Campaign: Macedonia - Rise to Power + Balkan Campaign + Into Asia

[Stan`]

9 hours ago, SciGuy42 said:

Up to and including mission 34 are now converted to a25. I had to take a break for a bit but now I'll try to finish the rest of them soon.

As for making this part of the game, sounds good in theory but it looks like there are just way too many changes that happen from release to release. Unless each new version comes with a good automated conversion tool, I won't have the bandwidth to do the conversion to newer versions.

Well if it becomes part of the game it's maintenance falls down on us

[SciGuy42]

Mission 35 is now also converted to a25 and you can find it here:

https://github.com/SciGuy42/Macedonia_0ad/tree/a25

This one is a standard, "you must build up your defenses before a big attack arrives". If you play it, do let me know if you won or not.

 

[Stan`]

@SciGuy42 Do you need help making it available on 0ad.mod.io so everyone can download it from the game?

[SciGuy42]

12 hours ago, Stan` said:

@SciGuy42 Do you need help making it available on 0ad.mod.io so everyone can download it from the game?

Sure, it'd appreciate it. Currently up to mission 36 work on a25.

I am still hesitant about it being a finished campaign in the sense that I want people to be able to skip ahead if needed. There may still be bugs in victory conditions that I haven't encountered, the order certainly isn't balanced for difficulty. So ideally, people should be able to play any mission even if they haven't finished the previous one. On the other hand, requiring the missions to be played in order will probably let us know what bugs need to be fixed.

If you need github access to the repo, let me know and I can give permissions.

[Stan`]

9 hours ago, SciGuy42 said:

I am still hesitant about it being a finished campaign in the sense that I want people to be able to skip ahead if needed. There may still be bugs in victory conditions that I haven't encountered, the order certainly isn't balanced for difficulty. So ideally, people should be able to play any mission even if they haven't finished the previous one. On the other hand, requiring the missions to be played in order will probably let us know what bugs need to be fixed.

Well we can fix it as we go. I believe you can still play the missions in a single player match though

9 hours ago, SciGuy42 said:

Sure, it'd appreciate it. Currently up to mission 36 work on a25.

Okay will look into packaging it and maybe fixing some of the missions

9 hours ago, SciGuy42 said:

If you need github access to the repo, let me know and I can give permissions.

Sure please add me (StanleySweet)

[SciGuy42]

Mission 39 is now also converted to a25. Yay.

For the next mission, I need to figure out how to properly teleport units (basically, you have dug tunnels into the city that needs to be conquered :). The previous attempt worked but it was very hacky and not every type of unit could be teleported. Ideally, what I need is a function that given the entity ID, it tells me the template of the entity so I can spawn that exact template. Does such a function exist? Thanks!

[Stan`]

4 hours ago, SciGuy42 said:

Mission 39 is now also converted to a25. Yay.

For the next mission, I need to figure out how to properly teleport units (basically, you have dug tunnels into the city that needs to be conquered :). The previous attempt worked but it was very hacky and not every type of unit could be teleported. Ideally, what I need is a function that given the entity ID, it tells me the template of the entity so I can spawn that exact template. Does such a function exist? Thanks!

If you have an entity id you can get it's cmpPosition and move the unit to x,y coordinates. This way you don't have to recreate it.

[SciGuy42]

20 hours ago, Stan` said:

If you have an entity id you can get it's cmpPosition and move the unit to x,y coordinates. This way you don't have to recreate it.

I know how to get an entity's cmpPosition but will simply changing the x and y coordinates actually teleport it? The other issue with this is that I only know the entity ID of the destination, currently I use the spawn units function to spawn a "copy" at that destination which automatically figures out the actual x,y position.

[Stan`]

4 hours ago, SciGuy42 said:

I know how to get an entity's cmpPosition but will simply changing the x and y coordinates actually teleport it?

It should

4 hours ago, SciGuy42 said:

The other issue with this is that I only know the entity ID of the destination, currently I use the spawn units function to spawn a "copy" at that destination which automatically figures out the actual x,y position.

You can try to spawn at that new entities position, units should automatically spawn around each other, not sure about a building, need to be attempted.

[Ceres]

@SciGuy42

Great work! In your first post you explained to copy files. Unless I have overseen some further guidance, would you please consider making this available as a mod? Or how is this supposed to work "out-of-the-box" for the less tech-savvy players? Thanks a lot for your guidance!

[Stan`]

7 minutes ago, Ceres said:

 

Great work! In your first post you explained to copy files. Unless I have overseen some further guidance, would you please consider making this available as a mod? Or how is this supposed to work "out-of-the-box" for the less tech-savvy players? Thanks a lot for your guidance!

I'm working on this, but we first need to finish A25 compatibility then start A26 compatibility.

[Ceres]

Sorry, Stan, was not aware of this. Thanks a lot for your support too!