Mod: UnitGen - Random nations with procedural sprites!

[shatner]

Those are some really cool developments elmokki. This creation of yours is getting pretty snazzy and I, along with many others, I'm sure, look forward to its continued refinement.

[elmokki]

Two major features shown, neither is even nearly ready enough for me to bother update the dev version.

- Commanders get ran by the elitefying filter at strength 2, giving them commandery stats and looks Sometimes there just aren't suitable helmets though, but I plan to add some light ones and a lizard full helmet one to remedy that. The tower shields there are coincidence.

- Mage generator can generate 3 tiers of mage sprites. Still needs tweaking, but results aren't bad at all right now most of the time. I do see the graphic bug on the lower row of mages, it'll get fixed.

[elmokki]

Today I added nets and poison darts as bonus weapons, rare ones though. Net required a minor feature addition since it's a bonus weapon and should be generated as such but it replaces a shield. I saw some net cavalry and first though about removing nets from mounted units and chariots, but then again if cavalry sacrifices a shield for a net, then that's what happens. Twohanders can use net without any penalties, so it's definitely a better weapon for them. Them getting it is fairly rare though.

I also reworked Randomocalypse site name generation files and code so that it now sometimes shows both primary and secondary path of a site (if there are such) in the name and it now supports dual-path names too.

And mage generation got some work too in terms of restructuring code. I get some good looking mage setups now in terms of sprites but there's no code for magic paths yet.

[elmokki]

http://koti.kapsi.fi/elmokki/dom3/un...26_2_12-v2.zip

I might release a v3 today if I feel productive. This includes magic paths for primary mages and one kind of secondary mage magic path set that's duplicated to every single secondary mage at the moment.

Also an easy .exe file for windows users.

[elmokki]

http://koti.kapsi.fi/elmokki/dom3/un...26_2_12_v3.zip

18 minutes before it would've been 27_2_12.

It actually REMOVES secondary mage paths as they were bugged as hell. It has a complete rewrite of primary mage paths.

[elmokki]

http://koti.kapsi.fi/elmokki/dom3/un...en_27_2_12.zip

Derp, now it should finally be bug free. Also generates all possible primary mages of certain path set per nation.

[elmokki]

Primary mages can be now generated with following patterns for magic:
3-3-?
3-2-1-?
3-2-?
3-1-1-?
3-1-2?
3-2? (linked)
3-2?
3-?
2-2-2? (linked)
2-2-2?
2-1-2? (linked)
2-1-1-2? (linked)
2-1-1-2?
2-1-1-1?
2-1-1-1-?
2-3? (linked)
1-3? (linked)
1-1-1-2? (not in 27-2-12 version)

In general randoms are such that only one path can reach level 4 and none of the paths can reach level 5. Exceptions to this is the linked 2-2-2? which allows both of the two paths to be level 4. Current version generates one of every setup for test, but in the future some will be rarer than the others.

I just went through secondaries and tertiaries of MA and I believe this is a fairly comprehensive list of levels possible for secondaries and tertiaries. Do tell if you can think of one more to these or primaries! One setup is listed only once even if it is available for multiple nations.

Sec:
1-1 - MA Tien'chi - caponly primary (7 picks)
2-1-1 - MA Pythium - caponly primary (7 picks)
1-2? - MA Man - caponly primary (6 picks)
2-1 - MA Marignon - caponly primary (6 picks)
2-1-? - MA Ashdod - caponly primary (3 picks), special
2-1-1-? - MA MAchaka - caponly primary (6 picks)
2-1-1 - MA Agartha - caponly primary (4 picks)
3 - MA Abysia - caponly primary (6 picks), special
2? - MA Ashdod - caponly primary (3 picks), special
1-1-1-? - MA Eriu - caponly primary (7 picks)

Tert:
1 - MA Pythium
1-? - MA Man
? - MA Tien'chi
1-1-1 - MA MAchaka
2 - MA Abysia

The 2? ones will probably get linked and non-linked versions and the ones where randoms would give level 3 will probably have versions where they can and where they can't.