Imperial 2 tech tree (***Full Release*****)

[John.d.h]

Great stuff so far!

[ElimiNator]

Looks great so far, but the ship's anim snaps back to first frame.

[Mr War]

Thanks man

U mean the exploding one? That's a dying animation so it only gets played once

[Ishmaru]

Love the trebuchet!

Looks great so far, but the ship's anim snaps back to first frame.

I think he means the galleys move animation. The oars jump and smokestack jump as if missing frames.

[will]

Every chance my script misses a frame.  When do we get a new alpha to see this stuff in-game?

[Mr War]

maybe in a few weeks man, have a lot to do, like XML and icons. Still want to add:
infantry to Imperial (just re-skinned Tech)
shipyard for Tech
'tanks' to both
factory to imperial
Aerodrome to Imperial
upgrades
Sky galley for imperial

My animation isn't very good but it does the job in-game I think. The chimneys on my models are deliberately lift-drop animations in the hope that they look like they are "chug-chugging" steam engines. I want to make the rowing of the boat and the steam engine appear interconnected. But it's crude.

Thanks to your gif tool Will I saw that I needed to smooth the trebuchet animation

[ElimiNator]

Thanks man

U mean the exploding one? That's a dying animation so it only gets played once

O, ok I thought it was move.

[Omega]

Looks fantastic so far Mr War. You've come a long way, and your models are looking great. I really hope to see a release soon, even if just a beta.

[Tununias]

This mod has tons of potential. (The war machines look awesome!)   

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[Mr War]

Hi, in GAE are there AI issues with a unit having more than one weapon that can attack a given field? Like if my trebuchet had two attacks, one intended against buildings and one against infantry?

[Psychedelic_hands]

Well I'm not an expert in that sort of stuff, but I beleive the AI will only use the first attack. But there is probably a ticket somewhere for it though.

BTW, that trebuchet looks awesome! :~)

[ElimiNator]

Well I'm not an expert in that sort of stuff, but I beleive the AI will only use the first attack. But there is probably a ticket somewhere for it though.

BTW, that trebuchet looks awesome! :~)

Yup, this is true unless one is for air and to other land. If there are air units they will use the air attack and viceversa.

[Mr War]

Thanks dudes that works

If I have a unit that cannot move but morphs in and out ( like my trebuchet which needs to unpack to fire), how can you stop it moving automatically after an attack?

[Zoythrus]

Thanks dudes that works

If I have a unit that cannot move but morphs in and out ( like my trebuchet which needs to unpack to fire), how can you stop it moving automatically after an attack?

make the unpacked trebuchet a turret. that means it has no move command, only an on and off

[Mr War]

How do u do that man?

[Omega]

Being a trebuchet, it will have to turn to attack, so it needs a move SKILL, but no command. This should explain nicely:

If there's a move skill, a hold position command, but no move command: Unit can rotate to face the foe, but cannot move. Example: Military's Howitzer.

If there's just a hold position command, it cannot rotate, nor can move. It can still attack, but the attack will come from the center of the model and face the opponent always. Example: Defense Tower.

The hold position command has one MAJOR fault though: You cannot choose a target, thus, your defensive structure are totally AI dependent, and I hate that part of it, but there's no way at all to use a regular attack skill without the unit moving, even with zero move speed.

[Mr War]

Thanks man, just setting speed to nil worked

Beta release soon

[Mr War]

Hey I have a new prob with the mod.

The AI player doesn't build barracks for my faction in GAE. The barracks building is called garrison and has XML almost identical to barracks. Any ideas why?

[Mr War]

Beta uploaded, go to first post to download.

Tech Tree (Beta)


Still pending upgrades, sky galley and several *secret* unit ideas, plus activation of new Tech units

[-Archmage-]

Nice Tech Tree!

[John.d.h]

Cool.  I'll be taking a close look at your boats, I think.

The textures for the Keep and the Generator can't be loaded.  I think you just need to fix their names.

[will]

For linux users there is a tool called detox.  I'm not saying that this means modmakers don't have to fix their names, I just mean as a way of getting it to load to help debug things.

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detox -s lower-only -r *
Myself, I can't get it to load https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=3470.msg69567#msg69567

[Mr War]

I re-uploaded with a number of issues hopefully fixed: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?myu13a1kkt8hqnv
* textures all lower case for Linux users
* Build issue with aeronautical facility fixed
* training field upgraded added - full version will have proper upgrade tree

[will]

awesome!  Just AWESOME!

I thought the shipping seemed a bit cheap, but if you want to encourage naval I guess its good that its cheap?

The trebuchet range was really long, and made the battleship range seem really short.  The double-fire from the battleships was gorgeous.

Was weird having enemy foot-soldiers attacking a ship but they did.

I had difficulty guessing what generator and tavern do.  I think I worked out that taverns are basically farms and give food.  What do generators generate?

I like that there are not too many units.  The bigger the techtree, somehow the less I like it.

[Omega]

Was weird having enemy foot-soldiers attacking a ship but they did.

There isn't actually anything that can be done about that, as water units are treated as though land for targeting. And it would be a bit awkward anyway if the ship went right up to someone and started bombarding him while he just stood there.