Ok, so steps to making any unit a drone carrier unit like the Blackop's Tempest or Goliath are:
(any half decent coder knows this already, consider this a beginner's guide to drones).
Basically 4 things are needed, first you make more DroneData tables, with different names ofc, inside the "carrier" unit's .bp script.
(ofc, you need to add other segments that pertain to drones, like 'PODSTAGINGPLATFORM' or GuardScanRadius (they are easy to spot compering a carrier and a non-carrier's .bp)).
Then you copy the entire code from Tempest's or Goliath's .script file concerning drones (I will have in my mod (Survival Mayhem&BO balance) the older version because...I made it before the Blackops patched it and also I needed to modify it a bit, for example the targets that the drones attack, the effects when they respawn. You can find it in the units folder of that mod, specifically units xaa9905, xaa9904, 3, 2 and 1.), the newest Blackops:unleashed patch did some changes as in it made the carriers (drone hosts ) into a new CLASS of units, and that file then gets called by every carrier .script, so that there is no need to set-up drones via them, the class script handles it instead when the carrier unit references it.
This is all you need to call it:
- Code:
local BaseTransport = import('/lua/defaultunits.lua').BaseTransport
local AirDroneCarrier = import('/mods/BlackOpsFAF-Unleashed/lua/BlackOpsunits.lua').AirDroneCarrier -- the bit that does the actual work, take a look to see what it does and how and how it is different than individual DroneSetup in my xaa9901-5 units in my mod)
XAA9901 = Class(BaseTransport, AAirUnit, AirDroneCarrier) { --this is how we call the carrier Blackops script
-- Create drones --goes in OnStopBeingBuilt
ChangeState(self, self.DroneMaintenanceState)
AirDroneCarrier.InitDrones(self) -- this creates them via the Blackops carrier script. Place it here to have drones right away, or place it under an enhancement to activate it via an enhancement
OnDamage = function(self, instigator, amount, vector, damagetype)
AAirUnit.OnDamage(self, instigator, amount, vector, damagetype)
AirDroneCarrier.SetAttacker(self, instigator)
end,
--Drone control buttons
OnScriptBitSet = function(self, bit)
--Drone assist toggle, on
if bit == 1 then
self.DroneAssist = false
--Drone recall button
elseif bit == 7 then
self:RecallDrones()
--Pop button back up, as it's not actually a toggle
self:SetScriptBit('RULEUTC_SpecialToggle', false)
else
AAirUnit.OnScriptBitSet(self, bit)
end
end,
OnScriptBitClear = function(self, bit)
--Drone assist toggle, off
if bit == 1 then
self.DroneAssist = true
--Recall button reset, do nothing
elseif bit == 7 then
return
else
AAirUnit.OnScriptBitClear(self, bit)
end
end,
--Handles drone docking
OnTransportAttach = function(self, attachBone, unit)
self.DroneData[unit.Name].Docked = attachBone
unit:SetDoNotTarget(true)
BaseTransport.OnTransportAttach(self, attachBone, unit)
end,
--Handles drone undocking, also called when docked drones die
OnTransportDetach = function(self, attachBone, unit)
self.DroneData[unit.Name].Docked = false
unit:SetDoNotTarget(false)
if unit.Name == self.BuildingDrone then
self:CleanupDroneMaintenance(self.BuildingDrone)
end
BaseTransport.OnTransportDetach(self, attachBone, unit)
end,
OnKilled = function(self, instigator, damagetype, overkillRatio)
AAirUnit.OnKilled(self, instigator, damagetype, overkillRatio)
--Kill our heartbeat thread
KillThread(self.HeartBeatThread)
--Clean up any in-progress construction
ChangeState(self, self.DeadState)
--Immediately kill existing drones
self:KillAllDrones()
local nrofBones = self:GetBoneCount() -1
local watchBone = self:GetBlueprint().WatchBone or 0
end,
-- Set on unit death, ends production and consumption immediately
DeadState = State {
Main = function(self)
if self.gettingBuilt == false then
self:CleanupDroneMaintenance(nil, true)
end
end,
That's it as far as the carrier's .script file is concerned - mind you, that's the code for if you decide to make the Blackops script do the whole work. Seeing as how I needed the drones to target all units and not just air,and I wanted spawn and respawn effects to happen for drones, and some other things... I made individual drone carrier scripts. If you will need those, they will be available within Survival mayhem&BO balance mod, unit xaa9905-1
You can call DroneSetup from enhancements if you want drones to be gained through enhancement, or you can copy the whole carrier and DroneSetup script like I did in unit xaa9905 and then make several DroneSetups, each relevant to the different DroneData in carrier's .bp file
- that way you can call multiple drone configurations with different enhancements, for example 1.st enhancement gets you 4 drones, second gets you 4 more, third gets you 6 more (for a total of 14
IN BOTH THOSE CASES DRONE REBUILD WILL GET BROKEN AS SOON A S YOU BUILD OR MAKE AN ENHANCEMENT (if you have it)
NOW for the useful part - getting drones to rebuild. -the 3.rd thing you need.
Using enhancements, or building with the unit changes the carrier's state, so that it is no longer DroneMaintenance.
We restart it using this, for each of the things that change the state (building, finishing building, stopping the build, getting enhancement)
- Code:
WorkingState = State { -- needed to fix drones not being rebuilt
Main = function(self)
while self.WorkProgress < 1 and not self.Dead do
WaitSeconds(0.1)
end
end,
OnWorkEnd = function(self, work)
self:ClearWork()
self:SetActiveConsumptionInactive()
AddUnitEnhancement(self, work)
self:CleanupEnhancementEffects(work)
self:CreateEnhancement(work)
self:PlayUnitSound('EnhanceEnd')
self:StopUnitAmbientSound('EnhanceLoop')
self:EnableDefaultToggleCaps()
--ChangeState(self, self.IdleState)
ChangeState(self, self.DroneMaintenanceState)
end,
OnWorkFail = function(self, work) --if you cancel an enhancement upgrade - i did not have time to test it yet
self:ClearWork()
self:SetActiveConsumptionInactive()
self:PlayUnitSound('EnhanceFail')
self:StopUnitAmbientSound('EnhanceLoop')
self:CleanupEnhancementEffects()
ChangeState(self, self.DroneMaintenanceState)
end,
},
OnStartBuild = function(self, unitBuilding, order) --same thing, but for when the carrier builds stuff
AAirUnit.OnStartBuild(self, unitBuilding, order)
self.UnitBeingBuilt = unitBuilding
ChangeState(self, self.BuildingState)
-- ChangeState(self, self.DroneMaintenanceState)
end,
OnStopBuild = function(self, unitBeingBuilt)
AAirUnit.OnStopBuild(self, unitBeingBuilt)
--ChangeState(self, self.FinishedBuildingState)
ChangeState(self, self.DroneMaintenanceState)
end,
OnFailedToBuild = function(self)
AAirUnit.OnFailedToBuild(self)
ChangeState(self, self.DroneMaintenanceState)
end,
The fourth thing is setting up the actual drone's .script and .bp file to make it into a drone, but you can copy that from BlackOps drones.
And that's it. 2 problems' though - the drones do not get rebuilt during carrier's time it is constructing units/buildings (but do when the building is done, or stopped)
and they do not spawn while the unit is getting an enhancement (but do as soon as you get it).
However, it could be argued that a unit cannot build 2 things at the same time, no?
P.S. look for version 100+ of the Survival Mayhem&bo balance mod (i will upload it soon), earlier versions of it do not have units xaa9905,4,3,2,1 yet.
Statistics: Posted by DDDX — 13 Nov 2018, 02:03
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