Yes, it should look better now.
Guadalcanal Scenario
- Thread starter nokmirt
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Yes, it should look better now.
It should be one hell of a battle scenario, when it is done.
LeeS
Imperator
This is the code that would make a center-screen "scroll-up" message appear for a human player only that says We have detected enemy units near the city of Washington if the city near where this was detected was Washington. It would also make the same message print-out in the lua.log
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this is a sample for making a NOTIFICATION to the human player:
but it has been a loooong time since I used that as an experimental thing so I would have to double-check that I don't have my settings shown in the wrong order.
JFD also recently showed me how to do a notification with a specific unit Icon, but I have not had a chance to experiment with that method yet to be sure I am understanding it correctly.
Code:
local Message = "We have detected enemy units near the city of " .. pCity:GetName()
print(Message)
if (pPlayer:IsHuman()) then
Events.GameplayAlertMessage(Message)
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this is a sample for making a NOTIFICATION to the human player:
Code:
if pPlayer:IsHuman() then
pPlayer:AddNotification(NotificationTypes.NOTIFICATION_GENERIC, "Building!" ,"One of your captured wolves created the special building!", -1, -1);
endJFD also recently showed me how to do a notification with a specific unit Icon, but I have not had a chance to experiment with that method yet to be sure I am understanding it correctly.
LeeS
Imperator
it does look ugly but the code itself looks ok. If you're seeing the same sort of jumbled look, have you tried using only leading TABS everywhere instead of using leading SPACES
Plus, as mentioned in our last chat, the forum does not like multiple leading spaces (even in code blocks, it seems) whereas it is better at displaying multiple leading TABS
Plus, as mentioned in our last chat, the forum does not like multiple leading spaces (even in code blocks, it seems) whereas it is better at displaying multiple leading TABS
LeeS
Imperator
Compare to this where I put in more TABS at the front of those ugly lines. I did this by first copying your post via the quote post method, then copy/pasting in notepad where it is easier to see all the code line-ups, and then copy/pasting the result back onto the forum.
However, I've been playing around with the code that JFD put me onto for making notifications with customized unit Icons instead of just the generico notifications, so there are some possibilties there, as in where I've made changes below:
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LeeS
Imperator
Add this to the end of your RandomFleetSpawn.lua
In the TokyoExpressUnits.lua change this:
to read as this:
What this should do is print a meassage in the lua.log and in Live Tuner for the number of American Carriers, Marines, and Infantry detected near Peava.
So if you use IGE to plop a few American units of each of these three unit types, and then exit IGE and press next turn, you should get a message printed in live tuner and in the lua.log reporting how many of each. This will occur as part of Japan's turn, but it will print into the two logs even so. It should match the numbers you plopped down in IGE.
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[edit] Simple error because I am the stooopid. Change as shown in the edited blue bits.
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Code:
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--CODE FOR JAPAN
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if pPlayer:GetCivilizationType() == GameInfoTypes["CIVILIZATION_JAPAN"] then
if Game.GetGameTurn() == 3 then
Code:
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--CODE FOR JAPAN
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if pPlayer:GetCivilizationType() == GameInfoTypes["CIVILIZATION_JAPAN"] then
local iNumberAmericanCarriers, iNumberAmericanInfantry, iNumberAmericanMarines = RadarScanForPeavaInvaders(pPlayer)
MakeMessage([COLOR="Blue"]pPlayer,[/COLOR]"Number detected American Carriers near Peava was " .. iNumberAmericanCarriers)
MakeMessage([COLOR="Blue"]pPlayer,[/COLOR]"Number detected American Infantry near Peava was " .. iNumberAmericanInfantry)
MakeMessage([COLOR="Blue"]pPlayer,[/COLOR]"Number detected American Marines near Peava was " .. iNumberAmericanMarines)
if Game.GetGameTurn() == 3 thenWhat this should do is print a meassage in the lua.log and in Live Tuner for the number of American Carriers, Marines, and Infantry detected near Peava.
So if you use IGE to plop a few American units of each of these three unit types, and then exit IGE and press next turn, you should get a message printed in live tuner and in the lua.log reporting how many of each. This will occur as part of Japan's turn, but it will print into the two logs even so. It should match the numbers you plopped down in IGE.
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[edit] Simple error because I am the stooopid. Change as shown in the edited blue bits.
Reminder to myself to randomize the location of the American carrier fleet, at the outset of the campaign. This will make each game different. And you may not get your carriers where you may want them. They may have to be moved at flank speed towards any Jap threat. I want to make this change, because it will make the scenario have a bit of "what if" attached to it.
I don't know if something is wrong with this code. I made a few slight adjustments. Perhaps some changes could be made to improve it. The code works great until about turn 25, then stops working and reverts back to the civ 5 calendar. When this happens the date is way out of whack. If there is nothing that can be done so be it. I'll just have to use the default civ 5 calendar. From what gedemon told me about his code here, is that it reverts to the Civ 5 calendar when a save game is uploaded. He says it needs more works to fix that.
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LeeS
Imperator
I think the issue with 25 turns is probably related to this:
I'd have to see Gedemon's original code again to get a better idea of how it was intended to work.
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LeeS
Imperator
Try this version of the TopPanel.lua for the turn text display.
It seemed to work when I played a couple of turns, saved the game, and then re-loaded.
TopPanel.lua
It seemed to work when I played a couple of turns, saved the game, and then re-loaded.
TopPanel.lua
It's the saved game's name itself that shows the old calendar, it works fine in game when reloading.
LeeS
Imperator
ah, okay. Yeah, the saved game labels are coming out bizarre. I misunderstood the problem. Not really sure what there is to do about that.
Tho he did say at Turn 25 the in-game text changes coming from the altered TopPanel.lua stopped showing properly and reverted back to showing the "year" as calculated by the normal method. This would coincide with the year rolling over from 1942 to 01Jan1943, though the code ought to display it as January 1, 1943 if the alterations in the TopPanel.lua are still effective and there is not a gotcha left in the code. Though if there is I can't see it, and I went back to essentially the same code as Gedemon originally gave, with minimum changes.
