ai avoid terrain type - possible?

[flava_clown]

hi

is there an "easy" way to make sure that the ai avoid some terrain types?
like the ai stays out of water.
i think that i can't filter the terrain type in the avoid tag.

my idea was to use "store_locations" and use then the variable.x and variable.y for the avoid tag. i know it won't work that way. first i'll need to format it, to make sure that not only variable[0].x and variable[0].y is used.
the question is now how? the foreach macro won't help with that right?

i guess it must look like this |$var[0]|,|$var[1]|,... and so on...

regards

[toms]

Listing the whole array would work, AFAIK. But I think terrain=c in also does. Check the wiki and/or try it at yourself.

[zookeeper]

Tricky one. [avoid], according to the wiki at least, accepts only one coordinate to avoid, not a list or a range. If it accepted a list, or the standard location filter was extended to include the terrain= option as well, this would be doable.

Unfortunately, I don't think you can currently do what you want to. Unless the wiki documentation hasn't been updated to reflect some odd change that enables this, which I seriously doubt.

[toms]

Then it definitely should be made possible, IMO. It would offer lots of new possibilities to make the ai smart and other things.

[Rhuvaen]

Much simpler than that. Don't try to appeal to the AI's intelligence. Use brute force on its units by applying an object like this to their units:

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      [object]
        [effect]
          apply_to=movement_costs
          replace=true
          [movement_costs]
            shallow_water=99
            deep_water=99
          [/movement_costs]
        [/effect]
      [/object]

They'll never be able to enter water, then .

There's different ways you could apply the object, the simplest being directly in the recruit event. I've never used one of those though.

[zookeeper]

Much simpler than that. Don't try to appeal to the AI's intelligence. Use brute force on its units by applying an object like this to their units:

Yeah, that should work. Damn, that was pretty clever.

[flava_clown]

damn... that's what i call an idea... i've use such a "hack" to make sure that the guard units stay in the tower (i set moves to 0 every turn)
but to change the whole movement cost thing is quite good... but i guess i'll try avoid terrain before

thanx to all for the help
and yes the possibility to let the ai avoid terrain types would help a lot with ai things

anyway one question stays ... is there a way to format an array?

[toms]

If you know the length, it's easy:

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[set_variable]
temp_list
format=temp[0],temp[1],temp[2],...
[/set_variable]

but this will produce a list again, so you can't let the ai avoid it (if the wiki says the truth)

If you do not know the length, it is a lot tricky, I tell you if you need it.

[flava_clown]

thanx, but what i wanted to know is how to do this in an automatic way, if you understand what i mean... to format it like this is a lot of work, even with copy/paste... and it seems that the wiki is not correct, you can use a list for x,y in the avoid tag... just have a look in the mainline campaigns. they use it like

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[avoid]
x=1-20
y=1-11
[/avoid]

i´ve tried to use terrain=c but it didn't work (as expected)

but thanx to the idea from Rhuvaen, the ai stays now out of the water
i did it a bit different but the main idea is the same.

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{MODIFY_UNIT_DAD side=1 movement_costs.deep_water 99 movement_costs.shallow_water 99}

all in an "ai turn" event, which i had for the tower guard units anyway...

the whole event:

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# makes sure that the guards stay in the tower, at least for the first 5 turns
# higher the 'less_than' number to let them stay longer or lower the number to let them go earlier
[event]
	name=ai turn
	first_time_only=no
	[if]
		[and]
			[variable]
				name=turn_number
				greater_than=1
			[/variable]
		[/and]
		[and]
			[variable]
				name=turn_number
				less_than=6
			[/variable]
		[/and]
		[then]
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Ven moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Carercyn moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Yreddyn moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Suc moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Gudd moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Ceoryn moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Lonnyn moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Taemyr moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Owidry moves 0}
			{MODIFY_UNIT description=Aethunry moves 0}
		[/then]
	[/if]
# this makes sure that the humans doesn't enter the water
# thanx to Rhuvaen for the Idea, how to do this!
	{MODIFY_UNIT_DAD side=1 movement_costs.deep_water 99 movement_costs.shallow_water 99}

[/event]

regards