SiegeTower

v1.4.8

The tower that rolls up to a wall and drops its ramp. Scenes place a SiegeTowerSpawner, which spawns this prefab. The tower prefab is hidden in the prefab browser.

Find placed ones in the Scene panel with s:SiegeTower. See Filter.

Where you put it

Use the spawner in a siege scene. The tower looks for a path entity, a wall-segment tag, and a child tagged gate. Stands tagged move are the push points. The gate stand uses Open.

What you set

Native\Prefabs\props_siege_siegetowers.xml stores this order on siege_tower_5m. The 9 m and 12 m towers use the same rows with the numbers below.

Panel field	What to do with it
GateTag	Gate child. All three store gate.
GateOpenTag	Open-gate child. All three store gateOpen.
HandleTag	Handle child. All three store handle.
GateHandleIdleAnimation	Handle idle. 5 m: siegetower_5m_door_idle. 9 m: siegetower_l2_door_idle. 12 m: siegetower_l3_door_idle.
GateTrembleAnimation	Ramp stop. 5 m: siegetower_5m_door_stop. 9 m: siegetower_l2_door_stop. 12 m: siegetower_l3_door_stop.
BattlementDestroyedParticle	Particle when the battlement breaks. 5 m and 12 m store psys_adobe_battlement_destroyed. 9 m stores destroyed.
GhostEntityMove	Editor ghost motion. 5 m stores on. 9 m and 12 m store off.
GhostEntitySpeedMultiplier	Scales that ghost. All three store 1.
WheelDiameter	Wheel size while it rolls. 5 m stores 0.74. 9 m and 12 m store 0.86.
MinSpeed	Slowest roll. All three store 0.45. The spawner multiplies this.
MaxSpeed	Fastest roll. 5 m stores 0.92. 9 m stores 0.9. 12 m stores 0.88. The spawner multiplies this.
GateNavMeshId	Navmesh id of the opening at the wall. 5 m stores 0. 9 m and 12 m store 601.
NavMeshIdToDisableOnDestination	Face id turned off on arrival. All three store -1.
BarrierTagToRemove	Default barrier tag on the prefab. All three store barrier. The spawner overwrites this.
RemoveOnDeployTag	Tag removed on deploy. Empty on the prefabs.
AddOnDeployTag	Tag shown on deploy. Empty on the prefabs.
PilotStandingPointTag	Pilot stand tag. Pilot.
AmmoPickUpTag	Ammo stand tag. ammopickup.
WaitStandingPointTag	Wait stand tag. Wait.
NavMeshPrefabName	Navmesh prefab. siege_tower_5m_dnm, siege_tower_9m_dnm, or siege_tower_12m_dnm.

What it does

Crew on the move points push the tower along its path. Speed stays between MinSpeed and MaxSpeed. At the wall the ramp falls open. The description on a move point is Siege Tower, and the action is Move. The gate point says Gate, and the action is Open.

Where it lives

Managed script. The three prefabs are in Native\Prefabs\props_siege_siegetowers.xml. No scene file stores the weapon script. Siege scenes store the spawner.

Examples

5 m tower. siege_tower_5m. Ghost motion on, wheel 0.74, speed 0.45 to 0.92, gate navmesh 0, navmesh prefab siege_tower_5m_dnm.

9 m tower. siege_tower_9m. Ghost motion off, wheel 0.86, speed 0.45 to 0.9, gate navmesh 601, navmesh prefab siege_tower_9m_dnm.

12 m tower. siege_tower_12m. Ghost motion off, wheel 0.86, speed 0.45 to 0.88, gate navmesh 601, navmesh prefab siege_tower_12m_dnm.