Hi fellas.
Question here... I've been working on a mod since Dom2... its mostly a mix of things that I like. I'm extremely, extremely picky about getting things just so however, so, I guess, its had a rather long development history. Anyway....
One of the units I made is a howitzer or field cannon. The unit works in game just fine acutally, looks good, works good. I don't think its overpowered for its cost or anything. Playing the game with my buddy it seems to be powerful but expensive and even with battles where I made a bunch of them I've lost now and again so I think its good stat/cost wise.. here is my question though -- the unit pic is a howitzer, with 3 crew members. I think it looks pretty sharp actually. But I was thinking it would be really kewl if as the gun took damage, the crew members died. For example, it shows a guy with a torch for firing it, a guy with a powder sack, and a guy with a swab staff (to clean the barrel between firings
. Anyway, I'd like the guys to kick off as it takes damage.
I think the way to do this is with #secondshape. So the unit has 30 hitpoints right now, 10 for each crewmembers in theory right? So would I give it 10 hitpoints with a second shape thats the same but with a different unit pic showing 1 less guy, then that has 10 hp and a second shape with just one crew memeber. I think thats it. Pretty easily done really. So... what happens after the battle?
According to the mod manual... I can use #secondshape to have it change into another when it hp are low, then #firstshape to change back when its better. Ok, how about chaining those? So it starts out good, gets arrowed a lot -- changed to a pic with 2 guys. More arrows ensue. That gets changed into a #secondshape showing one guy. Alright, so lets say that it gets healed -- it goes back to #firstshape showing two guys, then it gets healed again, it goes back to #firstshape showing all three? That seems to be what would happen I think. Something I'm a little unclear on... if its in its "thirdshape" showing 1 guy and a battle ends with the unit surviving but beat up -- does it heal up to the original with 3 guys or with 2?
(Actually, right now it fires 1 every 3 turns. I'd also like to change that so when 1 crew members dies it fires every 4 turns, then 1 every 5... but AFAIK, and As Far As I Tested, you can't have it fire less then 1 in 3 -- too bad!)
Thanks in advance
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