Spring RTS Engine

Posted: **27 Feb 2006, 22:57**

Hi,

I am currently trying to build my first custom group AI, and I would like to know if it is possible to make a group AI drawing a ├óÔé¼┼ôlabeled point├óÔé¼┬Ø (normally made by the following sequence hold ` while double left clicking, then type a label then press enter)

I have already managed to make a group AI draw lines on the map, but I really want text to be displayed on the map.

PS: I am not native English speaker, so please forgive my grammars faults

Posted: **01 Mar 2006, 20:14**

Ah, I knwo how to draw text on the map, but the onyl way i know of is the following:

method A: Create units that're the shapes of letters and use DrawUnit()
method B: Do what veylon did and use vector co-ordinates to draw lines to write out the letter you want.

As far as I know the inbuilt engine functions that do this all for you arent accesible

Posted: **04 Mar 2006, 11:10**

They will be acessible from 0.70b3.
Without even need to change AI Interface.
Example:

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AIHCQuerySubVersion amq;
if (mAICallback->HandleCommand(&amq)>=1)
    {
    // new functions are supported
    AIHCAddMapPoint amp;
    amp.pos=float3(1000,0,1000);
    amp.label="Hello World";
    mAICallback->HandleCommand(&amp);
    }

Posted: **04 Mar 2006, 13:38**

Thank you so much! I needed that really badly!
Would that work with groupAIs as well??

Posted: **04 Mar 2006, 17:21**

Didn't test it my self, but I don't see reason why not ...

Posted: **06 Mar 2006, 20:30**

Very nice. That'll definitely save some trouble.

Spring RTS Engine

Group AI and labeled point

Group AI and labeled point