Hi, Motivation; To allow a much more versatile and realistic tactical management of units. - Moving in lines back and forward. - Convex/concave formations to adapt to superiority/inferiority in numbers. - Linewalking to make sure every unit moves along the same path. It also removes the need of having a set of predefined formations build into the game, since the players themselves can draw them on the fly. What it is about: Custom Formations. The idea comes from a Lua script for SpringRTS (open-source successor engine to the good old TA) mods. It allows you to select a bunch of units and by keeping right click pressed, draw a line along which units "moveto"s are automatically placed at equal distances of each other (lenght of line / count(selected units)). Someone covered them on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNxdbEx6v8 Implementation; - Either as delivered feature. - Or just make it possible to script it as "widget" through the modding interface and push it onto an eager fan. Many thanks for this game guys and keep up the great work, ~Shosa
Wow, I'd love to see this feature added! Would be SOOO MUCH useful in this game!! Took these screens from the video. Just wow. :mrgreen:
This has come up before and it's a great suggestion. There's another topic here discussing additional formation types you may be interested in: viewtopic.php?f=61&t=48560
