Help needed on concept mapping...

Help needed on concept mapping...

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HeadHunter
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Joined: 15 May 2007, 12:33

Help needed on concept mapping...

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Wanted to adapt some CA units for a few conceptual maps. The general idea is to have units on map when game starts (like in air combat test). It is, at the same time, 1 step closer to campaign design. However, i do not intend to link those maps into campaign just yet. Right now, I want the following things to be clear for me and others who want to join:
1. How to include living units into map so that they are functional without bot controlling them.
2. make a library of generic trigger scripts like any normal RTS has.
3. find a place to host those scripts.
Since I know that CA people have been thinking about this stuff long time ago, I thought maybe you can help to arrange this in organized manner. Maybe later we can make a campaign out of this=)
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Licho
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Re: Help needed on concept mapping...

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Search forum for mission editor, make mission using it and use its "upload" command to add it to mission list in springdownloader.
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zwzsg
Kernel Panic Co-Developer
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Re: Help needed on concept mapping...

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I have made another, distinct, mission (& savegame) system. The general idea of my system is to store the state of all units, with their order queue, in custom fields of a startscript. That way you can start a game with lots of units already placed, and with long order queue they'll perform without AI. I have also a "wait x seconds" trigger, implemented as a pseudo-order. In the far future I plan to add more triggers.

I demoed my mission thing in this BA mutator: BAV7.1-sav1.52.sd7. Place alongside BA71.sd7), run Spring, ingame press esc to bring the menu, check the one included mission.
HeadHunter
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Re: Help needed on concept mapping...

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This is just cool! The system is just great! I'm gonna try to reverse engineer it for campaign purposes.
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