Altering ToT unit-movement animations?

[MikeLynch]

So I'm almost done with my nearly-total-conversion of ToT to something closer to MGE. Got the old graphics and everything. But one thing is really bugging me.

The slooooooooooooooooooooooooowww piece slide.

Now, I know I can check "Fast Piece Slide," but then the unit doesn't slide at all, it just instantly IS in the destination square. I don't exactly dig that either. Has anyone figured out a patch, or a special events.txt code, or ANYthing to speed up the "Slow Piece Slide" just a little bit?

Also, is it possible to have unit battle animations, like in MGE? It bugs me that there's no visual clue that a battle is taking place except for the health bars diminishing.

(Despite all these ToT annoyances, there's no way I'm going back to MGE now that I have all these extra unit slots!)

 

[Mercator]

Originally posted by MikeLynch
Now, I know I can check "Fast Piece Slide," but then the unit doesn't slide at all, it just instantly IS in the destination square. I don't exactly dig that either. Has anyone figured out a patch, or a special events.txt code, or ANYthing to speed up the "Slow Piece Slide" just a little bit?

Being a little picky, are you? I don't know of any "fix".

Also, is it possible to have unit battle animations, like in MGE? It bugs me that there's no visual clue that a battle is taking place except for the health bars diminishing.

'fraid not... You could of course add full unit animations to your mod.

(Despite all these ToT annoyances, there's no way I'm going back to MGE now that I have all these extra unit slots!)

 

[MikeLynch]

'fraid not... You could of course add full unit animations to your mod.

Ha haa! That's funny. He's funny! Funny, right?

I won't be doing thAAAt, but I *can* and *will* ensure that every unit capable of attacking has as unique a sound as possible, so you know there's a battle happening and have a clue which unit is attacking which. Which means I always have to leave the sounds on. That I can live with.

Hell, I can even live with the slow piece slide, now that I've realized that the GoTo command appears to work much better in ToT. (Or am I imagining things?)

 

[Mercator]

Originally posted by MikeLynch
Ha haa! That's funny. He's funny! Funny, right?

Hell, I can even live with the slow piece slide, now that I've realized that the GoTo command appears to work much better in ToT. (Or am I imagining things?)

I think you are... Well, they might have made some improvements, but the zero-meridian is definitely still a problem. Over short distances it has always worked quite well though.

 

[MikeLynch]

I think you are... Well, they might have made some improvements, but the zero-meridian is definitely still a problem. Over short distances it has always worked quite well though.

Oh yeah, definitely, the darn International Date Line. But I distinctly remember using GoTo over quite short distances back in the pre-MGE days and having it work so seldom that I just gave up.

........ok, fine, I admit it! I miss the simpler days before I ever installed ToT!!
j/k