Spring RTS Engine

People were being jerks in the lobby as usual. i doubt the forum will be any different, but here goes....

Is there a way to make a unit automatically target a certain category of unit automatically, as a preference to other units? For example antiswarm prefers small little hermit crabs and human beings and big fucking lazor of doom shoots at mega giant crabs instead of trying to kill little pathetic naked humans?

Combinations of onlytargetcategory and badtargetcategory with clever assignments of categories. c.f. S44. Tanks will fire first at other heavy armour, then light armour / open topped vehicles, then soft targets (N.B. though the this is partly the way weapons are handled in the unit scripts too )

S44 has so many categories its ridiculous.

FLOZi wrote:Tanks will fire first at other heavy armour, then light armour / open topped vehicles, then soft targets

How do you define these three levels? I know with onlytargetcategory and badtargetcategory you can define two levels (onlytartgetcategory="A", badtargetcategory="A B shoot A first, then B). What else are you using?

What else are you using?

FLOZi wrote:(N.B. though the this is partly the way weapons are handled in the unit scripts too )[/size]

Also, remember springs default priority system; higher power (or metalcost if power isn't defined) units are targeted first.

Yeah but spring sucks :D


k thx i think that will work ill start messing with it.