Updated Fortified Alert 1.11

[gyogen2]

I can't do much today because I have to get ready to go to work for 10 or 11 hours, but I had thought of two other ways I could do this mod.
one would be to give all the units the sleep command, then attach the alert wake to that, the other was to trigger a notification instead of actually waking the unit.
I'm not sure if either of these methods would be preferable to people, but I'll play around with them when I have time and see.

 

[Daft73]

Good thoughts, and RL b4 games so I understand mate.

Looking forward to your next update.

 

[gyogen2]

gyogen2 updated Updated Fortified Alert with a new update entry:

Fortified Alert Update for Latest Patch

Updated to reflect changes in lua file from patch (17-11-2016)

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[Mentos]

Thanks for the update!
Waking up air and naval units in sleep mode would be great too, but I'm somewhat afraid of performance loss as I noticed some slowdowns later in a match with many units. I don't know yet if it's related to this mod.

 

[gyogen2]

The mod cycles though all of your units at the beginning of the turn, so would imagine later game with many units would slow the turn a little. I will see about adding air/sea units, I was hoping either sdk would come out so I could do this proper, or more so that they would just include alert with update so it would be moot.

 

[gyogen2]

gyogen2 updated Updated Fortified Alert with a new update entry:

Fortified Alert Update

Added wake function for sleeping air and sea units.

I am not sure if it will also wake air units on patrol (had been requested),
I was unsure of the proper activity type, I used Deploy, but don't have enough time to properly test, if this does not work, or if anyone knows proper activity, please let me know.

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[BomberEscort]

It is now waking fortified units all the time. I thought it only did it during war.

 

[gyogen2]

Oh, forgot to change something while testing, will update in a moment

 

[Mentos]

It is now waking fortified units all the time. I thought it only did it during war.

Here too. If you remove the dashes before if and end in InGameTopOptionsMenu.lua below then it should wake only for hostile units again:

                                   if localPlayerVis:IsUnitVisible(kUnit) then
                                       local otherPlayer = kUnit:GetOwner();
                                       local bIsAtWarWith = pPlayer:GetDiplomacy():IsAtWarWith(otherPlayer);
                                       --if(bIsAtWarWith) then
                                           UnitManager.RequestCommand( pUnit, UnitCommandTypes.WAKE);      
                                       --end
                                   end

Edit: Oh okay, gyogen2 replied faster than me.

 

[gyogen2]

gyogen2 updated Updated Fortified Alert with a new update entry:

Fixed update

Fixed lines I forgot to comment back in

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[gyogen2]

Sorry about that, I accidentally added the file I was testing to make sure wake worked, instead of one I intended

 

[Vladesch]

IMO best would be to leave fortified units fortified, and add sentry sleep command to everything.
If I want a unit to sleep through nearby enemy units then I can just fortify it.

Great mod though, game is too frustrating to bother playing without it.

 

[BomberEscort]

I can confirm air units on patrol do not wake up (even when an enemy units is in an adjacent hex).

 

[BomberEscort]

When the unit is awakened by the code I cannot skip its turn. I must fortify again. I don't remember if this always functioned like that or not.

 

[gyogen2]

IMO best would be to leave fortified units fortified, and add sentry sleep command to everything.

That was one of the plans, but I could not figure out how to add an operation to a unit. If anyone knows how to assign an operation, I would be glad to. I tried adding an operation, but it would not show in unit panel. It seemed the operations some operations are based on type of unit/class and may be hardcoded, but I may have missed something. The mod itself was mainly intended as a sorta placeholder mod until the tools come out and I can do it properly.

 

[gyogen2]

When the unit is awakened by the code I cannot skip its turn. I must fortify again. I don't remember if this always functioned like that or not.

I will check, I was working on a code to keep the number of fortified turns if the unit was refortified, but the command would not work in the ui context. I will check if I neglected to remove all the code.

 

[gyogen2]

When the unit is awakened by the code I cannot skip its turn. I must fortify again. I don't remember if this always functioned like that or not.

I will post an update in a little bit when I am done with some other things. but for now, you can fix yourself if you like, in the lua ~ line 552 change:

UnitCommandTypes.WAKE to
UnitCommandTypes.ALERT and you will be able to skip turn.

 

[gyogen2]

gyogen2 updated Updated Fortified Alert with a new update entry:

Fortified Alert Update

Fixed an error where certain plots would return nil and stop function.

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[gyogen2]

I apparently was wrong about ALERT, it will allow sleeping units to skip turn but not fortified ones it seemed (although since it will wake again next turn if unit still in range setting fortified again is kinda like skip)

 

[gyogen2]

Just an update -- I have managed to make a Guard operation for units that can fortify mostly working, the current problem is I am having trouble removing those untis from the wake function if they are then put into fortify after being in guard. It might be the method I am using to share info between luas. Hopefully I'll get it working pretty soon.