Personal balance mod

[PerfectWay]

Hi, all
I often play SC with my friends, but since we all have different skills, I decided to write a small mod that gives personal advantages (mass & energy production, build rate, maybe health points) to the player on his name.

I found the code for a simple mod with the multipliers for the economy, but the problem is that I need to apply these effects are not all units in the game, but only the player units with a certain name, for example "PlayerFirst"

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do
    local oldModBlueprints = ModBlueprints

    function ModBlueprints(all_bps)
       oldModBlueprints(all_bps)

        local econScale = 2.0
       
        --loop through the blueprints and adjust as desired.
        for id,bp in all_bps.Unit do
            if bp.Economy.ProductionPerSecondMass then
               bp.Economy.ProductionPerSecondMass = bp.Economy.ProductionPerSecondMass * econScale
            end
            if bp.Economy.ProductionPerSecondEnergy then
               bp.Economy.ProductionPerSecondEnergy = bp.Economy.ProductionPerSecondEnergy * econScale
            end 
        end
    end

end

I feel that it looks something like this,

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if (player.playerName == "PlayerFirst")
    // some code


It is also interesting to use the effects only for a one fraction, only of UEF for example, that the like

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if (player.playerFaction == "UEF")
    // some code


Since this is my first mod, I do not know how should look like this code to Lua.

[Uveso]

You can't modify a unit only for one player. This will desync the game.

But you can modify all units from a faction.

Use this to identify a faction:

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If Categories.UEF then
If Categories.AEON then
If Categories.CYBRAN then
If Categories.SERAPHIM then

(you need to build the Categories array first!)

If you need help to mod units inside the blueprints.lua file (and building the Categories-Array) , take a look here:
viewtopic.php?f=41&t=12970

[PerfectWay]

Ok, thank you, i'm try it.
About the desync, since we play via LAN, and I'm going to put this mod manually on both computers, I think everything should be in order, because the code will be identical

[PerfectWay]

Using the player's name was really not best idea. I decided to make a few small mods that give certain bonuses each faction and get the same effect that I wanted. For example, "Strength of the Aeon" - all damage x2, "UEF Production" - x2 mass production, "Defense of the UEF" - x2 health.
Thank you very much Uveso, your code example really works!
I still have some questions:
How to calculate the uid for mod? I can use random string of numbers?
And how to change attack rate and radar range?

[Uveso]

The GUID is a random serial number. You can use every number/text you want.
You can also use a online GUID generator:
http://www.somacon.com/p113.php

This is needed for a Radar:

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bp.Categories.OVERLAYRADAR -- Set overlay for radar
bp.Intel.RadarRadius -- RadarRadius :D


For attack rate you need to loop over the WEAPON array:

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for i, weapon in weapons do

You can now acces the rate of fire:

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weapon.RateOfFire

To calculate the fire rate for dps etc., use " 1.0 / weapon.RateOfFire"

[PerfectWay]

Thank you, all pretty intuitive
Change movement speed and rate of fire will not break the unit animation of movement / firing? Or it will also use the new parameters?

[Uveso]

Change movement speed and rate of fire will not break the unit animation of movement / firing? Or it will also use the new parameters?

That's a good question! I have no clue

[Sprouto]

There can be several animations specified in a blueprint, sometimes specifically one for the walking animation. This is usually found in 'BOT' units, like many experimentals.

If you alter the movement speed, you will need to change the animation rate in the blueprint or the unit will appear to 'skate' when it walks.

[Exotic_Retard]

the movement animation should scale with the movement speed automatically. it even appears to be affected by unit size!
however to prevent skating you might need to adjust it anyway as sprouto pointed out.

[PerfectWay]

Thanks to all, although I did not find the parameter animation rate in the blueprint. Using a 30% bonus to speed almost no effect on the animation (although there is a small skating of some units, or it seems to me ). I think for my small mod is not very critical.