Need help with forking.

[Super Mario]

Hi, I am unable to hook the chickens from BA to the other mod that I desire, it keeps calling itself BA when I wanted to be part of the other mod. Does it has something to do with the mod info file or I am missing something?

[Forboding Angel]

You might wanna use the survival spawner from evo or gundam. I'm pretty sure that chickens that were shoehorned into BA were more or less pretty hardcoded (and by this point, really really old).

[Super Mario]

You might wanna use the survival spawner from evo or gundam. I'm pretty sure that chickens that were shoehorned into BA were more or less pretty hardcoded (and by this point, really really old).

I need to know what parts do I need to make changes besides the modinfo.lua file.

[smoth]

Changes for what precisely?

[Super Mario]

Changes for what precisely?

Basically disconnecting BA and connecting to the other mod, so that I can have chicken defense.

[smoth]

Still ambiguous.

[Wombat]

is that even possible ? ba chickens use ba content... its like trying to play wc3 frozen throne without wc3. *newb idea*

[Super Mario]

is that even possible ? ba chickens use ba content... its like trying to play wc3 frozen throne without wc3. *newb idea*

And I'm planning to get it use the content found in the other mod, if I have a slight idea on what I'm suppose to do.

[oksnoop2]

What steps have you taken exactly? (pastebins please)

[smoth]

is that even possible ? ba chickens use ba content... its like trying to play wc3 frozen throne without wc3. *newb idea*

see this thread womb

[Wombat]

well, i thought that if he wants BA chicken then he needs BA units as well. then nvm, like i said newb idea D:

[Forboding Angel]

dude.. just copy the files. It's only like 2 files the gadget and the config. At least, in evo that's all it is.

[Super Mario]

This isn't rocket science. I just want to used content from another mod. That's all, now if you can get it to used content from your mods, then by all means tell me the progress of the fork then.

[Forboding Angel]

it keeps calling itself BA

What is IT?

[Super Mario]

it keeps calling itself BA

What is IT?

Tech annihilation.

[smoth]

I'd help you fork but forb does lots of forking and can help you more. Me I only fork one thing.

[knorke]

Never made a mutator but since it seems nobody posted a clear answer I tried myself for the lolz.
Overwrote/deleted the original file but I think I used BAChickens215(BA712).sd7

First had a look at:
http://springrts.com/wiki/Modinfo.lua#Mutator
After some trial&error I made a modinfo.lua that showed up in Spring.exe:

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return {
  name="AAAAAST Chicken Defense",
  description="Tanks and Chickens lol",
  shortGame="ST",
  shortName="ST",
  version="132",
  mutator="AAAtestlol",
  game="Spring Tanks",
  modtype=1,
  depend = {
    "Spring Tanks SDD",
  },
}

I am still a bit unsure what excatly goes in the depend= field, appearently not the filename but what gets displayed in spring.exe mod list.

So that thing started but then crashed during loading:

[f=0000000] Loading unit definitions
[f=0000000] Caught content exception: WARNING: Couldn't find a MoveClass named akbot2 (used in UnitDef: chicken1)
[f=0000000] Content error WARNING: Couldn't find a MoveClass named akbot2 (used in UnitDef: chicken1)

So some of the units rely on entries in movedef of BA, which of course do not exist in all games.
Basically that means it is not possible to just plug BA chickens into any game.
I guess copying over the movedef from BA would solve that. Or maybe you are lucky and your mod is based on BA because then those entries might even exist in it too.
There was also a long list of missing sounds.

Now the gay thing:
It seems that spring.exe/unitsync does not always refresh the modlist.
ie I changed entries in the modinfo.lua of the mutator like the version and Spring would still show the old value after restart.
That of course makes testing a bit annoying. Renaming the mutator file seems to make it re-read the mods correctly.
ie just change between naming blub_chicken.sdd and bla_chicken.sdd everytime you change something so you are sure the change was noticed.

[Forboding Angel]

I'd help you fork but forb does lots of forking and can help you more. Me I only fork one thing.

lol

[FLOZi]

It seems that spring.exe/unitsync does not always refresh the modlist.
ie I changed entries in the modinfo.lua of the mutator like the version and Spring would still show the old value after restart.

Delete cache/ArchiveCache.lua.

[Forboding Angel]

Fuck that noise. Killing archive cache makes for a LOOOOOONG time to rebuild next time you start up anything that uses unitsync. Just change the name of your directory so that unitsync has to rehash it.