making my mod teh army mod

making my mod teh army mod

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can you give me advise

Poll ended at 30 Jul 2006, 19:24

yes
7
16%
no
36
84%
 
Total votes: 43

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kirby
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making my mod teh army mod

Post by kirby »

in my mode there will be uber rush and losts of bot units tanks and infantry ? any suggestions? this is will be posible in five mins in game when i make mod Image
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Guessmyname
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Post by Guessmyname »

Egads! That'll probably make Spring crash...
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jackalope
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Post by jackalope »

1. you might want to rethink your design

2. lol!!! @ the poll results
Hunter0000
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Post by Hunter0000 »

its possible to handle a ton of *units* at the same time if you use a techniqe where one unit is a block of say 25 or so, that would cut down the pathcfinsing lag, but it would require heavy scripting to get anything resemboling 'not ugly/buggy as hell'
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Guessmyname
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Post by Guessmyname »

And that gets out of hand real fast, just with a five-man script. Trust me

You also have the trouble of weaponry for the unit (max weapons for a unit = 16) and large blocks of infantry cannot just 'flow' around an obstruction if they're counted as one unit
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bobthedinosaur
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Post by bobthedinosaur »

reminds me of those total war games.. the ones before rome... good times... good...
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Min3mat
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Post by Min3mat »

rome was OK but MTW FTW!!!! (shame its broke on new PCs O.o)
MTW2 :D :D :D
win!
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bobthedinosaur
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Post by bobthedinosaur »

what mtw2??? hell yes!
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Snipawolf
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Post by Snipawolf »

MTW = ?
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AF
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Post by AF »

medieval total war
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Snipawolf
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Post by Snipawolf »

Ooohhhh
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Kuroneko
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Post by Kuroneko »

Min3mat wrote:rome was OK but MTW FTW!!!! (shame its broke on new PCs O.o)
MTW2 :D :D :D
win!
Works on my unit, which isn't exactly old.
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Snipawolf
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Post by Snipawolf »

Well bro, you have fun trying to make your mod....
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KDR_11k
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Post by KDR_11k »

Spring can handle the unit count but you'd need to have a builder with a huge range to allow it to retarget quickly enough to pump these out in five minutes. Also there won't be much of a late game since you'll hit the unit limit very quickly that way and that many units won't fit through any slightly narrow point in a map.
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Zenka
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Post by Zenka »

The total war series worked with gorups of units (platoon, whatever). so the pathfinding would be less.
Spring won't crash due the number of polies (will someone ever listen to Caydr?) But the pathfinding will eat your CPU.
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smoth
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Post by smoth »

Zenka wrote: Spring won't crash due the number of polies (will someone ever listen to Caydr?)
Or really look at gundam :(
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bobthedinosaur
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Post by bobthedinosaur »

thats because most are in 3do format, tris in s3o format runs much more smoothly
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Snipawolf
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Post by Snipawolf »

It may however, lag...
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emmanuel
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Post by emmanuel »

this concept go back 20 years in past when strategis games are icon in papers
i prefere to think about the taspring precursor concept =join the rts to the fps
ahhhhhhh the (bad)old time...

try dawn of war =very nice rts but not very funny
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smoth
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Post by smoth »

bobthedinosaur wrote:thats because most are in 3do format, tris in s3o format runs much more smoothly
I was saying it plays fine... :P
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