[ian-reeds-games] Re: Inheritence doesn't like me
- From: Craig Brett <craigbrett17@xxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 18:53:37 +0000
Hi Al,
I'm home from work now, so I can give you a sort of mini idea of how to
do the inheritence.
First off, you'd take a normal unit. These units are not going to be
anything special, just for an example. In my example, I have here a warrior.
Unit
10 // parser version
|flags
description A skilled melee fighter with additional armor and health.
add_skills
attack,defend,move,use_item,take_item,give_item,drop_item,equipment
team=1
attack_health_inflict=4
health_max=30
sound=warrior
equip_slots=body|armor
equip_type=warrior
|script_flags
I know, I've extended the getting started maps a little here. Now, say,
we want to make a mounted warrior, who has a few more actions, a new
attack and a different sound. We could copy+paste, which is what we all
used to do and worked fine. Or we could just inherit from warrior, like
this.
Unit
10 // parser version
|flags
inherits=warrior
description A mounted warrior who moves faster than a normal warrior.
Can also perform the awesomeful charge attack
add_skills charge
actions_max=8
sound=mounted_warrior
|script_flags
This already works. Or at least it does for me. It won't work on
structures yet though. Give it a go and see if it plays nice for you. I
hope this helps explain what I'm on about.
As for the script, I believe you, I just didn't know it did before. I
thought you bringing it to my attention when I released the new scripts
was you telling me that they still weren't working. Do you know how
whoever fixed it had it working when it did? I don't know much about how
to replicate this problem, at least now. Whenever I do transforms in
effects, they come off fine. If it's still up there, I guess I'll take a
look at the bundle you put together for Ian for when he gets around to
looking at it.
Hope all's well,
Craig
On 23/12/2013 08:02, Allan Thompson wrote:
Hi Craig,
I appreciate that about the inheritance stuff and I am looking
forward to your new map pack!
Honestly, I wouldn’t have asked if it didn’t work. Ironically,
Another fellow on the list actually got the old one working, causeing
units to transform automatically back after the duration ended. Oddly
enough, because he got it working I am now in this dilemma, lol.
Originally I had these units being forced to change thru a negative
backlash if the player did not change back. I guess in the end maybe I
should reconsider going back to something like that in order to get
the new script flags into the map pack, because I very much prefer
those, in addition if I understand them right, I will now be able to
implement a unit team toggle which is so much eaiser then the way I
got it. In addition I want to implement the new stuff into my older
map packs etc.
So if it isn’t feasible, then so be it. I just appreciate the work you
put into them!
al
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*Subject:* [ian-reeds-games] Re: Inheritence doesn't like me
Hi al,
The inheritance stuff isn't documented, you're right. I got it from
one of the update notices emails. In it I think Ian said he hadn't got
around to documenting this stuff yet. I think it was dev 28 or
somewhere around that mark. Sorry, I dunno if that's accurate. I'm
writing this on my phone, so I won't attempt to give my own version of
documentation here, but I can try and do it later. And it might not be
in my command and conquer maps, since I can't get it going for
structures and they're the most obvious candidates for inheritance.
I'm starting on a new, not so serious map pack and I've used it there.
I'm not very far with it yet, but hopefully to get the first map fully
done it won't take me too long.
As for the scripts situation, if you mean the game crashing when
certain units transform, I don't think it worked in the old version
either, since I remember the weer warrior in particular wouldn't work
and that was definitely using the old version of my scripts. I'm not
sure downgrading would solve this. I'm not sure how well the old and
new scripts would play together. I'm not sure whether to put the time
in to make a working old version if it won't actually resolve your
problem though.
I hope this makes sense.
Craig
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