Profile of RagnarTheGamer

Yea this is already implemented in the game and some mods already use it and also maps use this feature.

My idea was to make the gun not do anything until the upgrade is bought. After the upgrade is bought, it can just fire like it used to.

Ok, that is simple to do.

1) to action_apply_ext add requirement_action

2) to action_table add apply_modifiers_action

3) to modifiers add enable_weapon_modifier

4) set the enable_weapon_modifier as follow:
target_type_name = hardpoint_01
value = -1

5) in requirement_table in the requirement_action you will add required_not

6) to requirement_table in the required_not you will add required_entity_upgrade

7) set the upgrade_name to the upgrade that will enable the weapon

And you are done. This is how it should look in the end.



I hope this helped you

How do you make your own animation?

Well its actually quite simple but it can get complicated.

First what you want to do is to design your vehicle/building in World Builder to give you an idea of how it will look after executing the ability or action to trigger the animation. You also need to do this to know where you will be spawning the new entities.



Ok, so now let's go step by step.

1) You need to make sure your main entity(the entity that you are creating the animation for) has its x and y coordinates are as close as possible to 0. In the picture above, you see that I have x = 0.15 and y = -0.16.

2) Place your objects around your main entity.

Now, let's open the Attribute Editor.

3) We make a new ability (a toggle ability in this example).

4) In action_list > start_target_action, we will add apply_modifiers_action. To the modifiers, we add move_enable_modifier and set the usage_type to enable and value to -1. We do this to disable the movement of the vehicle while the ability is active.

5) Another action we add to start_target_action is delay. To delay_actions we add change_target_action and set the change_target_type to entities.

6) Now in change_target_action to actions we add spawn_entity and we set duration to 0, entity_blueprint to entity we want to spawn and offset to the x, y, z coordinates to match the coordinates from the World Builder.
NOTE: If z coordinates in World Builder are equal to 10 then the z offset will be 0 in the spawn_entity action.

And now you should be good to go just to double check your delay action should look like on the picture below.



To make the animation better looking we spawn 2-4 entities in one change_target_action. And then just add another delay action to the original delays delay_actions and repeat what we did.

I hope this helped you and if I made something unclear or you need more assistance feel free to ask.

Regards,
Ragnar

Yea the commanders look different but Relic most likely paid someone to make them so having them change is highly unlikely.

Full modding tools would be the best thing that would happen to CoH2. That said full modding tools won't be released any time soon. Relic doesn't have the resources or the time to implement the tools. Even thou we had access to full tool a few years back doesn't mean it's just an easy update to add back full tools. If I would have to guess it would be made like for CoH1. Each mod would have its own launcher this would eliminate the lobby downloads as SneakEye said.

And sadly I think open latter is just a waste of time. Obviously, Relic made up their mind about the implementation of the tools. One can now only hope that they will release full tools after CoH3 has been released.