Profile of Dar

Originally posted over at the official forums. As usual though, nobody seems to really pay attention beyond the popular balance related topics over there. So hopefully somebody here knows:

Guys, kind of a legal question here.

I personally love high quality, historical relevant maps for custom matches - the more, the better. Now the game itself actually holds a ton of these that are either part of the campaign or the theatre of war extensions. Some have been ported to the MP by Relic, many more eventually found their way into the Steam Workshop, but mostly these are poorly ported and presented (names, texts, minimaps, previews, atmosphere settings etc).

So for personal usage, I extracted about a dozen of them, cleaned them up (campaign stuff+scar) and made them MP compatible. In part I had to completely overhaul them of course. And now they work great, they look great, they feel historical. So I wondered: Would there be an issue with sharing these on the Steam workshop since, especially with the ToW maps, Relic is charging money to access these in the game, or rather, access the mission scenarios on these maps?

So, I'd really like to share these MP-ports, but would this be prohibited?

Thanks a lot, man. As pointed out, the upgrade option should do the trick as well. However, one more question: How can I reference a custom upgrade from a tuning pack in the function. I have no problems getting a vanilla upgrade running like this, but once I type in the name of my upgrade (lets call it "my_upgrade"), I get a fatal.

So this is the code I added to the OnInit() of the .scar of a custom wincondition:

for i = 1, World_GetPlayerCount() 
do
		local player = World_GetPlayerAt(i)
		Player_CompleteUpgrade(player, BP_GetUpgradeBlueprint("my_upgrade"))
end

I guess I have to insert the ModID along with the upgrade name. I'm not exactly sure how though.

Yes, I am aware of how this all works, but thank you for the detailed description anyway, it might help less experienced mod tool users.

This is of course an option I had in mind, but wanted to avoid, as you said it is a workaround and I was hoping for a more elegant option. Guess theres no way around then.

Anything on my first question that comes to mind? The infantry ducking away?

Very well, I see I should have made my question a little more clear.

Of course I know where to SET the original maximum speed of a vehicle in the ebps section. However I am only talking about how to MODIFY it, i.e. take the base value (defined in the ebps' moving_ext) and change it (activated by an ability, upgrade, aura, etc) by addition, multiplication, subtraction or, what I am looking for, replacement by a certain value (which seemingly can't be done with the speed_max modifier). This is not exactly a key feature, just something that comes up during development as a result of more or less spontaneous ideas.

And rest assured, whenever I post a question here, I have already spent some time once-overing the tools.

Sounds promising, interesting approach. In the filter action on end_self_actions of the toggle ability, which function would you use to despawn the fake entity though?