How to alter values of unitweights by scripting?

[Ghoustaq]

I have a new problem now.That is I want to alter the values of unitweights of some units, for example, tech2 units take 2 unitweights and tech3 units take 3. Do you know how to do by scripting? I konw that it's easier to reach this goal by rewriting the units.bp files in the gamedata folder , even so I would rather scripting.

[Ghoustaq]

Here's the answer from Uveso,

Well, you can't change the unitweights without changing the unit-blueprint.
Unitweight is controlled by the c-engine of the game, not from LUA side.

And you have to change the unit-blueprint before the game starts.
Changing the bluprint after gamestart will instantly desync multiplayer games.

I don't know if this works, but if you can modify blueprints from the mapscript, then try it with this:

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    for UnitID, UnitBlueprint in __blueprints do
        if UnitBlueprint.General.UnitWeight then
            LOG('Unit '..UnitID..' has a value of '..UnitBlueprint.General.UnitWeight..' as UnitWeight')
            if UnitBlueprint.CategoriesHash.TECH1 then
                LOG('Unit '..UnitID..' is a TECH1 unit. Seting UnitWeight to 1')
                UnitBlueprint.General.UnitWeight = 1
            end
            if UnitBlueprint.CategoriesHash.TECH2 then
                LOG('Unit '..UnitID..' is a TECH2 unit. Seting UnitWeight to 2')
                UnitBlueprint.General.UnitWeight = 2
            end
            if UnitBlueprint.CategoriesHash.TECH3 then
                LOG('Unit '..UnitID..' is a TECH3 unit. Seting UnitWeight to 3')
                UnitBlueprint.General.UnitWeight = 3
            end
            if UnitBlueprint.CategoriesHash.EXPERIMENTAL then
                LOG('Unit '..UnitID..' is a EXPERIMENTAL unit. Seting UnitWeight to 4')
                UnitBlueprint.General.UnitWeight = 4
            end
        else
            LOG('Unit '..UnitID..' don\'t has a UnitWeight')
        end
    end

[Franck83]

Try this by hooking blueprints.lua :

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local overridden = ModBlueprints
    function ModBlueprints(blueprints)
       overridden(blueprints)   
        for id,bp in blueprints.Unit do
         if bp.General.UnitWeight then
            if table.find(bp.Categories, 'TECH1') then
               bp.General.UnitWeight = 1
            elseif table.find(bp.Categories, 'TECH2') then
               bp.General.UnitWeight = 2
            elseif table.find(bp.Categories, 'TECH3') then
               bp.General.UnitWeight = 3    
            elseif table.find(bp.Categories, 'EXPERIMENTAL') then
               bp.General.UnitWeight = 4
            end
         end
        end
    end
end

[Uveso]

@Franck83:

are you sure you can run this from a MAP_script.lua ?
It's a MAP not a MOD!


@Ghoustaq:

if you post code here, mark the code with your mouse and then press the "Code" button.
This will crate a [code] tag. This way you will get a nice code-textbox inside the normal text.

[Franck83]

Oups sorry !

I looked at it too fast

[Uveso]

@Ghoustaq:

Just a idea;

You could make a mod with this Mex/Cap ratio function.
This way we could play all maps with Mex/Cap ratio.

But it's also ok, if you make it only for your maps

BTW, is it working ?

Nasty question; Did you test this with an AI ?

[Ghoustaq]

@Uveso

not yet. I'm a little busy with my job in recent days. But I will test it at this weekends.

[Uveso]

No hurry Ghoustaq

I am just interested.

[Ghoustaq]

@Uveso

hello, Uveso :

the Mex/Cap ratio function works well just in FA, I cannot run it in vanilla.

I faild to alter unitweight, but it doesn't matter.

Now, I'm trying to broaden visionradius of max-extratcors. But I find no visionradius in the _unit.bp of max-extractors, it's really strange!

Do you know what variable defines the visionradius of a max-extratcor?

[Sprouto]

Ghoustaq - were you using unitwieght to control unit caps ? If so, the proper variable is CapCost.

The mass extractors vision radius can be found in the Intel section - and it is VisionRadius - if it's not there - then it may be being defaulted.