Unit-Spawning Objective

[Secg]

A while back, TommyCD1 intructed me how to write objectives to spawn units at all player starting point.

1st, extract all files from any .x map

2nd, open game.cfg, for each team, add an objective object's reaper ID

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    Objectives()
    {
      ReaperId(1001); // This is the Objective Object's ReaperId, which must be unique
    }

3rd, open objects.cfg, for each team, create an objective object with corresponding ReaperId number

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CreateObject("objective_start_team1", 1001)
{
  ObjectiveObj()
  {
    Condition();
  }
}

4th, use Notepad++ to create another .cfg file (say objective_start.cfg) and include it in the map's types.cfg

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#include "objective_start.cfg"

5th, in that objective_start.cfg, create one object type for each objective object belonging to each team, like thus:

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CreateObjectType("objective_start_team1", "Objective")
{
  GameObj();
  ObjectiveObj()
  {
    Condition("TRUE"); // This is the condition
    Action() // This is the outcome when the condition is met
    {
      SpawnObjects()
      {
        Region("team1");
        Direction(-90);
        Formation("Basic");
        AddType("army.unit.vikki");
      }
      SpawnObjects()
      {
        Region("team1");
        Direction(-90);
        Formation("Basic");
        AddType("army.unit.riff");
      }
      SpawnObjects()
      {
        Region("team1");
        Direction(-90);
        Formation("Basic");
        AddType("army.unit.thick");
      }
      SpawnObjects()
      {
        Region("team1");
        Direction(-90);
        Formation("Basic");
        AddType("army.unit.scorch");
      }
      SpawnObjects()
      {
        Region("team1");
        Direction(-90);
        Formation("Basic");
        AddType("army.unit.shrap");
      }
      SpawnObjects()
      {
        Region("team1");
        Direction(-90);
        Formation("Basic");
        AddType("army.unit.shrap");
      }
      SpawnObjects()
      {
        Region("team1");
        Direction(-90);
        Formation("Basic");
        AddType("army.unit.bullseye");
      }
    }
  }
}

However, NO extra unit is spawned. I wonder where I did wrong ?

[Magnos]

You can use

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 placement.cfg

instead of using an Objective for spawn or use the studio to edit

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object.cfg

the

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placement.cfg

is Connected to the

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sides/Army.cfg

here's the normal

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placement.cfg

File

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///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Pandemic Studios
//
// Generic Type Placement
//

// Generic name, direction, distance, orientation
Place("unit.sarge", 270, 8, 0);
Place("unit.builder", 90, 8, 0);

and the Default

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army.cfg

too

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///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Pandemic Studios
//
// Side Configuration
//

CreateSide("army")
{
  Description("#game.side.army.description");

  Mappings()
  {
    Add("unit.sarge", "army.unit.sarge");
    Add("unit.builder", "army.unit.bulldozer");
    Add("unit.grunt", "army.unit.grunt");
  }
  Network(1);
}

From army.cfg you see that it accept only 3 objects
Sarge,Bulldozer,Grunt (in normal doubles it summons sarge and bulldozer this way)

you can add the grunt to begin with Default units (sarge&Bulldozer) by adding it to the placement file

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Place("unit.grunt", 90, 8, 0);

you can also edit it's offset (90, 8, 0)
if you want more grunts then you have to add more 4 lines
You can add as many as you want, and then copy this placement file to the map folder
the default placement file for normal maps is exist in ..\base\ , editing it will cause different data and kick!
just make a new copy for your map and move it to the map folder
as for army.cfg, the most really bad thing that you have to make an UnExtractable Setup with winrar (you can use setup factory)
to setup army.cfg on player game
(if the user played with edited army.cfg a normal map everything is okay except for deleting the first three defaut, so just add on it without deleting)

if you still want to use objective you can extract my map (ndfm sea) there are lots to learn from this map!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IbPN6RgoBc

[Secg]

Greetings, Magnos!

I've independently come up with the same solution as yours and it does work (so credits to us both ). I can even change the Sarge's type to whatever unit or building I want, even the dreaded Acid Gun .

Still, the reason I use objectives instead of modding the sides > army.cfg is because:

• This solution only works when people not only download my map, but also replace their original army.cfg < sides with my modded army.cfg < sides. If all playyer have not the same modded army.cfg < sides, that will cause dis-syncing online (y'know, not all downloaders read the mapmaker's readme.txt ).

[Secg]

Finally, the objectives successfully made the game spawn units. Apparently, I just need to make sure that: my objectives' ReaperIDs are truly unique (because a prop may have the same ReaperID as an objective).