VTOL Trucks, sensors

[Hi-Torque]

Hello Friends,

I want to make a small autoload mod that uses the VTOL trucks and sensor platforms. A group of us regularly LAN and we enjoy using these units. I know they have been around forever because I'm pretty sure they were in the Pumpkin 2 retail patches, and of course they are in the current NTW mod and others.

I have done a ton of modding in other games notably Total Annihilation and am coming to grips with WZR.

BlackProject was kind enough via PM to help me sort out which files to extract. I put them in a .wz, and using the appropriate command line launched WZR. Game and skirmish set up work fine but as soon as the skirmish loading screen appears we crash to the desktop.

I've attached the .wz I made in hopes that we can fix this and others may find it useful. Lastly, this is my first post here after a long time lurking. Lav_Coyote may remember me from the MSN WZ Group.

[lav_coyote25]

yes and welcome to this forum. xD

[Black Project]

Hello Friends,

I want to make a small autoload mod that uses the VTOL trucks and sensor platforms. A group of us regularly LAN and we enjoy using these units. I know they have been around forever because I'm pretty sure they were in the Pumpkin 2 retail patches, and of course they are in the current NTW mod and others.

I have done a ton of modding in other games notably Total Annihilation and am coming to grips with WZR.

BlackProject was kind enough via PM to help me sort out which files to extract. I put them in a .wz, and using the appropriate command line launched WZR. Game and skirmish set up work fine but as soon as the skirmish loading screen appears we crash to the desktop.

I've attached the .wz I made in hopes that we can fix this and others may find it useful. Lastly, this is my first post here after a long time lurking. Lav_Coyote may remember me from the MSN WZ Group.

Hi- Torque, i gotta good news for you: i made your mod to work! Now it just need a little adjustment and it's ready to go.

Regards BP

[Delphinio]

here is "your" mod with ntw mod's propulsions balance (without body balance) ; ).
tell me if you want them on all other bodys too...

hf Delphinio

[Rman Virgil]

Hello Friends,

I want to make a small autoload mod that uses the VTOL trucks and sensor platforms. A group of us regularly LAN and we enjoy using these units. I know they have been around forever because I'm pretty sure they were in the Pumpkin 2 retail patches, and of course they are in the current NTW mod and others.

* Not that it's any big deal, but......here's the actual history......

* Those units were introduced 3 months AFTER Pumpkin was disbanded and their last patch released ( v.1.10). It was an XMas 1999 NEWST release. We re-used them in other releases like v.1.11MOD and H2O A.I...

* They were first introduced in Citadel Elite which was a combo map-mod-campaign like mission that also included other units for the first time like the dual heavy canon, also a custom A.I.,, custom map tile set, weap effects, custom balancing, weaps like cruise missiles, various mine-types (later much refined in our v.1.12MOD), terrain penalty game play mechanic and a bunch of other stuff, Reason I remember is I worked on creating it with one of 2 of my favorite collaborators - Laws245 (the other is Grim Moroe)...

* Also.... in addition to having fun playing with....all our work from "Citadel Elite" clear thru to v.1.12MOD was offered to the WZ community of moders for re-use in their own works. No fuss, no muss, no biggie...

- Cheers, Rman.
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[Black Project]

There's a workable VTOL Truck Sensor Mod

Weapons and structures rebalanced by me

Enjoy

VTOL_Truck_Sensors_V1.0.wz

[Delphinio]

lol cool, a half ntw mod ^^.

[Hi-Torque]

yes and welcome to this forum

Lav_Coyote, thank you and its good to "see" you again after all these years.

* Not that it's any big deal, but......here's the actual history......

Thank you Rman, you know I kinda remember that, and I certainly do remember Citidel...RL has away of blurring things though. I am constantly amazed at myself for ever gravitating back to TotalA, Warzone and even RA2 and TibSun. Lol, and I'm even more amazed that every few years when I check up on things that they are as active as ever. I still haven't decided if it has to do more with impending middle age (ack!) or the enduring quality of these games.

here is "your" mod with ntw mod's propulsions balance (without body balance) ; ).
tell me if you want them on all other bodys too...

Thank you, I truly appreciate all of the help and look forward to dissecting this .wz so I can see exactly what it took to get it working. I do want to point out that I wasn't after taking any credit etc., more learning the ropes. Also, for two of the most prolific authors to step up and offer help and assistance immediately speaks volumes of this community. Thanks guys.

There's a workable VTOL Truck Sensor Mod

Weapons and structures rebalanced by me

Enjoy

Thank you again Black Project for your time and patience in helping me with this, I very much appreciate it. Muito obrigada meu amigo!



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[Rman Virgil]

Thank you Rman, you know I kinda remember that, and I certainly do remember Citidel...RL has away of blurring things though. I am constantly amazed at myself for ever gravitating back to TotalA, Warzone and even RA2 and TibSun. Lol, and I'm even more amazed that every few years when I check up on things that they are as active as ever. I still haven't decided if it has to do more with impending middle age (ack!) or the enduring quality of these games.

* Forgive my poor manners - greetings and welcome back.

* It never ceases to amaze me too, that after 10 years, the folks still into the game and the new work being done on it.

* WZ is presently in the midst of what I can only call a Renaissance with the Mods of Black Project, Delphinio, Mysteryem, Tiuz (& others, incl map makers) plus the ground-breaking work of the WRP development team that has stuff in the pipeline as well that will raise the game to amazing new heights visually and in game play...... xD

* I am myself still fascinated by WZ because of all this new work - learning all the time, as well as playing, after all these years. I did stop working on WZ stuff last year only because I took the plunge to help develop a new RTS code named "S.O.W.: 2200".... otherwise I'd still be at it since WZ is the only game that has ever moved me to such enjoyable commitments of time, energy, effort.

- Cheers, Rman.
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[bded]

here is "your" mod with ntw mod's propulsions balance (without body balance) ; ).
tell me if you want them on all other bodys too...

hf Delphinio

Thank you for this, i had been going through NTW trying to get the vtol trucks with no successes and the file you posted worked perfectly.

[edit] Well it worked near perfectly, the names of some of the turrets are mixed up; such as Hyper Velocity Cannon is Twin Heavy Cannon.
Still fun though.

[bded]

this no longer works with version 2.2.4.
it may have stopped working with previous version, it has been awhile since i could play.

[Uploader]

i tryed running the fixed one and it comes up with a error saying it cant find the sensor tower gettin mad i just wanna fly vtol trucks!

[KukY]

i tryed running the fixed one and it comes up with a error saying it cant find the sensor tower gettin mad i just wanna fly vtol trucks!

You should try my System VTOLs mod. If you can find it somewhere...
And you shouldn't reopen topics that are years old... It isn't nice at all...

[Wibble199]

where can we find your mod?

[KukY]

where can we find your mod?

Well, I made tons VTOL truck mods for diffrent versions of the game.
But I don't believe I uploaded version working with 2.3...
I'll upload it on my forum: http://kuky.99k.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=8