Roaming units

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » October 22nd, 2005, 6:25 pm

scott wrote:But, as Mad Max knows, you can't make them roam around aimlessly (can't you?).

Yes you can, although it won't respect terrain or traits. I do it with the birds in scenario 4. What's actually needed is a new AI, which can be similar to the one in existence, just with a larger random factor and with the attack algorithms removed.

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » October 22nd, 2005, 6:59 pm

MadMax wrote:
scott wrote:But, as Mad Max knows, you can't make them roam around aimlessly (can't you?).
Yes you can, although it won't respect terrain or traits.

With more awkward WML, you can make it respect them...

scott · Post by **scott** » October 22nd, 2005, 8:26 pm

I meant with [ai]. I can't get no_leader sides to do anything with [ai]. They act as guardians.

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » October 22nd, 2005, 10:20 pm

Elvish Pillager wrote:
MadMax wrote:Yes you can, although it won't respect terrain or traits.
With more awkward WML, you can make it respect them...

How would you do this?

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » October 22nd, 2005, 10:29 pm

Presumably you know the terrain, and you can find out traits by storing the unit. With that knowledge, you should be able to adapt the algorithm...

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » October 22nd, 2005, 10:38 pm

Elvish Pillager wrote:Presumably you know the terrain, and you can find out traits by storing the unit. With that knowledge, you should be able to adapt the algorithm...

In other words, I would need an array of every tile on the map with a cerain terrain?

PS. can you move this to Scenario & Campaign Development?

Disto · Post by **Disto** » October 23rd, 2005, 8:18 am

This is a art thread

, but it should be split.

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » October 23rd, 2005, 11:01 am

MadMax wrote:
Elvish Pillager wrote:Presumably you know the terrain, and you can find out traits by storing the unit. With that knowledge, you should be able to adapt the algorithm...
In other words, I would need an array of every tile on the map with a cerain terrain?

Well, it's also possible with [store_locations] to reduce the requirement to a list of terrains present on the map.

MadMax wrote:PS. can you move this to Scenario & Campaign Development?

I can't, but someone else can...

Post by **freim** » October 23rd, 2005, 1:22 pm

I split this from http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8102

scott · Post by **scott** » October 23rd, 2005, 8:28 pm

Does [ai] work normally with leaderless units or not at all?

scott · Post by **scott** » October 24th, 2005, 2:27 am

What if you edited goto_x and goto_y before each turn?