[ian-reeds-games] Re: Overdrive?
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:58:04 -0400
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to keep it as simple and straight forward as
possible inho.
The above and below is also a good idea. I wonder if number ranges could come
into play, or would those two flags cover that?
For instance a super punch comes into effect when health is between 5 and 10, ,
but superdooper punch kicks in when health is , lets say, 2 thru 5?
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Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Overdrive?
My 2 cents:
instead of at_10=super punch have flags that specify whether the thing happens
below or above a certain number.
Because it might be quite difficult to get a certain point at exactly 10.
So:
below_10=super punch
above_10=super punch
But then most of the time we would want that number to be inclusive.
So we could introduce more keywords like:
below_or_equal_10=super punch
above_or_equal_10=super punch
but that seems a bit cumbersome and I'm not sure there are real cases where we
would want to exclude the number.
So maybe the shorter versions are all that is needed, and they are inclusive by
default.
Of course the above is missing the point name.
And I haven't thought this through thoroughly, just making a point that
sometimes a point should grow to trigger something while other times it should
shrink.
HTH,
Ian Reed
On 3/30/2015 9:29 AM, Allan Thompson wrote:
> Excellent! That would certainly be useful.
>
> al
>
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> 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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> 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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