zFormation Editor

[Zebra 9]

If you could give me the math sure.

 

[NikNaks]

It's to do with Pi. Give me a few minutes.
In the meantime, I reported a bug in my last post.

Here you go:
With 'd' as the number of degrees
d / 180 * PI

Or for Excel:
=MOD(D,360)*PI()/180

That way, if you get a number of degrees over 360, it compensates for it.

 

[Zebra 9]

Yea, I noticed that today to. It'll be fixed.

 

[NikNaks]

Great! I used your editor earlier to create a melee unit formation (I used my formula to turn the units).
You can see it in post #3 here if you like.

I think it turned out rather well. What's your opinion?

 

[Zebra 9]

Yea, they are nice.

 

[NikNaks]

What? The units or the formation?

 

[Zebra 9]

Both look very nice. I'm almost done w/ the new editor. It will be more acurate and the tooltips are much more informative.

 

[NikNaks]

Cool. Planned to release today?

 

[Zebra 9]

Most likely tomorrow.

 

[NikNaks]

Shame. I was gonna start some new formations.

 

[Zebra 9]

Ok, just uploaded a new version that allows you to change almost every formation setting, increases precision and flips the grid so the formation isn't fliped when loaded in game.

Thanks to NikNaks93 for coming up w/ the math to allow the use of Degrees instead of whatever civ uses (it's much more confusing then degrees).

 

[NikNaks]

I'm so glad I could help! I'm gonna get cracking with new formations tonight.

EDIT: Er... where's the file? You don't seem to have linked to it, and it's not in the DB...

 

[Zebra 9]

Same spot as before. Oooops, I forgot to change the version.

 

[NikNaks]

Shall I wait?

 

[Zebra 9]

No it's correct I just forgot to change the version number that the download displays. I fixed it though.

 

[NikNaks]

Great! D/loading now.

Where + how do you configure the unit direction?

 

[Zebra 9]

I replied to a PM NikNaks93 sent me, but I'll say it here for everyone else. You can edit any value by clicking on the number/text entry next to it, the text and background around the text should both change color. You now should be able to edit the entry.

 

[NikNaks]

Whereabouts is this information? Is it the screen after you click save?

 

[Zebra 9]

No, it's the small screen that displays the unit information and has the little unit image (Can't remember if the Vanilla mode shows the image).



Edit: It's the screen w/ the unit image (it does show the image in Vanilla mode). And I just noticed that I'll have to get a tweak in that will fit the grid onto a 1024 x 768 monitor res. (my compter runs 1280 X 1024).

 

[NikNaks]

But that information isn't shown on the tools window. Now I'm confused