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Mods / Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 52

« on: 25 April 2012, 15:15:32 »

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Closed bug reports / [fixed] Error with teams on multiplayer-scenarios

« on: 19 April 2012, 23:46:33 »

SVN Head: r. 3256

When a player connected to a multiplayer-scenario (not host, because he can't switch) switches his position he kept the team he started with instead of the specified team from the scenario.xml

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[img]http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/2230/megaglest20120420013742.jpg[/img]

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Closed bug reports / [fixed] Hud not shown on multiplayer-scenario for clients

« on: 19 April 2012, 23:30:39 »

On multiplayer-scenarios the hud.png is not shown for anyone, but the host. The bug appears on SVN Head (r. 3256)

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I testet the same player host had the correct look, and me connected got the buggy look.

Fixed in SVN - head now, thanks titi

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Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: CotTS Scenario

« on: 19 April 2012, 18:25:42 »

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 18:15:22

Define weaker machines. I know that my computer can handle the maximum number of units in starcraft and its a 3 year old laptop. I was hoping for at least a cap of 1000. I know Spring supports up to 5000 though I am not sure what the cut off is for player computers.

My pc is was at higher level about 3 years ago. more moving units => more CPU // larger map => more RAM

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Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: CotTS Scenario

« on: 19 April 2012, 17:58:06 »

I'm from MG so I can can only point out what's possible with MG:

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

I am planning to make what is essentially a giant scenario.
Basically the player controls the avatar of an ascendant and their goal is to protect a kingdom from a series of attacks over many thousands of years by some evil force.

Ok, sounds interesting.

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

Player character will be able to do any action in the game, although they will need to be trained to do them. Some functions require simply building upgrades and buildings, while in other cases the player must "learn" to do things from in game characters or "studying".

Easiest way for this is locking commands by Upgrade-requirements. At least in MG you can give upgrades to a player with Lua-code.

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

For the other character aspect players must increase a relationship score with other factions, I am pretty sure I can do this with "faction" resources and LUA with features I am already aware of. When they reach a certain level of relationship the other faction will teach them skills, each faction has special skills that only they use.

Yes that should be easily done with ressources and Lua, or only Lua (see red/blue box in Battleglest) -> unlocking spells like above with upgrades.

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

Study/Research/Learning is more complex. Essentially the player clicks the study button to open a menu and "studies" a school of magic or knowledge they already have access to. Based on some stats and their knowledge of the school they will receive a base growth in that school and then a set of small chances to learn more in that school or related ones. At certain levels of knowledge, again probably easy to simulate with the resource menu, they will gain access to new skills.

That's actually more tricky. Easy, but not so nice: doing it with upgrades... ok I agree there would be many but from coding view ist the easiest way. A real goodlooking alternative doesn't exist (as far I know)

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

Typical skills are magic spells, new kinds of buildings, and new summons, and also learning how to produce new units from various buildings.

yes, that should be possible without much coding.

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

I was thinking this should be possible with a menu system like the building popup menu as well as using and abusing the resource system, with some hidden and some visible resources.

well, MG doesn't have such popups, or cutomisable menus...

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

Is there anything in here which can't be done with current game features in GAE?

Well I actually don't know... sorry

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

I am going for a sort of Battlecry style hero system, except with no class and race limitations. And of course the methods for upgrading the hero are different and the changes to what you can build and summon aren't really the same.

I'm sorry, but I don't know BattleCry, but your system sounds interesting.

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

I feel like the most challenging aspect of this scenario will be making all the models and dealing with map size limitations. And also not letting the player get so strong as to conquer the whole map early, although in some cases you wouldn't want to conquer allied or neutral factions.

you can check the position of the player, warn him and kill him, if he keeps leaving the game-area he has access to.

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

Also, is there some way to manipulate the team color system? I was thinking it would be nice if instead of having to create 5x as many models I could use the same base model with a color scheme change to indicate a higher base quality. This would be independent of a units individual level.

You could change teamcolors using the --load-mod, like I do in BattleGlest, but it's only possible in MG, I think, because in GAE each player can/have to select his own color.

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 14:49:06

What is the maximum map size and unit count before pretty bad lag starts to set in?

