Make civ 1 and 2 roam randomly?

salvakiya · Post by **salvakiya** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 9:09 pm

I am making a minigame map where I need the ability to allow civ 1 and civ 2 to roam randomly and sometimes stay in one spot... I also need to give a penalty to a player if they kill the neutral buildings/ civ's. How would I go about doing this?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:23 pm

Have a look at https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/b ... .yaml#L375 the visceroid uses AttackWander to move around. You can disarm him by using adding JustMove to the Attackmove https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/b ... .yaml#L133 see the engineer for example. To give penalties I suggest to use negative bounties (killing them costs money). The bounty is calculated from the unit build cost so try making a negative value and maybe also add -GainsExperience: so that you don't get promoted for shooting civilians.

salvakiya · Post by **salvakiya** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:15 pm

Cmd. Matt wrote: ↑Have a look at https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/b ... .yaml#L375 the visceroid uses AttackWander to move around. You can disarm him by using adding JustMove to the Attackmove https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/blob/b ... .yaml#L133 see the engineer for example. To give penalties I suggest to use negative bounties (killing them costs money). The bounty is calculated from the unit build cost so try making a negative value and maybe also add -GainsExperience: so that you don't get promoted for shooting civilians.

Hey thanks for the help! I got everything working except for the negative bounty...

for the civ I have the following code... what is wrong with it? I assume I am placing the bounty in the wrong place though...

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	C1&#58;
		Inherits&#58; ^Infantry
		Selectable&#58;
			Voice&#58; CivilianMaleVoice
			Bounds&#58; 12,17,0,-9
		Valued&#58;
			Cost&#58; 70
		Tooltip&#58;
			Name&#58; Civilian
		Health&#58;
			HP&#58; 20
		AttackWander&#58;
			JustMove&#58; True
		-GainsExperience&#58;
		-GivesExperience&#58;
		GivesBounty&#58; -50
		Mobile&#58;
			Speed&#58; 4
		RevealsShroud&#58;
			Range&#58; 2
		AttackFrontal&#58;
			PrimaryWeapon&#58; Pistol
		ProximityCaptor&#58;
			Types&#58;CivilianInfantry	C1&#58;
		Inherits&#58; ^Infantry
		Selectable&#58;
			Voice&#58; CivilianMaleVoice
			Bounds&#58; 12,17,0,-9
		Valued&#58;
			Cost&#58; 70
		Tooltip&#58;
			Name&#58; Civilian
		Health&#58;
			HP&#58; 20
		AttackWander&#58;
			JustMove&#58; True
		-GainsExperience&#58;
		-GivesExperience&#58;
		GivesBounty&#58; -50
		Mobile&#58;
			Speed&#58; 4
		RevealsShroud&#58;
			Range&#58; 2
		AttackFrontal&#58;
			PrimaryWeapon&#58; Pistol
		ProximityCaptor&#58;
			Types&#58;CivilianInfantry

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 6:07 pm

The bounty is calculated by Value: Costs: so set that one negative (let's see what happens). Remove the GivesBounty line. It is already inherited from defaults.yaml and it is a boolean (true/false) value, not an integer.

salvakiya · Post by **salvakiya** » Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:47 pm

That worked but only when the total cash the player had remained above 0. if the player had no money and killed a civ the game would crash.

Edit:
Im no programming expert but is this due to the total cash amount being an unsigned int? and if that is the case is there a way around it?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:27 pm

salvakiya wrote: ↑That worked but only when the total cash the player had remained above 0. if the player had no money and killed a civ the game would crash.

Edit:
Im no programming expert but is this due to the total cash amount being an unsigned int? and if that is the case is there a way around it?

The game should never crash. Report it at https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/