Introducing the Official community mod for Alpha 26

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

1 hour ago, Stan` said:

The last person who did ramming animation was @LordGood for ponies ascendant.

Yeah, similar to the Xiongnu hand ram, where the actor moves back and forth, but the entity is technically stationary (so we don't need any extra pathing code). It's all done in the animation.

[Outis]

10 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

 

I thought about doing the roman/athens reworks in the community mod

Would be sooo good to get early impression of how these work, also for Spartans. Is it high effort?

[real_tabasco_sauce]

Well its moderate effort in general, but there may be a couple of things that would need to be done differently in a26 vs a27.

I think I would just do sparta, roman, athens, carth, and mace updates in another community mod update.

(carth and mace ones are pretty small).

btw, if anyone just blurts out an idea for a briton team bonus I could do that super quick.

Edited June 10 by real_tabasco_sauce

[real_tabasco_sauce]

@wowgetoffyourcellphone at some point I think it could be cool to integrate speed into the damage model for ram ships, as long as their use is streamlined and things aren't too clunky (the latter would be the hard part).

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

2 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

btw, if anyone just blurts out an idea for a briton team bonus I could do that super quick.

Briton was known for its tin trade and this fact is partly why Rome was interested in the island to begin with. Perhaps a team bonus could be a small trickle of metal resource.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

2 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

@wowgetoffyourcellphone at some point I think it could be cool to integrate speed into the damage model for ram ships, as long as their use is streamlined and things aren't too clunky (the latter would be the hard part).

Indeed, I feel ships are the prime example of units that can gave substantial acceleration and turn radius effects.

[chrstgtr]

 

5 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

 

btw, if anyone just blurts out an idea for a briton team bonus I could do that super quick.

100% loot bonus

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

https://code.wildfiregames.com/D5284

 

I'd like to try to get the AI to build more Docks, Fishing Boats, and especially Warships. Can folks with the relevant knowledge take a look at that patch and suggest other files that can be edited for that purpose. Right now all it does is increase 'priority' for Docks (slightly sooner, but still only 1 dock), Fishing Boats (from 1 to 5 per "sea"), and "ships" (but no separate designation for warships), but doesn't do much else.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

@guerringuerrin the merge requests are all in:

https://gitlab.com/0ad/0ad-community-mod-a26/-/merge_requests

I just need to check the maps compatibility with feldmap. I suppose I could just copy over the resource balancer so they are identical and then in theory, players could apply the mods in either order.

[Feldfeld]

1 hour ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

@guerringuerrin the merge requests are all in:

https://gitlab.com/0ad/0ad-community-mod-a26/-/merge_requests

I just need to check the maps compatibility with feldmap. I suppose I could just copy over the resource balancer so they are identical and then in theory, players could apply the mods in either order.

I believe you just have to check for name uniqueness. Both feldmap and badosu maps define their own balancer which they only use in their own new maps (thus unique). So the only way they would be incompatible is if some functions defined share the same name in both mods, then one would override the other which is bad. With a quick check it seems there is no shared name so they should be compatible but tell me if you see otherwise.

A way to check for OOS if you are alone is that you can launch a game, generating the map, then exit, change the mod order, and open the replay to that game. If it is incompatible you should see OOS there.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

14 hours ago, Feldfeld said:

A way to check for OOS if you are alone is that you can launch a game, generating the map, then exit, change the mod order, and open the replay to that game. If it is incompatible you should see OOS there.

k, I just did that test and it seems ok. Yeah I can tell that the different balancers are being used on their respective maps.

Before I get this next version out, I'll ask someone to do some more extensive tests with me.

[guerringuerrin]

Alright, I've updated the changelog and is ready to be merged!

I've also added icons to make it more "aesthetics". I think it also makes the reading more comfortable.

I hope you like it!

Please check it one more time in case I missed something =)

Lastly, we can change the date to the exact release date when the merge is done and ready to be downloaded by the community.

 

Note: I wanted to put the icons in the same line as the titles, but I don't know how to center the text in the center of the images and didn't like the end result. If someone know how or have a better looking alternative, I'd be happy to read abbout it

 

[real_tabasco_sauce]

That looks great! Thank so much @guerringuerrin

[Stan`]

47 minutes ago, guerringuerrin said:

Note: I wanted to put the icons in the same line as the titles, but I don't know how to center the text in the center of the images and didn't like the end result. If someone know how or have a better looking alternative, I'd be happy to read abbout it

@Vantha maybe ?

[Vantha]

1 hour ago, guerringuerrin said:

Note: I wanted to put the icons in the same line as the titles, but I don't know how to center the text in the center of the images and didn't like the end result. If someone know how or have a better looking alternative, I'd be happy to read abbout it

35 minutes ago, Stan` said:

@Vantha maybe ?

Sure, I can help with that. Where is the code? I don't see a merge request for it.

[guerringuerrin]

@VanthaThanks!. I've just sent the merge request

[real_tabasco_sauce]

@guerringuerrin I did one more change to increase the temple of Amun capture points for kush. I'll test the the mod put together a decent bit.

Lets set the date for this Tuesday, 6/18. When you update the MR, i'll make a testing version and if all is well I'll publish the next version Tuesday.

Edited Sunday at 04:48 by real_tabasco_sauce

[Vantha]

@guerringuerrin Ok. As explained here, the icon tag has a property called 'displace' that allows moving the icon on the x and y axis by a certain number of pixels. Now, the target icons measure 32x32 pixels while the font is only 16 pixels high. A downwards offset by half the difference (in this case 8 pixels) perfectly centers the icon on the text => displace="0 8".

(The text might appear a bit smaller than 16 pixels because it mostly contains lowercase letters, so I suspect an offset of 9 pixels might look slightly better, but you'll have to be the judge for that)

I suggested according changes to the latest merge request.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

Thanks @Vantha and @guerringuerrin, the changelog page looks great!

version 9 is out right now!

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

9 hours ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

Thanks @Vantha and @guerringuerrin, the changelog page looks great!

version 9 is out right now!

Nice, maybe put a changelog on the mod.io page and/or include that screenshot?