How to change unit models based on terrain...

[DragonShadow]

A little line of code called:

 

Temperate, EI_TROOPER.ALO,

Urban,   EI_TROOPER.ALO,

Arctic,   EI_TROOPER_Snow.ALO,

Volcanic, EI_TROOPER_Sand.ALO,

Desert,   EI_TROOPER_Sand.ALO,

Forest,   EI_TROOPER.ALO,

Swamp, EI_TROOPER.ALO

 

Neat, huh? With this, you can do pretty much anything to make units change based on environment. This can work for simply changing textures as well.

[swgbex]

yeah i love that tid bit of code

but i havnt found where u add a new "terrain"

[DragonShadow]

I've actually added three new terrain types (basically to replace a function I would otherwise have made in LUA, because we can't change LUA). I don't know whether or not they work, though. I did it at about midnight last night and haven't had a chance to test it...

[FormulaRedline]

I've actually added three new terrain types (basically to replace a function I would otherwise have made in LUA, because we can't change LUA). I don't know whether or not they work, though. I did it at about midnight last night and haven't had a chance to test it...

 

Let us know how it goes, though I imagine this should work.  The terrain type for a planet is determined by the tag in planets.xml, I just wonder if these types need to be defined in something we can't access.  Hopefully not.

[DragonShadow]

Let us know how it goes, though I imagine this should work.  The terrain type for a planet is determined by the tag in planets.xml, I just wonder if these types need to be defined in something we can't access.  Hopefully not.

 

That's what my tests are banking on. I'll know in hopefully a few hours.