CurtSibling
ENEMY ACE™
Still some GFX work to come, like new cities, and WW2-themed improvement bitmap files for the pedia.
I think I played Britain last time for you. I'd be willing to give it a go as another civ. Any one you want tested specifically? I have no preference.
Looking forward to playing it. And learning how you combine Macro and Lua events. I didn't think it was possible.
Looking forward to playing it. And learning how you combine Macro and Lua events. I didn't think it was possible.
As part of the Lua Scenario Template, I implemented the "macro" events in Lua. Basically, instead of Civ II reading the events from events.txt, I wrote a Lua program to read the events from legacyEvents.txt, and then interpret and apply those events the same way the base game would in the absence of Lua. I call the program that does this the 'Legacy Event Engine'.
Yes, but I think the reason you'd want to use it is so you could add one or two things via lua without necessarily having to write the entire scenario in lua. I messed around with it a bit with Germanicus once just to add arrows to the archers, etc. without rewriting the entire thing.
Yeah, this might just be up my alley. I really don't want to have to learn a whole new programming language, but I'm very impressed with what Lua events can do. The main thing I'd like to add to my new scenario is to require specific improvements in order to build particular types of units - aircraft factories, shipyards, etc., and to prevent Japanese units being built in conquered areas of China. (Sorry for the hijack, Curt)
If you wish I could start a playtest with the Japanese Empire again.
It looks like Overlords might be an ideal sample for you to use to do this since Curt has done essentially what you'd like. There's absolutely nothing wrong with using macro as far as you possibly can and just using lua to add a few tweaks that make the scenario better.
Also @CurtSibling I am stuck quarantining in my office with covid this weekend so drop that scenario and be my angel of mercy lol!