Some questions

Post by **zookeeper** » November 4th, 2006, 5:00 pm

jg wrote:Not trying to get off-topic here, but since it has been talked about now, why not make the corpses stay on the battlefield for the rest of the scenario anyway? This might make it a little too violent for some, but one could perhaps make it an changeable option?

It has been discussed previously though, and deemed a bad idea (or at least one that isn't good enough to make it an improvement). Dozens of corpses littering the map would make things a bit messy - a bit harder to distinguish units from the corpses, several corpses on top of each other, people starting to argue that since the corpses stay there, you should get a penalty to something when passing or attacking from that that hex, etc.

jg · Post by jg » November 4th, 2006, 7:24 pm

True... that would make things a little messy. Since it has been discussed, scrap that idea...

jg

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » November 4th, 2006, 8:10 pm

jg wrote:Not trying to get off-topic here, but since it has been talked about now, why not make the corpses stay on the battlefield for the rest of the scenario anyway? This might make it a little too violent for some, but one could perhaps make it an changeable option?

A better question is "Why?"
The answer to "Why Not?" is because it would freqently look really dumb. Imagine 2 or 3 bodies on a village hex. Any illusion of 3D space would be destroyed by the way they overlap. Besides it's much more important to the game to know what a hex is, not who's died there.

Woo_Hoi · Post by **Woo_Hoi** » November 5th, 2006, 10:57 am

This is not a topic discuss about should or shouldn't do , ok ,just tell me which file should I edit?

Post by **zookeeper** » November 5th, 2006, 11:06 am

Woo_Hoi wrote:This is not a topic discuss about should or shouldn't do , ok ,just tell me which file should I edit?

Err, sorry, I just forgot to check this out yesterday, contrary to what I promised.

I'll try to remember to do it today then.

jg · Post by jg » November 5th, 2006, 5:25 pm

Sorry... Kind of high-jacked your thread...

jg

Post by **zookeeper** » November 5th, 2006, 9:39 pm

zookeeper wrote:
Woo_Hoi wrote:This is not a topic discuss about should or shouldn't do , ok ,just tell me which file should I edit?
Err, sorry, I just forgot to check this out yesterday, contrary to what I promised. I'll try to remember to do it today then.

Sorry again, I'm finding this too boring and undesireable, so I probably won't be trying to write the WML for it after all. A few hints though: before the units die, change the last frame of their [death] animation to last longer (for example, add 2000 to the begin= time and put the result as the end= time).

Woo_Hoi · Post by **Woo_Hoi** » November 6th, 2006, 10:21 am

zookeeper wrote:
zookeeper wrote: Err, sorry, I just forgot to check this out yesterday, contrary to what I promised. I'll try to remember to do it today then.
Sorry again, I'm finding this too boring and undesireable, so I probably won't be trying to write the WML for it after all. A few hints though: before the units die, change the last frame of their [death] animation to last longer (for example, add 2000 to the begin= time and put the result as the end= time).

In which file? tips.cfg?game.cfg?HUH??!!!!!!!!!

jg · Post by jg » November 6th, 2006, 4:23 pm

Woo_Hoi wrote: In which file? tips.cfg?game.cfg?HUH??!!!!!!!!!

I guess he meant the unit*.cfg file. Which you can find in the units folder.

jg

*put the unit's name here.

Woo_Hoi · Post by **Woo_Hoi** » November 12th, 2006, 7:36 am

so I need to EDIT every unit file?

Lord_Aether · Post by **Lord_Aether** » November 12th, 2006, 6:07 pm

Yes, you need to edit every unit file.

Post by **zookeeper** » November 12th, 2006, 6:20 pm

Lord Aether wrote:Yes, you need to edit every unit file.

Actually he could just edit the scenario file, if my previous suggestion of how this could be done would work. Which I doubt a bit. Besides, the whole thing is dumb and pointless to begin with, so who cares, really.