Deployments

Cainen · Post by **Cainen** » 12 May 2007, 05:44

Manpower was the more annoying resource, though.

Anyways, this is a good idea, like I said before. It allows people to actually diversify the early game without facing major disadvantages.

Post by **trepan** » 12 May 2007, 15:12

Demo Video (10 MByte):
http://trepan.bzflag.bz/spring/deploy.avi

A few things to note:

- I switch to the LuaUI deploy widget halfway through
(the LuaRules rendering is used before that, it can not
interact with mouse clicks...)

- You can not create units outside the boundary

- The commander is auto-selected when no other units
are selected (and the view is centered on it)

- In a real setup, the game would start when all players
have pressed the Ready button, or the time has run out.

- You can queue unit commands to be executed when
the game is started (this includes factory builds, and
state settings like firemode and repeat; although the
latter is not shown in the video).

Cainen · Post by **Cainen** » 14 May 2007, 12:26

Trepan, you are a brilliant, brilliant man and I wish I had half the talent you do.

Man, this could change the early game by leaps and bounds.

Gabba · Post by **Gabba** » 24 May 2007, 21:37

I though of a variant of this for more complex missions. See my feature request here, posted before I read this thread.

Basically I'd like the host to set up the forces for every side in advance, using the same interface, and then save the set-up to a lua script that could be used to start a game. Saving a moment from a replay to a startup script would also be cool, to create what-if scenarios.

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 25 May 2007, 02:37

nifty stuff, I suppose we could also have forced reinforcment from a specific area? ala table edges and such..

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 25 May 2007, 07:24

Hurray maybe the Battletech modders will finally be motivated to finish their project.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 25 May 2007, 15:54

Fanger wrote:nifty stuff, I suppose we could also have forced reinforcment from a specific area? ala table edges and such..

Spawn the unit in the reinforcements arrival place, issue a move order to wherever they should go, optionally make them unselectable until they get there.

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 26 May 2007, 06:23

Yup, this would be great for the 1944 people, would add ALOT to that mod..

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 30 Jul 2007, 12:16

*bump*

Trepan, will your deployment script work in 0.75b2? If so, could you release it? Please? Pretty please?

AF · Post by AF » 30 Jul 2007, 13:25

look at CA

Spring RTS Engine

Deployments