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The Onyx Tiger Jun 7, 2020 @ 12:31am
Giant Ant Hills
Can we build them in the editor? I can't find them and would love to be able to.

Thanks!
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Cat Jun 7, 2020 @ 12:32am 
Originally posted by Aaron552™:
Can we build them in the editor? I can't find them and would love to be able to.

Thanks!
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Aethrys Jun 7, 2020 @ 12:41am 
Originally posted by Cat:
Originally posted by Aaron552™:
Can we build them in the editor? I can't find them and would love to be able to.

Thanks!
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He's asking if the buildings that produce ants in the secret giant ant missions can be used in the level editor.
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The Onyx Tiger Jun 7, 2020 @ 12:47am 
Originally posted by Aethrys:
Originally posted by Cat:
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He's asking if the buildings that produce ants in the secret giant ant missions can be used in the level editor.
Yee.

I only ever played Red Alert once through Origin, maybe 1 or 2 short skirmishes. I never touched the campaign or really anything else. Just tried it. This is probably the absolute only C&C game I never really played. Others I've played at least a few dozen or more hours.

Favourites were Command and Conquer, Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge, Command and Conquer 3 and Kane's Wrath, and Generals: Zero Hour. I never played vanilla Generals though. Red Alert 3 was an iffy next, followed by Command and Conquer 4 and then Tiberian Son and Firestorm.

I never really touched the original Red Alert, this was it. My point is, I never knew these ants existed until last night when my first skirmish was on the only multiplayer map that features said ant hills and I want to make a skirmish map with a bunch of them. I think it'd be a cool mechanic to utilize. :D:
Last edited by The Onyx Tiger; Jun 7, 2020 @ 12:47am
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Kilopede Jun 7, 2020 @ 1:07am 
maybe, there was a Multiplayer map in Aftermath that contained anthills and spawned ants!
so if that exists it may be possible, though could require some more extensive effort to make them spawn ants
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The Onyx Tiger Jun 7, 2020 @ 1:11am 
Originally posted by Kilopede:
maybe, there was a Multiplayer map in Aftermath that contained anthills and spawned ants!
so if that exists it may be possible, though could require some more extensive effort to make them spawn ants
I was playing that last night.

According to this,[ra.afraid.org] it was MegaMap (Island Wars Extreme).

I was Googling around, looking to find out but found nothing. I'd really like to be able to build these ant hills and edit spawn rates and numbers, etc. Make a mission with a central infestation or something. :D:
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Godest Jun 7, 2020 @ 1:22am 
Ant hills afaik are just terrain, not a building. They spawned with triggers/script in the original.
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The Onyx Tiger Jun 7, 2020 @ 2:14am 
Originally posted by Godest:
Ant hills afaik are just terrain, not a building. They spawned with triggers/script in the original.
Wonder if the editor has a way to make your own? hmm
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pdxcorgidad Mar 25, 2022 @ 2:28pm 
Originally posted by Aaron552™:
Originally posted by Godest:
Ant hills afaik are just terrain, not a building. They spawned with triggers/script in the original.
Wonder if the editor has a way to make your own? hmm
I know it's been almost two years since you posted this, but you can create the ants in the Map Editor. Now as far as getting them to do anything...yeah still working on that. I have tried every trigger I can think of to no avail. They just sit there.
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The Onyx Tiger Mar 25, 2022 @ 8:56pm 
Originally posted by pdxsecularguy:
Originally posted by Aaron552™:
Wonder if the editor has a way to make your own? hmm
I know it's been almost two years since you posted this, but you can create the ants in the Map Editor. Now as far as getting them to do anything...yeah still working on that. I have tried every trigger I can think of to no avail. They just sit there.
That sucks. I think it'd be really fun to do a Skirmish match against AI and deal with the ants as well. Kinda like Tiberian Sun and the mutants.

