Restore Droppod reinforcements logic and superweapon

[Blade]

In TS it was possible to set a flag on a teamtype and have the infantry units in the task force delivered by drop pods. This flag is now used for paradrop reinforcements AFAIK. FS also added a user targetable superweapon that delivered a hard coded taskforce via drop pods. It would be nice to see both of these restored and the superweapon taskfoce being customisable.

[Renegade (renegade)]

Closing as this has not gathered any significant support in almost two months.

[DCoder DCoder (dcoder1337)]

I care.

[Blade (nadia-xy)]

Hurray for DCoder :)

[RandomNutjob (randomnutjob)]

I'd happily see the SW part restored so count me in as a supporter

[reaperrr (reaperrr)]

It would also be nice if this supported VehicleTypes.

[RandomNutjob (randomnutjob)]

Just wondering if this could link into 1273 as could have the building automatically drop in pods as a possible alternate to a player-defined reinforcement

What think?

[Renegade (renegade)]

If anything, it would make more sense to give UnitDelivery the option to have a delivery vehicle.

That way, we could make this one a special case where the game takes the task force in question, picks a pre-defined delivery vehicle/animation, and creates a temporary UnitDelivery SW to deliver the task force, and we could save us the effort of implementing extra delivery vehicle stuff for #bug:1273.

[DCoder DCoder (dcoder1337)]

Ahem. r744.

[RandomNutjob (randomnutjob)]

Anything that makes things easier gets my backing *thumbs up*

EDIT: Not to be a nuisance but what is r744's significance, just curious is all

[Renegade (renegade)]

I am wondering the same...

[Blade (nadia-xy)]

Looks like there was test code in that revision related to droppodding a unit?

[RandomNutjob (randomnutjob)]

Oh aye, it still in up-to-date code or gone walkies?

Also who was tinkering with it? Or looking into doing so

[Blade (nadia-xy)]

Dcoder I believe, go look up the revision in svn and compare to previous to see what was done. From my limited understanding it looks like it created a unit via droppod locomoter when a certain weapon was fired, but my interpretation could be way off.

[RandomNutjob (randomnutjob)]

Seems from sound of it that it was pretty much there but idk *shrug*

[AlexB (alexander-b)]

Documentation: Go to the blueprint, click the specification link.