Dark Forecast - create your own?

[theeggman85]

I want to try to create a Dark Forecast-style map for myself, but I don't know any python whatsoever. Can I somehow use a basic AI file to generate my enemies and make the objective, and then create my own map w/ cycling weather?

[Wintermute]

it is all done with WML.

[theeggman85]

it is all done with WML.

What is that?

[Peter the Great]

it is all done with WML.

What is that?

I'm surprised you have been in the dark.

[theeggman85]

What is that?

I'm surprised you have been in the dark.

I'm basically an uber Wesnoth n00b, so I don't know much. thanks for the link; I'll check that out.

[jb]

Dark Forecast is full of pretty extreme WML, due to all the random variables. It even has a built in weather tracker that is smart enough to not repeat the same weather type twice in a row, even though it's random.

If you just want to make a normal survival type of map I suggest you take a look at 6pl team survival as it has fixed spawns which are much easier to code.

[theeggman85]

Dark Forecast is full of pretty extreme WML, due to all the random variables. It even has a built in weather tracker that is smart enough to not repeat the same weather type twice in a row, even though it's random.

If you just want to make a normal survival type of map I suggest you take a look at 6pl team survival as it has fixed spawns which are much easier to code.

Oh thanks, I didnt realize that that map was programmed differently. I think someone should make some kind of a template for coding this kind of a map, cause that would enable anyone to create their own spawn points and such with relative ease.

[jb]

I think someone should make some kind of a template for coding this kind of a map, cause that would enable anyone to create their own spawn points and such with relative ease.

You don't need a template. You can just look at 6player team survival .cfg file -(this comes with wesnoth) copy/paste/rename it, and replace values as needed. Nobody is going to do the work for you, but that is a great place to start since the bulk of the work is already done.

[theeggman85]

Oh I know no one will do the work for me, I'm talking in the place of people who have no idea what they're doing. I just think it would be appreciated among people who don't know how to edit these files if someone were to make a tutorial for doing this. I will give that cfg file a looksie

[Eragon]

WML - Wesnoth Markup Language

[A Guy]

You can learn a lot by looking at a simple scenario and asking questions about it. Also, we won't bite if you ask questions (it's how I learned WML, and the people that I asked questions didn't bite, at least).