I am working on a AI version of bloodgulch with weapon tags I downloaded. I got the marines side working but no the elites. My problem is that the elite bipeds can not use the custom weapons at all. The marines have battle rifles and rocket launchers and the elites have plasma rifles and hopefully the flak cannon from extinction. But they won't hold it defaults to the standard plasma rifle for some reason. Can anyone tell me why and is it fixable?

The elites don't initially have animations to hold the weapon. You have 3 options.

1) Add animations
2) Open the .weapon tag, and change the weapon label to something the elites can use, like pr, or ne.
3) Open the .model_animations tag, under "Units", select "stand". Then, scroll down to weapon types, and duplicate one of them. Rename the duplicate to the weapon label in the .weapon you wish to use.

Where is the .model_animation tag? I looked at the flak_cannon\fp\fp.model_animations tag, and Units had no elements. I also looked at the standard weapons fp.model_animations tag and Units on ALL of them had no elements. It there a global file?
Edited by teknoman117 on Aug 15, 2009 at 06:42 PM

I'm talking about the characters tag. For elite, that would be tags\characters\elite\elite.model_animations. Also, you only have to do ONE of the above. If you did number 2 for example, you don't have to do number 3.

Thanks for the help! Now I have awesome flak cannon special ops elites.
Teknoman

extinction flak cannon? is that the phoenix shotgun? (probably a n0oby thing to say, but i play lots of extinction and i never heard of a flak cannon lol)

It's the filename of the H2 Fuel Rod Cannon.

I don't know if in game its called that, but its that black gun in the covenate ship that shoots blue fuel rods. The tag name turned out to be d_flak_cannon.weapon so thats why I called it the flak cannon. I'm almost done, so I'll post it soon.
Teknoman
Edited by teknoman117 on Aug 16, 2009 at 11:50 PM

Yea, that's the H2 Fuel Rod cannon colored black, that shoots blue things.