WIP - Wargus Improvement Project

WIP aims to Wargus, while maintaining the game's ambience and gameplay experience.
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Nice. What's planned for the next version?
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A GPL-licensed campaign, perhaps?

We could think about merging this with Wargus, minus the graphics.
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b_o wrote:Nice. What's planned for the next version?
I want to add more graphics from the old WC2 mods, perhaps a new tileset, and a new minicampaign with the Orc levels from the WC2 demo, which detail the invasion and conquest of (southern) Khaz Modan.
Kyran wrote:A GPL-licensed campaign, perhaps?
That would be nice, but with what storyline?
We could think about merging this with Wargus, minus the graphics.
I would be glad to be able to contribute to the main project itself :)
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Andrettin wrote:I would be glad to be able to contribute to the main project itself :)
I believe a good way to go about this would be similar to what I've done in Aleona's Tales.

All new scripts go in /scripts/addon/ without overriding anything.

For example, new units go in wip_units.lua, new spells go in wip.spells.lua.
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Kyran wrote:
Andrettin wrote:I would be glad to be able to contribute to the main project itself :)
I believe a good way to go about this would be similar to what I've done in Aleona's Tales.

All new scripts go in /scripts/addon/ without overriding anything.

For example, new units go in wip_units.lua, new spells go in wip.spells.lua.
What about redefinition of units (i.e. making Lothar not able to cast spells), could that be done in such a modular fashion as well?
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I use override.lua to redefine units, however in this case you should apply the modification directly to Wargus.

So everything outside of making it more like War2 should go into /scripts/addon/
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Kyran wrote:I use override.lua to redefine units, however in this case you should apply the modification directly to Wargus.

So everything outside of making it more like War2 should go into /scripts/addon/
And if I redefine function in a modular file, would that work too?

Thanks for the help!
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Units can be defined and redefined, but the data for the units are spread across a couple lua files.

Some guy n here was posting graphics from his own stratagus game, and it had randomized unit graphics, IE, 3 designs for the same unit, and the graphic for a particular unit is chosen randomly upon unit generation.

I think this is a good idea for Wargus, eventually.
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WIP 1.1 is out.

It makes the modification work in a modular fashion, incorporating Kyran's idea.
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Big Daddy wrote:Units can be defined and redefined, but the data for the units are spread across a couple lua files.

Some guy n here was posting graphics from his own stratagus game, and it had randomized unit graphics, IE, 3 designs for the same unit, and the graphic for a particular unit is chosen randomly upon unit generation.

I think this is a good idea for Wargus, eventually.
Do you know if he made the code for that publicly available?
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