AI modding: list of available templates

[DylanDog]

Hello
How can I find out a list of all available templates for building tanks an AI can build?
If I look at the file templates.txt, I see that only few templates are listed.
Just to give an example BecomePrey uses many templates not listed in templates.txt

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tmpl0[20]	TEMPLATE	"SK-Cobra-Hover-HMG"
tmpl0[19]	TEMPLATE	"SK-Cobra-Hover-Lancer"
tmpl0[18]	TEMPLATE	"SK-Mantis-Hover-HVC"
tmpl0[17]	TEMPLATE	"SK-Python-Hover-Hcannon"

...just to indicate some.

thanks!

[KukY]

In debug mode,on debug menu,switch to wanted player,click on units and watch them...

[Ilr]

Doesn't extracting the list from MP.WZ also work? ...(and is a lot better for Copy-Pasting coding anyway)

It worked for me... I think...

[DylanDog]

I thought no one had answered to this question...let me explain first why I need this: I am developing a new AI and would like to let it build a template like:

medium cannon - cobra - halftrack

the issue is that I do not know how to call it. I have tried varus combinations of names but no one is working.

Looking at the file templates.txt, this template seems to be missing, but I noticed that also many other templates are missing in the templates.txt file, see below 2 templates that the AI is building and that arenot listed in templates.txt :

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        "SK-Cobra-Hover-Lancer"
        "SK-Python-Hover-Hcannon"

..therefore I have thought that the templates do not have to be listed in this file but must follow some rule...WHICH ONE?
For example if I try with

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         "SK-Cobra-Hover-Hcannon"

...it is not working even if it is a combination of the two mentioned working templates.

and what is more confusing...if I try to add to the ai script the template "NP-M-MdCannon-Halftrack" which is indeed in the templates.txt I get an error message...I am lost!!!!!

In debug mode,on debug menu,switch to wanted player,click on units and watch them...

1- I have tried with the debugmode, I can see the name of the unit but this is not the name I need to indicate on the AI script...the name of the units you see in debug mode are more like a description.

Doesn't extracting the list from MP.WZ also work? ...(and is a lot better for Copy-Pasting coding anyway)

It worked for me... I think...

what do you mean with MP.WZ?

[KukY]

I thought no one had answered to this question...let me explain first why I need this: I am developing a new AI and would like to let it build a template like:

medium cannon - cobra - halftrack

the issue is that I do not know how to call it. I have tried varus combinations of names but no one is working.

Looking at the file templates.txt, this template seems to be missing, but I noticed that also many other templates are missing in the templates.txt file, see below 2 templates that the AI is building and that arenot listed in templates.txt :

Code: Select all

        "SK-Cobra-Hover-Lancer"
        "SK-Python-Hover-Hcannon"

..therefore I have thought that the templates do not have to be listed in this file but must follow some rule...WHICH ONE?
For example if I try with

Code: Select all

         "SK-Cobra-Hover-Hcannon"

...it is not working even if it is a combination of the two mentioned working templates.

and what is more confusing...if I try to add to the ai script the template "NP-M-MdCannon-Halftrack" which is indeed in the templates.txt I get an error message...I am lost!!!!!

In debug mode,on debug menu,switch to wanted player,click on units and watch them...

1- I have tried with the debugmode, I can see the name of the unit but this is not the name I need to indicate on the AI script...the name of the units you see in debug mode are more like a description.

Doesn't extracting the list from MP.WZ also work? ...(and is a lot better for Copy-Pasting coding anyway)

It worked for me... I think...

what do you mean with MP.WZ?

Call it?!?
You are trying to make templates by changing names?
As much as I know,you can call your template "7564957349",
but you need to change diffrent values,
ones that designate body and propulsion,
and weapon in seperate file.
TxtEditing

[DylanDog]

Call it?!?
You are trying to make templates by changing names?
As much as I know,you can call your template "7564957349",
but you need to change diffrent values,
ones that designate body and propulsion,
and weapon in seperate file.
TxtEditing

...thanks !
all I needed was the link TxtEditing.
I was not aware of the file mp.wz...I have always looked at the stats folder within the base.wz file and not the mp.wz.file!

[KukY]

...thanks !
all I needed was the link TxtEditing.
I was not aware of the file mp.wz...I have always looked at the stats folder within the base.wz file and not the mp.wz.file!

Well,now i know that one good thing happened today...