yeah I didn't like the old dnd stuff so never really played it but the engine is so versatile, right now I am testing well helping allan with testing and other stuff mostly testing of the startrek map. To be able to have a startrek fan drama is cool but to have something simular to elete force 2 where you at some point take over the story and you become part of it really rocks, it makes me feel yung again.
At 03:30 AM 2/6/2013, you wrote:
Ian, this is really awesome! I didn't expect it would be this big. There's so much that can be done with this. Just one thing I noticed that hasn't been reported yet, when you choose an item to use, you can't cancel, if you press escape you return to the use items menu and if you press escape again you are still in the mode where you have to use the item by pressing enter on a target. The only thing you can do is choose and use a different item instead, there doesn't seem to be a way to cancel since escape just swaps between the menu of items and the use mode. I initially also thought there were no custom slots since it isn't documented but then I went through the files to check it out and I saw the equip_slots in the hero unit file. But you might want to include it as a unit flag in the user guide. Alan, check the map file, you'll see the ogre's team is set to 2 in there. I won that map on my third try, but in my defense I didn't read the user guide until after I won it, I just went straight to it after downloading, so I spent the first game figuring out what's going on and how items work (I couldn't understand why I couldn't use the longbow at first but then I discovered the equipment menu). Anyway, grate job. This is going to add so much more to the game! On 2/5/13, Ian Reed <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Allan, you asked why the ogre had a team of 1. > It was actually a copy and paste mistake in the unit file but I just > toggled the team in the map editor. > > That last feature I did where the map packs are in a sub menu of the > main menu must have caused the map editor to stop working. > I always get in trouble on the last feature I implement. > I'll get that fixed today and get a new dev copy out. > > I'll look at the bugs you mentioned. > > I have a few more extensions I want to do on items soon. > Some of them are give item, drop item, having equipped= and items= flags > on units so you can start them out with equipped or carried items. > So you can count on those in the near term. > > Carlos, you can actually specify any equip slots you want right now. > > On the unit I had equip_slots=main_hand,off_hand,head,body > You could have > equip_slots=left_tentacle,right_tentacle,lion_head,serpent_head or > whatever you like. > Then on a helmet item that fits on a lion head you do equip_slots=lion_head > > Hope that helps, > Ian Reed > > >
