[needed] how do you make an AI submarine ?

[keltos01]

I'd like to add a sub as an AI one, so as not to be so lonely outthere, does anyone know how ?

keltos

[Hitman]

IIRC it's the same process as for creating any other AI ship, you are in fact creating a DD with the looks and armament of a submarine (Except the torpedoes). Clone a DD, modify all IDs and use the submarine model.

[keltos01]

never done that before !

[Hitman]

AFAIK it's done the same as what you did to clone the cachalot from the Perch, but with an AI unit.

EDIT:

Are you really keltos?

Who are you?

And what did you do with his body?

I should call the police!


j/j .....

[tater]

Can't you just place any sub in the mission editor, and not check the "player sub" box?

That's what you'd do to place subs in port, for example.

[keltos01]

Originally Posted by Hitman

AFAIK it's done the same as what you did to clone the cachalot from the Perch, but with an AI unit.
done
EDIT:

Are you really keltos?
yes
Who are you?
keltos
And what did you do with his body?
deep sixed it why ?
I should call the police!
you have no proof

j/j .....

ok that's done, it's now AI_L55, now to try if it works in a singlemission..

Thanks to Lou and Dagon for letting me use it

Keltos

[peabody]

Originally Posted by keltos01

ok that's done, it's now AI_L55, now to try if it works in a singlemission..

Thanks to Lou and Dagon for letting me use it

Keltos

You can do it Hitman's way but there is a much easier way to do it. I am assuming you are starting with a 'playable' sub? (actually it does not need to be a playable sub, the process is the same)

Clone the sub, same as you would any other sub, then in the .sim file make it a ship. It will follow waypoints and shoot guns at you. But to put men on deck the normal "DeckWatch" crew will not work. As you will note in the Sea folder, ships don't have upc/upcge files. So you would put P01 nodes (I think, it has been a while) to place men on it.

If you do as Hitman suggests it will work, but you have to deal with changing all the guns, men, 3D model for rudders and propellers etc, the 3D damage won't be right etc. It is just much harder to do.

Tater's way you can use it as eye candy in a port, but it won't go anywhere and will not shoot at you. So it depends what you want to do with it. In fact Tater's way you don't have to clone it since it will not conflict with another sub of the same kind. If you put one in with a speed it will move a short distance, but if you check, you will find the propellers are not turning, so it will eventually come to a stop.

So as I stated it depends what you want it for.

Peabody