From 43c7a65942de202219ebb973014aa17a518765aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Applevangelist <post@tniedermeier.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:57:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] xx

---
 Moose Development/Moose/Core/SpawnStatic.lua | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Moose Development/Moose/Core/SpawnStatic.lua b/Moose Development/Moose/Core/SpawnStatic.lua
index b41ac1b0c..344d1a5d7 100644
--- a/Moose Development/Moose/Core/SpawnStatic.lua	
+++ b/Moose Development/Moose/Core/SpawnStatic.lua	
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ function SPAWNSTATIC:NewFromStatic(SpawnTemplateName, SpawnCountryID)
     self.CategoryID          = CategoryID
     self.CoalitionID         = CoalitionID
     self.SpawnIndex          = 0
+    self.StaticCopyFrom      = SpawnTemplateName
   else
     error( "SPAWNSTATIC:New: There is no static declared in the mission editor with SpawnTemplatePrefix = '" .. tostring(SpawnTemplateName) .. "'" )
   end
@@ -607,6 +608,19 @@ function SPAWNSTATIC:_SpawnStatic(Template, CountryID)
     -- delay calling this for .3 seconds so that it hopefully comes after the BIRTH event of the group.
     self:ScheduleOnce(0.3, self.SpawnFunctionHook, mystatic, unpack(self.SpawnFunctionArguments))
   end
-
+  
+  if self.StaticCopyFrom ~= nil then
+    mystatic.StaticCopyFrom = self.StaticCopyFrom
+    if not _DATABASE.Templates.Statics[Template.name] then
+      local TemplateGroup={}
+      TemplateGroup.units={}
+      TemplateGroup.units[1]=Template
+      TemplateGroup.x=Template.x
+      TemplateGroup.y=Template.y
+      TemplateGroup.name=Template.name
+      _DATABASE:_RegisterStaticTemplate( TemplateGroup, self.CoalitionID, self.CategoryID, CountryID )
+    end
+  end
+  
   return mystatic
 end