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Hey guys,

I have created (well, used some publicly available models and written some code) some new units for the 3 factions.

The trouble is, when I play against the computer opponent in a skirmish, all he does is build the standard stuff that's already in the game and none of my new funky units.

My question, therefore, is how do I get the AI to build these things?

What file(s) should I be looking in?
Where are these files?

I think if I knew where to find the files I could take a good stab at sorting the rest out for myself...


Thanks in advance

[CommieDog]

The file that controls Skirmish AI behavior is SkirmishScripts.scb in [root]\Data\Scripts. You can open and edit it with the script editor in WorldBuilder.

By the way, there is a tutorial on SDI dealing with this.

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Aah, brilliant.

Thanks for that... The SDI seems to have fallen out of my bookmarks and I'd totally forgotten about it.

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Huzzah! The AI is successfully building large amounts of my cool new tanks (and comprehensively owning me).

Just in case anyone stumbles upon this in the future, I realised that the SkirmishScripts only deals with Units (I.E Infantry and Vehicles).

For structures, you need to check AIData.ini in (Zero Hour Folder)/Data/Ini/Default/ and change the bits in there.

[CommieDog]

Actually, no. In order to have the AI build new structures, you need to add the proper scripts telling the AI when to build. Of course, you also need to edit \Default\AIData.ini to tell the AI where to build.

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Oh, I see.

I couldn't find any mention of the structures in the scripts though

[CommieDog]

They are in the Base Building script folders.