Turning Off local sides mid match

ZoomV · Post by **ZoomV** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:23 am

So I'm trying to get it to where certain local side teams cease to spawn after the reinforcement count gets so low.

I'm new to scripting but this is what I have tried in ScriptPostLoad

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    	if GetReinforcementCount(DEF) < 40 then
    		SetUnitCount(WarDroidTeam, 0)
		SetUnitCount(SithTeam, 0)
    	end

Unfortunately its not working.

here is the full script.

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[code]--

-- Copyright (c) 2005 Pandemic Studios, LLC. All rights reserved.

--

ScriptCB_DoFile("setup_teams")

ScriptCB_DoFile("ObjectiveConquest")

	--  Empire Attacking (attacker is always #1)

    local IMP = 1;

    local REP = 2;

    --  These variables do not change

    local ATT = IMP;

    local DEF = REP;

    WarDroidTeam = 3;

    SithTeam = 4;

function ScriptPostLoad()	   

    --This defines the CPs.  These need to happen first

    cp1 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp1"}

    cp2 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp2"}

    cp3 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp3"}

    cp4 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp4"}

    cp5 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp5"}

    cp6 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp6"}

    cp7 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp7"}

    cp8 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp8"}

    cp9 = CommandPost:New{name = "cp9"}

    --This sets up the actual objective.  This needs to happen after cp's are defined

    conquest = ObjectiveConquest:New{teamATT = ATT, teamDEF = DEF, 

                                     textATT = "game.modes.con", 

                                     textDEF = "game.modes.con2",

                                     multiplayerRules = true}

    --This adds the CPs to the objective.  This needs to happen after the objective is set up

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp1)

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp2)

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp3)

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp4) 

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp5)

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp6)

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp7)

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp8) 

    conquest:AddCommandPost(cp9)  

    SetAIDifficulty(SithTeam, 1, "medium")

    conquest:Start()

    SetUberMode(1);

    EnableAIAutoBalance();

    	if GetReinforcementCount(DEF) < 40 then

    		SetUnitCount(WarDroidTeam, 0)

		SetUnitCount(SithTeam, 0)

    	end

    EnableSPHeroRules()

    AddDeathRegion("death")

end[/code]

Marth8880 · Post by **Marth8880** » Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:00 am

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	-- spawn block for Husks -- 
	OnTicketCountChange(
		function (team, count)
			if team == CIS and count <= 20 then
					print("ME5_ObjectiveConquest: Blocking HuskTeam spawn")
				AllowAISpawn(3, false)
			else end
		end
		)

Replace "CIS" with the ID of the team whose tickets you want to be monitored.

ZoomV · Post by **ZoomV** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:12 am

Marth8880 wrote:
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	-- spawn block for Husks -- 
	OnTicketCountChange(
		function (team, count)
			if team == CIS and count <= 20 then
					print("ME5_ObjectiveConquest: Blocking HuskTeam spawn")
				AllowAISpawn(3, false)
			else end
		end
		)
Replace "CIS" with the ID of the team whose tickets you want to be monitored.

I have

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   OnTicketCountChange(
      function (team, count)
         if team == IMP and count <= 40 then
            AllowAISpawn(3, false)
            --AllowAISpawn(4, false)
         else end
	 if team == REP and count <= 40 then
            AllowAISpawn(6, false)
         else end
      end
      )

And its definitely not working.

Marth8880 · Post by **Marth8880** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:44 am

Try putting it in the ObjectiveConquest:Start() function of ObjectiveConquest.lua.

ZoomV · Post by **ZoomV** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 1:00 am

Marth8880 wrote:Try putting it in the ObjectiveConquest:Start() function of ObjectiveConquest.lua.

That's a bit problematic because I have several conquest scripts for several maps in that one mission.lvl. And not all of them have local sides and the ones that do don't have matching side numbers.

Marth8880 · Post by **Marth8880** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:01 am

Is there any particular reason why you have more than one or two Conquest scripts?

Regardless, that's a relatively easy fix. In each map, create a variable called mapHasLocalTeams (or something) and set its value to true or false depending on whether or not the map has local teams. Additionally, in each map with local teams, create a variable called localTeamToBlock (or something) and assign it the local team ID whose spawn should be blocked in that map. Then, change the first argument for the AllowAISpawn() function to the variable name. Finally, put the entire OnTicketCountChange() function into an if...then statement that checks if mapHasLocalTeams is true and if so, runs the function.

ZoomV · Post by **ZoomV** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 12:12 pm

Marth8880 wrote:Is there any particular reason why you have more than one or two Conquest scripts?

I mean I have multiple maps in the same directory, so they naturally all are in the same mission.lvl. So if I modify the ObjectiveConquest LUA it affects all of the maps, which is problematic since the local sides are not even remotely standardized.

Marth8880 wrote: Regardless, that's a relatively easy fix. In each map, create a variable called mapHasLocalTeams (or something) and set its value to true or false depending on whether or not the map has local teams. Additionally, in each map with local teams, create a variable called localTeamToBlock (or something) and assign it the local team ID whose spawn should be blocked in that map. Then, change the first argument for the AllowAISpawn() function to the variable name. Finally, put the entire OnTicketCountChange() function into an if...then statement that checks if mapHasLocalTeams is true and if so, runs the function.

What about maps with multiple local sides that need blocking but those local sides are blocked based on different criteria? For instance ACW has two local sides that both have to be blocked when the DEF team's reinforcements get low. BVS has 4 local sides of which 2 need blocking but the first needs to be blocked when the ATT team's reinforcements get low and the other needs to be blocked when the DEF team's reinforcements get low.

If I'm going to put this in the ObjectiveConquest LUA I need a highly adaptive way of doing it.

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