In game > building a bunker > build tunnel between point A to point B.

say, a 800 pixel long tunnel, with a height difference. Automatically place bunker-modules together to look alright. Guaranteed to be faster. Not necessarily look better, but definitely faster. Not a huge thing considering it's not exactly timed.

Then again I might be miss-understanding "Procedural generation". based on the thread I'd guess that its the way maps are randomly generated in diablo 2? That method is really only good for random maps and unit placement, and honestly it could *probably* be done with lua.

If I misunderstood what "procedural generation" is, just ignore this.

You, uh, can't place terrainobjects with lua at this point in time, miles.

edit: whoops.

umm i dont know if anyone has already done this,
but it would be great to have a skirmish map or two where what drops out of those pesky dropships is randomly selected from all of the stuff youve got on your game

like Darkstorm troopers appearing randomly with D9 Repulsors.

although this is kinda verging on the edge of procedural generation, more like just content randomisation
(but then again so was the ronin bodypart suggestion)

And God help you if the game decides it wants to spawn a Reflective Robot with a Zero Division Cannon.

That's actually quite easily possible. Just disable normal activities and make it spawn from a list of possible actors, weapons and craft.

uh, yeah, but there's no way to generate that list without parsing .ini files; Lua has no worthwhile access to objects that aren't already loaded into the game and present in a scene

I was thinking a .txt file list with whatever you wanted to spawn. Wouldn't be terribly easy to modify unless you felt like making a program to generate the files for you.

Perhaps this is a feature you might see in a Mod Manager.
Parse all ini files, saving a list of PresetNames that are weapons or explosives (and Buyable = 1) along with the mod they came from, and then read this file inside CC with Lua. Or maybe better yet, the file is actually a script itself.

Like that? Does not seem so hard.

Yeah the mod manager reads activities and allows you to arrange your own activities,
surely if you made the ingame code create the lists the same way then it could just use the pre-existing files from the mod manager

if it was built into the mod manager how ever wouldnt it not work, because although it would be reading a randomly generated activities file, it wouldnt be generating ingame (unless theres a way to do that with the mod manager)

So from reading this thread, it appears that "Pseudo-Procedural Generation" of actors and crafts, could be achieved by randomisation?

Stonecrow, what?
The current windows mod manager can make activities, sure. That's not what I said though.
If you generate a list of PresetNames and the mod they come from then you can -- IN GAME -- spawn these things by reading this iist and making a table to then randomly select from.
It's only not 100% on-the-fly because CC cannot even load or unload mods while running.

sorry phantom,
english is my first language but im a total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with it sometimes.
I get what you mean now

procedural generation and random generation are two completely different things

stupid people use them interchangeably but that's why they're stupid

really, none of the ideas in this thread fall into either category. a random selection of an actor out of a list of functionally identical ones is not random generation.

about the only thing that I see being valid for procedural generation in CC (at any point ever) is terrain, and that'd require some pretty complex code. it's entirely possible, even right now, but, again, it'd be a lot of effort for not a lot of reward.

randomly generating things in a fairly deterministic game like CC doesn't make sense; what would get randomly generated?

the name of the father of each soldier...

The two things I can see getting feasibly generated are terrain/base layouts (not really possible at the moment due to various things) and possibly enemy presets (in the metagame, what the AI uses could just be some presets with the actors and guns chosen from their faction's arsenal).