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#9719: ..

by Zodar on 12/15/2007 15:18

The ability to manipulate the statistics of monsters a bit more in-depth would be fantastic. Currently, there isn't a single monster in the game that's actually dangerous- the only danger comes from how many of them you have to face. But this could be pretty easily remedied if you could alter the HP, damage, and most importantly, rate of fire of a bauul, for example.

Another thing that would be interesting is the ability to tag a monster as being on a certain "side". This would be a simple number tag, but it would add a great deal of variety to a map. The player's side would be set (and locked, to prevent cheating with the console) by the map's cfg, and any enemies that are on the same side are non-hostile towards him. Untagged enemies are marked as side 0, which behaves like any other tag- they attack non-zero enemies. This could cause a little trouble with priority, but "prioritize the one who shot you last" seems to be pretty workable.

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#9720: Re: ..

by Hirato Kirata on 12/15/2007 22:55, refers to #9719

Teams... why didn't I think of that. (actually I did, which is where my suggestion of ignoring friendly fire came in :) ). Nice one there Zodar.

~Hirato Kirata

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#9721: Re: ..

by Zodar on 12/16/2007 00:23, refers to #9720

Sorry if I misconstrued your post, but it seemed like you were talking about monsters either being friendly/hostile to the player character. What I meant was the ability to have a larger number of sides, as determined by a number in the monster-ent's variables.

For example, say you have a group of ogros on one team attacking you. To deal with them without wasting time or ammo, you could lead them into a group of opposing rhinos or goblins, who would normally attack you, but instead prioritize the ogros as the main target. You watch safely on the sidelines, then open a door and release a pack of hellpigs to finish off the stragglers. It's a bit different from simply hostile or friendly- the monsters would have their own personal feuds to settle that you could play to your advantage, like how Bullsquids would always attack headcrabs in Half-Life.

Sorry if there was any misunderstanding, or if I came off as rude :I

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#9722: Re: ..

by Hirato Kirata on 12/16/2007 01:06, refers to #9721

I was saying well done for elaborating on the teams. I'm just a bit hard to understand at times :P

~Hirato K

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#9723: Re: ..

by Quin on 12/16/2007 05:12, refers to #9689

sensitivity 10
sensitivityscale 1

Not saying you "need" it that high (in fact, it's that high from my old quake days), just that it is possible to turn that fast if one wished (contradictory to real life).

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#9724: ..

by JadeMatrix on 12/17/2007 01:20

O.o the posts on the AI-scripts is making me dizzy...

http://files.filefront.com/aicfg/;9269379;/fileinfo.html

My take. It uses f_life (a read-only variable) from my hud.cfg concept.

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#9725: Re: Scriptable monsters

by Quin on 12/17/2007 03:52, refers to #9718

You guys may find the SSP module in SauerMod useful. It contains some of the stuff I experimented with while doing the enemy logic, including script controls and events. I addressed the issue of controlling single monsters by assigning them an index on load, and having the script use that to reference them.

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#9726: Visual Express 2008 any success?

by hicks on 12/17/2007 04:35

Been getting tired of Codeblocks and have wanting to try out Visual Express 2008 which btw is looking really nice and although I'm heavy on the open source I make some exceptions (windows xp for my games.)
Anyway I've compiled sauerbraten.exe with the afxres.h taken from the Codeblocks include directory and everything has compiled nicely without any real warnings, but sauerbaten.exe fails to start with an "application error" and I get one of those pesky dialog boxes.
It's not a big deal as there is nothing wrong with Codeblocks other than the 2dgui not working for me.

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#9727: Re: Visual Express 2008 any success?

by Luolamies on 12/17/2007 10:37, refers to #9726

I'm using VC express 2005, but you might want to try this: In your project directory there is a file called sauerbraten.rc. In this file, edit "afxres.h" into "windows.h".

Works for me.

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#9728: Re: Visual Express 2008 any success?

by hicks on 12/17/2007 21:49, refers to #9727

No luck even with the platform sdk, it still refuses to function. I\'m not gonna waste more than 5 minutes on a Microsoft product. Although I\'m really against using cvs/svn builds, I\'ll grab the lastest nightly build of Codeblocks. Thanks for the advice though.

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#9729: Re: Visual Express 2008 any success?

by SheeEttin on 12/17/2007 22:18, refers to #9728

> I'm really against using cvs/svn builds

You, sir, are missing out on a lot... For example, Sauer's CVS just got the assasin mode.

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#9730: Re: Visual Express 2008 any success?

by yoopers on 12/17/2007 23:41, refers to #9729

So, somewhat off-topic, but related to CVS installs: I've had an easy time compiling from CVS, but every time I try to browse for servers I get told that I'm running a more recent version than the server supports. Is there some way to play on a Summer Edition server with a CVS-compiled client, or are my expectations out-of-whack?

Thanks!

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#9731: Help

by Rev on 12/17/2007 23:46

i have recently downloaded Assault Cube. But, everytime i click the icon on my desktop, it just sends me to the installation window. I want to play the game. What am I doing wrong?

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#9732: Re: Visual Express 2008 any success?

by c0rdawg on 12/18/2007 00:07, refers to #9730

Nope the CVS network code is slightly different so you can only play on CVS servers. But don't worry the CVS will become official any day now...

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#9733: Re: Visual Express 2008 any success?

by MovingTarget on 12/18/2007 00:08, refers to #9732

December 21, I think.

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#9734: Re: Visual Express 2008 any success?

by yoopers on 12/18/2007 00:11, refers to #9733

Kewl. :] Thanks for the update.

*grins in anticipation of a new Sauer release*

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#9735: ..

by SheeEttin on 12/18/2007 00:13

I checked about half an hour ago, and there were two CVS servers up, neither of which had players on them.

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#9736: Re: Help

by JadeMatrix on 12/18/2007 14:02, refers to #9731

Installation window, or launcher window? If it\'s the latter, just choose your prefs, and hit play.

If it\'s the former, I\'m guessing you\'re running windoze, and cube games have an installer (for win) just like any other pc game does. So run the installer to get all your files in place, then run the launcher exe.

That\'s from a Mac guy, so if you try it, it may not work. Won\'t fry your computer, though.

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#9737: Message censored by administrator

by qpantom on 12/18/2007 19:13

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by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 12/18/2007 20:28, refers to #9737

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