The South Guard

aelius · Post by **aelius** » September 8th, 2004, 12:49 am

Changes in version 0.2

1. The hero is now named Deoran.
2. I've incorporated Turin's changes for 0.8.3 (which I'm now using).
3. Fictitious Walking Dead are now Walking Corpses.
4. Some bandit recruitment better balanced, as Pillager suggested.
5. Fighter added to Urza Fastik's recruitment pattern.
6. Various dialog bugs fixed.

For some reason, whenever I try and load a saved game it's corrupted. I've done a quick search of the fora and haven't found anything, so I'll keep looking... If anyone has ideas, lemme know!

Tomorrow's the first day of school (I'm a Latin teacher) so I may not get much done for a day or two. Again, thanks for looking at my piddly little offering!

- b.

Post by **turin** » September 8th, 2004, 1:04 am

cool.

this is, i think, one of the better non-official campaigns i've seen. I'll have to download the new version soon.

aelius · Post by **aelius** » September 8th, 2004, 1:25 am

Maybe someone can help me with what I'm wrestling with right now. In "Near Lake Kerumbar" I'm wrestling with some WML.

What I want to happen is the first time one of your units with an attack type of pierce attacks some sort of skeleton (i.e. skeleton,skeleton archer,bone shooter,revenant,soul shooter) an event is triggered.

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	[filter]
		side=1
		type=Spearman,Pikeman,Halbardier,Bowman,Longbowman,Master Bowman,Horseman Commander
	[/filter]
	[filter_second]
		type=Skeleton,Skeleton Archer, Revenant, Bone Shooter, Soul Shooter
	[/filter_second]

is how I'm doing this now, but that's sort of unsatisfying because the archer units can attack with swords which are blade type damage. I've looked at the wiki, but I haven't found a way to filter based on attack type...

- b.[/code]

Dacyn · Post by **Dacyn** » September 8th, 2004, 1:34 am

No way to do it currently.
And I thought pierce did no damage due to skeleton's lack of vital organs. Skeleton bones aren't any stronger than normal bones...

Edit: a version that is more 0.8.3 compatible, plus some bugfixes and documentation.

I hope you don't mind this

aelius · Post by **aelius** » September 8th, 2004, 2:03 am

I've changed the dialogue to something that I suppose makes more sense with the skeletons. Good call.

From what I could see, the change you made was that you moved the deaths into the campaign file itself as a preprocessor command. Is there any reason this is preferred in 0.8.3? I rather like the simpler smaller campaign file.

Do I mind the help? Hey - if Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Greg Maddux, and Carlos Zambrano came to help me with my baseball would I mind? I love the help!

- b.

Post by **Dave** » September 8th, 2004, 2:28 am

Yeah this campaign does look pretty cool

The maps are nicely designed, something which isn't easy.

I would definitely recommend this campaign to someone who wants a lesiurely, but quality challenge.

David

Dacyn · Post by **Dacyn** » September 8th, 2004, 9:09 am

aelius wrote:From what I could see, the change you made was that you moved the deaths into the campaign file itself as a preprocessor command.

That was one of the changes. Another was changing all leftover instances of 'Halrad' to 'Deoran', etc.

aelius wrote:Is there any reason this is preferred in 0.8.3?

You were missing a directory name with '~' in it, and I thought it was simpler to do what I did than to copy the macros and put '~' in front of half of them. However if you like it the other way you can of course change it back... you should put

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{campaigns/South_Guard/sg_deaths.cfg}
{~campaigns/South_Guard/sg_deaths.cfg}

in place of '{SG_DEATHS}'.

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » September 8th, 2004, 9:29 am

Big problem: Missing [/unit] tag in the {ELVISH_GUARD} macro!

Dacyn · Post by **Dacyn** » September 8th, 2004, 9:55 am

Elvish Pillager wrote:Big problem: Missing [/unit] tag in the {ELVISH_GUARD} macro!

yeah... I have edited my original post; hopefully there are no more bugs...

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » September 8th, 2004, 9:55 am

EDIT: Horseman_Commander.cfg needs the line 'id=Horseman Commander'.

Elvish_Pillager · September 8th, 2004, 10:11 am

Near Lake Kerumbar is unfinished, right? Otherwise, I'd complain that there's no way to win and that Mebrin's village does nothing... anyway, shouldn't the label be at 31,32 instead of 29,31?

Post by **Dave** » September 8th, 2004, 11:46 am

Oh btw a small problem with the zip file was that all the directory names such as 'units', 'scenarios', etc, had the first letter capitalized. This causes problems on systems with case-sensitive file systems.

David

sanna · Post by **sanna** » September 13th, 2004, 7:09 am

If anyone has had trouble with savegames in South Guard, see turins thread on Saving Elensefar: http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3072, same problem in South Guard.

aelius · Post by **aelius** » September 13th, 2004, 8:02 pm

Thanks for the heads up - I just saw the fix in turin's thread, and I've implemented it in South Guard. Should be a new release late tonight with lots of bug fixes and improvements.

- b.

Mkgego · Post by **Mkgego** » September 13th, 2004, 8:28 pm

COOL !!!
Do you already know how many scenarios will the campaing have?