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HELP! Selecting units inside a vehicle...


mazex

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OK - I has been a while since I played CMSF waiting for the Marines - just got my download finished and it looks really promising!

There is just one thing that I have forgotten - and scanning the manual I can not find it (it probably is there somewhere).

How the hell do you select units INSIDE a vehicle? I want to aquire stuff BEFORE unloading. As it is now I have to unload the troops inside my Stryker to "get hold" of the unit inside and then embark again to get that friggin Javelin - while under fire...

Am I blind or is it so obvious that I do not see it?

/Mazex

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There should be an infantry icon by the vehicle icon that you can select. Then you can go to acquire etc to get javs.

Thank's for your reply - but I guess it's me being stupid instead of blind ;) Which icon do you mean? The only difference in a "loaded" stryker from an empty one that I can see is the green "position" circles beeing green, and that the option to "dismount" has been enabled...

Look below where I have marked this with red arrows.

Stryker with infantry onboard:

stryker_with_troops_inside.jpg

Stryker with NO infantry onboard:

stryker_without_troops_inside.jpg

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Thank's for your reply - but I guess it's me being stupid instead of blind ;) Which icon do you mean? The only difference in a "loaded" stryker from an empty one that I can see is the green "position" circles beeing green, and that the option to "dismount" has been enabled...

Look below where I have marked this with red arrows.

hmm you should have some floating blue unit icons? did you turn the hotkey off?

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hmm you should have some floating blue unit icons? did you turn the hotkey off?

Ahh, finally I get it! Yes, I did turn them off long time ago as I think they clutter the map. Thank you very much!

@Steve:

It does bother me though that there is no way in the normal unit information GUI to view/select the passenger unit... It would not be that hard to do some small infantry icon with the text "passenger" or something. I could also show the name of the unit and if you clicked it you selected that unit instead. As it is now, I have to use those floating icons that I think spoil the map view... As a "budget" option, how about this: select the passenger unit if I click the green "passenger circles" (the left red arrow in my image above).

/Mazex

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