OpenRA

sorry for being super late to the party here, but in response to Matt: I have zero clue how this whole Github thing works with huge projects like OpenRA (I just use a personal repo at https://github.com/BooooB159/OpenRA-Maps mainly for backup), so I really don't feel competent to contribute in an ...

Dear community,

I recently finished porting all Allied missions from the Counterstrike expansion to Lua, and I thought I could share them here.

A few caveats:

-all of them should play fine right now, which may change with subsequent releases.
-I suck at Lua and programming in general, so there ...

Thanks a lot

Dear all,

a simple question for today: To test my missions it would be extraordinarily helpful to access the map debug menu (https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/10157), but so far I am too dumb to activate it. Could someone point out to me what I would have to do?

Season's Greetings,

Seth

thanks for alle the corrections, I will post a refined version soon, putting that into account.

Concerning the last part: That "player" is indeed a leftover from the mission I got the code from, it has been fixed.

I am aware of the IRC, but I prefer the forums - it just seems more orderly to me ...

ok, so after bugging the whole forum for weeks with questions, I will give something back.

(wall of text incoming)

I am a pretty experienced mapper for the SAGE C&C games, meaning coding missions with hardcoded predefined triggers. When I learned about OpenRA and its sheer endless opportunities it ...

Nevermind, got it to work on a different map

EDIT: and now also on the original one. Thank you all for your help!

as far as I can see there, a new weapon (I looked at "TankNapalm" in the example as it is not defined in the original game files) is just defined under "Weapons" and then assigned to an actor. I did exactly that:

GNRL:
UpdatesPlayerStatistics:
MustBeDestroyed:
ProximityCaptor:
Types ...

thanks a lot, I just realised that I have absolutely no clue how this YAML thing works - back to the drawing board.

As for the weapon: It was intended as a placeholder.
Is it possible to create entirely new weapons in map.yaml (with a new name) or do I have to modify an existing one?

Hello community,

I tried to recreate Volkov for use in missions, modifying "gnrl". So far I can start my map with this actor in it, but it crashes every time it moves with the error message being "Exception of type `System.InvalidOperationException`: Can't find Move in voice pool." Shooting while ...

Thank you as well, I knew those experts would be lurking around here somewhere

EDIT: Tested. Everything works, you are a genius

I have done further research since posting this, and I'm inclined to consider this an error in the compiler. There is an "end"-tag in the last line, just not where the program seems to expect it.

Another example: another map below crashes if I don't put the "=" in the last line, even though this is ...

Dear community, it's me again, probably with a similarly easily fixable problem, but I cannot find the solution.

My custom map crashes with the following error in its Lua script:

Fatal Lua Error: Error parsing rollingthunder.lua. Reason: [string "rollingthunder.lua"]:245: 'end' expected (to ...

thank you very much, that was indeed the reason

Dear community,

as the title suggests: When trying to play a specific map I made myself, the play button in OpenRA (release 20171014) is grayed out, rendering me incapable to play it.

Related observations:

-it opens fine in the map editor
-it is my oldest map, originally made somewhere in 2014 ...