Commander ability modding Problems

Ok I have a new problem. I want to give the soviets the AT gun Ambush Tactics ability as a default secondary power. I tried getting this ability to work and suddenly my m42 AT gun is now an infantry squad with camouflage.

There's an ambush file for the soviets in: abilities/soviet/timed_ability/throw_away_hack_ui/cmd_at_gun_ambush_tactics.

There are 2 more abilities under the commander ability:

at_gun_ambush_tactics

m42_at_gun_ambush_tactics_mp

I assume these two are the ones that matter because they are the ones linked to sbps abilities.


I'm 99% sure not completely understanding usage/display/usage+display was causing my problems before; abilities were in fact working but not appearing because I told them not to.

A recent patch changed the m-42 at gun, which now always has access to the ambush ability.
abilities\soviet\toggle_ability\m42_at_gun_ambush_tactics_mp has no requirement.

The Zis-gun uses abilities\soviet\toggle_ability\commander_ability\at_gun_ambush_tactics in which you can delete the any_in_list requirement.

The abilities\soviet\timed_ability\throw_away_hack_ui\cmd_at_gun_ambush_tactics_mp is the passive icon in the commander panel.

I deleted my sbps entry for the AT gun (re-changing the requirements) and it was suddenly all working!

But largely knowing which problem file to start kicking is an incredible help to remove my broken modifications.

Thank you again!

Once again I'm having problems.

I can't seem to get the following abilities to work: p47_recon_mp, Off_map_smoke_artillery, combined_arms.

I tried cloning combined arms and changed -
1. required all in list (display)
1. required player upgrade : combined arms (display)


to:

<template_reference name="required" value="requirements\required_any_in_list">
<enum name="reason" value="usage_and_display" />
<locstring name="ui_name" value="0" />
<list name="requirements">
<template_reference name="requirement" value="requirements\required_player_upgrade">
<enum name="reason" value="usage_and_display" />
<locstring name="ui_name" value="0" />
<bool name="is_present" value="True" />
<float name="max_completed" value="100" />
<float name="min_completed" value="1" />
<instance_reference name="upgrade_name" value="upgrade\aef\commander\ability\raid_tactics" />
</template_reference>
<template_reference name="requirement" value="requirements\required_player_upgrade">
<enum name="reason" value="usage_and_display" />
<locstring name="ui_name" value="0" />
<bool name="is_present" value="True" />
<float name="max_completed" value="100" />
<float name="min_completed" value="1" />
<instance_reference name="upgrade_name" value="upgrade\pm\american\unit_unlocks\pm_pathfinders_unlock" />
</template_reference>
<template_reference name="requirement" value="requirements\required_player_upgrade">
<enum name="reason" value="usage_and_display" />
<locstring name="ui_name" value="0" />
<bool name="is_present" value="True" />
<float name="max_completed" value="100" />
<float name="min_completed" value="1" />
<instance_reference name="upgrade_name" value="upgrade\aef\commander\ability\pathfinders" />
</template_reference>
<template_reference name="requirement" value="requirements\required_player_upgrade">
<enum name="reason" value="usage_and_display" />
<locstring name="ui_name" value="0" />
<bool name="is_present" value="True" />
<float name="max_completed" value="100" />
<float name="min_completed" value="1" />
<instance_reference name="upgrade_name" value="upgrade\aef\commander\ability\cavalry_riflemen_dispatch" />
</template_reference>
<template_reference name="requirement" value="requirements\required_player_upgrade">
<enum name="reason" value="usage_and_display" />
<locstring name="ui_name" value="0" />
<bool name="is_present" value="True" />
<float name="max_completed" value="100" />
<float name="min_completed" value="1" />
<instance_reference name="upgrade_name" value="upgrade\aef\commander\passive\riflemen_defensive_buildings" />
</template_reference>
<template_reference name="requirement" value="requirements\required_player_upgrade">
<enum name="reason" value="usage_and_display" />
<locstring name="ui_name" value="0" />
<bool name="is_present" value="True" />
<float name="max_completed" value="100" />
<float name="min_completed" value="1" />
<instance_reference name="upgrade_name" value="upgrade\aef\commander\ability\t34_sherman_calliope_dispatch" />
</template_reference>
<template_reference name="requirement" value="requirements\required_race">
<enum name="reason" value="usage_and_display" />
<locstring name="ui_name" value="0" />
<instance_reference name="race" value="racebps\aef" />
</template_reference>
</list>
</template_reference>

I tried some very simple things to make it work like required race:aef as the only requirement and that didn't work either.

I do have this ability set as a secondary ability (if that matters).

*edit* I got it working by making a new army ability with just the command cost. Not sure why that works and cloning the ability regularly does not.

Also, this might sound dumb but there are 2 things I have been stucked:

I failed to locate where the vehicle popcap at

And how to I change what weapon a unit get? (I.E I wanted volks to hold MP40 as base weapon) I search in sbps and ebps but I can't find it

Also, this might sound dumb but there are 2 things I have been stucked:

I failed to locate where the vehicle popcap at

And how to I change what weapon a unit get? (I.E I wanted volks to hold MP40 as base weapon) I search in sbps and ebps but I can't find it

The first question I know Sneakeye answered for me- about 10 months ago. I think there is a lockout ability you need to remove. Try looking in :

SBPS : Squad requirement



For the second part you can 'reverse engineer'. Find the weapon you want in the weapon tab, find a squad using it and you can see how that unit looks with the tools and change the other squad to match.