Profile of Takahashi

OMFG this site sometimes... Wrote a response, timed out, everything gone.

In short:

Have you tried using another trench wall? I am fairly certain there are vaultable ones and non-vaultable ones. Same with sandbags.

From what I remember from playing around with hulldowns, objects are spawned in this way in relation to the entity's facing. So if there's a squad of infantry, I think there's ample opportunity for some facing to get a little screwy as those entities maneuver around.

The standard trench wall segments don't work for the rear wall. It's not possible to change the direction of a spawned object so you end up with a trench like the second image, with one wall facing the wrong way. I've made a new version that solves some of those problems.



The rear wall cannot be vaulted over. But the front wall can.

I want to make them removable with wire cutters, although it doesn't seem to want to work. They are currently unremovable by any means.

They Block line of sight now, as demonstrated by this conscript squad. The rear echelon cannot see the conscripts, nor can the conscripts see the rear echelons. Great for ambushes!

The trenches do not however, block rifle rounds. The conscripts were able to quickly shred the rear echelons when fog of war was turned off despite being prone.

Cover is inconstant within the trench. When running down it's length, the squad will repeatedly be in and out of cover. The whole cover system is utterly bewildering and I have no idea how to make the entire trench a directional cover zone. Making it omnidirectional would be easy, but undesirable.

Is there any way to set the facing of an entity spawned through a spawn entity action?

I'm trying to make a trench but cannot figure out how rotate the front wall to face the inside.

The Pak43 and Opel Blitz both use SCAR Function calls to spawn their accessory buildings. Considering I don't know anything about Lua or SCAR in particular, and this whole Idea was on a whim, I'm going to shelve it for now.

Is this possible? I'm trying to make constructable non garrison trenches like the ambient ones you can find.

EDIT: It occurs to me that I could better express what I am trying to do. Essentially, I am attempting to make trenches like in the CoH1 mod "The great war".

So, what I've been trying to do is having the engineers build the front trench wall, then having on constructed actions spawn a dummy building (to stamp down the earth) in the center, and the rear wall. But my game crashes every time I build the trench section now.

Is there any way to edit the thread title to fix my idiocy?

I'm trying to make it so that when one of the models in a squad dies, they spawn a mine at their position. Is this even possible?

I'm also trying to make a builder unit that is a vehicle. I know you can make them spawn entities through a targeted action, but I'd like to use the standard building system if at all possible, as last I checked, the targeted option didn't let you control facing during set up like a proper builder squad can.