Megadroid's Mission Mod Preview

Hi all

I've been working on a single player mission mod along with redmanmark. It's gotten to the point where there is something to see and not many bugs, so I thought I would post the current version here.

To install it, just download the attached zip file and paste the contents into your A2 installation directory. My mission overwrites the first tutorial mission for now, so it only works on the PP, since FleetOps doesn't have a missons screen.

To run it, just go to single player and start the user interface tutorial.

Some features of MMM:

• Partial Lua integration (still some way to go before everything is accecssible from lua)
• Move orders
• Visibility checks
• Objectives
• Sounds

Note : If it doesn't run, please tell me so I can fix it!

Edit - fixed now. I really hate redistributing stuff  If you were quick enough to get the broken version, redownload.

RCIX wrote:Quite impressed! if you polish it a little more and set it up some way to easily control how many and what missions are in a cmapaign you will have done what no other modder has done in something like 10 years: crack the campaign wide open!

Yes, I'm going to look at how it chooses what missions are in a campaign at some point. Just going to get all (or at least the majority) of useful stuff linked in with Lua.

Dominus_Noctis wrote:I have absolute confidence in you guys: Megadroid, you will make modding history 
I hope your summer vacation does not run out anytime soon

Indeed RCIX, I believe that is exactly what is planned

Summer holiday ends in September, but I'll still keep working on it.

I'll post more updates here when I make more interesting progress.

RCIX wrote:I don't know if it's possible but are you able to hack regular maps to add scripting? that would be sooooo cool.....

Well im using the first tutorial which is a regular map. However when I overwrote the DSL and DRL, I lost all of the original scripting. It will probably be easier this way, since I only have to figure things out once as opposed to per map. Also it would probably take about 3x as long!

However if I were to get into the game in a different way (like FleetOps does) then I would be able to run Lua alongside the existing mission scripts, but thats another mod entirely.

Thats right. I replaced the mission with my own dll which had the correct exported functions. That gets called by A2, then I went from there.             

Right, progress report time.

Things I've added/changed:

• Lua : Added include function
• Lua : Reorganised Entity functions
• Lua : Some planet functions
• Lua : Basic build queue manipulation
• Lua : Attack orders
• Lua : Defend orders
• DLL : General improvements [li]