Spring RTS Engine

Couldn't this tie in with the Group AI somehow? It just feels like it should...

Looks pretty clever. I like the idea of a HTML Log File. I might have to try it...

I don't know about the whole 'Agent' System, though. I'm probably wrong, but I'll stick with handing out a GroupAI here and there.

I was looking for more of a universal function. For instance, in mods certain units may or may not exist. I would like a function that tells what all the units currently loaded in the game are, so that an AI could know, not only what is in it's own build tree, but others as well. It would be handy f...

At the moment, It's just hard-coded. I have the AI step through several if-then checks to see what to build and have either the commander or a Construction Kbot build it in the Idle() function. They build Solars, Mexxes, Kbot Labs, LLT's, or DT's in a circle around the base. The Kbot lab randomly bu...

OK. I think I solved the problem. Here's my UnitDef3.h File: #ifndef UNIT_DEF_STRUCT #define UNIT_DEF_STRUCT #pragma once #include <string> #include <vector> #include <map> struct MoveData; struct WeaponDef; // Special Format struct StrDat { unsigned char Empty [4]; union _IntData { struct _HasPoint...

What I would like would be a way to get a list of all the units currently loaded in the game. That way, the AI could tell what is available and how good it is all the way up and down the line.

Actually, I have Visual Studio 6.0. I don't know how to do anything with alignment, and probably won't since all my crashes were before I changed the file. I have my AI printing off of a list of it's doings and some unit data, and it matches with the FBI's, so I'm not too eager to put things back th...

To heck with political correctness! I just want something that'll work.

I see that the const part is important. I'll have to try it again.

Just have it flip through it's build list and check the UnitDef's until it comes to a metal extractor. Then build it.

I wasn't so much thinking in terms as "best" or "most efficient". More like "simple" and "easy".

If my AI ever goes anywhere, I'll be sure to try to have something better than this. This is just for starters.

My issue is that I used the same code as you, but for every unit I got the unit code of 15.

Adding some padding to the beginning worked, because I did a binary dump of the structure and found the offset that was creating the error.

Again, what you have should've worked for me, but it didn't.

Stupid question: How do you get the name of the unit? I know it's in a std::string, but everything I try to access it, the game crashes. I've tried streams (to a log file) with: UnitDef *pud = callback->GetUnitDef("UNITNAME"); LogFile << pud->name; and conversion to c-strings too: UnitDef ...

I know that this might sound naive, but why not just have the AI find the nearest, best metal spot at the beginning, using any algorithm, then build other mexxes in a hex grid, each (mex radius) apart from one another? Mexxes are cheap, and this provides good redundancy, so it wouldn't penalize the ...

I don't know if I have an old file or what, but when I tried using getting the unitdef structure by callback->GetUnitDef("UNIT"), it was messed up, so I had to put an array of 28 bytes into the unitdef struct to get it to work (after the names, but before loaded). struct UnitDef { string n...