[WIP] DoxWars: The Mech Marine Strikes Back.

Discussion in 'Work-In-Progress Mods' started by BulletMagnet, June 2, 2014.

  1. LegionDarrath

    LegionDarrath Member

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    Look at what you made me do Cola

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  2. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    You are such a hard worker.
  3. LegionDarrath

    LegionDarrath Member

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    Thanks!
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    ERROR Invalid unit type! Type UNITTYPE_DoxWars not found.
    Is there a master list of unittypes? They looked an awful lot like the categories in FA but those weren't defined anywhere but here it doesn't seem to play nice if I just add a new one. Please tell me this isn't hardcoded.
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  4. squishypon3

    squishypon3 Post Master General

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    It might be hardcoded to the engine... The layers are, the identifiers may as well... :l
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  5. lokiCML

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    I believe is hardcoded into the server executable but it is deftly controlled by the server.
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  6. LegionDarrath

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    So there is hope that once we get full access to the server we would be able to change that? I guess I'll just edit all the units I don't want out instead of just editing the ones I want to keep. Ugh, more work.
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  7. wondible

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    I believe these are bit flags, probably stored in 32 bit value. It's possible but very unlikely that the bits can be dynamically defined, most likely they are hardboard into the engine. If we're lucky maybe Uber can change this at some point.
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  8. LegionDarrath

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    I just don't understand why they decided to go that way. Admittedly not a lot of mods would use it I guess but when adding new units and such it'd be incredibly useful. Thanks for the information anyway.
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  9. BulletMagnet

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    I'd just change the fabbers and factories to be not able to build anything else.

    Changing all units seems needlessly complicated.
  10. LegionDarrath

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    Of course, I just didn't think of that right away because I was busy ranting about the hardcoded unittypes.
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  11. squishypon3

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    Actually you could do it even more easily by going to media/ui/main/shared/js/build.js and editing it, removing all units from it. This will remove all units from the ui so you don't need to do any work at all.
  12. BulletMagnet

    BulletMagnet Post Master General

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    I don't think that would effect the AI though (which is still handy to test against).
  13. wondible

    wondible Post Master General

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    Stumbled on more information. New code from Galactic update; I still haven't made time to really read the diffs and there was so much new stuff...

    /pa/main/game/live_game/js/constants.js has a list of 46 attributes, so my 32 guess was wrong.

    /pa/main/game/live_game/js/events.js has a function that maps unit type indexes to bits in an array of four 16-bit values. It might be the JS representation of a 64-bit value; that plus endianess is the only reason I can think of for ordering the bytes backwards.

    On the upside, there are currently some slots open. Perhaps we could request say, Ext1-Ext4 for total conversion mods.
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  14. masterdigital

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    Unit types are 64 bit. They are not mutually exclusive. Eventually we might create the mapping from a JSON file, but until then it is hard coded in C++.

    Here is the list of currently used values:
    UNITTYPE_Commander,
    UNITTYPE_Fabber,
    UNITTYPE_Debug,
    UNITTYPE_Tank,
    UNITTYPE_Bot,
    UNITTYPE_Bomber,
    UNITTYPE_Fighter,
    UNITTYPE_Gunship,
    UNITTYPE_Transport,
    UNITTYPE_Teleporter,
    UNITTYPE_Scout,
    UNITTYPE_Structure,
    UNITTYPE_Mobile,
    UNITTYPE_Wall,
    UNITTYPE_Sub,
    UNITTYPE_Nuke,
    UNITTYPE_NukeDefense,
    UNITTYPE_Heavy,
    UNITTYPE_Artillery,
    UNITTYPE_Tactical,
    UNITTYPE_LaserPlatform,
    UNITTYPE_AirDefense,
    UNITTYPE_SurfaceDefense,
    UNITTYPE_OrbitalDefense,

    UNITTYPE_MetalProduction,
    UNITTYPE_EnergyProduction,
    UNITTYPE_Construction,

    UNITTYPE_Land,
    UNITTYPE_Naval,
    UNITTYPE_Air,
    UNITTYPE_Orbital,

    UNITTYPE_Basic,
    UNITTYPE_Advanced,
    UNITTYPE_CmdBuild,
    UNITTYPE_FabBuild,
    UNITTYPE_FabAdvBuild,
    UNITTYPE_FabOrbBuild,
    UNITTYPE_FactoryBuild,
    UNITTYPE_CombatFabBuild,
    UNITTYPE_CombatFabAdvBuild,

    UNITTYPE_Economy,
    UNITTYPE_Factory,
    UNITTYPE_Defense,
    UNITTYPE_Offense,
    UNITTYPE_Recon,
    UNITTYPE_NoBuild,
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  15. BulletMagnet

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    For updates on DoxWars, see LD's [REL] thread over here.

    At this point, I'd normally request a locking, but there's useful knowledge to gain from @masterdigital's datadump. If some talented individual with thread-editing powers (read:a moderator) feels inclined to cut page two of this thread and splice it into a thread of its own, I certainly would not object.
  16. gunshin

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    So any updates on if this has changed yet?

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