Auto Complete of Vehicles and Ships |
Where does the AI or computer get the components to auto complete a ship/vehicle during the design portion in the game? Its where you select auto complete, select design type and it automatically fills in the components from a template somewhere.
How does one modify the components being selected by the computer during that process? What data files are involved?
Looking to customize the fighters (and some other units) to auto design, I think this is the reason the AI won't select and build the units because it doesn't have a template to work with.
Re: Auto Complete of Vehicles and Ships
Thanks Captain Kwok, that was the direction I went and I have success. I have AI players designing and building units and ships according to the ones I put into the game.
However, I still can't get the auto design feature to auto fill the components in during ship/unit creation with a human controlled player. Any thoughts?
Re: Auto Complete of Vehicles and Ships
Do you mean when you select "auto complete" with a design type it does nothing?
Re: Auto Complete of Vehicles and Ships
Exactly, its been running me crazy trying to find the reason why it doesn't do anything but the AI is designing fighters and units with all the basic components I set up in the design data file.
I've copied and used the main and setup scripts for all the empires in the mod and they are now making the units I was looking for but when I select that AI race as a human player and go design the exact unit it fails to auto fill the components 
Re: Auto Complete of Vehicles and Ships
Did you pick a AI type for your empire or did you leave it blank?
Re: Auto Complete of Vehicles and Ships
That was it, I traced the three types and sent them through the compiler along with the default empire files and that fixed it right up. I have the empires AI building all the units and ships I listed with the components I wanted each empire to specialize in:)
Thanks again Captain Kwok, you rock!!
Re: Auto Complete of Vehicles and Ships
The auto complete function uses the AI design creation routine. Follow the order of the called functions in Script_AI_DesignCreation to learn how the AI makes its ship designs. Some of those called functions will be contained in Script_AI_GlobalSettings for lists of extra components etc.
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