hey i've made a mortar team and he's shooting with it, but the impact doesn't drop at my origins.. (he shoots, u see the mortar going in the sky, u hear a boom, but u don't see an explosian anywhere) maybe its because of the distance?? because he shooting fairly far away

That might be it... if you have alot going on on your map, effects, entities etc, some far away stuff doesn't get drawn.

Try moving the origin closer for a test and see if you can see the explosion that way..

nope nothing :( (i got around 20 germans shooting at his back) maybe thats a problem? oh yeh i got only 1 mortar guy cos i don't know how to get his mate helping him

Could be 2 things

First:

also take a look how heigh your skybox is. when i first tested the mortar team my skybox was to low. so the mortar explode outside the skybox and not on the terrain.

Second:

do you have a fx file? this file takes care of the explosive part (the mud on impact)

you have to make a fx file and that must contain:

main()
{
level.mortar = loadfx ("fx/explosions/artilleryExp_dirt_brown.efx");
}

(or another effect)


these 2 things are my own experience when making a mortarteam :)

Did you connect the origin to the node or the other way around? This might make a difference, just like node->actor node<-actor thing.

yeh i connected everything and stuff, and at first my skybox was too low indeed but i made it a little higher. this is my .gsc can u tell me where to put that line?
#include maps\_utility;
main() {
maps\_load::main();
maps\_mortarteam::main();

level.player takeallweapons();
level.player giveWeapon ("m1carbine");
level.player giveWeapon ("colt");
level.player giveWeapon ("fraggrenade");
level.player giveweapon ("smoke_grenade_american");
level.player switchToWeapon ("m1carbine");

game["allies"] = "american";
game["axis"] = "german";
game["attackers"] = "allies";
game["defenders"] = "axis";
game["american_soldiertype"] = "normandy";
game["german_soldiertype"] = "normandy";


}

k,

Open notepad (or any other texteditor) and paste this code into the file:

main()
{    
    level.mortar = loadfx ("fx/explosions/artilleryExp_dirt_brown.efx");
}

save it as: yourmapname_fx.gsc

Now ad this code to: yourmapname.gsc

maps\yourmapname_fx::main();

So your gsc file will look like this:

#include maps\_utility;
main()
{
	maps\_load::main();
	maps\_mortarteam::main();
	maps\yourmapname_fx::main();
	
	level.player takeallweapons();
	level.player giveWeapon ("m1carbine");
	level.player giveWeapon ("colt");
	level.player giveWeapon ("fraggrenade");
	level.player giveweapon ("smoke_grenade_american");
	level.player switchToWeapon ("m1carbine");
	
	game["allies"] = "american";
	game["axis"] = "german";
	game["attackers"] = "allies";
	game["defenders"] = "axis";
	game["american_soldiertype"] = "normandy";
	game["german_soldiertype"] = "normandy";


}

i get an error when i try to run :( it couldnt find maps\house_fx or something like that

did you save it as a gsc file? (and not for example: hous_fx.gsc.txt)

take out this part of your script

//
game["allies"] = "american";
game["axis"] = "german";
game["attackers"] = "allies";
game["defenders"] = "axis";
game["american_soldiertype"] = "normandy";
game["german_soldiertype"] = "normandy";
//

that is for MP ONLY! this could be causeing your error.