[ian-reeds-games] Re: Overdrive?
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:29:21 -0400
Excellent! That would certainly be useful.
al
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Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Overdrive?
Yup, that is sort of what I'm proposing, only have that be implementable
through scripting or to have scripts be able to know when points change. This
would be an example use for such a feature.
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Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Overdrive?
What about something ian talked about a while back.
I mean having a 'at zero' like flag on points, except instead of zero, the
number desired could be input.
For example...
At_10=super punch
Were 10 is the threshold at which an effect could kick in that does the add
and remove skill stuff. I guess you would have to make such flags for effects
etc.
Just a thought.
al
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Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Overdrive?
Hi all,
In a new little map pack I'm working on, I wanted a couple of the AI
controlled friendly units to have overdrive type functionality. Where in after
they take so much damage, a new, awesomful attack gets unlocked for them to
use.
I've experimented with a few ways of doing this, none seems ideal. So advice
would help.
1. This way kind of works, minus the AI never picking these skills as they're
further down in the list (something else I'm trying to see if I can fix
through AI scripting). But I've got an overdrive point for each of these AI
controlled unit types and each, at 0, applies an effect specific to that unit,
but all with the friendly name "Overdrive". This effect adds the relevant
skills. These skills, in turn, fill the overdrive points and remove the
overdrive effect. I then made all inflicting skills also do damage to this
overdrive point, depending on how much actual damage they use. Whew. That's a
lot to explain but it kind of works. Problems with this approach, though, are
that the overdrive points being "inflicted" means they're announced, despite
being hidden. I could put in game fixes for this, but not sure if it would
effect anyone else. It also feels like the overdrive "gage" should be going up
instead of down.
2. I then considered using some sort of after_perform_skill script that checks
for a point to see if it's at max and if it is then grant an effect. But I'm
not sure if this is an optimum approach either. It does mean that I only have
to release scripts and possibly release something that people could use for
other things, and also that overdrive changes aren't announced until the
effect is there and you're ready to do damage. But I'm not sure if I'm
shimmying around the problems in 1.
In either case, I've got the AI problem. And I've also got the problem that
add_skills doesn't care about what unit there is in question, I can't think of
a nice way to make add_skills unit specific, hence the overdrive point and
effect for each unit I want to do this to.
Of course, I could have just given it a point cost and waited until you had
enough of that point, but a nice "has been effected by overdrive"
announcement, coupled with a brand new skill showing up in your menu, I think
is much cooler.
Any thoughts? Is this overdrive functionality even a good idea? Or am I better
off going old skool?
Craig
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