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Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:26 pm
by philomen
ok i would like to know if it is possible to, at the begining of the game where u select rep or cis, to have another option after that ... like u chose to rep or cis box and then u have something else to chose ... is it possible

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:42 pm
by Aman/Pinguin
Like this?
  • Republic
  • CIS
  • Jawa

I think Zerted worked on that, but didn't finish it.

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:57 pm
by philomen
no more like u chose ure team cis/rep and then another selection screen with more than 2 selections that u can name ... for like legions ...

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:30 pm
by MercuryNoodles
The game is designed around a two team concept, and I believe that is actually hardcoded. So, there's no way to get a third selectable team.

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:36 pm
by philomen
ok that i know but its not a 3rd ... it would be like the same window that appears afterwards.... you could choose anothing thing once you've chosen ur sides ... before choosing ure unit...

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:55 pm
by [RDH]Zerted
Possible, depending on what you're trying to change. And you haven't given a detailed description of why you want this or what choosing the new buttons do to the game.

You can't try to hide your idea until you release your map. If you want help from the community, you have to give the whys, whats, and whens in order to get the hows.

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:40 pm
by obiboba3po
i think he means like if you choose the rep side, there are 2 more sides to choose from within the rep side and the same thing with the cis. that sounds incredibly hard though...

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:48 pm
by RED51
You can't actually do that. You can set it up in the lua so that as soon you destroy a panel of sort on the battle field, it will change the clone legion to one that you have set up in the lua, but I have no idea how to that.

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:39 pm
by philomen
yeah you got it ... what i was thinking is that like after u select the rep side u then could choose which legion you wanted to fight with on the battleground ... but if thats impossible ... would it be possible to spawn as a unit then press a button that would choose ....then you could spawn as that legion ???

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:45 pm
by RED51
I remember Grev asked this kind of thing awhile back. I think it got solved, so try looking for his topic.

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:02 pm
by philomen
for which ? the selection screen ? .... but would my other possibility work ? ... like you would be the genral and chose what legion by shooting at a panel or button or droid ... anyways ... cause for the selection screen ... u must be right ... thats in the mechanics of the game...

Re: Selection screen

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:23 pm
by [RDH]Zerted
philomen wrote:...but if thats impossible ... would it be possible to spawn as a unit then press a button that would choose ....then you could spawn as that legion ???
I think the second way would be more annoying for the player, but doing it the first way means that the player wouldn't be able to change legions mid-game, only at the game's start. By changing legions, you mean only the units' skins right, no weapon or stat changes?

It can be done as that two screen setup, but I think it would be easier to just have four choices on the main team/side selection screen:
  • Republic Legion 1
  • Republic Legion 2
  • CIS Legion 1
  • CIS Legion 2
  • Auto-Assign
  • Spectate
Aman/Pinguin wrote:I think Zerted worked on that, but didn't finish it.
I did, sort of. Changing the buttons is easy (the v1.3 patch does it if you directly set the team names), but the problem I ran into was limiting selectable units depending on which side you picked. A human player can only spawn as a unit class added to one of the two teams. In theory, you can blackout or hide some of the units and say make the top half as team 1 and the bottom half as team 3 (then top team 2 and bottom team 4 on the other real team), but I'm not sure how to prevent the humans from using one of the number shortcuts to select one of the hidden units from the 'other team'.