Wyrmsun Thunder

[Kyran]

Wyrmsun Thunder is going to be a dedicated For the Motherland fork of Wyrmsun. The single player game will consist of a tournament, where you select one of eight characters to battle with.

Not much to show yet. I've only been deciding on the layout of the interface.

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[Andrettin]

Looks nice =) I think this UI works better than the other one for the bottom-alignment. The floating "0" is oil? If so, I would either remove it or (if you are using oil) put the oil icon there too (Wyrmsun has an unused oil icon).

[Andrettin]

I found what was causing the infopanel issue mentioned in the Stratagus Conference, and fixed it:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/173 ... _tales.lua

The problem was that the UI.InfoPanel.G wasn't defined in ui_tales.lua, causing the dwarf infopanel graphic to be used by default.

[Kyran]

Slowly making progress. I've turned Wyrmsun Thunder into a self contained mod. I've also come up with a rather neat idea for a campaign.

I needed to modifiy ui.lua in the scripts directory.

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local info_panel_x
local info_panel_y

if (wyrmsun.Thunder == true) then
	info_panel_x = 0
	info_panel_y = Video.Height - 136 - 24 - 16
else
	info_panel_x = Video.Width - 176
	info_panel_y = 160
end

I've also updated wyr.lua with new functions from Wargus. I did notice that adding new civilizations wipes out the old ones.

[Andrettin]

Cool =)

I added your wyr.lua modifications, and I also made a new function for defining new civilizations without wiping out the old ones:
"DefineNewRaceNames"

It works exactly as "DefineRaceNames" does, except that it does not wipe out previous civilizations when used.

[Kyran]

I've got a problem. On game.smp, whenever I mouse over a peasant the game crashes.

[Andrettin]

I forgot to mention this - the "wood" resource is now "lumber" in Wyrmsun. So you would have to change every instance of "wood" to "lumber". Maybe this is what was causing the crash for you.

Also, you shouldn't need to have graphics in the main folder, putting them in the mod's folder should work just fine, using them like this:
CGraphic:New("mods/Aleona's Tales/graphics/ui/Menu_background_with_title.png")

[Andrettin]

I think I found the issue.

The AiUpgradeArmor1() function (and others) in Thunder's ai.lua file points to upgrades that don't exist.

By the way, you defined player 16 (the neutral player) as "nobody" in game.smp.

[Kyran]

That would only be a problem if an upgrade was called. I believe the problem was to do with my unit definitions. Is it possible to make it so that all properties of the parent can be inherited? So for example I set unit-dwarven-steelclad as the parent and animations, image, variations, descriptions, etc are inherited?

I've attached an updated zip. My main problem now is on game4.smp, it crashes when I hover over the build structure buttons. However, if I were to load the map, exit, then reload, it'll work fine (except for the lumber mill, which doesn't show a popup). I'm thinking this has something to do with my UI, or how I've defined the civilizations or units.

If I were to replace unit-farm with unit-germanic-farm, it doesn't crash.

[Andrettin]

That would only be a problem if an upgrade was called. I believe the problem was to do with my unit definitions. Is it possible to make it so that all properties of the parent can be inherited? So for example I set unit-dwarven-steelclad as the parent and animations, image, variations, descriptions, etc are inherited?

Most things are inherited, but not everything. Animations and descriptions are inherited. Images and variations were not, but I updated the game so that now they are inherited too.

I've attached an updated zip. My main problem now is on game4.smp, it crashes when I hover over the build structure buttons. However, if I were to load the map, exit, then reload, it'll work fine (except for the lumber mill, which doesn't show a popup). I'm thinking this has something to do with my UI, or how I've defined the civilizations or units.

If I were to replace unit-farm with unit-germanic-farm, it doesn't crash.

I found the source of the issue. In thunder.lua, you defined the buttons before the units, which caused the crashed. You should load the files in this order instead:

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Load("mods/thunder/scripts/factions.lua")
Load("mods/thunder/scripts/icons.lua")
Load("mods/thunder/scripts/units.lua")
Load("mods/thunder/scripts/buttons.lua")
Load("mods/thunder/scripts/ui.lua")
Load("mods/thunder/scripts/freeman/ui_tales.lua")
Load("scripts/germanic/ui.lua")
Load("mods/thunder/scripts/guichan.lua")
Load("mods/thunder/scripts/ai.lua")

Also, some sword and etc. buttons seem to be checking for non-existent upgrades in buttons.lua.

To make the lumber mill show the popup, change this:

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  Key = "l", Hint = _("Build ~!Lumber Mill"),

...to this:

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  Key = "l", Hint = _("Build ~!Lumber Mill"), Popup = "popup-building",