As you know, I've been making mods and mapping. I've been asking a lot of questions. This is because I am making a mod.

Is there any way I can get a custom killstreak to my mod? I want something easy like an AC130 flying above the map. Or maybe a explosion you can call in at 25 kills that kills everyone ( not necessarily a nuke )

Thanks,
Pokeloca.


PS: Deekciti, if you see this, I'll test out your kill trigger.

To add a new killstreak, you'll need to start by editing this function:

giveHardpointItemForStreak()

And adding the new killstreaks conditions. In response to adding something like an AC130, it is not as easy as it may seem. You'll need to do several things such as spawning the AC130 model, connecting and hiding the player, making the AC130 move and ensure that the function won't mess up if the player disconnects, dies, etc.

I know, I realized when i posted this it wouldnt be easy. For putting in a nuke, how would i edit this:

Go to that function, and where it says:

else if ( streak == 7 )
{
 // helicopter stuff
}

Under that add a new else if statement, such as:

else if ( streak == 10 ) 		
{
 // Do nuke stuff.
}

Obviously you will need to work out how to make the nuke yourself, but that new else if statement will now check when the player has 10 kills and thread the stuff to do with the nuke.

I still dont know how to do this. Can you make a thorough tutorial?

Hello? Anyone?

Everything you need is in the hardpoints file. As above, add something like "nuke_mp" just like "airstrike_mp" with whatever kill number requirement you want.

hardpointItemWaiter() is the thread that waits for the player to change the current weapon. If he changes to the hardpoint weapon it will give whichever one the player has. Add the nuke to the same cases as uav and airstrike. For starters follow the uav (radar_mp) example. triggerHardpoint( hardpointType ) tells the game to activate whichever the player has at the moment. In your case the simplest thing to do is play the stock nuke flash fx file, wait 3 seconds or whatever it is, then use the damageents function to apply the damage to all players.

You will see some lines like self iPrintLnBold( &"AIRSTRIKE_AVAILABLE"). That prints the award to the screen. Replace &"AIRSTRIKE" with whatever text you want. The CAPS versions the game use are localized strings... meaning they refer to whatever language the player speaks. English. Russian. However you cannot do that so put "You have been awarded a nuke".

Start with just awarding the bomb. No animations or anything like that. One thing I do not know offhand is how to do is tell the game the map is over after you kill everyone off but its a simple function call. Later on after you get this part working if you want the airstrike follow those functions. You can use altered versions of them to get what you want.

Adding the AC130 is not "easy". Its very advanced coding. But if you want to have a go at it, go ask the X4 boys over at the eXtreme+ mod forums. There you will be able to get the raw files for their AC130.

The X4 team can be found here:

http://www.mycallofduty.com/index.php

What sort of AC130 do you want?

I coded an Ambient AC130, so you call it in after 12 killstreaks, but instead of controlling it yourself, it just circles you on the map, covering you from enemy players, it also moves and relocates as you move around the map. It has 3 fire modes that it selects randomly (aslong as they arent reloading) The kills it gets, are added to your score.

Here is a quick video >

http://www.xfire.com/video/29a765/

I can give you the whole code to that if you want, I have no use anymore

The X4 one is manned, as is the one Im working on. Like the one in MW2.

Im waiting to finalize whats going into my next release in terms of models (im hitting the limits now), and if my sentry gun goes according to plan, I will drop the AC130 but if anyone wants to take it over, they are welcome to it.