Topic: scenario AI

@kaputtnik Videos look great!!!

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Thanks

For the curtain: I think it would be nice to have lua acces to the state where a field is 'half' hidden. I guess it's the state 'seen' but hidden (no military or other thing has sight to it). This state appears for example if a military building on the border is dismantled. Having access to it (set/reveal it) would make the curtain much smoother. Anyway my code to extract rows seems not to work correct.

I have adjusted the random hide/reveal to make it dependent of time and number of fields. That looks better Current code looks like this (for reveal):

function random_reveal(plr, region, time)
   -- if no time is given the default '1000' (1 sec) is used
   if not time then time = 1000 end
   -- Calculate the sleep as integer
   delay = math.floor(time / #region)
   -- Create a table with randomized fields
   -- This is done for efficience reasons
   rand_tbl = {}
   while #region > 0 do
      f = math.random(1, #region)
      table.insert(rand_tbl, region[f])
      table.remove(region, f)
   end
   --reveal field by field:
   for i, f in ipairs(rand_tbl) do
      plr:reveal_fields({f})
      sleep(delay)
   end
end

I am unsure about the table rand_tbl. Prior i used reveal_fields() directly in the loop with random, like here for random_hide() (call of hide_fields() instead of reveal_fields()):

function random_hide(plr, region, time)
   if not time then time = 1000 end
   delay = math.floor(time / #region)
   while #region > 0 do
      f = math.random(1, #region)
      plr:hide_fields({region[f]}, true)
      table.remove(region, f)
      sleep(delay)
   end
end

I guessed that removing a value from a Lua table is much time consuming, because the remaining values have to be shifted. The time used for shifting may has to be added to the time for sleep(). Don't know if this could be measured... in some small tests i can't see any noticeable difference, if an extra table is used or not. Any hints?

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Extra sleep time needed for shifting the table is probably below 1ms, so I'd say we don't need to do anything for that.

The concentric is better for the timing, but the random looks prettier... decisions, decisions. Maybe random for a maximum radius, followed by concentric? I definitely like concentric better than curtain.

As to the new function needed, please add it to the bug. It will be a few weeks until I can resume programming.

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• added kaputtniks animated reveal / hide funtions to helper_functions.lua

I am preparing a branch for those functions and put them into a global file to be able to use the animations also in other campaigns. The branch misses the changes to other campaigns yet.

• fixed the texts of the objective to collect the pieces of the shrine, because I discovered that I hided 6 pieces instead of 5 to the map. (@kaputtnik: may I beg you to add another piece to your image of saledus the missing artifact is the same as the upper right one)

Yes, will do.

I am very busy with normal work, so i have less time for widelands these days... it may take some time to make the changes.

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Which operating system do you have? I could also do the first proofreading round and merge into trunk. You could do your proofreading on the trunk version then, and we can hold off on adding the translations to Transifex until you're done.

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