I would avoid more than 250 moving units... even 200 can cause problems on weaker machines. Map size ... 512x512 works for my BattleGlest, even if I'm not using the complete area. I think basically 2048x2048 could work, too (with good computers) but I never tested this.

Quote from: MoLAoS on 19 April 2012, 17:46:16

Be nice to have more GAE multiplayer options, currently the number of people I play multiplayer with is 0.

I don't want to annoy you but so far I know multiplayer is much more stable with MG and it supports even multiplayer-scenarios

[small]PS: a few less questions per post could be a good idea to make it easier to answer more quickly[/small]

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MegaGlest / Re: More lua functions

« on: 13 April 2012, 14:34:58 »

I'm using getUnitsForFaction(int factionIndex,const string& commandTypeName, int field), too. Maybe you should ask whether commandTypeName is NIL/NULL in addition to '', because 'empty' sounds more like NIL than ''. I needed some tries to notice, that I have to use ''.

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Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

« on: 13 April 2012, 14:27:31 »

Quote from: PT on 13 April 2012, 13:00:48

Now i found out why i can't run battleglest with linux
in addition to tomreyns way you have to copy the glest.ini because megaglest will not find $APPDATA\/battleglest/

Does everything work fine, now?

I started a new performance-improvement patch using softcoders getUnitsForFaction() it seems to be working, but I have to test that. I think I can improve performance by about 25-50 % with that.

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Feature requests / Re: Sky, Skyboxes, water with good questions for best graphic...

« on: 12 April 2012, 14:06:07 »

not really, because, the object is only rendered, when the location of the object is on screen.

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Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

« on: 11 April 2012, 21:59:02 »

v 0002-003 online

Known issues (fixed in next release)

# You can't select Xatum
# Crash due to error generatig Creeps

Download fix http://www.muwum-lexicons.de/battleglest-0002-003b.7z(link removed) and extract to /scenarios/0_battleglest

Tested match without heros ... after 127 minutes team blue won without any tower left ... no single error/warning

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Feature requests / Re: [done] Teleporting with Lua

« on: 11 April 2012, 06:02:51 »

Thank you

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Feature requests / [done] Teleporting with Lua

« on: 9 April 2012, 17:47:47 »

I's like a function like setUnitPosition(unitID,pos) to teleport a unit from one Position to another, without the move-command.

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Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

« on: 8 April 2012, 11:19:22 »

New Preview Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tRVtkg6Po

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Closed bug reports / Re: Units don't loose life with attackboost <max-hp value="0" regeneration="-15"/>

« on: 7 April 2012, 20:23:55 »

Here is the patch to fix that bug

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Index: glest_game/types/unit_type.cpp
===================================================================
--- glest_game/types/unit_type.cpp	(revision 3229)
+++ glest_game/types/unit_type.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@
 int UnitType::getTotalMaxHpRegeneration(const TotalUpgrade *totalUpgrade) const {
 	checkItemInVault(&(this->hpRegeneration),this->hpRegeneration);
 	int result = hpRegeneration + totalUpgrade->getMaxHpRegeneration();
-	result = max(0,result);
+	//result = max(0,result);
 	return result;
 }
 
@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@
 int UnitType::getTotalMaxEpRegeneration(const TotalUpgrade *totalUpgrade) const {
 	checkItemInVault(&(this->epRegeneration),this->epRegeneration);
 	int result = epRegeneration + totalUpgrade->getMaxEpRegeneration();
-	result = max(0,result);
+	//result = max(0,result);
 	return result;
 }

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Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

« on: 7 April 2012, 14:05:25 »

New Hero "Shadow Monk" is comming.

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[img]http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9587/shadowmonk01.jpg[/img]
[url=http://www.muwum-lexicons.de/bg/fotos/heros/shadow_monk.jpg][img]http://www.muwum-lexicons.de/bg/fotos/heros/small/shadow_monk.jpg[/img][/url]

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Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

« on: 6 April 2012, 23:30:37 »

Played first multiplayer match today, balancing sucks... CPU has no chance against humans, it's quite difficult to bring all palyers to the same set of data.

