REQ: building templete.

[Super Mario]

A widget that you can save and build a set of buildings over and over again.

[Pendrokar]

Lua has this function: Spring.TestBuildOrder

So it wouldn't be too hard. Except that I have never worked with Lua OpenGL Api. You are probably thinking one exactly like in Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance?


One problem though, in what queue should constructors build the template?
AFAIK in SA:FA it builds starting from the most costly unit downwards. SA:FA buildings are made that a unit can hardly get stuck in them. So it is different than in most Spring games.

[edit] Ah Im wrong -

Whenever you ask a builder unit to execute this building queue, the builder will execute the build exactly the way construction was done the first time, at exact relative positions.

[Super Mario]

Were do you get your information from? I can't seemed to find it.

[Pendrokar]

Were do you get your information from? I can't seemed to find it.

Here - http://www.gamereplays.org/supremecomma ... _templates

I probably won't make this widget because last time I played Spring was a year ago, then my PC couldn't handle it. Now it can! But now TASClient doesn't work and SpringLobby yells at me...

[Pendrokar]

Template build test -> ok (I had to have a function to count player's units because ID numbers are random since one update in Spring, so when starting the widget units that were before it cannot be added to a template because it won't know when which units was created )

Todo:
Adding templates to file
Reading templates from file
GUI <-- hope for help from other lua scripters that have done graphics

[edit] BTW where should the GUI be? Maybe adding a command called Templates(if that's possible for a widget?) and it would switch unit icons to template icons which all selected units can build?

[Pendrokar]

What's done:
file writing
file reading
graphical template building(showing red/green ghosts where you can build and where you can't)

Todo: GUI(template selection)

[edit]
file writing and reading was tested, but didn't work...

[Pendrokar]

making progress -