Spring RTS Engine

ok, just made a Unit Auto Repair Widget

http://spring.jobjol.nl/show_file.php?id=1654

any unit with repair ability in the vicinity of a damaged unit will repair it, even if it's moving, but not if it's building something.

Known Issues

If the repair unit is set to repeat it'll repeat the repair order forever, not sure how to fix this... I need to remove the order somehow after the repair is completed.

Selection of which unit to repair is currently just based on distance, it should probably be based on the value and health of the damaged unit

But this means you can send con/repair units with your main attack force and they'll repair any combat units that get damaged as they go

It'd be nice to be able to add an AutoRepair toggle button for the unit, is this easy to do?

oh wow, why hasnt this been made before? thanks mate.

this is great, the toggle would be ideal but this works just fine
this kind of functionality should be built in, but meh

fixed a little bug which was causing it to kill itself when units died

I'd like to stick this into CA. It would complement the retreat widget since I can take out the functionality that makes cons repeat+arearepair when placed in a retreat zone (which was annoying at times). Nice work.

cool, go for it, i've noticed it dies during gameplay sometimes but haven't had time to debug it properly, but welcome to use and mod however you see fit

thesleepless wrote:cool, go for it, i've noticed it dies during gameplay sometimes but haven't had time to debug it properly, but welcome to use and mod however you see fit

Don't worry, I'll debug it for you as I play and you can keep pulling it out of CA.

Fix #1: http://trac.caspring.org/changeset/3884

Car, you weren't on for me to yell at you earlier. This thing needs to not give orders to nanos. Especially orders out of reach.

It needs to ignore nanos completely, we have smart nanos for that.

+1
it causes nanos on patrol to repair units/reclaim wrecks 50 miles away from them

I fixed it in the CA version, it ignores nanos now

How is this better than setting my cons to repeat on + area repair?

Area repair doesn't work so hot on cons mixed into battle groups.

The widget sees everything, and does everything very fast, you don't

lurker wrote:Area repair doesn't work so hot on cons mixed into battle groups.

hmm this is what i originally designed it to do, what's the problem?

i think he was defending your widget saying that ordinary area repair isnt efficient

Widget is nice but I often have problems with builders stopping their normal build-task to repair some nearby units. Is this intended? I thought only idle builders would be affected by this widget?

very_bad_soldier wrote:Widget is nice but I often have problems with builders stopping their normal build-task to repair some nearby units. Is this intended? I thought only idle builders would be affected by this widget?

That shouldn't be, I assume. There will be kinks to work out.

very_bad_soldier wrote:Widget is nice but I often have problems with builders stopping their normal build-task to repair some nearby units. Is this intended? I thought only idle builders would be affected by this widget?

This. Love the widget and will still use it despite this, but fix please!!

I'll fix it tonight.