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Closed bug reports / [fixed] Units don't loose life with attackboost (patch)

« on: 6 April 2012, 12:58:26 »

SVN Head rev: 3229

The attackboost <max-hp value="0" regeneration="-15"/> is shown at the unit (foe) but it has no effect. Maybe the problem is that regeneration +-15 is shown.

full xml of the unit casing attackboost:

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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<unit>
   <!-- *** parameters *** -->
   <parameters>
      <size value="1" />
      <height value="0" />
      <max-hp value="49" regeneration="-1"/>
      <max-ep value="0"/>
      <armor value="0" />
      <armor-type value="runes"/>            
      <sight value="0" />
      <time value="1" />
      <multi-selection value="false" />
      <cellmap value="true"  allowEmpty="true" >
      <row value="0"/>
      </cellmap>
      <levels/>
      <fields>
         <field value="land" />
      </fields>
      <properties>
      </properties>
      <light enabled="false" />
      <unit-requirements/>
      <upgrade-requirements />
      <resource-requirements>
         <resource name="gold" amount="0"/>
      </resource-requirements>
      <resources-stored />      
      <image path="images/gold.bmp"/>
      <image-cancel path="images/tech_stop.bmp"/>
      <meeting-point value="false"/>
      <selection-sounds enabled="false"/>
      <command-sounds enabled="false"/>
   </parameters>
   
   <!-- *** skills *** -->
   <skills>
      
      <skill>
         <type value="stop" />
         <name value="stop_skill"/>      
         <ep-cost value="0" />
         <speed value="300" />
         <anim-speed value="10" />
         <animation path="models/iceaura.g3d" />
         <sound enabled="false" />
         <attack-boost name="fireeffect">
            <allow-multiple-boosts value="false" />
            <radius value="3"/>
                <target value="foe"/>
            <max-hp value="0" regeneration="-15"/>
            <max-ep value="0"  regeneration="0"/>
            <sight value="0"/>
            <attack-strenght value="0"/>
            <attack-range value="0"/>
            <armor value="0"/>
            <move-speed value="0"/>
            <production-speed value="0"/>
            <particles value="true">
               <affected-particle-file path="fire_particles.xml"/>
            </particles>
            </attack-boost>
         <particles value="false">
            <particle-file path="glow_particles.xml"/>
         </particles>
      </skill>   
      <skill>
         <type value="be_built" />
         <name value="be_built_skill" />
         <ep-cost value="0" />
         <speed value="300" />
         <anim-speed value="300" />
         <animation path="models/iceaura.g3d" />
         <sound enabled="false">
         </sound>
      </skill>
      
      <skill>
         <type value="die" />
         <name value="die_skill"/>      
         <ep-cost value="0" />
         <speed value="300" />
         <anim-speed value="300" />
         <animation path="models/none.g3d" />
         <sound enabled="false"/>      
         <fade value="false"/>
      </skill>
      <skill>
         <type value="attack"/>
         <name value="attack_skill"/>      
         <ep-cost value="0"/>
         <speed value="50"/>
         <anim-speed value="50"/>
         <animation path="models/none.g3d"/>
         <sound enabled="false" start-time="0.5" />
         <attack-strenght value="50"/>
         <attack-var value="0"/>
         <attack-range value="1"/>
         <attack-type value="fire"/>
         <attack-start-time value="0.5"/>
         <attack-fields>
            <field value="land"/>
            <field value="air"/>
         </attack-fields>
            

         <projectile value="false" />
         <splash value="false"/>
      </skill>

   </skills>
   
   <!-- *** commands *** -->
   <commands>
      
      <command>            
         <type value="attack_stopped"/>         
         <name value="attack_on"/>         
         <image path="images/tech_stop.bmp"/>         
         <unit-requirements/>         
         <upgrade-requirements/>         
         <attack-skill value="attack_skill"/>         
            <stop-skill value="stop_skill"/>                  
      </command>
      </commands>
</unit>

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Feature requests / Re: Action based Cursors

« on: 6 April 2012, 10:44:54 »

Maybe it would be nice to change the color of the blue circle to grey if the target is not suitable for the command:

Harvest-command + Ressource -> blue
Attack-command + unit -> blue (or red)
Harvest-command + unit -> grey
Attack-command + ressource -> grey

But atm the feature is great-looking

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Feature requests / Re: animating in a tile-set

« on: 5 April 2012, 14:51:42 »

basically a good idea, but we'd need a new neutral faction, that is neighter visible all-time nor uses a faction-slot

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MegaGlest / [Lua] Campaign-Library v 0.1 (alpha)

« on: 4 April 2012, 18:28:38 »

There was a request for a locking / unlocking - system in scenarios for creation of campaigns.

