Spring RTS Engine

Let's face it guys, units getting bumped then breaking formation bumping others and turning our formations into disarray is quite anoying.

So I want to put out a request, I would like a tag: NOBUMP.

When a unit is set to no bump another unit when moving would NOT move the other unit. I know this may take some work as the unit that is trying to move through the ranks would have to path around but I wanted to toss this out there anyway.

+Infiniteh!

Seriously, this is what I would like to see... BTW, did you know if you put repeat on they actually do get in place right...

thier facing might not be correct though. which is important in gundam.

Which shall be important in my mod also...

Gundam isn't the only mod where facing is important, ideally rightclick+drag would also tell them to make sure they face the formation's direction when going into the formation.

Oh, I know, dozers can use it as well. I simply wanted to show that I would of course have a use for such a feature.

+1

Do units with massive mass still get bumped?

Mass has other effects, too.

I'm working on some of the collision code right now. A big problem is that units will move each other to the edge of their collision spheres when skidding. This can be a problem because ground unit collision spheres can extend beyond their footprint, and therefore intersect. Additionally, I'm going to make it such that a collision only occurs if units are moving toward each other, and their collision spheres intersect. It was previously just the latter. Testing with a tightly packed group of Mavericks and getting one to skid produces only superficial damage (~20-50).

could you look into a tag to remove damage on bump collision while you are looking at?

The allies running into each other and hurting each other can get anoying as well.

I'm testing adding a MinCollisionSpeed tag, which will cause collisions with lower speed to not damage the unit. Perhaps I could add to it so that a negative value would prevent damage at any speed. Otherwise, you could set it really high and it would only be hurt by a truly catastrophic collision.

Construction units like to get stuck on the collisonspheres of other units when moving into position to nanolathe. This is also extremely annoying.

ILMTitan wrote:I'm testing adding a MinCollisionSpeed tag, which will cause collisions with lower speed to not damage the unit. Perhaps I could add to it so that a negative value would prevent damage at any speed. Otherwise, you could set it really high and it would only be hurt by a truly catastrophic collision.

So are you basically creating a pecking order from the MinCollisionSpeed tag?