Adding Formations?

posted on April 20th, 2004, 1:47 am

What file(s) do I need to modify to add additional formations to the menu selection. I've already made the new formation file & button but I can't seem to get it to show up under the formation options in the game.

posted on April 21st, 2004, 2:14 am

Yeah, I want the assault walls and X defense thingys, the battles look so good with this

posted on April 22nd, 2004, 12:48 am

Anybody here?

posted on April 22nd, 2004, 1:26 am

Only us 1337 FO PLAYAs

posted on April 22nd, 2004, 3:22 am

Well great. Is their there anyone who has any modding experience willing to help a old man out?

posted on April 25th, 2004, 9:18 pm

i think its nearly impossible, cause of the space the ships need.. all flat formations should work but not the highone´s u know what i mean..

posted on May 14th, 2004, 2:00 pm

Also what ever happened to tatics.. they were able to circle a target, or figure eight around or what it was... where did it go... I much prefer moving ships over stationary ones...

posted on May 14th, 2004, 3:51 pm

i think they need a fix before, cause of the new movement of the ships and the height of the maps..

[DOCa Cola]

posted on May 14th, 2004, 7:01 pm

Last edited by DOCa Cola on May 14th, 2004, 7:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.

i think its nearly impossible, cause of the space the ships need.. all flat formations should work but not the highone´s u know what i mean..

yea, i agree with kl0k. we removed height. but don't worry, formations are on our list

DOCa Cola

posted on May 15th, 2004, 12:53 am

I agree uberdan, I asked Optec awhile back but forgot the answer

posted on May 28th, 2004, 5:10 am

yea, i agree with kl0k. we removed height. but don't worry, formations are on our list

DOCa Cola

Thats good to know
I`ve been playing your mod for only 2 days now, but the one thing I realized is really missing is some movement during the fights (especially with small vessels).

Nice to see that whatever could need some additional features/fixing etc. you already seem to be working at *g*

posted on May 28th, 2004, 6:41 am

sure

Moved to feature requests

DOCa Cola

posted on May 28th, 2004, 5:07 pm

formations are a very good thing. maybe you guys can make a new fromation: X-formation just flat, that way after the first wave of ships go into battl the next will follow at a differnt position and not right be hind the first wave.

X formation:



that way the fist wave is closer and eat's up all the enemy ship on the outer edge and the inner wave scoops up ate other ship like a buket or shuvle!



Is that a good Idea?

posted on May 29th, 2004, 11:01 pm

hehe, sure it is i have thought of quite the same thing for x-formation

DOCa Cola

posted on May 30th, 2004, 4:05 am

I got some good formations ideas too, that might interest someone. From one of my games, "Homeworld", there are a bunch of formations.

Broad (straight line across), Delta (A V shaped), Sphere (All ships form a Sphere around a target that they are protecting or attacking), X (you all know), Wall (All ships form an impassible wall in space).

I will try to get some pics of these from Homeworld, and post them here for people that don't own the game, and can't picture what I am talking about. But I think that some of these, if not all of them, would make a nice addition to FO.