Missile spawns at a strange spot

[Nugamentum]

I've got a problem with missile attachments....
I just made a custom tower out of a Photon Canon and everything works just fine, exept the missile attachment.
The Photon Canon shoots the missile directly from the center of the turret.

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But my custom tower shoots the missile from a strange spot....

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I hope you guys understand what I mean

 

[Colt556]

I have this same problem wit several of my weapons/abilities. I've been told it has to do with actors and attachment points, but I have yet to figure out how to fix it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Make sure your weapon was duplicated properly. Its effects for the missle are probably missing the attachment method data. Basically that data is used to determine what attachment point to use for the missle spawn point.

 

[Colt556]

I've been messing around with this and I've concluded the problem comes from the actor. When you duplicate the actor, no matter what, something breaks. I've had it happen in a variety of different weapons. No matter what I've done I have yet to find a way to fix it, the only fix I've found was going to the original actor and adding it to the duplicated weapon effect (I put it on the missile, worked there).

This method isn't exactly perfect though since, from what I can tell, you have a max of three slots, so you could only attach it to three effects. I want a way to fix the duplicated actor, but no matter how hard I've looked, the duplicated version is the EXACT same as the original, so I don't know. For now you can use the method I mentioned as a sort of stop-gap measure.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It is probably something broken with the linkage. The duplicate probably does not link everything correctly to the new data and so some of its functionality is still working for the old data.

 

[Colt556]

It is probably something broken with the linkage. The duplicate probably does not link everything correctly to the new data and so some of its functionality is still working for the old data.

That's where the problem comes in, I've checked such things, I've checked EVERYTHING I can see (I've been working at this for like three days now). Every single thing about the duplicate is the same as the original, it SHOULD work, but it doesn't. It's the one thing I hate about this editor, if I duplicate something it's because I want it to be the same as the original, not altered in some way.

 

[mrzwach]

Alright, sorry for the necropost, but I feel this is an important issue.

To fix this issue, first make sure that you also duplicated the "Attack" actor - an easy way to find these is to search for the name of the unit you duplicated the missile from and look for an actor of type Action that sounds right. For example, the Battlecruiser's attack actors are called "Battlecruiser Ground Attack" and "Battlecruiser Air Attack". If you did not duplicate these when first making it, do so now.

Next, you need to link these actors to your weapon. Towards the top, in the token box, you should see fields called "Impact Effect" and "Launch Effect". Make sure these are set correctly. Then, change the field "Art - Missile" to your custom missile unit that you created.

Your unit should now fire missiles from the correct location.