After a long career of cs mapping I moved on to dod. My first dod map is coming out nicely, but I know nothing about the dod entities.

I haven't found any tutorial about objectives like "destroy tank, retrieve documents" etc.

This is the scenario in my map:

There are two 88_cannons. The allies (British) have a main objective to retrieve documents from the axis base. But if they destroy the two 88_cannons, the allied spawns move a lot further. I want the 'destruction' of the 88s be like in dod_charlie, so that after a few seconds of waiting in the area with the bomb, the red countdown timer appears and then it explodes and the hud icon changes from axis_88 to allies_88.

What I have managed to do so far with the 88_cannons, is that when a British soldier goes to the area of the 88_cannon with a TNT, it explodes. What I haven't been able to do, is to get the 88´- and documents-icons in the top-left corner of the hud like in dod_jagd for example. As I said, I know nothing about the dod entities.

So if anyone knows a tutorial about this, link me to it. Or if not, it would be nice if someone would explain to me how these things are done.

That reminds me dod_jagd. Anyway take a look at http://www.mardymouse.co.uk

Start here: http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php

You can also run searches in this forum as folks have posted tutorials and examples of their work here. Good luck!

Object Icons:

If you want to add custom objective sprites to your map, you can choose one of custom 1, 2 or 3 HUD Icons from the drop down in the dod_control_point entity.

Then put the files (Sprite) in a folder dod/sprites/obj_icons/dod_mymapname, named with the same name as your bsp file.

icon_obj_custom1_allies
icon_obj_custom1_axis
icon_obj_custom1_neutral
icon_obj_custom2_allies
etc...