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Hmm still shooting backwards even after cloning the ability and changing that value to true.

on_construction_squad = attributes\sbps\races\british\team_weapons\howitzer_25_pounder\brit_25_pounder_howitzer_squad_mp


squad_loadout \\\ loadout_data = attributes\ebps\races\british\buildings\emplacements\brit_25_pounder_howitzer_mp

squad_loadout \\\ loadout_data=
attributes\ebps\races\british\buildings\emplacements\brit_17_pounder_pit_mp


I just use the stock items for simplicity but assuming the squads/entities are replaced with cloned and modded variants. That's the relationship?

I'll have another go.

Hi guys,

I have logged quite a lot of hours in the COH tools but at best I'm still a capable novice. I'm hitting a few walls and one of them is emplacements.

My current end goal is to have a 25lb gun in the coh 1 style emplacement base.
(armies\common\structures\artillerypit\artillerypit)

I've copied the hardpoints and abilities over from the Platoon CP as that seemed the easiest method. I also copied the crew_ext over.

To be clear the weapon works but the gun it's self is invisible, as the gun can't be seen I don't know if the crew gunner/loader etc is ok or not either.

There is an animation state for weapon visibility "maingun_visibility" and I set "do_action_state_name" to on. What concerns me is the available states seem to be a carbon copy of the Platoon CP so I'm not even sure they work on the "artillerypit" entity.

I'd obviously like help getting this to work but more than that I'd like to better understand how emplacements work on a sort of step by step basis. The problem is most of the options within the modding tools I've had to work out with trial and error but there's certain aspects I find very hard and this is one of them. The problem stems for information overload and I find it hard to back track what each thing does to see cause and effect so I really could do with someone to help me understand it.

Thanks.

I have a related question.

When a building is converted to a forward Hq; Is the "engineer_to_spawn" entity dictated by the options laid out in the repair_station_ext area of the original buildings ebps?

If so is there an easy way to work around this? I don't want to clone every ambient building and replace the engineer type in every single buildings ebps/repair_station_ext.

Yeah that's how I thought; where I fell down in confusion was "display & usage" that seemed redundant until SneakEye explained that the AI can still use a non displayed ability.