Hello. I have been working on a clan map, and have been trying to get the Asajj Ventress unit (as seen here: forums/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=16944), and I cannot get it right. I do not normally use .lvls, but I have so far put it in my (game data/addon/map/gamedata/lvlpc/side) as the asj.lvl. My lua is this:

I changes out the grievous with Ventress as well as an additional slot, but neither are working. Can anyone who used these before help? Thanks

shouldn't you add her as a custom side?
ReadDataFile("dc:SIDE\\asj.lvl",
after:

ReadDataFile("SIDE\\all.lvl",
"all_hero_luke_jedi",
"all_hero_hansolo_tat",
"all_hero_leia",
"all_hero_chewbacca")

ReadDataFile("SIDE\\imp.lvl",
"imp_hero_darthvader",
"imp_hero_emperor",
"imp_hero_bobafett")

ReadDataFile("SIDE\\rep.lvl",
"rep_hero_yoda",
"rep_hero_macewindu",
"rep_hero_anakin",
"rep_hero_aalya",
"rep_hero_kiyadimundi",
"rep_hero_obiwan")

ReadDataFile("SIDE\\cis.lvl",
"cis_hero_grievous",
"cis_hero_darthmaul",
"cis_hero_countdooku",
"cis_hero_jangofett",
"cis_hero_ventress")

add this:
ReadDataFile("dc:SIDE\\asj.lvl",
"cis_hero_ventress")

Also:

ReadDataFile("SIDE\\cis.lvl",
"cis_hero_grievous",
"cis_hero_darthmaul",
"cis_hero_countdooku",
"cis_hero_jangofett",
"cis_hero_ventress")

No such unit exists in the stock cis.lvl file.

And also, successfully loading Asajj Ventress along side all of the default Hero Assault units will cause your map to crash due to memory overload.

Alright. thanks. If I took out the gunners would it be okay?

The memory issue is an animation memory. Since "gunner" heroes use basically all stock animations, that's not going to help you out a lot. Start pulling saber-users you don't want (and ignore Luke, since he uses the "stock" lightsaber animations). Best candidates are Grievous, Vader, Yoda, and Aayla, because their animations use the most amount of person-specific animations.

cant he easily put the memory pool size for animations a bit higher?

Nope, because there is no memory pool for this particular error.

ah ok. good to know

Alright. So it should be like:

ReadDataFile("SIDE\\cis.lvl",
"cis_hero_grievous",
"cis_hero_darthmaul",
"cis_hero_countdooku",
"cis_hero_jangofett",
"cis_hero_ventress")
ReadDataFile("dc:SIDE\\asj.lvl",
"cis_hero_ventress")


Or am I still being stupid? And I think I will rid of Grievous, Yoda, Aayla, and the gunners.

EDIT
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Kingpin wrote:ReadDataFile("SIDE\\cis.lvl",
"cis_hero_grievous",
"cis_hero_darthmaul",
"cis_hero_countdooku",
"cis_hero_jangofett",
"cis_hero_ventress")

You see how you're still loading Asajj Ventress from the stock cis.lvl file? Like I said earlier, you can't do that because there is no cis_hero_ventress unit in that file.

Normally, this shouldn't be a problem since you are already properly loading cis_hero_ventress from the correct .lvl file, but since you plan on removing certain units from memory anyway, that means removing those units' names from their ReadDataFile section.

Okay. So now I think I have the Read Data level section, is it like:
ReadDataFile("SIDE\\cis.lvl",
"cis_hero_darthmaul",
"cis_hero_countdooku",)

ReadDataFile("dc:SIDE\\asj.lvl",
"cis_hero_ventress")
And that is because, I think, since we are not loading it from directly from the stock cis.lvl, we are loading the cis_hero_ventress from the added side, asj.lvl. So then on the actual units, it is like this:
SetupTeams{
villain = {
team = IMP,
units = 12,
reinforcements = -1,
assault = { "imp_hero_darthvader",1,2},
engineer= { "cis_hero_darthmaul", 1,2},
officer = { "cis_hero_ventress", 1,2},
special = { "imp_hero_emperor", 1,2},

},
}
AddUnitClass(IMP, "rep_hero_anakin",1,2)
AddUnitClass(IMP, "cis_hero_countdooku",1,2)
AddUnitClass(IMP, "cis_hero_ventress",1,2)

And that is with the Villain heroes I removed (Greivous, gunners)

So, I think I am learning

EDIT: Also Mav, on the Convo pack Alderaan, you had Kit (which I read had more space then Asajj) and still loaded a large amount of stock and custom sides. Is it just because almost all of the units have same animations? Ex. Obi, Luke, and gunners

Kingpin wrote:EDIT: Also Mav, on the Convo pack Alderaan, you had Kit (which I read had more space then Asajj) and still loaded a large amount of stock and custom sides. Is it just because almost all of the units have same animations? Ex. Obi, Luke, and gunners

Yep. Anakin and Obi-Wan use the exact same animations, so they're easier to keep, and most of the other Jedi in their used either Obi-Wan's or Luke's animations, so they didn't take up any "extra" memory.

And are all of those heroes (found via convopack release thread) loaded in through LUA like the asajj?

If you come across units you want to use that only have their source files available, you would need to make a custom side/munge them into an .lvl file. Any unit you want to use would have be loaded through the lua, of course.

AQT wrote:If you come across units you want to use that only have their source files available, you would need to make a custom side/munge them into an .lvl file. Any unit you want to use would have be loaded through the lua, of course.

Alright. And does my LUA look fine?