The phantom third watchtower

[c_jay_ie]

Allo all, 1st post, and it's a question. I've done my homework, and I've found out that in the default, "viewtower" object is the black wire guard tower and "viewtower2" object is the covered tower. Now, in the main base on the basic training island in Malden (where Armstrong starts his basic training), beside the North-Western exit, there's a third tower type. It's not on the map (other than as a bush), and when I get another soldier to go to it, it's "2, go to bush, 12 o clock". What's the story? Is it possible to take this tower and place it in other places (like with the 1st two)?

I'd love to put this thing in the airbase at Malden, but I've looked everywhere to find the object name, and came up with no matches. Eh?

[macguba]

Welcome to the forum!

Create a trigger:

Condition:  true
On activation:  hint format ["%1", typeOf object 9999]

where 9999 is obviously the object ID of the tower in question.    This will tell you the type of object it really is.    Now place one of your other towers on a map somewhere:   open the mission.sqm, find it and edit the entry.    Bingo!   Probably.

Just for the avoidance of doubt, are you using General Barron's editor addon?  (You should be.)

[c_jay_ie]

thanks goob. I'm not using it (not using anything), but I'll look for it, download, and see what I can do.

[macguba]

It's in the Editors Depot under editor addons I think ... it may solve your problem directly.

[Tyger]

it called a wood tower in his ed addon, just a wee bit of help.  ;D

[c_jay_ie]

Alright, I'll tell you what I have been doing so far. I have a clean version of OFP, just a few vehicle addons, nothing spectacular. To get these buildings where I want them, I just place a flag object, name it, save mission, minimise OFP, open the mission.sqm file in Notepad, and edit the object type line (flag found by searching for the name). E.g. to change from a flagpole to a wire watchtower, I'd replace "flagcarrier" with "viewtower" and so on.

You said the third tower was named "wood tower". Does that mean if I type in "woodtower" instead of "flagcarrier", I'd get it? I'd go and try it for myself, but I'm on a college computer, and I won't be anywhere near OFP until Saturday at the earliest.

And thanks for the welcome! ;D

[Tyger]

i'm not sure, but i know under the editor addons its called a wood tower. I can check in a moment...

[Tyger]

well, m8, surprisingly enough, the tower is called just that: tower.
now you can do it two ways, the first of which is the one you mentioned. There is also another way, which i prefer, and might be easier when you have a rather large mission.
make a game logic, and name it any bloody name you want, say loon_logic
then put in it's init:

Code: [Select]

tower_1 = "tower" camCreate [getPos loon_logic select 0,loon_logic select 1,~]; tower_1 setDir ~~to set the proper height, change the ~, and to change it's direction, change the ~~.
using 0 for the height doesn't always work, some of the buildings have thier height center in the middle of the building.