Advanced target priorities v1.1

[Strogo]

"Allow switching to different target priorities for units" - FAF patch 3702 (28 December, 2018)

Yes, this mod works only with 3702 or later (don't even try it in steam or with old versions )

v 1.0 29 Dec 2018

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- 12 new presets
- hotkeys for them
- ability to make your own presets by editing mod files (UI for that is not ready yet, see instruction below)

v 1.1 26 Feb 2018 see post

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- draggable window

Coming soon™

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- good UI for making presets
- detachable and draggable window with buttons, so you can place it anywhere on screen v1.1
- window that shows unit categories, its weapons and default priorities
- customizable hotkeys
- good ideas and suggestions from this topic

How to use





Hotkeys




How to make presets if you can't wait for new version with UI for that

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1. Open "Mods\Advanced target priorities\hook\lua\ui\game\orders.lua

2. Find this table and edit it


3. How to work with "categories." Hard to explain, I'll just leave some examples here:
{categories.TECH1 * categories.MOBILE * categories.LAND} - attack t1 mobile land units
{categories.TECH1 * categories.MOBILE * categories.LAND - categories.ARTILLERY} attack t1 mobile land units except arties
{categories.TECH1 * categories.BOMBER * categories.AIR + categories.TECH2 * categories.BOMBER * categories.AIR} attack t1 and t2 bombers
etc.

Feel free to ask here if you don't understand smth

#1 DOWNLOAD V1.1 FROM CLOUD

#2 DOWNLOAD V1.1 FROM GITHUB (extract "Advanced target priorities" folder, not "ATP-***" or better use first link)

[keyser]

images are broken; thx otherwise

[Strogo]

Fixed, ty

[R_Charger]

This is very cool. Thanks Strogo.

[Mountain]

this + the newly integrated priority switcher is amazing, thank you Strogo

[ZLO_RD]

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[Strogo]

Yeah... well I never use agressive marketing, rely more on word of mouth (idk if it's correct translation of "Сарафанное радио" )

At least you have advantage over all these scrubs that don't have this epic mode! =)

[R_Charger]

Hi Strogo,
When editing code do we also need to edit the exclusive line (lines 29 and 30). Also what about the textures?

[Strogo]

Exclusive is "false" by default, even if the value is not in the table. Speaking about "t1Arty" from instruction, you don't need to add t1Arty = false unless you want t1Arty = true.

Now, what does exclusive mean and when to use it with "true".

By default (exclusive = false), mod takes your preset and puts categories from it on the top of default priority table, which every unit has in its blueprint. Aurora blueprint as example:





As for textures, you can add some in Mods\Advanced target priorities\textures. Name it same as your preset and then add t1Arty = textures..'t1Arty.dds', in prioStateTextures table.
Without texture, preset name will be displayed using Arial font (size 10). You can edit this too (line 114):




I will add this info + list of all possible categories in first post later.

[R_Charger]

Hi Strogo,
Thanks for the explanation. I noticed that the misckeyactions.lua file also contains priorityTables and the exclusive line. Do these need to be edited as well?
I managed the keyactions myself.