Will there be some kind of RMS map like AoM's RMS?

[rjs23]

Will this game supports random map scripting similar to Age of Mythology's rms?

If so, does it use exactly the same as aom, or is it better?

Edited February 7, 2010 by rjs23

[feneur]

The game supports some basic random map scripting already. I don't have any experience with AoMs RMS scripting so I can't say anything about any possible differences/similarities, but with some ideas we plan to implement I believe it will be better.

[rjs23]

Nice, it supports some random map scripting already!

So what kind of language it involves using? C++? Javascript?

[Ykkrosh]

What we currently have is a standalone program that generates map files that the game can load. The map scripts are JavaScript, like this, using various functions provided by the C++ RMS generator code.

[rjs23]

Sweet, its gonne be way better than AoM's rms scripting because this one includes arrays... which was needed so bad in aom!.

I cant want to get this game when it comes to the store.

[sneaky_squirrel]

Sweet, its gonne be way better than AoM's rms scripting because this one includes arrays... which was needed so bad in aom!.

I cant want to get this game when it comes to the store.

Correct me if I am wrong, but last I heard, this game is freeware ;p.

[rjs23]

still, you get my idea.

[Jeru]

Keep following us via RSS or Facebook, rjs23... In the next coming months and years we hope to make some nice progress, and you can keep track of how the RMS part of the game evolves and even suggest how to implement it best, make feature requests etc.

[rjs23]

Sounds good, Im looking at the rss.

I hope there will be documents about the RMS functions and what it do so I can see what it has/ supports and make suggestion off from that.

[WhiteTreePaladin]

Correct me if I am wrong, but last I heard, this game is freeware ;p.

Actually, it's open source now (which is even better than freeware).

[ScionOfWar]

I was honestly surprised how similar the scripting in 0 A.D. is to AoM, despite the fact AoM was coded in C++ and 0 A.D. RMS are in JavaScript. I'm pretty sure it'll be easy to learn

Edited February 11, 2010 by ScionOfWar

[rjs23]

I guess if nobody has made a rms reference or documentations on rms, then I should make one later when it's completed or something.

[Jeru]

I searched trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki for "Random Map" and I found these three documents:

• Random Map Generator
  
• Random Map Scripting Functions
  
• Random Map Scripting Interface
  

Are those any help? If they are, I can make more prominent links to them elsewhere.

[rjs23]

Hm, yes they do help because they provides basic explanations. They could use some suggestions- like what type of return value returns?

However, it seems incomplete in my opinion and contains several glitches/errors like this

Area(parentArea ¶

null)==== This is the constructor.

I will try to look more of the stuff.

[Wijitmaker]

If you have questions that can't be answered, I'd PM Matei (the programmer) and see if he would respond:

http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.p...&CODE=4&MID=225

It is cool your looking into this. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with

[rjs23]

I've looked into it, and it motivated me to download and install 0ad but I failed to install it because I could not use visual studio c++. I ran out of space on my main hard drive. I tried to install visual studio c++ on my external hard drive, but it still require some free space on my main hard drive to put files to.

since I can not compile it myself, I will have to wait till 0ad comes with installer.

I am curious to know one thing- does it come with some kind of debugger tool in case there's an error? It's similar to AoM's rms debugger if you made RMS maps in AoM.

Edited February 18, 2010 by rjs23

[ScionOfWar]

You can test it even if you can't get Visual C++ to work or you don't have enough space:

Try going to this folder: \binaries\system

Then double click either pyrogenesis_dbg.exe, pyrogenesis.exe, or atlas.bat and you're set to go.

I personally don't know yet about the debug tool.. Haven't played with the coding too much since I installed, heh I've been too distracted making models

Edited February 21, 2010 by ScionOfWar

[rjs23]

Ah, this works. Didnt know we dont have to have studio. Sweet.

Kinda bit unstable on my 64 bit window vista machine hehe.

[ScionOfWar]

If you need to, you can lower some settings that'll make the game run smoother. For my computer the fancywater simply doesn't work, and unless I need them for screenies I remove the shadows too for the sake of speed (doesn't slow me down too much but every bit helps!)

Visit this folder:

\binaries\data\config

And make a local.cfg file with information like this:

fancywater=false

shadows = false

default.cfg has more settings you could possibly tweak in your local.cfg file to increase performance.. It may just be that you're on 64 bit though. Then again keep in mind that some of the game is still in progress, in particular if you're running on the older sim system then pathfinding and such is very glitchy. There's a newer sim setup with better pathfinding but lol you'll need VC++ to build it

Edited February 22, 2010 by ScionOfWar

[feneur]

Hmm, no you'll not need to build the game yourself to use the new simulation system. You just have to use the command

-sim2

when running the game.

[rjs23]

the newer simulation system works much better! There is no delay with mouse when I tried to order it to move. I'm loving the newer system more than old one. To me, I feel this is a huge step forward in term of gameplay.

I have not yet create a RMS map yet but I plan to do so to practice around.