add weapons to a vehicle, like a pelican?

DrDeath · Post by **DrDeath** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:25 pm

i made a sp-->mp conversion of d40 exterior, and i added a bunch of new vehicles, including the pelican, lifepod, wraith and covie dropship, but i want to add weapons to them (pelican and lifepod) but i have no idea what to add, or if its in the meta at all, any help would be appreciated and i DID use the search button, and i didnt find anything helpful.

Skarclaw · Post by **Skarclaw** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:42 am

I am gonna try this, as I am trying to add guns to things.
(you could do this to the wraith if you want)

batch extract your map, with all the vechiels saved to a folder

go into vechiels, and find the scorpian tank.

find scorpian cannon.meta

copy it

go into the pelican folder

because there are no guns on the pelican, paste in the scorpian cannon meta file, and you could rename it pelican cannon or somthing.

This is all theory though, I am not sure really.

Pwn4g3 · Post by **Pwn4g3** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:35 am

Skarclaw wrote:I am gonna try this, as I am trying to add guns to things.
(you could do this to the wraith if you want)

batch extract your map, with all the vechiels saved to a folder

go into vechiels, and find the scorpian tank.

find scorpian cannon.meta

copy it

go into the pelican folder

because there are no guns on the pelican, paste in the scorpian cannon meta file, and you could rename it pelican cannon or somthing.

This is all theory though, I am not sure really.

Not sure that would work, it would still have dependencies on the tank...you'd have to edit the xml and re-reference all the dependencies etc....too much work im sure...as it might reference elements of the tank that dont exist on the pelican...

Flare8 · Post by **Flare8** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:30 am

What about the mod with the pelican with a gun on the bottom of it for deathisland. It was a while back I think. How was that done?

Skarclaw · Post by **Skarclaw** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 4:45 am

If you want pelican gun.meta, I'll send it to whoever wants it via msn

skraganob@aol.com

MasterNeoChief · Post by **MasterNeoChief** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:06 am

That was a modelled Pelican.
I don't know for sure but:
I think you have to go into HHT and give the Pelican a weapon.

DrDeath · Post by **DrDeath** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:32 am

no, i already tried that, and the pelican doesnt have a weapon dependency, and also for the scorpian cannon thing, u would have to edit the xml and switch all of the dependencies to the pelican, then u might have to edit the meta, but that could work i guess.

Khane · Post by **Khane** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 7:52 am

I talked to mono one time and he said that the pelican already had a weapon, it just was locked and hidden. That's all I know, you may try adding a dependancy in xml too.

EqUiNoX · Post by **EqUiNoX** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:11 am

I don't think that you could, I don't think there is a way to actually make a model attached to something that does not have weapon data in the first place shoot something....but you could just re model it so it looks like it has them....

Skarclaw · Post by **Skarclaw** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 10:26 am

I am looking at mono's dropship in HHT, but I know nothing about HHT, I found the gun however. Could I extract that?

Other thing:

When I swapped the warthog for a pelican in A30, it had a warthog gun. I made it drop grenades.

So maybe if you did that (not the nade bit) then extracting, that might work.

*tinkers*

Skarclaw · Post by **Skarclaw** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:05 pm

Hate to bump things up, but I think it needs to be bumped...

Hrmm... I recusivly saved the tag from mono's pelican mod, and I got lots of files, but no pelican gun file...

I found this by the way in pelican vehi DATA file:

"Dependency|2572|vehicles\pelican\pelican gun|weap
Reflexive|2808|6004"

yet the other folder doesn't have it in

(I didn't save recusivly BTW)