one for unit behaviour.

\EDIT
negative damage in art.ini doesn't work. (tested)

\EDIT

By the way, one problem i'm having with my mod is that the repair pad won't accept aircraft anymore.. perhaps a side effect of sharing the pad along multiple Sides? EDIT: it is.

sorry i didn't saw this. Do you have more than one entry in your RepairBay= key? If yes, aircraft can't land on them anymore. I had the same problem and found the reason here.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: May 15 2008, 12:19 PM