Building Specs

[StrikerShot21]

Is there a way to make a building be able to produce "one" of a certain unit? I want a special commando for my game but I don't want people building thousands of these special units and wiping out everyone. I also came up with an ingenious way of allowing certain buildings to rotate but it will need the ability to only produce "one" of a certain unit for the idea to work.

[martiño]

You can do this by creating a resource with initial amount of 1, and then make this unit cost 1 unit of this resource.

[StrikerShot21]

that would work with the commando but not the rotating building. I wanted to have a system where you build blank gun emplacements. Then you build a unit (the gun itself) that would appear on top of it (adjust the height in 3DS Max and use the building walkthrough thing in the XML)

[StrikerShot21]

A building upgrade wouldn't work because buildings can't rotate on a certain axis. What I am thinking is make it where units can only appear on certain terrain/structure. That way the unit (turret gun) could be placed on top of the turret mount but since it's a seperate unit, it can rotate while still making the illusion that it's connected to the turret base. If that makes sense to you.

[Ropi]

Hi!

I undeerstand what Striker says.
Worker builds a gun emplacement ---> the gun emplacement has a "produce" skill that builds a gun on it.

I can only think of 1 way.
But that needs the editing of the source code:
...make a new command similar to produce and put the command morph after it. So if u use the skill "Build Gun", it will build a gun and morph to the same gun emplacement only with the difference that it has no produce skill.
So a gun (that has a rotating gun and still base) needs 3 units/xmls in the faction/unit file.
(no need for more resources)

Hope it help, and u can find someone who can edit the source code for it. (this is for a size 1 gun and that is too small) (only 1 3 5 size guns can be used for this purpose, but maybe 2 4 will work too)
To counter that is to make the size 3 and cellmap
111
101
111
But it is to big. but maybe that is just me.

[StrikerShot21]

Maybe someone can adjust the cellmap sizes in the source code. the
000
010
000 would work if the cellmaps were smaller.