Help for a new mapper

[DDayOmaha]

Well, I'll skip the maps tale and get to the points, what I wish to find out is:
-How can I create seperate waves of ambient NPC soldiers spawing at a particular site, lets say a boat.
-How can I have it so said NPCs can be recruited by a particular unit, lets say and officer, with limits to how many soldiers can you have at a time.
-Make it so the Officer(s) MUST stay alive.
-Have a message that pops up at beginning of game telling players the Officers must survive.
-And finnally how to make ambient artillery.

Sorry for so many questions but this editor seems harder than others I have tried, any help is appreciated.

[DDayOmaha]

Anybody?

[filon102]

1. U need to fill the boat up and add tag to the boat "hidden". Ex: When a task is complete, the boats come... .

2. U can assign units after the soldiers exit the boat... . Like add tag to few soldiers then like after 5 sec they become ur soldiers.... . Look for a trigger "player" (in actor category). Make sure u fill out the information ( type, state, and tag)

3. What u mean like invincible or make him like if he dies then, mission is lost? :huh:

4. For that u must find a entity, with a number ex. 2 (dont pick 10001 entity, wont work)

here is a quick pic of the settings:

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3996/94908739.th.jpg (http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=94908739.jpg)

5. Trigger it lol.

If u want the arty to be a loop, then go to "generic" ---> "loop"
then right click on "loop" on the right hand site table, then press "add inside" ---> "scene" ---> "spawn"
then u go to: service ---> damage ---> pick which one u want

make sure u set it to "loop" like 100x, i dont know how it can look continuously :|

hope that helps :)

[pelitys]

2. U can assign units after the soldiers exit the boat... . Like add tag to few soldiers then like after 5 sec they become ur soldiers.... . Look for a trigger "player" (in actor category). Make sure u fill out the information ( type, state, and tag)

3. What u mean like invincible or make him like if he dies then, mission is lost? :huh:

He meant something like in the tutorial, you approach a soldier and use hand icon on him to add him to your controllables. Also have officers surviving as an objective, if they (or any of them) die your mission fails. Not make them invincible :)

Stolen from another thread ---> Select solder/solders you want to be recruted.
Under properties for "human" click on "ables" (third line / dropdown)
Make sure "recruit" box selected (filled with white) Atleast a part of it :)

viewtopic.php?f=80&t=2681 (http://www.digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=2681)

[DDayOmaha]

thank you all :realbig: