Wasteland, some old stuff

Here the old Wasteland the ClanWars demo (2004),
I removed it a while ago from the website, as I was working on a total rework.
But I never brought the rework to a full game. It was supposed to be
a strict Client-Server system (did work fine on LAN), But 3dGS is not a multiplayerprogrammers friend,
so I abandoned it.

Here the old Hard-AI demo, one level, destroy the villians base.

You need to collect scrap with the scavangers and pump water with the wells,
very classic RTS usage.

You can use the code freely, to see how to set up an RTS

clanwars.zip 15MB

Ups, just played it and got overrun

this is the "Hard AI" Demo, as requested by some players back then,
who thought it was to easy.
Try to Build a barrack and some Raiders/troopers quickly, to stand the first Rush.


This version is a bit buggy,
to avoid the first Rush, place the green trooper in the northwest,
after he is killed, the enemies stay at their point, and you can build up the base
without getting overrun.
(use units as baits, that get attacked, so the enemy troup chases after them,
and does not get to the base, in the early part of the game)

To build raiders, you need to build an HQ, and make the tavern upgrade,
then build barracks.
You also need to build waterwells (upgrade in the scrapyard)
onto the green-grass fields.

That's a very kind contribution!

Are you going to stop working on this RTS entirely? That would be so bad, I really liked it! Anyways, thanks for the contribution, great to be able to see how you've done the AI, especially pathfinding with groups, it'll take a while before I fully understand how you did it though hehehe,

Edit: After a quick test, it gives some errors trying to run it ... A error telling a line is too big (1024) characters or something and a lot of pointer errors and 2 missing wad files .. Doesn't matter that much though, I'm interested in the code only,

Cheers

Lol that deffinately is difficult. Got overran a few times. Last time I at least got a few things built Very cool game cant wait to see the new improved version... hopefully it wont be as hard

Starting it with A6 is probably a problem, it is build with A5com.

I have done a much better job on the rework, concerning groupmovement,
but the old demo works good anyway in this part.

The AI is fairly simple, ist just builds up the base, collects ressources, and
then does rush-attacks into the players base in certain time periods.

If you want to reduce the AI hardness, you need to make the rush-cycles longer
(somewhere in the code)

Aaah okey, thanks for pointing that out ..

Cheers

insert: var video_screen = 1; //Fullscreen

to get it easyer:

in Ai_core look for


//#1
if((ai_attack_number==0)&&(ai_hq_attack<0)&&(enemy_raider>1)&&(player_schmiede<1))//&&(enemy_trooper>3))//&&(enemy_flame>1))
{ai_attack_number+=1;ai_attack_hq=1;wait(1); ai_attack_hq=0;ai_hq_attack=3000;} //commando, attackiere HQ durch alle kampfeinheiten
//#2
if((ai_attack_number>0)&&(ai_hq_attack<0)&&(enemy_raider>4)&&(player_schmiede<1))//&&(enemy_trooper>3))//&&(enemy_flame>1))
{ai_attack_number+=1;ai_attack_hq=1;wait(1); ai_attack_hq=0;ai_hq_attack=3000;} //commando, attackiere HQ durch alle kampfeinheiten
/*
//#3 -> bis schmiede da
if((ai_attack_number>=2)&&(ai_hq_attack<0)&&(enemy_raider>4)&&(player_schmiede<1))//&&(enemy_trooper>3))//&&(enemy_flame>1))
{ai_attack_number+=1;ai_attack_hq=1;wait(1); ai_attack_hq=0;ai_hq_attack=1000;} //commando, attackiere HQ durch alle kampfeinheiten
*/
//ongoing, wenn schmiede da
if((ai_hq_attack<0)&&(enemy_raider>5)&&(player_schmiede>0)&&(enemy_trooper>4))
{ai_attack_hq=1;wait(1); ai_attack_hq=0;ai_hq_attack=3000;} //commando, attackiere HQ durch alle kampfeinheiten


the old time was ai_hq_attack=1000;

change it to ai_hq_attack=3000; for example, to increase teh attack time.


also you need to change the nam : search.wdl to search_.wdl


then it should run in A6 also (I dont use the current beta version, it
starts with the last stable realease of A6)

In the zip file it's already search_.wdl , but that doesn't seem to be the biggest problem. It's the mainobs.wdl, it gives an error for a line being too long. And after that it gives some errors about filenames which are too long...

Cheers

What A6 version do you use?
I just started it, and it worked with my A6com 6.31.4

out of the GST builder (not wed...)



I still get overrun btw,


change

player_scrap=2000; //mit 300 credits anfangen
enemy_scrap=2000; //mit 300 credits anfangen

in main, to

player_scrap=5000; //mit 300 credits anfangen
player_water=1000;
enemy_scrap=1000; //mit 300 credits anfangen

for example

I'm using A6.40.5 ... I may have to put those files into my work folder, but normally this should not matter at all, it's giving all sorts of errors still. I'll upload a screenshot soon .. Edit: Oww wait, I see part of the problem .. I haven't got 3dgs installed on my C drive, and certain wdl's point directly to those directory, right?



Cheers

you have to start main.wdl not mainobs.wdl

it is probably because WED is making some problems,
start it with a batch file then.

The demo is very nice and does a lot joke

I DID IT WOOT
I got the reds after about 5 hours of playing time

Cool, so it is managable ...
I guess you used some units as targets, so the red units did
not attack your base?

wow, it looks great, how is the current version coming so far all we've seen screens of were your shadows thing, im waiting to see some actual gameplay.

that was a very fun game to play! I really didn't felt i was playing a gstudio game at all.. I wonder why you gave up on it.. you could have made a custom tool for your multiplayer needs i guess(but yeah, i wouldn't use gstudio's one either)

i managed to finish it too.. the ai being too hard was the main reason i kept playing it... and i also had to learn how much resources each unit needed cause it wouldn't display anywhere..

i had to build two water pumps very fast so i can start producing those raider guys.. 2 raiders and your main dude are enough to repel the first attack.. and then after the second attack, you can build that oil pump and it gets pretty easy after that.. Reminded me a bit of Warcraft's II ai for some reason.. it was a nightmare to repel 7 of them in Hard for the first 10 minutes. but if you did, they'd start acting a bit stupid since things aren't too straightforward after some point, and that's where Human's intuition comes in:)

Anyway, well done. This is one of the few A6 games that i actually played and had fun with, so that must mean something..

Cheers,
Aris

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Cool, so it is managable ...
I guess you used some units as targets, so the red units did
not attack your base?

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Yup its managable, no matter how hard.

What I did, is I took my single trooper, and after realizing that the reds ALWAYS come from the northern pass, set him up there to hold them back as long as possible. After they kill him, if they dont find any other new target they stay, which means I picked at the southern scraps first. This should be fixed, both that they only come from north and that they stop once they get a kill and find no other.

anyways, I built up my base ASAP, first building scrapyard then upgrading to drilling devices while building wells, whuile the other two workes soely scrapped. Then I built my HQ. Its weird, it seems that the tavern is only accessable sometimes. anyways, I upgraded my HQ ASAS to the comm tower, then the barracks. When I finished t he barracks, a group of raiders attacked my base, but once they are attackign something, they dont stop if theyre attacked, so I kileld them with some last second raiders, then built a decoy scrapyard. This way, once any raid came in they started on that and then id bring in a raider group to kil lem. From there, it was easy to build up my army.