Hello There.

This is my first post here and i plan to buy the game soon . I don't speak english very well, so sorry for any mistakes.

I'm making a (Bloody) Napoleonic Wars Mod, and i need some advice.

First of wall, i want to say that i plan to make an interactive battlefield, where the player will be able to take control of any soldier.

I already made a simple scene (on a plain dirt map) where soldier are spawned on both sides and they confront each other in the middle, left side is the player side.

Also, i made cool random cannon shots (just blazing balls spawning at high speeds from both extremities of the map) (it's not actually random cause lua's "random" command is pseudo-random, but it works ).

My goal is to simulate a battlefield with decent soldiers behaviour and lots of gore and oceans of blood.

However, i can't workaround some problems.

First, every AI behaviour is disastrous. I thought the AIMODE_GOTO together with well-placed waypoints would do the job, but the soldiers keep walking over the other (of the same team) and killing their friends. So the temporary solution is to use the following:



and AIMODE_SENTRY.

also, the aimdistance for cpu actors must be a way higher to enable them to engage far targets, however, it seems impossible to set this in lua, i tried:

and some other commands after defining the actor type and before actually creating it (MovableMan:AddActor).

Lua scripting is cool, but the other things (Actors, Effects, Materials) are very confusing, boring and badly documentated. Also, the arms and legs articulations sprites should be automagically generated imho.

I'm attaching some SSs. I've made one type of trooper (a napoleonic soldier, i plan to make one variation, and the other side, the allies, because it will reproduce the "real" (hehehe) waterloo battle).
I've made two kinds of blood, one is lighter and falls slowly.
The cannons projectiles (balls) i made, but the blazing trail are from the base files.
I made one weapon, the musket, the trail isn't very long in these pics because i'm using 'DeltaTime = 0.005', the smoke is also from the base files and i couldn't find a way to make the blades actually hurt.

My english is very bad and i really didn't mean to be rude or disrespectful. Sorry.

The SSs:

2 Troops Marching to Death.


Firing their muskets in vain against a high-tech flying-machine .


The machine has its revenge >D


The cannonball hits his leg (poor guy)


Cannon headshot.


Cannon Amazing Dual Kill Headshot (1 of 2)

Cannon Amazing Dual Kill Headshot (2 of 2)

Could you post the mod? I'd love to try it.

Easy solution to soldiers crushing each other: HitsMOs = 0 in the AHuman definition.

welcome to the forums, i really look forward to seeing what you can do, cause this is better than most mods right here.
I would look at cavecrickets controller code for the ai

I would use some of the code from the smartbrain, or anything similar to keep units from diving into the ground when they have the enemy's head in their crosshairs.

Oh and the blood looks great!

what happen the Napoleonic mod of his? did he finish it?

I've got a reason or two to think he didn't finish:

1) Last visited: Sun May 16, 2010 2:21 am
2) You've just necro'd this thread.

So don't get your hopes up.

Actually i can definitely say he didn't finish it. He only has one post on the site.