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Thread: Unit management29 Mar 2016, 13:46 PM Hi eliw00d, thanks a lot, very good source! What exactly is an Egroup or Sgroup for? Is it just a helper for giving several entities/squads the same command instead of giving it several times to every single entity/squad? Spiff. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Unit management22 Mar 2016, 21:52 PM Hi! Does anybody know how the game handles the units in game? I know they have unit IDs like 50000 and upwards but is there any documentation on this? How does the game "know" that a unit is dead? Will the unit ID be replaced by another unit when it enters the field? If not, can dead units be resurrected by a script? And what about the ownage, how are the owners called within the game (like player1, player2,...) and how are they connected to the units? Are there any direct triggers for the tank guns when the cooldown is set to 0 if that's possible? If you have some answers, I'd be happy. :-) Thanks! Spiff In: Modding and Tools
Thread: 3D mouse integration22 Mar 2016, 09:53 AM Hi, I changed the code to make it work with a F710 gamepad by Logitech (don't know if it's compatible to the XBOX-gamepads) only for now. I could make a small menue on what unit to use but I need to have some code changes there. I could give you a small test version though. The main problem is that it will not work any more after a patch is applied to the game. It will have to be updated. I am not sure how fast I could support this but if you want to try it I'd be happy. My experience of the use of this tool is: it's good for casting. For playing it needs a 3rd hand because I am using the left hand with the grid keys mainly. Spiff. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: 3D mouse integration24 Oct 2015, 15:11 PM Hi! I wrote a tool to integrate a 3D mouse into CoH2. I usually use the mouse as engineering tool within CAD applications but thought it could also be useful in CoH2. What you can see here is live and not driven by any scar-scripting. https://youtu.be/zxh4BHGAXrE In this case it is a SpaceNavigator from 3dconnexion. The use of joysticks or gamepads would also be possible. From my first experience, the handling is nice. For live-castings or moviemaking this could be a cool way to navigate through the map, for playing it's maybe more confusing than a help. It's possible to turn off camera roation and tilting and just use it for X/Y movement as well. If you need more information, feel free to ask. The state of the tool is early alpha, I just wanted to give you a short look into what its features are for now. -Spiff In: Modding and Tools
Thread: How to counter UKF Bofors?4 Sep 2015, 07:59 AM Hi, I had pretty hard games yesterday with Bofors "spam" and this lockdown ability which made the Bofors even resist to several OKW Stuka barrages. How is the Bofors meant to be countered? We found a OKW JP4 did a fairly good job but as Ostheer, what would you recommend? A PAK is hard to get into the right position on maps like Essen and with the lockdown ability, the UKF player gets enough time to counter it with mortars or a blob. Vision is also a problem if you want the PAK to attack it directly to get it down faster as with attack ground. A Stug seems to be also okay, but has a bit too weak armor. Risky. Smoke it with Mortars and attack ground? Not sure if it works and if you have enough time to clear it. Any suggestions? Thanks. Spiff In: Ostheer Strategies
Thread: Western Armies - Tiers and Units?9 May 2014, 18:50 PM Puma & Sherman. But this is only a rough guess. In: Lobby
Thread: MG42 Bug!10 Jan 2014, 20:28 PM I lost my MG42 but it keeps in the list of troops but with 0 persons and camouflaged. The soviet takes it but it doesn't shoot. The shooting area angle does not show up. In: Replays