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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Roy fokker on March 14, 2004, 02:57:11 pm

Title: tables
Post by: Roy fokker on March 14, 2004, 02:57:11 pm

which table is responsable for control the computers ships accuray and how they engage enemies?

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Post by: kasperl on March 14, 2004, 03:13:25 pm

a combo of AI and ship, IIRC.

but upgrading the AI is partiallly source code work, and partially just bloody hard.

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Post by: TopAce on March 15, 2004, 05:21:49 am

How can you combine the ai.tbl and the ships.tbl?

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Post by: karajorma on March 15, 2004, 09:59:26 am

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Originally posted by TopAce
How can you combine the ai.tbl and the ships.tbl?

He means you have to edit both files :D

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Post by: Bobboau on March 15, 2004, 10:02:17 am

well you don't realy, you can set ai type on a shiip by ship basis

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Post by: kasperl on March 15, 2004, 10:23:08 am

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Originally posted by Bobboau
well you don't realy, you can set ai type on a shiip by ship basis

oh, ok.

i am assuming people read my siggy, and only use my advice as a general "where do i look" kinda thing.

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Post by: TopAce on March 15, 2004, 01:34:43 pm

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Originally posted by karajorma


He means you have to edit both files :D

Yes, I know, just what modification in the ships.tbl may affect the Ai? Do you mean increasing shields, hitpoints and the like?

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Post by: kasperl on March 15, 2004, 01:36:35 pm

standard AI setting?

read the siggy

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Post by: Flipside on March 15, 2004, 02:43:48 pm

Kasp, you registered 3 years ago, you have 3000 posts, I just can't think of you as a newbie ;)

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Post by: Hippo on March 15, 2004, 02:51:19 pm

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Originally posted by kasperl
standard AI setting?

read the siggy

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just another newbie without any modding, FREDding or real programming experience

you haven't learned masochism until you've tried to read a Microsoft help file. -- Goober5000

...so then we're stuck with extrapolating out four points out of a single line, which is always a pain. Or rather, I am, at least. --Sticks

I freely admit I have the mentality of a 12yo -- Liberator

there's nothing there about AI...

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Post by: Lightspeed on March 15, 2004, 03:20:48 pm

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Originally posted by Flipside
Kasp, you registered 3 years ago, you have 3000 posts, I just can't think of you as a newbie ;)

I'm a noob. Wait, where do those 2127 posts come from :wtf:

:D

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Post by: Arculis on March 15, 2004, 05:55:39 pm

In editing the ai.tbl file, can  you add your own entries and assign ships to use them without messing anything up?

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Post by: aldo_14 on March 15, 2004, 07:31:40 pm

Yep.  Did it for Reci, actually.

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Post by: kasperl on March 16, 2004, 07:28:49 am

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Originally posted by Hippo




there's nothing there about AI...

no, but the newbie part is supposed to warn you i'm talking out of my ass.