Battlezone 1

I was reading through the mapmaking guide and there was one section explaining how to add pilots to furies. I changed the class to "wingman" but I can't find the BZN file the guide says to use. I also don't understand which numbers to edit to add the pilots to the fury.

My goal is to have the fury in a deployed and undeployed state, much like the original.

Nobody? D:

Use this for a pilotable Fury, you can't control it if the AI gets into one though but the player can hop in and out at will:



Copy and paste this into notepad and save it as a file with an .odf extension.
If you need more help feel free to ask me.

Goomba

I appreciate your help Goomba, and the vehicle works, but this is just a modified CCA stock fury. I want the Alien flying fury with the ability to deploy and undeploy.

EDIT: was spawning the wrong fury for some reason.. But it's still a normal fury I can't enter. How do I get the pilot out?

Hmmm, try removing the AI labels, I did that too to make it pilotable but forgot to post it here for some reason.
You need to replace aiName = "SAVEnemy" with aiName = "TankProcess", just remove aiName2.

Hope this helps
Goomba

There is no "TankProcess"

But there is "TankFriend" and "TankEnemy".

I know, there is no TankProcess, but Activision used that to give units no AI (soviet player tank in the last 2 CCA missions for example). When you give a Fury an AI you can't get in

TankProcess worked, thanks

But the engine noise is really loud and doesnt change when I accelerate. Is this a problem with the SAV class or can I add a field to change it?

Also goomba, could you explain to me what you did exactly to make the fury pilotable? I changed avrecy to tankprocess and removed ainame2 as a test to see if it was that but it didn't work. :/

Hmmm, you can try something like soundTurbo = "sound.wav" (sound.wav must be the engine sound you want to use of course) but I won't know as Furies actually never use turbo when the AI uses one. I noticed the sound being load as well, only option would be to lower volume with something like audacity.

EDIT: For recyclers that doesn't work, at least I never got it to work. Anyway don't expect you can build with it, you can deploy anywhere even if you are not on a geyser. What you can do to make something close to a pilotable recycler is a turret that looks like a recycler with unit spawns in the weapon slots, if you want more information on this i can give you an example file to play with.

EDIT 2: (noticed i still didn't answer your question .) To make a unit pilotable that's normally unpilotable you need to add a nation label and a pilot label in the odf, nation label looks like this:

This gives the unit an american pilot, changing it to soviet results in a CCA pilot.
Pilot label looks like this:

This gives the unit a pilot, it's not really necessary but it doesn't hurt to add it.

Yeah could you do that please? As an experiment I wanted to make every unit in the game pilot-able, and an example production unit would help me get a lot of it done.

Sure, this is an example odf for a driveable recycler:



To build units with the weapon hardpoints, you also need this:



This weapon will spawn a NSDF Scavenger with a 4 seconds shot delay, put it in one of the recycler's hardpoints and you are all set.

Now the game crashes when I enter it.. :/

Narrowed it down a bit, the "turrettank" label seems to be causing it.. :/

I revisited this, and got it to work. But the recy has no collision and when I try to enter it I just run right through it.

just listen to good ol Goomba. He knows what he is doing.

BZ2 has a fury that can deploy and undeploy. is that able to be done in bz1 too?? instead of just using the jump thrusters?