Hey guys I am working on trying to bring a base assault gametype to cod W@W, can any1 help out a bit.

Once i have finished with the scripting in the gametype gsc what is neccesary in order to get it to work in game??

Any help would be much appreciated.

Well if you think about it Base Assault is just Search And Destroy but for both teams and all the targets have to be destroyed. So I would start there, things like HUD icons, effects and bunkers can be added later.

Pick apart the S&D script, play around with it, or you could of course try making it from scratch.

Thanks techno for point in that direction I will try that.

Let me ask, when I want to test out my modified S&D gsc will it compile from the original location in the raw folder, or does the modified S&D need to go into the IWD?

Start simple:

Activision\Call of Duty - World at War\raw\maps\mp\gametypes

Copy the SD.gsc script, rename it so bas.gsc and then in your levels zonesource (mp_yourmapname.csv in zone_source) add:

rawfile,maps/mp/gametypes/bas.gsc

(to make sure it's loading it)

Then compile your levels fast file again (use create map in launcher and use the default mp map) and then go in game:

/g_gametype bas
/map mp_yourmapname

Might work, it was simple in COD2 but now you have to pack the new .gsc and possibly call it, you might have to read through all the scripts in the gametypes folder to do that.

Ahhh yes some really good information, I will do that thanks alot on that I will start with that.

thanks techo that worked great i managed to get a custom gametype gsc running into the game that way

techno2sl writes...

I cant agree that BAS is just S&D for both teams. The defining point of BAS is that the targets are 2-stage destructions. You might blow up the entrance to the bunker, but you have to finish the job by planting the final bomb. That gives time for the enemy team to get back to their bunker and defend it. That principle gave BAS its great tug-of-war effect, which aficionados of the game loved so much.

Demolition by Ravir for vCOD and UO had multiple bombsites which had to be destroyed. Each team had up-to 3 such sites each, but blowing them up was only 1-stage, and it just made it DOM but with bombsites. It wasnt a particularly popular gametype because of that, I think.

The 2 (or even 3 or 4) stage destruction can be done simply with script_exploders. It's only something to stop you from getting to the bomb plant trigger, you can then tie these entities to a script and even create the damage meter on the HUD.

I didn't mean that S&D and BAS are the same, but that the basic principal is the same and changing the scripts from S&D to a BAS style (basically stopping it from ending until all Objs are complete) would be much easier that working from scratch.

do you know, this thread has solved a headache Ive had for a while.

Basically, I ported UO's BAS over to WaW but I dont know any 3D modellers to make the bunkers for me (see my other post in answer to zblimp for details of what Im talking about), and so I was stumped. I couldnt move for lack of a bunker. But once I started thinking about what BAS actually is, I came up with an entirely do-able solution.

What Im doing now is putting 3 SAB objectives per team (so, up to 6 in all) in a house of some kind, the entrance to which have to be destroyed before entry can be gained (there is a dvar to determine how much damage the entrance has to take. Like in the original BAS, you can make it really easy, or incredibly hard to penetrate the entrance).

Once you're in, you then have to blow up the SAB objective in the usual way.

The code is snaffled from stock WaW DOM and SAB, and so far its looking very good.

Ive also snaffled the multi bomb code from Ravirs Demolition, so that the team have enough bombs to blow up the objecitves.

have you looked at killers base assault gsc that he made for cod4? i have tried to use it, it mostly works i had some trouble with a couple dvars that he used though. But i did get it into the w@w.

killers base assault was a very good basic version to look at. the only things i would prefer to be different would be the bases used which are tanks. also i would rather the base damage bars be moved to the bottom.