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by AF
11 Mar 2017, 17:45
Forum: Map Releases
Topic: Comet Catcher Redux V3
Replies: 15
Views: 6090

Re: Comet Catcher Redux V3

It always bothered me that there were no `proper` space games that did away with terrain entirely and used features and stuff ( aside from perhaps THIS ), but those look like you could make plenty of maps using just those 3 items and a resource feature/unit of some kind
by AF
11 Mar 2017, 17:43
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

I've never tried to get Shard running inside a game archive, I've never looked into how it would be done. I will add though, that you don't need to create a subfolder to test that Shard runs. The subfolder system is there to override Shards files, if it's not there then Shard will run as a generic A...
by AF
10 Mar 2017, 01:35
Forum: Map Releases
Topic: Astral Valley
Replies: 4
Views: 1926

Re: Astral Valley

Beautiful map, but when looked at from a straight down minimap view it looks like somebody thrust hair straighteners into a carrier bag and opened them up to burn the plastic
by AF
10 Mar 2017, 01:32
Forum: Map Releases
Topic: Comet Catcher Redux V3
Replies: 15
Views: 6090

Re: Comet Catcher Redux V3

Are those bits of nougat and sugar floating across that moon? I like the gum ball in the last photo
by AF
10 Mar 2017, 01:27
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Best AI for 'Air' only maps ?
Replies: 16
Views: 7360

Re: Best AI for 'Air' only maps ?

When I say that it 'hangs' it means that the game stops when loading the AI, that was before I blocked all ground and water factories.
So the game runs but Shards units do nothing and sit idle? Can you reproduce this and send me a copy of the infolog.txt of that game?
by AF
07 Mar 2017, 13:45
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

Do you have the infolog.txt for the error?
by AF
06 Mar 2017, 22:06
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

hmmm, I don't expect that would cause issues, can you let me know if the updated changes resolve things at your end?
by AF
06 Mar 2017, 16:48
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

I've made some changes to the code that may provide a more useful infolog.txt output, and catch some unexpected situations https://github.com/tomjn/Shard/tree/master/data/ai If you can replace your Shard data folder with the files from that location? I also tweaked how that behaviour works, so it ma...
by AF
06 Mar 2017, 16:26
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

Also, I'm unfamiliar with NOTA's startup sequence, can you describe the process, assuming zero knowledge or assumptions, and without referring to other games? The issue in question is that each unit is given a behaviour that controls its initial actions that runs once. There's a check to test if the...
by AF
06 Mar 2017, 16:18
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

hmmm, that won't work, Shard looks for a subfolder, it doesn't search your games folder. Remember, the Shard does not use the Virtual Spring Filesystem, it's a self contained system in a single folder and does not use Spring to load files. The infolog suggests Shard is located at: ...ine\103.0\AI\Sk...
by AF
06 Mar 2017, 02:26
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

Also, what does Journeywar do at the beginning of a game? Does it swap out or create units? Morph them etc? Anything that messes with the assumption that at the start of the game you get starting units, and they don't change in weird and unexpected ways?
by AF
06 Mar 2017, 02:19
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Best AI for 'Air' only maps ?
Replies: 16
Views: 7360

Re: Best AI for 'Air' only maps ?

ShardLua use air, and water, but targeting sometime have problem it hangs while loading the AI if I choose the 'air' only map (water destroys anything so you can only use air units). Work well on other maps. Guess I'll try to just block the other factories. Can you be more specific about what you m...
by AF
06 Mar 2017, 02:14
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

Picasso, does this happen only when making your own changes, or for all usage of Shard? e.g. does XTA do this? Or a game Shard has never seen before with no modifications? Also can you be more explicit about what you did? Full file paths so we know unambiguously which folder you're referring to, as ...
by AF
04 Mar 2017, 00:46
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

it's a subfolder alongside the other game folders. Note that Shard has no concept of the VFS, can't read the VFS, and has a singular file system. If you're using native Shard, putting the subfolder in your game will make no difference. If you used the LuaAI version though, that's different. You'd ne...
by AF
03 Mar 2017, 23:57
Forum: AI
Topic: Shard 0.4/dev
Replies: 839
Views: 264744

Re: Shard 0.4/dev

There's https://shard.tomjn.com but for the most basic of steps: - create a subfolder named after your games internal name, Shard will prefer these files over its own when loading - Copy in attackers.lua, behaviours.lua, and taskqueues.lua then adjust them accordingly If you want to use this as a Lu...
by AF
03 Mar 2017, 03:36
Forum: AI
Topic: ShardLua games configurations dev
Replies: 17
Views: 14394

Re: ShardLua games configurations dev

The Lua AI implementation is at:

https://github.com/tomjn/Shard/tree/mas ... spring_lua

It's incomplete at the moment
by AF
03 Mar 2017, 03:34
Forum: AI
Topic: ShardLua games configurations dev
Replies: 17
Views: 14394

Re: ShardLua games configurations dev

My ideal situation would be 3 repos on GitHub: - Shard Spring C++ Loader - a native C++ AI that loads the Shard AI - Shard Spring LuaAI Loader - a Spring LuaAI that lives in a game archive that loads the Shard AI - Shard AI - An AI written in Lua But there is opposition to git submodules, and I have...
by AF
02 Mar 2017, 02:44
Forum: AI
Topic: ShardLua games configurations dev
Replies: 17
Views: 14394

Re: ShardLua games configurations dev

We disagreed over how the project should be structured with prevented even attempting a solution. But that's been gone over many times Particularly, the Shard APIs have a Spring LuaAI version, but it's implementation isn't finished, the functions mostly return dummy values rather than actually doing...
by AF
28 Feb 2017, 15:02
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Spring Engine Thongs?
Replies: 13
Views: 2906

Re: Spring Engine Thongs?

Silentwings wrote:Can you confirm if the size received was too big/small, or roughly what you'd expected?
I don't think you want to see that photo
by AF
27 Feb 2017, 23:13
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Spring Engine Thongs?
Replies: 13
Views: 2906

Spring Engine Thongs?

So it appears somebody is selling thongs with the engine logo https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/springen ... g-A6806078

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