PYTHON SCRIPT/SCHEME EXCHANGE

grailknighthero said:

Amarillo said:

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Will that spawn regular troops as well?

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Amarillo said:

grailknighthero said:

Amarillo said:

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Will that spawn regular troops as well?

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No. Other triggers already take care of that. The purpose of this hastily written trigger is to circumvent the bug/feature(?) in 0.89x were heroes don't spawn properly without regular troops in the party.

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Mirathei said:

With all the talk about formations, I reckon this is the right time for this. Since Highlander's code is long, somewhat buggy, and slow to act, I made my own formation script. It supports as many men in formation at once as m+b can handle, they react quicker, and will never give any error messages, in addition to being somewhat more user friendly. Best of all, it can even be used to make a wedge. The wedge will not be usefull for now, but with cavalry being scriptable in the new version, it will be soon.

The efficient, improved formation code:

  ("formation",
   [(get_player_agent_no,reg(10)),
    (agent_get_position,1,reg(10)),
    (assign,":collumn",1),
    (position_move_x,1,100),
    (try_for_agents,reg(5)),
       (agent_is_ally,reg(5)),
       (agent_is_alive,reg(5)),
       (agent_is_human,reg(5)),
       (agent_set_scripted_destination,reg(5),1),
       (position_move_x,1,100),
       (try_begin),
          (eq,":collumn",10),
          (position_move_x,1,-10*100),
          (position_move_y,1,-100),
          (assign,":collumn",1),
       (else_try),
          (val_add,":collumn",1),
       (end_try),
    (end_try)]),

Red: distance between agents left and right.
Blue: distance between agents front and back.
Green: number of men in one row.

Screenie with more men than the current formation code supports:


The wedge formation code:

  ("formation_wedge",
   [(get_player_agent_no,reg(10)),
    (agent_get_position,1,reg(10)),
    (assign,":collumn",1),
    (assign,":nc",3),
    (position_move_x,1,-100),
    (position_move_y,1,-100),
    (try_for_agents,reg(5)),
       (agent_is_ally,reg(5)),
       (agent_is_alive,reg(5)),
       (agent_is_human,reg(5)),
       (agent_set_scripted_destination,reg(5),1),
       (try_begin),
          (eq,":collumn",":nc"),
          (val_mul,":nc",-100),
          (position_move_x,1,":nc"),
          (position_move_y,1,-100),
          (assign,":collumn",1),
          (val_div,":nc",-100),
          (val_add,":nc",2),
       (else_try),
          (position_move_x,1,100),
          (val_add,":collumn",1),
       (end_try),
    (end_try)]),

Red: distance side to side.
Blue: distance front to back.
This will need to be modified for cavalry with the new version. To use this, set up a trigger in module_mission_templates.py under the "lead_charge" mission which will call this script every tenth of a second when the conditions are right, thus moving the formation according to the player. It becomes a bit rough when moving, but its really not all that bad.

Screenie:


To get enemies to form a line:

  ("ai_formation",
   [(assign,"$formed",1),(try_for_agents,reg(5)),
    (agent_is_alive, reg(5)),
    (neg|agent_is_ally,reg(5)),
    (agent_is_human, reg(5)),
    (agent_get_position,1,reg(5)),
    (try_end),
    (assign,":collumn",1),
    (position_move_x,1,75),
    (try_for_agents,reg(5)),
       (neg|agent_is_ally,reg(5)),
       (agent_is_alive,reg(5)),
       (agent_is_human,reg(5)),
       (agent_set_scripted_destination,reg(5),1),
       (position_move_x,1,75),
       (try_begin),
          (eq,":collumn",10),
          (position_move_x,1,-10*75),
          (position_move_y,1,-50),
          (assign,":collumn",1),
       (else_try),
          (val_add,":collumn",1),
       (end_try),
    (end_try)]),

Give the enemies a weapon which will call this script. The distances are slightly different from the formation above, but works the same way. It picks a random enemy infantryman and uses him as the starting point for the formation.

When formations clash :

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Mirathei said:

(0, 0, 0, [(key_pressed,whatever_key),],[(call_script,"script_whichever_formation_script"),]),

Does that make any sense?

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Jallon said:

What should I do?

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