Do necro again if you make progress, and thanks for taking a look!
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DDF3 Mar 25, 2022 @ 9:49pm 
TO enable ANTS you need to add to your MPR file above the Basic section

[ANT1] Image=ANT1 Name=Warrior Ant Primary=Mandible Strength=125 Armor=heavy TechLevel=-1 Sight=3 Speed=8 Cost=700 Points=40 ROT=8 Tracked=yes Crewed=no NoMovingFire=yes GuardRange=5 [ANT2] Image=ANT2 Primary=FireballLauncher Name=Fire Ant Strength=75 Armor=heavy TechLevel=-1 Sight=3 Speed=8 Cost=700 Points=40 ROT=6 Tracked=yes Crewed=no NoMovingFire=yes [ANT3] Image=ANT3 Name=Scout Ant Primary=TeslaZap Strength=85 Armor=light TechLevel=-1 Sight=3 Speed=7 Cost=700 Points=40 ROT=9 Tracked=yes Crewed=no NoMovingFire=yes GuardRange=5 [Mandible] Damage=50 ROF=15 Range=1.5 Projectile=Invisible Speed=100 Warhead=Super Report=ANTBITE [TeslaZap] Damage=60 ROF=25 Range=1.75 Projectile=Invisible Speed=100 Warhead=Super Report=ANTBITE Charges=no

The ants can be spawned from the Map tile " Hill" by putting a waypoint in the upper left corner of the map tile

Last edited by DDF3; Mar 25, 2022 @ 10:17pm
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Nyerguds Mar 26, 2022 @ 4:07pm 
Originally posted by pdxsecularguy:
I know it's been almost two years since you posted this, but you can create the ants in the Map Editor. Now as far as getting them to do anything...yeah still working on that. I have tried every trigger I can think of to no avail. They just sit there.
It's the triggers to make stuff spawn on the map. I think that falls under "Reinforce" in Red Alert.
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DDF3 Mar 26, 2022 @ 10:42pm 
You can use reinforce in singleplayer don;t know if that works in multiplayer though.

But he is correct you can place ants on the map , and they will just sit there and do nothing until you add the sections i pasted to your MPR file
Last edited by DDF3; Mar 26, 2022 @ 10:48pm
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76561199192687938 Apr 13, 2022 @ 3:45am 
加入.mpr里就可以了

[ANT1]
Image=ANT1
Name=Warrior Ant
Primary=Mandible
Strength=125
Armor=heavy
TechLevel=-1
Sight=3
Speed=8
Cost=700
Points=40
ROT=8
Tracked=yes
Crewed=no
NoMovingFire=yes
GuardRange=5
[ANT2]
Image=ANT2
Primary=FireballLauncher
Name=Fire Ant
Strength=75
Armor=heavy
TechLevel=-1
Sight=3
Speed=8
Cost=700
Points=40
ROT=6
Tracked=yes
Crewed=no
NoMovingFire=yes
[ANT3]
Image=ANT3
Name=Scout Ant
Primary=TeslaZap
Strength=85
Armor=light
TechLevel=-1
Sight=3
Speed=7
Cost=700
Points=40
ROT=9
Tracked=yes
Crewed=no
NoMovingFire=yes
GuardRange=5
[Mandible]
Damage=50
ROF=15
Range=1.5
Projectile=Invisible
Speed=100
Warhead=Super
Report=ANTBITE
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Nyerguds Apr 13, 2022 @ 5:23am 
Originally posted by DDF3:
[TeslaZap] Damage=60 ROF=25 Range=1.75 Projectile=Invisible Speed=100 Warhead=Super Report=ANTBITE Charges=no

Editing TeslaZap in a multiplayer map is a terribly bad idea; the Tesla Coil kind of needs that, you know. Much better to instead recycle something unused like [Sniper].

Originally posted by DDF3:
You can use reinforce in singleplayer don;t know if that works in multiplayer though.
Fairly sure it works; The Hills Have Eyes also has a village that constantly spawns civilians. Same kind of scripting.
Last edited by Nyerguds; Apr 13, 2022 @ 5:26am
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