[ian-reeds-games] Re: CraigBrett's stacking script

  • From: "Craig Brett" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "craigbrett17@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 19:36:55 +0000

That'd be why. Both why I couldn't find it and why it isn't working. I hadn't anticipated that people would want to form squads of structures.


Getting it to work so you can form squads of structures will take more work and I'm not sure anything I do will necessarily be pretty. Would catapults be better as units?

On 01/03/2015 17:42, Monkey wrote:
The catapult is in the structures folder, could that be why?

On 3/1/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I tried getting your map pack and have got it. This version doesn't seem
to have catapult units in though, in either the map or the map pack's
units. It does have the skill, though.

On 01/03/2015 11:01, Craig Brett (Redacted sender craigbrett17@xxxxxxx
for DMARC) wrote:
JJarek,

He's sending me that map pack so it can help me fix a problem, it's
not a released map pack. Just so you're aware.

Craig


On 28/02/2015 23:17, Monkey wrote:
Um... It should be downloadable...
https://www.sendspace.com/file/oqaw0u

On 2/28/15, Jaromír Psánský <jaromir.psansky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Monkey.
Can you send this link repeat?  I am not able to download.
Thank you
Jarek from Czech republic.

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From: "Monkey" <murtagh69.monkeys@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 11:26 PM
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: CraigBrett's stacking script


https://www.sendspace.com/file/oqaw0u
There's a test pack, since mine is too large to upload to Sendspace...
Catapults are in the second map, with the zombies.

On 2/28/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As for your stacking problem, if you like, you can send me your
map pack
(or sample of it) with the units and skills that you want stacking
working with and I can see if I can figure out why not. As at the
minute
I'm coming up blank.

On 28/02/2015 20:02, Monkey wrote:
I know.

Damn. I was getting excited for the potential here.
Thank you, though!

On 2/28/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well it might. So was worth a try.

I'm afraid I have no idea. The skill, apart from it targeting the
wrong
thing, looks like it should work.

On 28/02/2015 18:01, Monkey wrote:
The catapult uses it. I'm not sure if that would make a difference
though, since I just tried modifying the skill so I can use it
on the
unit beside it (there were three catapults on the tile on which
the
affected catapult was sitting).

On 2/28/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well I know it definitely won't work if the target is a tile. How
strange that that didn't fix it.

Is it a catapult that uses that skill? Or a commander type unit?

On 28/02/2015 14:25, Monkey wrote:
Just tried that suggestion, and the one in your previous
message...I'm
still getting the same error message.

On 2/28/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Aha, nevermind, ignore that last suggestion, I think I know
what
it
is.

The target of the skill needs to be one of the units that's
going
to
be
in the stack, rather than the tile that they're on. Try
replacing
the
line setting the target to tile with self. That should do it.

Craig

On 28/02/2015 11:42, Craig Brett (Redacted sender
craigbrett17@xxxxxxx
for DMARC) wrote:
Well, it looks fine to me, nothing's jumping out at me as
being
off.

It checks for the units having the same identical indexedName.
Hmmm.
I
wonder if it's a casing thing? I'd be surprised though.

Could you try giving your catapult file either all
lowercase or a
capital first letter? Whichever it doesn't currently have.
It's a
long
shot but worth a try.

Craig

On 24/02/2015 21:08, Monkey wrote:
Hello,
I recently attempted to make a stacking skill, to combine
three
catapults into a great catapult. The skill looks like this:

skill
10
|flags
description Combines three catapults into a great catapult.
Costs
6
AP's. Key is c.
tile
range=0
AP's_cost=6
sound=great_catapult_cursor
key=c
|script_flags
stack_into great catapult
stack_number 3


However, when I have three catapults on a tile and try the
skill,
it
tells me "Not enough units of this type on this tile to use a
stacking
skill".
So I tried reducing the amount to two, and still the same
message...
It works if I reduce the stacking number to 1, but then it's
technically not a stack.
Am I doing something wrong here, or is this a bug with the
stacking
script?


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