how to mod formations?

[StylisticSagi]

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.

[speed2]

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

[StylisticSagi]

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?

[StylisticSagi]

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?

[speed2]

I dont know about any

[Sprouto]

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

[Resin_Smoker]

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.

[StylisticSagi]

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...