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Commando wrote:My original idea for this involved multile phases.

1. You see the dropship fly in at a altitude of x, basically using APC class, so it can fly over hills
2. The dropship lands
3. The dropship gets replaced by a building, that has the deploy animation
a. My original idea for this was making 30+ odf and XSIs that the dll loops through. The only difference between the XSIs is the position of the doors and the collision. Basically simulating animated collision boxes for the opening doors.
4. While the doors are still opening, the payload is spawned along with MITs mines to hold them in place. Just like the first ISDF mission.
5. Once the doors fully open, the units drive out of the dropship
6. After a few seconds, to ensure all units are out, the doors close back up
7. The dropship gets replaced, and the "APC" dropship undeploys
8. It flies away leaving the map

I doubt this can be done seemlessly. Would be nice if we had an odf flag that says, OnlyDeployOnFlatTerrain = 0/1. Basically only allowing the unit to deploy on flat terrain. Also using a flag DeployInCenterOfGrid = 0/1. Basically meaning the unit will deploy as if placed in the editor with the alignment option enabled. I guess this can be worked around by giving the building OwnsTerrain=0, or ReplacesTerrain=0, whatever the jammer uses.