Hey all, I have a quick question:
How do you make AIs guns disappear after killing them?

I know this can be done as it was done in Firefight-Portent.

How do you do this? Through scripting or something else?

Weapon tags in Halo CE can be destroyed when a AI/Player drops them. The Fuel Rod Gun (in Halo Combat Evolved, the gun I am talking about is the one that the black armored grunts have in the levels (I think) c40 (Don't know the actual name, however its after when you bring back the index, and the monitor decides to kill you) and The Maw.

The actual thing I am talking about is a detonation option.



Make sure you check the option: detonates when dropped

Additionally if you want to have an effect happen when the gun detonates, then you must change one setting:



Change the highlighted box to an effect file you made for it.

Edit: Additionally I just noticed that the color background the forum uses for posts almost looks like the color background the tags use XD
Edited by Codebrain on Jan 8, 2011 at 09:31 PM

There is a script command to do what happens at the start of a10 when u kill the grunts and they don't drop a gun:

(unit_doesnt_drop_items (ai_actors start_covenant))

or you could do this instead of mine, I never knew that command existed! :o

Okay, could you be more specific on what I have to do? Here is the script

(script startup scriptname 
(unit_doesnt_drop_items (ai_actors start_covenant)))

Here is the error:

01.09.11 11:34:55  sapien pc 01.00.00.0609 ----------------------------------------------
01.09.11 11:34:55  reference function: _write_to_error_file
01.09.11 11:34:55  reference address: 401b13
01.09.11 11:34:55  Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
01.09.11 11:34:55  *found 2 adapters...
01.09.11 11:34:56  CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
01.09.11 11:34:57  Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
01.09.11 11:35:40  WARNING: 11 clusters in structure_bsp levels\test\stgrove\stgrove have no background sound or sound environment.
01.09.11 11:35:40  local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly
01.09.11 11:35:46  this is not a valid ai encounter or squad.: start_covenant)))---<
01.09.11 11:35:46  recompiling scripts after scenarios were merged.
01.09.11 11:35:46  this is not a valid ai encounter or squad.: start_covenant)))---<

Do I need and encounter called start_covenant? I'm so confused on this. Thanks.

Replace "start_covenant" with whatever your ai encounter is called.

yeah forgot to mention that