Topic: Add-On

the-x Topic Opener Joined: 2019-01-19, 12:23 Posts: 967 One Elder of Players	Posted at: 2020-09-17, 10:22 We have collected many Ideas for a potential Add-On to widelands. The aim of the add-on could be customization, which means that players can change parameters to have a nice experience. Probably it shouldnt change anything in graphics or anything else that needs a lot of time to do, but only in making parameters adaptive, like Create your own wares at the start in HQ Maybe you like a challenge with very low wares and want to give your AI opponent even more than a trading outpost You want to sail to an Island with the lowest wares that are possible? Find out and then play. Change the health, evade parameters for games in single player and give the AI +20% Bonus Top Quote

hessenfarmer Joined: 2014-12-11, 22:16 Posts: 2648 One Elder of Players Location: Bavaria	Posted at: 2020-09-17, 11:59 the-x wrote: We have collected many Ideas for a potential Add-On to widelands. The aim of the add-on could be customization, which means that players can change parameters to have a nice experience. Probably it shouldnt change anything in graphics or anything else that needs a lot of time to do, but only in making parameters adaptive, like Create your own wares at the start in HQ Is already possible just copy the HQ starting condition and create a new one from this. (or make a backup and change the values as you like) Maybe you like a challenge with very low wares and want to give your AI opponent even more than a trading outpost can be done with the same principle just create new start conditions and add them to data/tribes/initialization/init.lua You want to sail to an Island with the lowest wares that are possible? Find out and then play. Implemented, more the less, You may modify the discovery condition to lower the wares even further. in the way described above. Change the health, evade parameters for games in single player and give the AI +20% Bonus currently not doable per Player but per tribe. so copy a tribe and name it tribe_AI might do the trick. But this is a bit more complicated as there are multiple files in different locations to copy. Top Quote

the-x Topic Opener Joined: 2019-01-19, 12:23 Posts: 967 One Elder of Players	Posted at: 2020-09-17, 12:04 hessenfarmer wrote: the-x wrote: We have collected many Ideas for a potential Add-On to widelands. The aim of the add-on could be customization, which means that players can change parameters to have a nice experience. Probably it shouldnt change anything in graphics or anything else that needs a lot of time to do, but only in making parameters adaptive, like Create your own wares at the start in HQ Is already possible just copy the HQ starting condition and create a new one from this. (or make a backup and change the values as you like) Maybe you like a challenge with very low wares and want to give your AI opponent even more than a trading outpost can be done with the same principle just create new start conditions and add them to data/tribes/initialization/init.lua Sounds very interesting, im just gonna try it Top Quote

the-x Topic Opener Joined: 2019-01-19, 12:23 Posts: 967 One Elder of Players	Posted at: 2020-09-17, 12:15 In the "tribes" folder there are only "bildings" "images" "wares" - There is no initialization/init.lua . Maybe that problem is caused by windows but how to change the starting wares anyway? Top Quote

hessenfarmer Joined: 2014-12-11, 22:16 Posts: 2648 One Elder of Players Location: Bavaria	Posted at: 2020-09-17, 13:26 the-x wrote: In the "tribes" folder there are only "bildings" "images" "wares" - There is no initialization/init.lua . Maybe that problem is caused by windows but how to change the starting wares anyway? well tthis is the new location in current trunk. Up to b21 the starting conditions can be found in \data\tribes\scripting\starting_conditions\TRIBENAME Custom start conditions need to be added in data\tribes\preload.lua Edited: 2020-09-17, 13:26 Top Quote

Nordfriese Joined: 2017-01-17, 17:07 Posts: 1949 OS: Debian Testing Version: Latest master One Elder of Players Location: 0x55555d3a34c0	Posted at: 2020-09-17, 16:22 Why not wait until the add-on system (which is under active development and fairly mature already) is merged to master, and experiment then? FYI: an example starting condition add-on that should close #3885: https://github.com/Noordfrees/wl_addons_server/tree/master/addons/stronger-trading-outpost.wad Top Quote

the-x Topic Opener Joined: 2019-01-19, 12:23 Posts: 967 One Elder of Players	Posted at: 2020-09-18, 10:58 hessenfarmer wrote: the-x wrote: In the "tribes" folder there are only "bildings" "images" "wares" - There is no initialization/init.lua . Maybe that problem is caused by windows but how to change the starting wares anyway? well tthis is the new location in current trunk. Up to b21 the starting conditions can be found in \data\tribes\scripting\starting_conditions\TRIBENAME Custom start conditions need to be added in data\tribes\preload.lua I tried sometimes, but there is no initialization/init.lua, or \data\tribes\scripting\starting_conditions no matter what i try. It is also not hidden and everywhere the same problem with windows? Top Quote

the-x Topic Opener Joined: 2019-01-19, 12:23 Posts: 967 One Elder of Players	Posted at: 2020-09-18, 13:49 Nordfriese wrote: Why not wait until the add-on system (which is under active development and fairly mature already) is merged to master, and experiment then? FYI: an example starting condition add-on that should close #3885: https://github.com/Noordfrees/wl_addons_server/tree/master/addons/stronger-trading-outpost.wad good idea, when gets it finished Edited: 2020-09-18, 14:55 Top Quote

hessenfarmer Joined: 2014-12-11, 22:16 Posts: 2648 One Elder of Players Location: Bavaria	Posted at: 2020-09-18, 13:52 the-x wrote: hessenfarmer wrote: the-x wrote: In the "tribes" folder there are only "bildings" "images" "wares" - There is no initialization/init.lua . Maybe that problem is caused by windows but how to change the starting wares anyway? well tthis is the new location in current trunk. Up to b21 the starting conditions can be found in \data\tribes\scripting\starting_conditions\TRIBENAME Custom start conditions need to be added in data\tribes\preload.lua I tried sometimes, but there is no initialization/init.lua, or \data\tribes\scripting\starting_conditions no matter what i try. It is also not hidden and everywhere the same problem with windows? you need to start in the folder where the game was installed. Default is Username/appdata/local/widelands in this folder you find the data folder. Appdata is a hidden folder though. Top Quote

JanO Joined: 2015-08-02, 10:56 Posts: 177 At home in WL-forums	Posted at: 2020-09-18, 16:14 You could also ask your operating systems's search function and make it look out for ANY *init.lua on your hard disk The you just pick the one which seems to make most sense. Top Quote