Post by karrion on May 11, 2018 19:06:54 GMT
I've almost completed the tutorial and have to say that I liked it a lot, as it made me able to base my project on yours (and if I pass my end of degree project, I'll dedicate it to you somewhere 
) and base it on my favorite genre of games, but there are four things that I need to be able to work on the meat of the project (the AI), two of them I may be able to figure on my own (location-based victory conditions and not randomized spawn points), as I already asked how I may be able to implement the victory condition and can begin there, and the other is simply tinkering with the SpawnTestUnits method, but the two things that are in the title I'm not sure where to begin even.
1- Mininmum attacking distance: To make archers not absolutely overpowered I wanted to give them a minimum distance of attack so that they cannot attack at point-blank, let's say a 3-5 range. In the tutorial you basicaly brute-force every single possible tile from the unit to the distance passed on the ability in question, but I'm now sure how to begin the search on a minimum distance or how to "discard" tiles that are within the range of 1-minimum. One possibility that came to mind was doing two searches, one from, let's say, 1-2, and the other from 1-5 and discard the tiles that are the same on both searches, but I feel like there must be an easier way.
2- Taunt status effect: This may be a bit trickier. A taunt status effect may be easier to implement on the AI as you simply make the taunting unit the best possible target, but I'm not really sure how on the player's part you could implement it. Maybe having a taunter Unit variable that checks if the target of the attack is the taunter and make the status itself add or remove the taunter in question. Any suggestions on this?
Thanks in advance, and really, good job on the tutorial
) and base it on my favorite genre of games, but there are four things that I need to be able to work on the meat of the project (the AI), two of them I may be able to figure on my own (location-based victory conditions and not randomized spawn points), as I already asked how I may be able to implement the victory condition and can begin there, and the other is simply tinkering with the SpawnTestUnits method, but the two things that are in the title I'm not sure where to begin even.1- Mininmum attacking distance: To make archers not absolutely overpowered I wanted to give them a minimum distance of attack so that they cannot attack at point-blank, let's say a 3-5 range. In the tutorial you basicaly brute-force every single possible tile from the unit to the distance passed on the ability in question, but I'm now sure how to begin the search on a minimum distance or how to "discard" tiles that are within the range of 1-minimum. One possibility that came to mind was doing two searches, one from, let's say, 1-2, and the other from 1-5 and discard the tiles that are the same on both searches, but I feel like there must be an easier way.
2- Taunt status effect: This may be a bit trickier. A taunt status effect may be easier to implement on the AI as you simply make the taunting unit the best possible target, but I'm not really sure how on the player's part you could implement it. Maybe having a taunter Unit variable that checks if the target of the attack is the taunter and make the status itself add or remove the taunter in question. Any suggestions on this?
Thanks in advance, and really, good job on the tutorial
Was easier than expected. Main problem I expected to find was doing the difference between two lists, but stackoverflow came to the rescue. In case you want to use the code in the tutorial or tinker with it, here it is.