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ConstructionYard

A BuildingType with this flag animates while a structure it built is going up, refuses ordinary undeploy orders, and starts a computer house's base when an MCV deploys into it.

Specification
Applies to
BuildingType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
boolean
When omitted
no

ConstructionYard=yes controls a structure’s production animations, when a player can order it to undeploy, whether a computer house starts its base around it, and whether its owner’s allies can build off it.

The flag does not make a type count toward its house’s construction yards. Only the BuildingTypes named by BuildConst count, and the effects below apply to any type with the flag, listed there or not.

Production animations

Section titled “Production animations”

A construction yard plays its PreProductionAnim while a structure it built runs its construction animation, and switches to its ProductionAnim when that animation ends. The thirteen slots lists what starts each animation on other structures.

Undeploying

Section titled “Undeploying”

A construction yard whose type names an UndeploysInto vehicle still counts as a structure, not as a deployed vehicle. A band selection does not pick it up. It can be repaired like any other structure, and engineers and commandos treat it as one.

A player can order a construction yard to undeploy only when all of these hold:

  • the game is not a campaign game;
  • its owner is a human player;
  • the MCV redeploy option is on (MCVRedeploy in a spawn file);
  • the yard is not stunned.

Even then, a yard whose type has no construction artwork ignores the order.

Bases

Section titled “Bases”

When a computer house’s MCV deploys into a ConstructionYard=yes type outside a campaign game, that house starts building its base around it.

When any vehicle deploys into a ConstructionYard=yes type, vehicle thieves that were targeting the vehicle drop the target instead of switching to the new structure.

When a match allows building off an ally and BuildOffAllyAnyStructure=no, an ally’s structure anchors your placements only if its type sets this flag.

When a player-controlled house loses a construction yard to capture and no longer owns any BuildConst type, a structure it was about to place is dropped from the cursor.

See also — ai-base-building