Spring RTS Engine

FLOZi wrote:You are using Spring 98.0?

Try reclaiming a unit rather than a feature

harvesters cant reclaim anything at all, but only with non-recursive commands,

I also have another problem that i need help with: my tiberium feature uses block = false, now the problem is it allows the player to build over the tiberium and i cant have that obviously.

1) Despite adding the harvestStorage tag to my unit (a reclaim only), it simply reclaims the tiberium and returns it right back to the pool of metal.

jK wrote:It's very bugged in 98, currently working on the patch (it will also add the ability to harvest energy).

Silentwings wrote:I can't help much with (1) and to some extent (2) because I know nothing about harvesting or C&C. If you explain precisely what you are wanting to happen in a self contained way then I might be of some use. I don't know if others are in the same position.

I don't know what you mean by a "recursive command".

With (3), it's not clear to me what you mean by "reclaim catcher" and consequently I am confused about what you want. Typically you can give a build command on an area containing reclaimable features and the engine will then tell the unit in question to reclaim those features before building (so is the problem that your code in (2) prevents this?!).

With (2) and (4), you are asking things that rely on a lot of code/defs beyond what you've posted above so probably seeing the whole game is needed to debug those. E.g. there is nothing visible in (4) that would cause units to freeze or reject future orders.

For (6), you could e.g. use gadget:GameFrame(n) and just bail out if e.g. n%30~=0. If n%30==0 then GetAllFeatures, for each returned feature that is a tiberium have some low probability of spawning another somewhere random inside a small circle around it, if you can find space.

For (5), I suggest saving it for later. You'll probably end up wanting to modify the metalspot finding code in e.g. http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/trac/balates ... finder.lua

http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/trac/balates ... _mines.lua is likely what you are looking for here.

Well you prolly have heard that the first 3 parts of C&C are now freeware, i suggest you play them, they rule.

the thing is want my harverster units to reclaim only special marked features called tiberium.
Now the code i posted prevents them from reclaiming anything, tiberum included if i issue a direct reclaim order on a specific feature.

But if i issue an area reclaim, it will reclaim any feature.

I was told that AllowCommand when called on an area recurses itself on any single thingie in the area that orders will be issued on,

I need builders to be able to reclaim features to allow for construction, but i want them to not give back the reclaimed resource. But i cant just disable reclamation resources all along because i still need harversters to be able to harvest and from what i could gather this is a form of reclaim.

code_man wrote:

FLOZi wrote:You are using Spring 98.0?

Try reclaiming a unit rather than a feature

Yeah im on 98 alright and also i dont know what that has to do with anything but well i tried and it doesnt give anything back at all, strange.
While if i reclaim a unit with the conyard it does give back cash.

FLOZi wrote:Anywho, await jK's improvements. :)

Silentwings wrote: This is generally not true, as you can see from the variety of things on http://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_CMDs. To use that page: every CMD has an associated CMDTYPE, and this, combined with the number of cmdParams (and, to distinguish unitIDs from featureIDs, whether or not the ID is >=Game.maxUnits) tells the engine how to interpret those params. The CMD and CMDTYPE tables are both accessible from lua.

Allow the command and put some code into gadget:AllowFeatureBuildStep to control whether or not it actually recovers the resources. See e.g. http://imolarpg.dyndns.org/trac/balates ... ix.lua#L33 for an example of how reclaim mechanics can be modified.

local function PlaceResources (resource_list)
    local i = 0
    local j = 0
    local feature
    while (i < Game.mapSizeX / 16) do
        j = 0
        while (j < Game.mapSizeZ / 16) do
            if (Spring.GetMetalAmount (i, j) > 0) and (Spring.GetGroundHeight (i * 16, j * 16) > 0) and (Spring.GetUnitsInRectangle (i * 16, j * 16, i * 16 + 15, j * 16 + 15) == nil) and (Spring.GetFeaturesInRectangle (i * 16, j * 16, i * 16 + 15, j * 16 + 15) == nil) then
                feature = Spring.CreateFeature (resource_list[1], i * 16, 0, j * 16)
                Spring.SetFeatureDirection (feature, math.random (0, 359), 0, 90)
            end
            j = j + 1
        end
        i = i + 1
    end
end

I tried with too == {}, but oddly enough this does not work while # == 0 does, why does this not work?

a = {}
b = {}
if (a==b) then *this will be FALSE*

a = {}
a = b
if (a==b) then *this will be TRUE*

Also, i noticed that modrules has no parameter for actual feature reclemation ratio

@Knorke, i was more meaning something like http://springrts.com/wiki/Modrules.lua#reclaim unitEfficiency, but for features rather than units.