Map/Mission Editor FOR BEGGINERS

[ColaCola]

Hello guys, I've recently started making my first map, and it goes more or less well, but as it's my first one, I have bunch of questions.

Maybe this topic can help people who are starting their own maps as I do.

Anyways, I would like to get help about setting weapon positions.
For example I want artillery to shoot from ship without having to spawn as artilery crew on ship. How to do that?

Also AA guns on ground, do I need to spawn some kind of crew on it, or the soldiers that are spawned near it will start using it automatically?

Cheers!

[$4 Reactor]

Originally posted by ColaCola:

Hello guys, I've recently started making my first map, and it goes more or less well, but as it's my first one, I have bunch of questions.

Maybe this topic can help people who are starting their own maps as I do.

Anyways, I would like to get help about setting weapon positions.
For example I want artillery to shoot from ship without having to spawn as artilery crew on ship. How to do that?

Also AA guns on ground, do I need to spawn some kind of crew on it, or the soldiers that are spawned near it will start using it automatically?

Cheers!

Hello!

The question about the ship you can make a custom squad name it "static crew" and only add one person to the squad then assign that squad to the prop called "battleship" or soemthing liek that make sure its the one that you can use as arty then when you apply your custom squad to this mark it as AI only and then the game will only use one AI for the gun and you save AI spots for the ground troops this is the only way to do waht your asking (at least from my 100+ hours of mission making)

as for the AA on the ground you should so something similar to the above but make this sqauad 2 person and give them at least a samll arm incase the postion is over run then can defend themselves Ive never noticed random troops jumping on guns but thats not to say that wont

all and all jsut trial and error your way through things and youll pick up on the little AI patterns and waht not

[$4 Reactor]

I apologize for my poor English also LOL

[$4 Reactor]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2905267967

and more thing if your struggling to find the right ammo and stuff for squads or maby you would like a refrence then is one of the best guides for this game ever made the author of this guide is legend

[BerenOneHand]

^ to add onto what Reactor stated, you can place static weapons within objectives and the AI will man them as a priority and continually pour men into the AA gun to keep it running. This will only happen if the weapon is within the objective, it does not occur when without.