New Modding Features

[martin]

Please stop with all these 'seconded' posts. They aren't doing anything but bloating the thread and making it harder to follow.

seconded... um - sorry.

*sits in corner quietly*

no, I did have a suggestion - how about a way to make a script run every X seconds?

[skull13]

I honestly don't know much about this and I couldn't do text coding if it was the difference between life and death. Would it be possible for those who are newer at this to have a chance with the coding elements because I have tons of ideas in my head and can't code so if I can't do that, I can't mod.

[Montyphy]

I honestly don't know much about this and I couldn't do text coding if it was the difference between life and death. Would it be possible for those who are newer at this to have a chance with the coding elements because I have tons of ideas in my head and can't code so if I can't do that, I can't mod.

You can't code but you want to be able to change the coding elements(?) as that is the only way to implement your ideas?...

It would be a lot more helpful if you were more concise and informative. Perhaps give examples of what ideas you have.

[sirvoks]

Well, I have an idea. Make it possible to turn off/on AISpawnPoints dynamically from scripts

[martin]

I honestly don't know much about this and I couldn't do text coding if it was the difference between life and death. Would it be possible for those who are newer at this to have a chance with the coding elements because I have tons of ideas in my head and can't code so if I can't do that, I can't mod.

You can't code but you want to be able to change the coding elements(?) as that is the only way to implement your ideas?...

It would be a lot more helpful if you were more concise and informative. Perhaps give examples of what ideas you have.

why not have some kind of in game drag and drop/flowchart script generator?

[The GoldFish]

Because that's 1000 times more complicated to code than the existing system and gives no additional advancement to the scope of modding darwinia? Go and make an out-of-game one (in C++) to see how easy it is(n't)

Basically, I'd say it's a waste of (valuable) time. Especially when you consider that they'll still have to go outside of the game to do so many other things anyway. I can understand that scripting can look daunting at first and this might help new modders get into their stride, but it's really, really easy to use once you take that first little step.

In fact, it might be easier for 'someone' to make a syntax file for ConText which'd do half the job of simplifying the process anyway...

[shinygerbil]

StaticSprite building - just creates a flat plane with the supplied image on it, with scaling options ideally

That would be incredible. For me, at least. So long as we could change the size and orientation sufficiently.

Still, I don't have the time for modding anymore, and I lost the mod I was working on (no big loss really, most of my ideas became unoriginal/obsolete with the release of all the good ones out there)!

[The GoldFish]

Oh yeah, one other possibly helpful thing was a key which randomly rotated the selected building, since manually and randomly rotating a few dozen buildings gets old fast.

re static sprite - if it was flat on the ground or vertical wasn't originally even considered - I suppose having the option would be important since both are useful!

[martin]

how about a thing where you can set which teams you can control with officers and with controller grenades?

[sirvoks]

I forgot if it's already suggested, but, scripted explosions.

[Shwart!!]

Question (teamsettings):
If a team2 incubator makes team0 DGs, what happens if teams 0 and 2 aren't allied? Can you change the team that they're made on?

[Tricycle21]

And as well as officers. A team0 DG turns into team2, but a team2 DG turns into neither team0 nor team2. What will it be?
Edit: Team0/2 spams don't work very well, too.

[Icepick]

how about a thing where you can set which teams you can control with officers and with controller grenades?

You can do that depending on which teams you are allied with. I've not tested it with controller's yet but I can't see any reason why the same wouldn't be true.

As for these specific unit/team issues, they'll just have to be fixed as I go along.

The current things I'm planning are:
Scripted unit stat changes (direct altering of the values from stats.txt)
Large Screen Messages - like the 'Program Terminated' text that will appear.

Using these 2 things, you will be able to fake your own research. e.g., Squad firing speed increased.

[xander]

Scripted unit stat changes (direct altering of the values from stats.txt)

One more thought, which was kicked off by the above: would it be possible to allow scripts to remove research from the player. For instance, to drop the squad level from 4 to 1, or to completely remove airstrike research?

xander

[Icepick]

Its on my list, yes.