CoH: Modern Combat

Reposting from Facebook as suggested. Not sure where to put this, hope here is ok.
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Hi Guys, I love CoH Modern Combat and I eagerly await your new server. I hope all goes well for you.

In the meantime I have been tweaking and fiddling with a copy of Modern Combat, learning how you did what you did and basically making my own single player mod with all the cool toys in one place just for fun. I was messing with the Apache, I made it controllable once summoned onto the field and I wanted to add to it a Rocket Barrage Artillery Strike ability as well as a long range heavy hitting bunker buster or tank killer type of missile that works similar to the way the M2 Bradley TOW fires from a slot item.

Neither ability works and I have created both in such a way that they would work (do work) if I place them on a land vehicle. Any ideas why the Apache might be behaving differently and how I might go about making those abilities work?

I realize you guys are busy working on the mod and getting your servers up so if you are unable to respond I won't be upset. All the best with the server and the future of the mod.
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Try increasing the tracking parameters of the accessory weapon(s).

Hello I_am_a_Spoon,
Thanks for the reply.

I tweaked the tracking values but the left and right rocket items still do not fire when I use the ability to fire them.

I had previously thought it was the on_fire actions within the rockets, (which I removed from both the base weapons as well as my slot item copies). Nope.

The fire slot item rocket ability clicks and cools down, but does not fire any rockets. I am wondering if there are behavior scripts attached to the Apache that I am unaware of that are affecting how it behaves, or if the weapon-hardpoint 1 target finder weapon is some how making my abilities not fire.

As for the rocket barrage ability, I had previously removed all requirements from the artillery ability which I copied and modified from an MLRS as well as tried a req-cleared copy of the Paladin barrage ability, both say in game, "this ability is unavailable".

Im really curious why this particular vehicle is behaving so strangely.

Make sure the new accessory weapon has the same anim_table and fx values as the existing Hellfires. Also make sure that it has an aim time under about 8-10 seconds (after which it will automatically time out), and that the projectile entity exists (if you've assigned a new one).

I will check those values.
I am going to assume they are the same as default as I made direct copies of the original hellfire rocket left and right when I made my slot items.
All I did from there was remove the On_Fire actions that disabled each rocket for 10 seconds after firing, and tweaked the tracking values as you suggested.

I will keep poking around with it.
I greatly appreciate your time and suggestions on where to look by the way, so thank you.

What hardpoint does the accessory slot item use? Try disabling all other hardpoints for a few seconds while the missile fires, it may be a case of an auto-targeting conflict.