guard towers: how to set guys in em

[TAPNKEGS]

 Once again this is a simple problem i think, something i am overlooking.
  How do you set units so they begin in guard towers?

[Artak]

select units and double click right on top of the tower.
select a soldier and hit ok.

that's it. if you want to make sure that the soldier actually stays there you put this into his init field:

this setunitpos "up"; this disableai "move"

[Wolfrug]

Hm, yes, well, the guard towers already in place on the map can be populated as Artak there describes it, although it usually takes alot more of trial-and-error to get it exactly right ;-)

The guard will obviously hit the floor as soon as he spots and enemy or is shot upon, and especially on the smaller towers this usually means he'll fall to the ground below the tower

This you can stop by putting the command:

this setUnitpos "UP"

into the unit's init field. As to the disableAI move, I'm not so sure, since in my experience they often think of simple turning as moving,and thus won't do it...hm, ah well.

Also, I've found (has maybe been fixed since then) that if you make them "safe" and then put the setUnitpos "UP" command on 'em, they will stay with their guns on their back no matter what....

Ah well, good luck anyhow!   :thumbsup:

Wolfrug out.

[TAPNKEGS]

I'm not sure i understand the command order there... do I select a unit, double click on the tower and place it or is it waypoint commands?  I ask this because if i try to place a unit using this method on a tower I placed all it lets me do is edit the unit thats already there (tower in this case), it doesnt let me place a unit on top of a structure i placed.

[Messiah]

if you place the structure you have to levetate the unit into posistion using this command:


this setpos [getpos this select 0, getpos this select 1, (getpos this select 2) +0.0]

change the 0.0 to suit (height) so the unit is at the right height to stand in the tower.

:thumbsup:

[Artak]

I'm not sure i understand the command order there...

I ment that you would create a new unit by first pressin F1 and then double clicking on the tower