New Mod: Selection Deprioritizer

[CodingSquirrel]

I just uploaded a new version of Selection Deprioritizer (version 5) which should solve the random selection issue. I was getting the same problem, but after a test game with the new version it worked perfectly. I also added for it to not select units who are assisting. This can be disabled with a flag, like the other filters.

I've also created a github repo for it at https://github.com/CodingSquirrel/Selec ... rioritizer

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Thank you for fixing the mod, it is one my favorites

Sadly, with assisting units now being deselected, this also means that assisting engies are being deselected as well. I found it very difficult to play with this.

Is it possible to remove this feature for engineers only?

[CodingSquirrel]

Thank you for fixing the mod, it is one my favorites

Sadly, with assisting units now being deselected, this also means that assisting engies are being deselected as well. I found it very difficult to play with this.

Is it possible to remove this feature for engineers only?

I played a game with it today and have to say I'm not sure whether or not I like the general assist filter. Makes it hard to select some things I want to, like you're finding with the engies. Going to play around with it more before deciding whether I like it for myself. Thankfully if you want the new filter off completely you can set filterAssisters to false in SelectionDeprioritizer.lua

Alternatively if you just want the engies off, you can create a list of blueprints (e.g., excludeBlueprintIds) for things you want to exclude, and edit line 285 to

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if unit:GetGuardedEntity() and (not arrayContains(excludeBlueprintIds,unit:GetBlueprint().BlueprintId)) then

That should make it so anything on that list won't be filtered out for assisting. You could do a similar check for the double clicked unit above if you don't want that to run on them either.

[Farmsletje]

Would be extremely nice to see an addition of hotkeys to be able to manually switch your unit selection priorities midgame.

[Myxir]

Would be extremely nice to see an addition of hotkeys to be able to manually switch your unit selection priorities midgame.

since i've not asked whether i can upload this to the vault, the mod is attached here
as usual, place it in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\Mods and enable it in the lobby (uuid changed) for it to work

I've also created a github repo for it at https://github.com/CodingSquirrel/Selec ... rioritizer

added a pull request


Edit:
reuploaded the mod and added a new PR, messed some default value up which caused a black screen

[Cetea]

I just downloaded the mod provided by Myxir in the above post, and installed it to the correct location. The hotkeys show up when I look for it in the f1 menu, but the mod doesn't work for me when I have a mixture of air, land and navy. The hotkeys don't seem to do anything. However, cloaked selens are not selected when I box an army, and I'm pretty sure that's a feature of this mod? I was wondering if there was anything additional I needed to do to make this work.

EDIT: Just checked on FAF, version 4.1 works as intended (boxing land + air selects only land), but it doesn't do this in version 6.

[keyser]

"cloaked selens are not selected when I box an army, and I'm pretty sure that's a feature of this mod"
this is in the game, not due to the mod.

just random idea, are you sure you enabled the mod in the lobby ?

[Cetea]

Okay, thanks for the info about the selens! Yes, the mod is enabled in the lobby, else I wouldn't see the hotkeys in the f1 menu correct? I tried the same thing with v4.1, and that works as expected, but I don't think shift + box disables the mod like it would in v6.

[R_Charger]

I had what sounds like the same issue as Cetea with Myxirs version above. I had previously had it working fine and it recently stopped working. Enabling it or disabling the mod via the toggle hotkey didn't help, but I went into the hotkey menu and defined a hotkey for the toggle domains option and then activated this on game, and it then started working as normal. Why this suddenly became necessary I don't know but it fixed it for me and I don't have to use an old version with the select everything and auto-lose the game bug...

[Cetea]

Thank you for fixing the mod, it is one my favorites

Sadly, with assisting units now being deselected, this also means that assisting engies are being deselected as well. I found it very difficult to play with this.

Is it possible to remove this feature for engineers only?

I played a game with it today and have to say I'm not sure whether or not I like the general assist filter. Makes it hard to select some things I want to, like you're finding with the engies. Going to play around with it more before deciding whether I like it for myself. Thankfully if you want the new filter off completely you can set filterAssisters to false in SelectionDeprioritizer.lua

Alternatively if you just want the engies off, you can create a list of blueprints (e.g., excludeBlueprintIds) for things you want to exclude, and edit line 285 to

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if unit:GetGuardedEntity() and (not arrayContains(excludeBlueprintIds,unit:GetBlueprint().BlueprintId)) then

That should make it so anything on that list won't be filtered out for assisting. You could do a similar check for the double clicked unit above if you don't want that to run on them either.

Newbie to modding here, I assume that the excludeBlueprintIds array should be created in SelectionDeprioritizerConfig.lua, and then the above line of code will work? As for the unit ids, I assume we get them from the cheating menu.

I tried the above line and replaced the filterAssisters boolean, but it just broke the game for me while the mod was enabled (couldn't see build bar). I created a local array of

local excludeBlueprintIds = {
-- all engineers
"ual0105", --aeon t1 engie
"ual0208", --aeon t2 engie
"ual0309", --aeon t3 engie
"uel0105", --uef t1 engie
"uel0208", --uef t2 engie
"uel0309", --uef t3 engie
"url0105", --cybran t1 engie
"url0208", --cybran t2 engie
"url0309", --cybran t3 engie
"xsl0105", --sera t1 engie
"xsl0208", --sera t2 engie
"xsl0309", --sera t3 engie
}

in the SelectionDeprioritizer.lua file, and then replaced the line on line 285 as instructed.

EDIT:

Somehow, I got it working (at least 90%) while debugging it, and I have zero clue as to why it now works:

All I did was change line 285 to:

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if filterAssisters and false then

while creating the excludeBlueprint array in the config file in the same manner as all the others (which I never call or use anywhere), and somehow it suddenly works.

The above code makes it so that scouts that assist a tank are still not selected when I box them, but idle engies and assisting engies can be boxed together. I assume this is because there is some other code in the mod that uses the filterAssisters variable? (I can't find it in the lua file that I edited however).