BWAI has an EXE edit to allow Acid Spores to work on ground, and another to make them /only/ work on ground.

Also, the Firebat has nobrkcodestart before activating the flamethrower overlay, but the nobrkcodeend is in the overlay iscript. Therefore, if you remove the overlay, the Firebat will be in a permanent nobrkcode after attacking, and unable to receive orders. The obvious way to fix this is to put a nobrkcodeend in the main 'Bat iscript.

I discovered the iscript involvement in the flamethrower... When I removed the applicable thread of the code, I compiled it without a problem. However, when I loaded the test map, I gave him the attack order and he attacked the target practice structure I had there once and responded to no other orders. Saw the post after. nobrkcodeend, correct? I just tried to remove the nobrkcodestart, it worked, but in order to make it attack repeatedly, I had to continually click the target. in order to make a decent pace, do I need to have the nobrkcodestart there along with the nobrkcodeend?

As for giving it to another unit, do I add the thread to a different unit?

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Is there a gotorepeatattk command in the attack animation, and is it actually being executed?

In fairness, I experimented with that before RadiganP became the second coming of DoA.

Ah, no. It seems to link GndAttkInit and GndAttkRpt. Like so:

Where would I put it?

Well, that is weird. According to the Maplantis wiki, ignorerest makes the script pause until another animation is called... I'm not sure if it is correct, and I'm even less sure why it's there, but I would try putting a gotorepeatattk before it. If that doesn't work, try removing the ignorerest (and leaving the gotorepeatattk you added earlier).

gotorepeatattk, incidentally, tells StarCraft to call GndAttkRpt once the unit's cooldown is done (or AirAttkRpt if the unit is attacking air). (Note that this animation is not necessarily named UnitGndAttkRpt (or UnitAirAttkRpt); some units use UnitGndAttkInit for their GndAttkRpt animation, for example. Looking at the header will tell you.)

...Unrelatedly, I thought of an interesting iscript trick: What happens if you make the time between the start of the GndAttkRpt animation and the call to gotorepeatattk longer than the weapon's cooldown, and then make some overlay (D-Matrix?) use the full iscript and fill all the extra animations with an empty loop, /except/ GndAttkInit and GndAttkRpt, which call gotorepeatattk instantly? If I'm right, when the unit attacks while it has the overlay, the overlay will call gotorepeatattk, so once the weapon cooldown is done, the unit will attack again, but more quickly than it otherwise would! Interesting.

Ah ok. Good. Also, I need a new grp for a Queen replacement. I haven't seen anything appropriate on maplantis. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?
Also is it possible to make spawn broodlings make larva instead?

That depends on what you want to do with those Larvae. Additional details, please?

I just want additional useful larva. That's about it. Like maybe two or three added to the hives output.

I got that. But, what exactly is the spell you have in mind? Something like the SC2 Queen's injection, or?

Perhaps, or even just causing larva to split into two. That might be easier. And I still wonder about replacement graphics for the queen. I need something nice and big and impressive, but not structure sized.
Also I am still curious as to how to animate the Ion Cannon. do I use the format of 0x00?

Making Larva split is easier, but by a trivial amount. Get BWAI's extended EXE Edit list and you can make Spawn Broodlings not kill the target, which would let it be targetted on the Hatch/Lair/Hive safely. I would think this way would be better, as the Hatch/Lair/Hive is a much bigger target, etc, and easier to click; that is why there is the Select Larva button. But, the problem with either is that you need a way to make it only target the correct unit... Oh!

Okay, here's a way. The only thing the Robotic flag is used for is preventing Spawn Broodlings from hitting Reavers and Probes. As you're cannibalising Spawn Broodlings anyway, it isn't need for that purpose. So... Allow Spawn Broodlings to target structures, flag it as only targetting allies, and /flag everything except the Hatch/Lair/Hive as robotic/.

Interesting fix. I'll try it. Where do I get that?

I haven't tested it, but this should have everything. Alternatively, this.

EDITL To play frameset N, put playfram 0xNN, where N is in hexidecimal. For example, if frameset 7 is the start of the attack animation in the GRP, you would probably want playfram 0x77 at the beginning of the attack iscript.

Firegraft? but I already have firegraft.

...It's BWAI's version, with the new edits.

So will this let me do a Protoss exclusive repair spell too?

I don't know.

Ok. I will attempt it. You Still working on the plugin you mentioned earlier?
Addition: I tried it, It overwrote my version of firegraft and it required either 1.15.1 or 1.16.1. I have 1.15.2. Either way...
is it possible for protoss structures to transform into other structures? Or can I add a new construction list?

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Frame sets are for units that turn, IIRC.

For units/structures where only a few frames matter, play specific frames instead of frame sets.