squads

[Zoythrus]

is it possible to create a group of units as a squad?  like a group of 4-5 swordmen that would all act as one unit.

why am i asking this? it sounds cool! and i want to mod Magitech so that there would be squad based combat.

the other reason is because i think that in a hero mod, the hero needs a group to defend him (but they would all be one cohesive "unit")

can this be done?

[-Archmage-]

I don't think so.

[ElimiNator]

Just make lots of men walking with the hero in the model, but it would look kind of chopy and ight not fit down some paths in some of the maps.

[Zoythrus]

i mean that the units in the squad would all be independent units, but would all be bound together by a central nexus or something.

this means that the units in the squad would have their own health bars, and will die if killed (so that it would be possible for only 1 or 2 guys to remain in the squad...)

[Fluffy203]

yea its not possible that has to do more with the code and less with the modeling , but like elimi said you can model them in

[-Archmage-]

Well if you put people in groups this sort of happens but not like you would want.

[Fluffy203]

yea i wouldn't worry about making it like DOW or something just let glest be glest 

[John.d.h]

You could take advantage of GAE's pet system.  That might be something along the lines of what you're looking for.

[Zoythrus]

ah yes, the pet system. can someone be made with pets?

[John.d.h]

I don't think so, but I haven't had a chance to familiarize myself with the GAE features nearly as much as I would like to.  You can have a look at it on the Glest wiki.

https://docs.megaglest.org/GAE

Edit: If you include the hero/leader character as a starting unit, you might be able to include the pets alongside it, but I'm just guessing.

[Fluffy203]

Yea i haven't either i just started playing around with GAE yesterday , but besides that i would like to see this pet system

[John.d.h]

There's a little information about it at the bottom of this page: https://docs.megaglest.org/GAE/Guide

[Zoythrus]

i have used the pets before, and sadly you have to make them individually

[Ligerteeth]

i agree just instead of each member of a squad being a different unit, you could just have the model have several characters in it and have the death animation set up so that they like all fall down differently

[Zoythrus]

but then the purpose of the squad is defeated, i dont want them to be 1 big unit, i want them to be a conglomeration of normal units

[Scenariole]

I know what you are talking about but you will need GAE to do that...

[Zoythrus]

i know that...i use nothing but GAE (just wish it didnt crash randomly) just so you know...

[Ligerteeth]

i don't see what's the difference of whether its modeling or coding, it would look and feel the same just as long as you animate each squad member individually.

[Zoythrus]

i want a squad "nexus" implemented because what if you dont want to model a whole new unit when you can just have 5 swordman grouped together with 3 lines of text?

[Ligerteeth]

well from an easiness standpoint i guess i can see what youre saying, but i just don't think that what your trying to do is possible without modeling

[Zoythrus]

i think that if we evolved the pet tag idea, this could be possible

[Ligerteeth]

if only i was any good at coding other than xmls i would make all kinds of fancy addons

[Zoythrus]

me too