Please...

[SpikedHelmet]

Include the following, if possible:

Control ALL FBI tags via script - ie, set speed, change health, change weapons, etc etc.

Ability (somehow) to remove the silly nano... most mods out there have nothing to do with nanolathing technology (ie, a German field engineer nanoing a PaK 39?!?!)..

[AF]

Or at least the ability to define the nanospray particle bitmaps (might be faster they look like pure particles not the smoke type particles making them slower), or at least the colour..

[mongus]

isnt controlling all via script too open to abuse? (as letting ais cheat)?

[Nemo]

no, its not. AIs can't change the .cob files.

[Gnomre]

I think the problem they've said before is that most unit stats aren't stored for each unit--they're cached for each unit type (armsam, corsilo, etc) before the game starts. Therefore changing the stat on one would change it on ALL armsams or corsilos.

That's how I understood it, at least.

Of course, I'd certainly like to see it be more open-ended as well.

[Tobi]

yes that's true

[Sean Mirrsen]

Even if it's true, it's easily fixable since the UnitLoader passes many relevant parameters to the individual units, you just have to set up the needed variables and add some lines into UnitLoader to account for them. The actual changing of the variables and making them affect unit behavior (I learned that the staticness of TA has infiltrated the entire engine, and most things are read from unitdefs and other global sources) in the needed way is what is hardest about this. Some parameters will still be unchangeable though, like pathfinding-related stuff and weapons.

[jcnossen]

It's still an awful lot of work to do it in a non hacked way though, not what I would call easily fixable. UnitDef is used in the CUnit classes, in CMoveType, in the weapon code and in the weapon projectile/particle code. So basically everywhere in the simulation code.

IMO, you're probably better off abstracting this whole thing by creating a IUnit class, and then implement a new improved unit system in LUA or squirrel or another language next to it. That way you won't be breaking a lot of the existing behavior (which WILL happen), and you've got a new unit system which is truely scriptable and usable for a very long time.

[Comp1337]

Do the LUA thing, and thou shall feel love from the community

[Felix the Cat]

You should do this.

Make it mod-definable and customizable.

[Tobi]

Somehow I doubt that motivates people.

[Argh]

<chuckles>

[SwiftSpear]

I think the problem they've said before is that most unit stats aren't stored for each unit--they're cached for each unit type (armsam, corsilo, etc) before the game starts. Therefore changing the stat on one would change it on ALL armsams or corsilos.

That's how I understood it, at least.

Of course, I'd certainly like to see it be more open-ended as well.

So allow a unit to change which FBI it's calling on the fly.

[edit] new scripting language talk. I like it!