[DasGuteA]

First of all, hi folks ! Very nice board here with all the in-depth information one would need. Keep it up !

Now for my question:

I came across the idea to for example have the possibility to guard certain types of units (like in AoE it was I think). In this special case I wanted to have some batallion of soldiers guard a trebuchet. So I had a look at the horde.inis and found that there is already one entry for this special combined horde named [Object GondorFighterTrebuchetComboHorde]. Of course, it is disabled ingame and I wanted to redo this, but I can't seem to get it to work.

What I did so far was to add the following for the normal GondorFighterHorde:

ComboHorde = Target:GondorTrebuchet     Result:GondorFighterTrebuchetComboHorde InitiateVoice:GondorSoldierVoiceJoinAnybody

resulting in nothing. I am not able to get the "combine"-cursor ingame. I can not see any differences to any other mentioned horde in the gondorhordes.ini, so I assume there must be another point where I have to edit/add something. I went over to the trebuchet.ini and tried adding the term HORDE to the KindOf section giving me the game.dat error when building a trebuchet...

Is there anyone able to point me into the right direction please ?


Btw, I did some modding for BfME so far, including an inofficial (balancing) Patch 1.02 and some other easier stuff, so I would call myself an amateur modder so far, but willing to change that

Any help appreciated.

[RedLeader]

do u have -peferLocalFiles set in ur shortcut on ur desktop?

[DasGuteA]

Ah, forgot to mention, I am using the Mod-Manager (coded by Hazard_X) which creates an additional .big-file in the main directory and includes it into the game on launch, so, no, I am not using that switch.

[DeeZire]

Ive put this one in - theres a bit of code missing from the horde contain module;-

MachineAllowed = Yes
MachineType = GondorTrebuchet

Hope that helps

[Phoib]

Deez, still looking for a project to join?

[DeeZire]

Yup - u got any places left?

I cant heavily commit for another week or so though.

[Phoib]

Yes, we're still looking for some more coders for Blitzkrieg 3, especially one that has actually looked at the interface already

And no problem, have exams myself this week, so I'm not doing anything at all either.

[DasGuteA]

Awesome, thanks !

It works, but...when ingame the combined horde does not want to fire the treb on the target (aside from some behaving issues) instead when I reach the target, the soldiers start melee attacks.

Did you get this to work, too ?

[Kelso]

Wouldn't that entire process be a little buggy? What if the horde reaches level 2 and gets a banner carrier and then the trebuchet is destroyed. Technically the banner carrier would eventually respawn a trebuchet which might look wierd.

You might have to change around some behavior stuff on the trebuchet. Look at archers because their attack takes precedence over infantry when they are in a combined horde.

Also, the most irritating thing about that is that when all the ranged units are destroyed the melee units won't attack anything at all because they are told not too. The game needs to uncombine Rank 1 units when all of one type is killed, but doesn't.

[DasGuteA]

Well, after comparing almost all possible horde entries, I still can not seem to find any difference which would help me make it work. The treb horde entry looks fine to me...

As for banner carriers, I would tend to not allow them in that special case. A perfect solution would be a variable where we could store the level(s) of the combined units, so we could implement an auto split function and reset the levels to were they were for each horde member.

Is there any reference where I could read about the possible commands (i.e. behaviours, tags etc.) and how they normally work ? Or anything similar to the default .inis where samples are given ?

Need more input