PortableRA Issue

[ROB]

The make animations for buildings do not play with a modded version of portable RA. Its not heavily modded, about 1MB of extra content in a MIX and rules changes. I really cant say what made it start happening, I think as soon as I made any rules changes and used a custom Mix.

[Allen508]

You can't add a animation for buildings that was not animated before.

[ROB]

that's not what I mean. When placing a building, the xxxxMAKE.SHP frames do not play. The building awkwardly appears.

[Allen508]

That is odd. What building did you change? I don't know how the build up (****make.shp) works in RA1 from a coding view. So it may not work for civ buildings.

[ROB]

Changed the Radar Dome to the Radar Dish from TS. Come to think of it that's when it may have started. I can try re-packing my mix file see if that fixes it. I know RA just does weird things with no explanation sometimes. But none of the building make frames play so who knows.

[Allen508]

What kind of mix are you putting you .shp in? SC*NAME*.mix, Expand##.mix or putting them in to the conquer.mix?

[ROB]

it's Expand.mix

[Allen508]

Can you attach the Expand.mix? Also is the build up in the wrong format. Did you use Copy as SHP (TS) by mistake?

[ROB]

okay did some troubleshooting, its not my Expand.mix at all. its something in rules.ini that is doing it.

[Allen508]

The only things related to build-up are.

 

BuildupTime=.06        ; average minutes that building build-up animation runs

 

; Buildings use this when building up after initial placement.

[Construction]

Recruitable=no

Retaliate=no

Scatter=no

 

; Buildings use this when deconstruction after being sold.

[selling]

Recruitable=no

NoThreat=yes

Retaliate=no

Scatter=no

[Nyerguds]

Buildups should play automatically when added... and if the building is one that originally has buildup graphics, and now it doesn't, then it seems something must be wrong with your actual SHP file...

[ROB]

The only things related to build-up are.

 

BuildupTime=.06        ; average minutes that building build-up animation runs

 

; Buildings use this when building up after initial placement.

[Construction]

Recruitable=no

Retaliate=no

Scatter=no

 

; Buildings use this when deconstruction after being sold.

[selling]

Recruitable=no

NoThreat=yes

Retaliate=no

Scatter=no

 

This helped me figure it out. I erroneously changed BuildUpTime=0 thinking it was for the actual ore growth animation you see, it is under income and production but I read it wrong  XD Yet to test it but that has to be it.

 

Interesting that Scatter, Retaliate, and Recruitable are related to build animations.

[Nyerguds]

Buildup is just a unit command, just like selling. One of the purposes of managing them like the other commands is probably to prevent the sell-cancelling bug in DOS C&C1, where you could select a guard tower during the sell process and press "s" to stop it from selling... giving you free minigunners.