Make AIs have different start units

[Forboding Angel]

Game Spawn
http://pastebin.com/v0efaweN

Can someone help me modify this so that AIs will start with a different unit?

I have already defined startunitai in sidedata.

SideData
http://pastebin.com/JRBF1SCY

[PicassoCT]

http://pastebin.com/jbhhzWDm

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[smoth]

Avoid doing that in game spawn. Use a new gadget

[PicassoCT]

Smoth volunteers to write a gadget for you forb - always said the guy was a big spender when it came to time.
Bravo, smoth, bravo, da capo!
Nothing more admirable then giving everything you got for the comunity.

[Forboding Angel]

Avoid doing that in game spawn. Use a new gadget

Why?

@picasso, thanks

[smoth]

Because you may want to built it into something more later.
Because games spawn is for start units, why complicate a simple gadget?
If it errors nothing spawns
Seperation of concerns

[PicassoCT]

But this is the part that concerns itself with various GameStart Activitys..

What you could do is add a GameMode.lua that creates startConditions depending in which GameMode evo is started, but any more architecture would be overkill.

[FLOZi]

S44 CRAIG does this since years, too lazy to find full link so https://github.com/spring1944/spring1944

[Forboding Angel]

http://pastebin.com/jbhhzWDm

Unfortunately, this does not work. The AI unit never spawns, no matter how I have tried to make it happen. Help would be appreciated.

Imo a separate gadget doesn't make sense at all. Game spawn is already a gadget, so why wouldn't you want all of your game start spawning stuff to happen there?

Edit: Found the issue, it wasn't reading from sidedata correctly.

[azaremoth]

[code]
local Gaia = Spring.GetGaiaTeamID
local ai = select(4, Spring.GetTeamInfo(teamID))+
cheatAItype = Spring.GetModOptions().cheatingai

if ai == true and team ~= Gaia and type ~= "feature" then
local heading = math.random(3)
local builder1 = Spring.CreateUnit("euf_constructor_ai", x, y, z, heading, teamID)
if cheatAItype == "1" then
local zero = Spring.CreateUnit("euf_techcenter_shield_ai", x,y,z+150, heading, teamID)
end
else
local heading = math.random(3)
local builder1 = Spring.CreateUnit("euf_constructor", x, y, z, heading, teamID)
end
[/code]

This is how we did it for the cursed - it also includes a mod option to boost the starting conditions of AI teams.