Goal is to convert all use of SOLDIERTYPE->ubID and any other ID fields that reference the same ID to a safer type than UINT16. Same with any function that's supposed to take ubID
As per the old comment, even though the field value is updated partially according to whether there are known enemies present or not, it's not used for anything.
Requires accompanying gameDir change.
MercOpinions.xml now only contains opinions that are not 0. A new tag with fields "id" and "modifier" are used instead of old ones that had 255 <Opinion%d> $value$ </Opinion%d> tags for all profiles.
Loading time of MercOpinions.xml went down from ~4.047 s to 0.011 s due to this change with default 1.13 VFS config.
A small cmd utility tool for converting existing MercOpinions.xml data into the new format is available at https://github.com/Asdow/JA2-ConvertXMLData/tree/master
reworking r9343
- the part about Food System is obsolete, already was happening in code prior to r9343
- the flags got removed and a boolean is used instead, allowing a simpler function for the remaining disease
- wether an item is considered exclusive to disease feature or not is decided by usage of tag in items.xml
reworking r9343
- no need for Foodsystem flag, restricting food items to food system was already part of the code prior to r9343 (in IsItemLegal by silversurfer)
- for disease system changed flag to boolean
- two new options in ja2options.ini
ALTERNATIVE IMP CREATION
- adds new additional backgrounds, exclusive to this option
- which IMP backgrounds will be available at selection is determined by previously made choices for skills, character traits and disablities
- if a tag in background is contradicting to content of skill/character/disability, it won't be shown at selection
- what's considered contradicting is based on what's been found in code for conntent of skill/character/disability
- i.e. HeatIntolerant adds a penalty for desert and tropical sectors, so don't show backgrounds that add bonus for those sectortypes instead
- a new tag <alt_impcreation, has been added to backgrounds for this as well
- if that tag is found, it will be considered as additional IMP background exclusive to the option
REDUCED IMP CREATION
- same as above, but this time only the new additional backgrounds will be avaialable at selection
- same rules for possible restrictions to be shown
ALTERNATIVE IMP CREATION is required for REDUCED IMP CREATION to work
For ja2options.ini, a new category, "Backgrounds" was created.
This will contain the two new options and the general option to enable backgrounds
Accompanying changes in gamedir:
INIEditorJA2Options.xml
ja2options.ini
backgrounds.xml
This check was preventing enemies from retreating into another sector if tactical AI retreat was enabled, leading into AI deadlock every time AI_ACTION_RUNAWAY was the decision.
Asdow
kitty624
Marco Costaandmajcosta
Andrzej Fałkowski