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Posted by: loveBomber - Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:44:10 AM
Hello! I'm trying to create a simple wave/ round based 2 player map. Both player positions are in the center of the map, a 3rd dummy position is in the top left. I put the Easy Tank General AI there (in the in-game lobby) which I modified in my skirmish scripts (it was never used anyway). I can spawn an instance of a Battlemaster team at some waypoint and let it attack move to the center of the map, based on an ESCALATION counter first and then a wave counter later. The question now is: How can I create X teams at wave Y? I wish I could do something like this: Every 60secs: Increase _ATTACK_WAVE by 1. [i]Set a counter named _SPAWN_BMS to let's say _ATTACK_WAVE.[/i] Every frame: If _SPAWN_BMS > 0, then spawn a team (at some (_SPAWN_WAYPOINT++)%8) and decrement _SPAWN_BMS. However, the italic part is where I am failing right now. I can only set my _SPAWN_BMS counter to a fixed value. [open_mouth] Is there anything I can do to realize that? I've had a look at the timer stuff but that doesn't seem right either. I've thought maybe I would need to start additional scripts recursively or iteratively (which then spawn additional teams in the future) but I hope I can avoid that just with a counter or 2. Thanks for reading. EDIT: Oh this is probably the wrong forum, sorry!

Posted by: loveBomber - Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:44:10 AM

Hello! I'm trying to create a simple wave/ round based 2 player map. Both player positions are in the center of the map, a 3rd dummy position is in the top left. I put the Easy Tank General AI there (in the in-game lobby) which I modified in my skirmish scripts (it was never used anyway). I can spawn an instance of a Battlemaster team at some waypoint and let it attack move to the center of the map, based on an ESCALATION counter first and then a wave counter later. The question now is: How can I create X teams at wave Y? I wish I could do something like this: Every 60secs: Increase _ATTACK_WAVE by 1. [i]Set a counter named _SPAWN_BMS to let's say _ATTACK_WAVE.[/i] Every frame: If _SPAWN_BMS > 0, then spawn a team (at some (_SPAWN_WAYPOINT++)%8) and decrement _SPAWN_BMS. However, the italic part is where I am failing right now. I can only set my _SPAWN_BMS counter to a fixed value. [open_mouth] Is there anything I can do to realize that? I've had a look at the timer stuff but that doesn't seem right either. I've thought maybe I would need to start additional scripts recursively or iteratively (which then spawn additional teams in the future) but I hope I can avoid that just with a counter or 2. Thanks for reading. EDIT: Oh this is probably the wrong forum, sorry!

Posted by: loveBomber - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:52:12 AM
I could not figure this out yet, not even a workaround by starting extra scripts. This is a one time bump if anyone has an idea. Btw. I've thought about just trying to do this by editing SkirmishScripts manually in a text editor (let's say OpenOffice Writer) but I cannot open the file (no matter which character sets and/ or fonts) without seeing messed up characters. This is probably because the editor writes some non-text-formatted bytes into the file but is it possible to edit the scripts like that?

Posted by: loveBomber - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:52:12 AM

I could not figure this out yet, not even a workaround by starting extra scripts. This is a one time bump if anyone has an idea. Btw. I've thought about just trying to do this by editing SkirmishScripts manually in a text editor (let's say OpenOffice Writer) but I cannot open the file (no matter which character sets and/ or fonts) without seeing messed up characters. This is probably because the editor writes some non-text-formatted bytes into the file but is it possible to edit the scripts like that?

Posted by: zero hour mad map maker - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 2:14:20 PM
Here is one of my maps that you can take a look at that utilizes counters and waves extremely well. Though, I have not finished/released this map yet, as it needs some minor bug fixing. However, the bugs are in the map design/geographical features and layout; NOT the scripts. The scripts work amazing! It should be in the script section: "Nuke_MasterMind", oh and do not pay attention to the GLA in each of the folders, I was originally going to make the boss GLA based, but then changed my mind :). I hope this sets a good example! However, in your case with it utilizing Skirmish maps, editing those scripts are much more complex than making a AOD or mission set map that uses wave-counters. So now I am somewhat unsure if my map would provide an example, but you're more than welcome to poke around it and makes changes/test it in game for your own personal experiments/uses :) [ATTACH]2043[/Attach]

Posted by: zero hour mad map maker - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 2:14:20 PM

Here is one of my maps that you can take a look at that utilizes counters and waves extremely well. Though, I have not finished/released this map yet, as it needs some minor bug fixing. However, the bugs are in the map design/geographical features and layout; NOT the scripts. The scripts work amazing! It should be in the script section: "Nuke_MasterMind", oh and do not pay attention to the GLA in each of the folders, I was originally going to make the boss GLA based, but then changed my mind :). I hope this sets a good example! However, in your case with it utilizing Skirmish maps, editing those scripts are much more complex than making a AOD or mission set map that uses wave-counters. So now I am somewhat unsure if my map would provide an example, but you're more than welcome to poke around it and makes changes/test it in game for your own personal experiments/uses :) [ATTACH]2043[/Attach]

Posted by: loveBomber - Wednesday, April 19, 2017 5:50:44 PM
Oh nice, that's great! Downloading now, will report back (hopefully) tomorrow! Thanks.

Posted by: zero hour mad map maker - Thursday, April 20, 2017 10:07:14 PM
Thank you! Sounds good! I'll be waiting to see what comes up. ;)

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