Missions and Campaigns : Working prototype

[BrainDamage]

Wait... we have mutators? Docs? Info? Lobby support? Anything?

Docs will be written when it's done.

[Pxtl]

Wait... we have mutators? Docs? Info? Lobby support? Anything?

Docs will be written when it's done.

Oh, so Mutators are a new feature too? I thought it was just that somebody had finally fixed up the Modtype = 2 that's been in the wiki (but non-functional) for a few years.

[FLOZi]

modtype=2 has worked forever...

[Pxtl]

modtype=2 has worked forever...

Really? Never seen anybody use it. How do the clients handle selecting multiple modtype=2 packages?

[Satirik]

Ok, so I downloaded "CampaignAndSingleMissionDemo.sd7", put it in "mods", for want of somewhere better to put it, but it didn't seem to do anything. What do I need to do to run this campaign, or at least to run any of the missions inside it?

with latest tasclient beta you need to load the mod in Single Player, it will only be able to launch the first mission of the campaign anyway

[FLOZi]

modtype=2 has worked forever...

Really? Never seen anybody use it. How do the clients handle selecting multiple modtype=2 packages?

You select 1. Perhaps you are thinking of modtype=3;

[Pxtl]

From http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Mod_specification

Code: Select all

 // What kind of mod this is 
  //  0 - Hidden (support mod that can't be selected, such as OTA_textures) 
  //  1 - Normal, only one can be selected at a time 
  //  2 - Addon, any number of these can be selected. Could be used 
  //      for single units for example. 
  //  others - perhaps mutators and addon races that can be 
  //           enabled in addition to xta for example? 
  ModType=1; 

[Peet]

Seems to me it wasn't actually implemented.

[FLOZi]

Guess I'm getting confused like an idiot.

Use modtype 1 and dependancies.

[hughperkins]

Ok, so I downloaded "CampaignAndSingleMissionDemo.sd7", put it in "mods", for want of somewhere better to put it, but it didn't seem to do anything. What do I need to do to run this campaign, or at least to run any of the missions inside it?

with latest tasclient beta you need to load the mod in Single Player, it will only be able to launch the first mission of the campaign anyway

Oh! Sweet! Looks awesome.

[Argh]

Modtype 2 works just fine, btw.

[Tobi]

Or rather, it doesn't break stuff, I suppose (and is handled identical to modtype=2?)

There is no API in unitsync for lobbies to query the list of secondary mods for a primary mod, and I also haven't seen a GUI for it in TASClient or SpringLobby yet...

Btw does this mission system use the startscripts functionality of Spring, or luarules?

[BrainDamage]

Btw does this mission system use the startscripts functionality of Spring, or luarules?

a lua file in the mod writes script.txt, since it can both source startscripts or use luarules, the system is oblivion to that, while current test implementation ( and quantum's mission editor ) uses LuaRules, it's actually up to the modder such choice

[Satirik]

not really for tasclient at least, sine it only list the campaign and missions from within the mutator/mod loaded