I'm trying to add a leadership ability for a unit, which will increase certain stats of units inside a field but I have no idea how. I have the field ready and I tested it with health damage instead so for now it slowly kills allies within the field instead:



I've made a number of mods already but I just can't completely get lua scripting. D;

So what you want to do is have the actors in the field receive less damage? This is taken from the NoGibDeath lua function, modified to use your actor checking.



Something like that might work (although I haven't tested it for your application). I know this code generally works for reducing damage.

There are some definable properties when creating an actor's .ini code called AimDistance and Perceptiveness that can make an actor more effective in combat, but short of copying and pasting code for every defined actor and increasing these values, then replacing actors in the scene with these enhanced actors when they're in the field, they can't really help you out here.

One interesting thing you could try is altering actor AI. In the HumanBehaviors.lua script there's this piece of code:


So you could try changing an actors aimSpeed and aimSkill if they're within the field.

One thing I read in another forum post here was that if an actor is or has an object in the group "Brains" or "Snipers" they will aim like they are a sniper. This means you can change that property of an actor while they're in the field to have better weapon proficiency that way. Remember, setting an actor to group "Brains" means that all enemy actors with AIMODE_BRAINHUNT will hunt that actor down.