[interface] Campaign Sort Function

[TheCripple]

Currently, any and all campaigns are simply listed under the campaign list. Given that mainline alone is a fairly long list, a mainline campaign list and DLC campaign list would be extremely helpful. How exactly this would be done could vary, but if you had a long list with the option to exclude mainline or DLC via a toggle functioning button, it would be pretty simple, though other methods would also work. This would add greater organization, and also make it easy to tell at a glance what campaigns are mainline.

[sur.nhm]

I support this. It would be of great use, IMO, to those of us who have a lot of add-on campaigns installed.

[TheCripple]

Also, a map sort function could be useful.

[boru]

I'd like to see some kind of "favorites" organization, where the user could sort campaigns in a way that makes sense to them. (Not that I don't appreciate having Orcish Incursion right up there near the top, uh )

UMC creators see this screen a lot ... a keyboard command that loads a user-defined campaign would be awesome.

[Crendgrim]

boru:
In Wesnoth 1.9.x that should be already possible via "wesnoth -c <campaign_id> <scenario_id> <datadir>" (with <datadir> being the path to your installation).
The same applies to multiplayer maps, too: "wesnoth -m --scenario=<scenario_id>"


Crend

[boru]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

EDIT:
It does not appear to work, or I'm an idiot, or both.

[TheBladeRoden]

It's be nice to sort them in chronological and difficulty order

[Telchin]

It's be nice to sort them in chronological and difficulty order

The chronological order sounds like a good idea, but it would work only for mainline campaigns. Some UMC are situated in different world than mainline Wesnoth (e.g. Era of Myths or Era of Magic). The difficulty order is sort of implmented in mainline campaigns, though not all campaigns of same dificulty may be equally hard. (I found HttT harder than other begginer campaigns and I Northern Rebirth harder than other expert campaigns. It might be just me being a bad player.)

[DEATH_is_undead]

...and difficulty order

The difficulty is however the campaign is designed by the user; there is no code to actually define it. Meaning, with current status, there is no way to tell if a campaign is beginner or expert, as the author of the campaign cannot set it for the game to read.

[Crendgrim]

DEATH_is_undead:
That's not completely correct.
Quote from CampaignWML:

rank: a number that determines the order of campaigns in the campaign selection menu. Lower rank campaigns appear earlier, with unranked campaigns at the end. Currently the mainline campaigns use multiples of 10 from 0 to 399, with 0-99 for Novice campaigns, 100-199 for Intermediate campaigns, and 200-399 for Expert campaigns; if you specify this, it should not be less than 400. (Note: This replaces an older convention that topped out at 50.)

So, it is possible and it's already done.


Crend

[DEATH_is_undead]

DEATH_is_undead:
That's not completely correct.

So in theory, its possible, I guess... But even so, what happens to the campaigns that have default value in rank?

Also:

if you specify this, it should not be less than 400.

This seems to state (at least in my speculation) that it already orders in some form of difficulty. (Although I've never noticed this order) And stating a value between 0-400 would interfere with mainline. (To make it clear on what I'm assuming this states is that the order of mainline campaigns is 0-400, and to prevent user campaigns from going in front of mainline, it suggests to make it over 400?)

[Crendgrim]

DEATH_is_undead:
That's not completely correct.

So in theory, its possible, I guess... But even so, what happens to the campaigns that have default value in rank?

They're listed at the very bottom.

Also:

if you specify this, it should not be less than 400.

This seems to state (at least in my speculation) that it already orders in some form of difficulty. (Although I've never noticed this order) And stating a value between 0-400 would interfere with mainline. (To make it clear on what I'm assuming this states is that the order of mainline campaigns is 0-400, and to prevent user campaigns from going in front of mainline, it suggests to make it over 400?)

At least that's how I understood it..


Crend

[DEATH_is_undead]

Also: This seems to state (at least in my speculation) that it already orders in some form of difficulty. (Although I've never noticed this order) And stating a value between 0-400 would interfere with mainline. (To make it clear on what I'm assuming this states is that the order of mainline campaigns is 0-400, and to prevent user campaigns from going in front of mainline, it suggests to make it over 400?)

At least that's how I understood it..

Well, then there needs to be a system for addon developers as to prevent mixed levels. But even so, if they're rated from 400-800, they'd be listed after mainline, still making it impossible to maintain the current sorting system with the new one, as if you want mainline then addon, it'll be over-rided by the ranking system. So, once again, I see no way around this... Any ideas/anything I'm missing?

[boru]

Any ideas/anything I'm missing?

Maybe we could implement some kind of a campaign sort function ...

[Scaeb]

I'd really like to see a (rough) chronological order for mainline campaigns as a possible selection option.