Here is my first version of my Campaign-Library for Lua.

Usage:

Copy the campaign_lib.lua into the directory of your scenario and add dofile(getSystemMacroValue("$SCENARIO_PATH").."campaign_lib.lua") to your <global> script-area.

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<scenario>
     ...
     <scripts>
          <global>
               dofile(getSystemMacroValue("$SCENARIO_PATH").."campaign_lib.lua")
          </global>
          ...
	</scripts>		
</scenario>

Now you can use all the new methods.

Name the first scenario of a campaign however you want name the second like the first but add a "_1", for the third a "_2" and so on.

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Download-link .7z 768B

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Feature requests / Re: Windowed Fullscreen mode. Instantanious tabbing in and out of game.

« on: 4 April 2012, 15:21:25 »

Quote from: Coldfusionstorm on 4 April 2012, 14:39:34

tell me, where did muwums post go?.

Are you searching this: https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=6459.msg81571#msg81571 ?

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Tools / Re: Tool IDEA [3D Map editor shematics]

« on: 4 April 2012, 10:43:27 »

Basically I had the idea on my own, but it's very similary to yours. Mine is a bit more technical but the idea is the same.

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Tools / Re: Tool IDEA [3D Map editor shematics]

« on: 4 April 2012, 09:46:02 »

I think I understood the problem and played around a bit but it's quite hard to build such an editor, when your not so familar with 3d-engine-development, even when I have quite a lot conception done ...

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Feature requests / automatically paused if a scenario message is raised (non network game)

« on: 1 April 2012, 23:50:20 »

Quote from: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/megaglest/changeset/3213

In non network games the game is paused automatically if a menu/message is raised. I am not sure if I should do this for scenario messages too?

When doing this for scenarios, please let it be toggleable that you can give set it with Lua whether you want the game paused, or not.

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MegaGlest / Re: More lua functions

« on: 1 April 2012, 23:35:41 »

Quote from: softcoder on 30 March 2012, 07:19:23

Neutral units can be created by setting their team # to 9 (makes the system think they are an observer)

Tested it today. I love the neutral units

. Will test the other stuff later.

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Closed bug reports / Re: r3207: Savegames: Segfault when savegame map is not available

« on: 1 April 2012, 23:19:18 »

Similar Error in rev 3214 when a Lua - error appears (whould appear)

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_CxxThrowException - throw.cpp [161]
Glest::Game::Renderer::getCentered3DPos - renderer.cpp [2405]
Glest::Game::Renderer::renderTextBoundingBox3D - renderer.cpp [2545]
Glest::Game::Renderer::renderButton - renderer.c []

full log

System: Win Vista 32bit

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Mods / Glest Community Development Monthly - Issue 52

Closed bug reports / [fixed] Error with teams on multiplayer-scenarios

Closed bug reports / [fixed] Hud not shown on multiplayer-scenario for clients

Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: CotTS Scenario

Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: CotTS Scenario

MegaGlest / Re: More lua functions

Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

Feature requests / Re: Sky, Skyboxes, water with good questions for best graphic...

Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

Feature requests / Re: [done] Teleporting with Lua

Feature requests / [done] Teleporting with Lua

Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

Closed bug reports / Re: Units don't loose life with attackboost <max-hp value="0" regeneration="-15"/>

Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

Maps, tilesets and scenarios / Re: BattleGlest PreAlpha

Closed bug reports / [fixed] Units don't loose life with attackboost (patch)

Feature requests / Re: Action based Cursors

Feature requests / Re: animating in a tile-set

MegaGlest / [Lua] Campaign-Library v 0.1 (alpha)

Feature requests / Re: Windowed Fullscreen mode. Instantanious tabbing in and out of game.

Tools / Re: Tool IDEA [3D Map editor shematics]

Tools / Re: Tool IDEA [3D Map editor shematics]

Feature requests / automatically paused if a scenario message is raised (non network game)

MegaGlest / Re: More lua functions

Closed bug reports / Re: r3207: Savegames: Segfault when savegame map is not available