General

[24Gamer]

Does anyone know the simplist was to create a general with the name GEN?
Is there anyway to create a unit called GEN and change is type to a general?

[24Gamer]

my old code was
;_pos = getpos GENie
;Deletevehicle GENie
;GEN = "GeneralE" createvehicle _pos
;Removeallweapons GEN
;GEN setbehaviour "SAFE"
;GEN setcaptive true
;~16
;GEN playmove "Effectstandsitdown"
;~3
;GEN playmove "Effectstandsitdown"
;~3
;GEN playmove "Effectstandsitdown"

but that ment that each client made a General
i also did ?!(server etc) but that ment that the clients didnt recognize he was there (Hes a Target in the Intro)

[DBR_ONIX]

What about putting this in the beggining :

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?(genmade==1):exit
genmade=1

Then, when the first time it's run, genmade will not be set, so it won't exit
But the second run, it will already have set genmade to 1, so will exit the script..
So he will only be made once

I think that should work (Don't really do any MP scripting.. All SP my stuff)

- Ben

[Artak]

Are you referring to http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=17746 this post?

I gave you an advice to do a search on the forum, with the search function and even showed how the button looks like. Did you do that? I can easily find about 50 posts covering this subject plus all the stuff that's in the editors depot.

If you want to know how to solve a multiplayer problem, you have better chance when posting your question to the multiplayer editing board.

If you want to create the General Guba unit in MP named as GEN here's what you need to do.

1. place a gamelogic in editor and name it as Server
2. place a east unit and write in his init field: gengroup = group this; deletevehicle
this
3. place a marker and name it as genpos
4. in a script or trigger or what ever you're using, use this line:
    ?(local Server): "GeneralE" createunit [getmarkerpos "genpos", gengroup, "GEN = this",1,"COLONEL"]

This will create a GeneralE unit at genpos marker's position and the unit is named as GEN.

So in your script it would look something like this:

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?(local Server): "GeneralE" createunit [getmarkerpos "genpos", gengroup, "GEN = this; this setbehaviour {safe}; this setcaptive true",1,"COLONEL"]
~16
GEN playmove "Effectstandsitdown"
~3
GEN playmove "Effectstandsitdown"
~3
GEN playmove "Effectstandsitdown"
But if the unit is used already in an intro I can't imagine why you would want to create the unit in the first place. Why not just insert him in editor, and if he's in the way you can always use setpos on him, which is fat less complicated than createunit.
Cheers.

[rhysduk]

Yes, exactly what artak said.

May i ask why you have posted the same question as that other post, when i  and macguba gave you a perfectly good answer, a working answer aswell, to your problem?

[24Gamer]

sry about posting a similar topic i just wondered if there was an easier way to create a unit because i didn't understand how the unit group worked.
about creating him in the editor, thats all i want to do but he isn't in the list of unit types  :-\

[rhysduk]

Do you have the Kegetys Editor Upgrade? I think he is in there.. not sure though.

Use the method i said in your other topic, it works

Rhys

[24Gamer]

if you use the editor upgrade, doesn't it mean that everybodys gotta have it?

[rhysduk]

Yes but most people have it anyway.. it only a couple of kilobytes maybe 20k

Rhys

[macguba]

Everybody has it - it's the one addon that is genuinely not optional.