SWS Cannot use ability on this target.

Jump back to quoted post5 Jan 2022, 22:28 PMGeneral_Starlord

Do you mind if I ask what you mean by copy and paste the HQ and SWS.
Do you mean you cloned them?

Jump back to quoted post7 Jan 2022, 00:25 AMGeneral_Starlord

I usually find its the other way round. Cloning something and then renaming it can break it.
My only suggestion really is to clone all the okw buildings and their construction abilities, as they may have been changed by Relic and we cant see the changes cause the tools are so out of date.
If you clone them it will set them up in your mod as they appear in the tools and that might fix it.

Jump back to quoted post7 Jan 2022, 04:33 AMSie_Sayoka

The SWS halftrack has all the relevant references within the squad category. You will want to look for ability and loadout extensions and reference those accordingly.

To diagnose the problem why the ability cannot be used, label the requirements so you know which requirement is not being fulfilled.

I have looked at the ability requirements and none of them have the string "Cannot Use Ability On This Target". I'm unsure if this is because the mod tools are outdated or because its a default message of some target requirement within the ability not being met.

If you can still not diagnose the issue then start by deleting requirements until it works.

Jump back to quoted post9 Jan 2022, 03:50 AMSie_Sayoka

That's weird.

For clarification is the ability's button greyed out or are you able to click the button and have the ghost image of the halftrack?

When you cloned the SWS halftrack was it in the sbps or ebps category?

Is the pbgid (number at the bottom) the same as the non-cloned version?

To 'restart' your progress there's 2 options.

Copy/paste the "extensions" by clicking on the extensions line of the attributes version and pasting it over the extensions line of your clone.

Delete your cloned SWS halftrack. If a dialogue box is opened saying x instances will also be affected don't delete it. Find all references (via right click) and replace them with the original versions first. Then you can delete it.

Jump back to quoted post9 Jan 2022, 04:45 AMFLS_FalcoN

It is completely greyed out yeah, doesn't let me select it.

Jump back to quoted post9 Jan 2022, 07:55 AMSneakEye

This happens when the action list in the ability is empty or the list has actions which have 0 duration.
Does the construct_action still have a correct link to your entity?

Jump back to quoted post12 Jan 2022, 08:31 AMFLS_FalcoN

The links were fine, it did have 0 duration though, which did fix it thank you very much.

Jump back to quoted post12 Jan 2022, 08:31 AMFLS_FalcoN

One thing if you don't mind SneakEye, is there any way to change what weapons are available at the weapon racks in the Forward Assembly? I'm trying to give OKW the Forward Assembly, my problem is the link between the Forward Assembly itself and the weapon racks as they're a separate entity.

I have all of the slot_item stuff done and whatnot, it's just the link between the two entities that I don't understand. My Pioneers build the new OKW Forward Assembly but it still comes with the PIAT and Bren LMG.

Jump back to quoted post12 Jan 2022, 09:26 AMSneakEye

The Forward Assembly spawns the weapon racks through an apply_stamp_action in construction_ext/on_construction_actions. However, these stamps cannot be modded. If you make a custom structure, then you need to remove that apply_stamp_action and use spawn_entity_action instead. Set permanent to False, duration to 9999 and player_owned to True; that will automatically delete it when the Forward Assembly dies.