Spring RTS Engine

Zonk wrote: -Set Target Default:
Name says it all.

can you provide a link to this widget?

edit: split from http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=32201

It's already in BA, default off.

Silentwings wrote:It's already in BA, default off.

What does it do and how can we edit it?

http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/trac/balates ... target.lua

It replaces the default command, normally attack, with set target. Like all widgets, you can't edit it directly but you can replace it locally by placing a copy of it in your spring/luaui/widgets directory & you can then edit your local copy.

oooh, this is 'Y'?

Going by the name i thought it might set targeting preferences like whether to shoot a flea or a sniper as an anni.

Yep, the hotkey for the command set target command is "y".

The anni already has a preference not to shoot at scouts (as do all t3 units and all t2 def), but for the moment that is only a preference feeding into the engines default targetting code. It is possible to control target priority explcitly with the AllowWeaponTarget callin, and it will probably be implemented through that at some point in the future, but its not a priority (at least, not for me) right now. Feel free to start designing a system, I'd be interested to see ideas.

Silentwings wrote:Yep, the hotkey for the command set target command is "y".

The anni already has a preference not to shoot at scouts (as do all t3 units and all t2 def), but for the moment that is only a preference feeding into the engines default targetting code. It is possible to control target priority explcitly with the AllowWeaponTarget callin, and it will probably be implemented through that at some point in the future, but its not a priority (at least, not for me) right now. Feel free to start designing a system, I'd be interested to see ideas.

Aight. Yea, would be nice to have the option to set your own default target preferences sometime in the future. Don't have time or skill to do that myself though.

Sure, but you (or others) may have ideas for exactly what options you'd like to have. I'm not expecting code.

Might be time to split this topic, again. I was thinking about the ability to set preferences of targets for the normal fire mode. Like for a sniper/pene:

flea 10
peewee 20
stumpy 30
t1 porc 40
..
..
..
can/zeus 90
sniper 100
pene 100
crawling bomb 110
t2 porc 120

More interesting would be a separate fire mode (an extra one next to 'fire at will', 'return fire' and 'hold fire'). You could completely exclude units from being optional targets in that mode. For example excluding scouts as a target for sniper/penetrator/bomber(some people set bombers to patrol as a means of perimeter defense). That way you can chose to use that mode in some heavy scout spam situations while in 'normal' situations you'd just want your preferred targets list applied (which includes scouts but on a low priority) so you don't get overrun.


PS. Ofc this would only increase the gap between skilled players and less skilled players/new players further. Unless the basic settings would be pretty good already.