Scripting

[MikeAP]

I'm still here - still trying to learn the BA2 editor.

This time I'm trying to understand scripting and how the developer/scenario designers were able to script things.

I'm looking at Mission 5 from the Barbarossa Campaign - at one point you take a counter-attack from a group of soviet tanks and I'm just wondering how it was done. I checked the mission in the editor and see that the units in question are on TEAM 7.

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//Move TEAM 7
	if( (side==1) && (GetTurn() >= 4) && (GetGlobal("team7_act") == 0) )
	{
		SetGlobal("team7_act",1);
		SetTeamOrder(1, 7, 0, MakeAIOrderAIPoint(5, 0));
		SetTeamOrder(1, 7, 1, MakeAIOrderAIPoint(2, 0));
	}

It looks like they will initiate movement on TURN 4, but what does SetTeamOrder mean? 1 = side? 7 = team? 0 = turn?

And then MakeAIOrderAIPoint - are they being ordered to move to point 5 on turn 0?

I wish we had a Scripting plugin to make this easier.

Any help would be appreciated. BA2 is still the best tactical turn-based game out there.

[pipfromslitherine]

SetTeamOrder is documented (along with all the internal commands) in the file Documents/My Games/BA2/AUTODOCS/battlescript.txt

MakeAIOrderAIPoint is a script command (that is, defined in the scripting somewhere) - if you are using Notepad++ (which you should be) it's pretty easy to find in files and take a look at the code itself for the function.

Cheers

Pip