Forged Alliance Forever

Re: how to mod formations?

2017-04-12T09:08:15+02:00

Yeah we cann all agree that pathfinding and army movements was always supcoms biggest flaw.

i downloaded domino mod support but i can't see anything there wich alters unit formations...

Statistics: Posted by StylisticSagi — 12 Apr 2017, 09:08

Re: how to mod formations?

2017-04-12T00:50:56+02:00

Yeah DMS added allot of goodies to FA.... However the platoon orders were always an issue. At one point we ever tried to copy / paste commands from one unit to another but ran into the fact that some things are held within the engine. Thus some commands could not be copied, modified or passed to another unit.

One thing that really bugged the sh!t outta me was how the units weapons could act independently from the unit itself. Case-in-point... Cloaking units.
A unit that re-cloaks after being discovered and fired on, will be chased all over the map until one of the following conditions occurs:

-Cloaked unit dies.
-Attacking unit dies.
-Attacking unit receives new orders.
-Either the Cloaked / Attacking unit changes "layers" there by no longer being a valid target for the attackers weapons. (Weapon loses lock on a cloaked target)

Obviously this situation is badly broken as it provides a form of intel to the attacking unit / player that would otherwise not be available.

Statistics: Posted by Resin_Smoker — 12 Apr 2017, 00:50

Re: how to mod formations?

2017-04-11T18:58:44+02:00

Domino Mod Support modded the formations, and added circle, cluster and spread formations to the originals.

Statistics: Posted by Sprouto — 11 Apr 2017, 18:58

Re: how to mod formations?

2017-04-11T12:13:02+02:00

I dont know about any

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 11 Apr 2017, 12:13

Re: how to mod formations?

2017-04-11T12:02:22+02:00

is there any other mod that you know of that mods anything in this file, perhaps i can see how they did it and then make something by myself?

Statistics: Posted by StylisticSagi — 11 Apr 2017, 12:02

Re: how to mod formations?

2017-04-08T13:30:51+02:00

speed2 wrote:
The file you're looking for is formations.lua
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/de ... ations.lua

found it but if i want to hook it in a mod even without making alterations, formations are disabled entirely...
what am i doing wrong?

Statistics: Posted by StylisticSagi — 08 Apr 2017, 13:30

Re: how to mod formations?

2017-04-08T11:06:31+02:00

The file you're looking for is formations.lua
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/de ... ations.lua

Statistics: Posted by speed2 — 08 Apr 2017, 11:06

how to mod formations?

2017-04-08T10:37:38+02:00

Hi everyone,
How can i mod formations?
the thing i like to do is to make naval formations more narrow so ships stay more togeterh (especially with T3 involved).
Wilst doing the opposite for air formations making them less vulnerable to flak.

Statistics: Posted by StylisticSagi — 08 Apr 2017, 10:37