Placing sandbags, barbed wire, etc

[helling3r 10]

Hello,

how can i place sandbag walls, barbed wire and other fortification stuff in the editor?

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, i was not able to find any matching posts via search and google :(

[Laqueesha 463]

Should be listed under Empty - Objects or Empty - Warfare.

Don't recall any concertina wire being in the game, though.

[helling3r 10]

Thank you, i found it under "Empty (Fortification)". Must have been blind...

Barbed wire can be found at "wire".

[roy86 339]

Also if you wanted to place something up high say on a building or floating in air, put the below in the Init line of the object. Great for building fortifications and stuff.

e.g. the below will get the current position of the object and raise it up 5.5 metres from the ground...

this setpos [(getpos this) select 0, (getpos this) select 1, 5.5];

Edited March 15, 2011 by roy86

[helling3r 10]

thanks for that hint! Is there also a possibility to rotate the object via its horizontal axis?

[demonized 16]

thanks for that hint! Is there also a possibility to rotate the object via its horizontal axis?

in editor hold shift and click and drag on object to rotate.

or use this in initline

rotate object in horisontal axis:

object setDir 360;

Edited March 15, 2011 by Demonized

[Lonestar 11]

You can also drag the pointer around the circle, or enter the desired bearing into the text box.

[helling3r 10]

I am not talking about direction (thats the vertical axis), i wanted to know how i can rotate ("roll") an object. Sorry for my misleading question.

[demonized 16]

setVectorDirAndUp

here is a thread discussing it.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=88977&highlight=setVectorDirAndUp

[helling3r 10]

ah, very well, thank you!