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Info

Name - Doug Rosvick
Location - Calgary, Canada
Profession - Software Engineering student at University of Calgary

Works in Progress

Current

bug #12747 [1] - holding escape quits titlescreen

If [result] tags are found within an [endlevel] tag, the normal result= key will be ignored. If summary=yes is specified in the [endlevel] tag, then instead of specific victory/defeat messages for only local players, each player is shown the victory/defeat status of all sides. Any sides who are not given a specific [result] are either shown a summary or nothing, and their result is defaulted to continue. Observers are shown a "game over" dialog if summary=no, and the summary if summary=yes.

Example WML syntax:

[endlevel]

  next_scenario=

  bonus=                     {these are the defaults for all [result] tags}
  carryover_percentage=
  carryover_add=

  summary=                   {controls whether players are shown a summary of all sides, or just their local victory/defeat messages}

  [result]
    side=1
    outcome=victory          {may be victory, defeat, continue, continue_no_save}
    fire_events=             {yes/no, controls whether victory/defeat events are fired}
  [/result]

  [result]
    side=4
    outcome=victory
    fire_events=
    carryover_percentage=    {can override the defaults}
    carryover_add=
    bonus=
  [/result]

  [result]
    outcome=defeat
    side=2,3
    fire_events=
  [/result]

[/endlevel]

This will issue a victory message for sides 1 and 4, and a defeat message for sides 2 and 3. Side 1 and 4 will have different carryover amounts.

Further discussion needed:

Handling of name=victory and name=defeat events
could the default for summary be controlled by a menu option / preference? to allow players to always see a summary...

Another possible format would be as follows: (thanks Sapient for ideas)

[endlevel]

  next_scenario=

  bonus=
  carryover_percentage=
  carryover_add=

  summary=

  [victory]
    side=1
    fire_events=
  [/victory]
  
  [victory]
    side=4
    carryover_percentage=
    carryover_add=
    bonus=
    fire_events=
  [/victory]

  [defeat]
    side=2,3
    fire_events=
  [/defeat]

[/endlevel]

This will produce the same result as the above format, but involves less WML typing and is clearer what is going on. For continue and continue_no_save results, there is a [continue] tag in addition to [victory] and [defeat] tags, which takes a save= key.

[continue]
  side=
  save=   {yes/no}
[/continue]

2008 SoC application

MapEditorRewrite

Difference between revisions of "User:Dlr365"

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Info

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[endlevel] giving different results to different sides

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+== Info ==
+*Name - Doug Rosvick
+*Location - Calgary, Canada
+*Profession - Software Engineering student at University of Calgary
 == Works in Progress ==
-=== GSoC Application ===
+=== Current ===
-I plan to re-write the map editor. ([[MapEditorRewrite|Application Wiki Page]])
+* bug #12747 [https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?12747] - holding escape quits titlescreen
-=== Current ===
+=== Previous ===
 ==== [endlevel] giving different results to different sides ====
+(info below is out of date)
 Allows specific sides to be issued specific results in multiplayer, instead of everyone getting the same result.  See [http://gna.org/bugs/index.php?4960 bug#4960], [https://gna.org/patch/?1032 patch#1032].
-If [result] tags are found within an [endlevel] tag, the normal ''result='' key will be ignored.  If ''summary=yes'' is specified in the [endlevel] tag, then instead of specific victory/defeat messages for only local players, each player is shown the victory/defeat status of all sides.  Any sides who are not given a specific [result] (including observers) are either shown a summary or nothing, and their result is defaulted to ''continue''.
+If [result] tags are found within an [endlevel] tag, the normal ''result='' key will be ignored.  If ''summary=yes'' is specified in the [endlevel] tag, then instead of specific victory/defeat messages for only local players, each player is shown the victory/defeat status of all sides.  Any sides who are not given a specific [result] are either shown a summary or nothing, and their result is defaulted to ''continue''.  Observers are shown a "game over" dialog if ''summary=no'', and the summary if ''summary=yes''.
 Example WML syntax:
@@ Line 23: / Line 30: @@
       side=1
       outcome=victory          {may be victory, defeat, continue, continue_no_save}
+     fire_events=             {yes/no, controls whether victory/defeat events are fired}
     [/result]
@@ Line 28: / Line 36: @@
       side=4
       outcome=victory
+     fire_events=
       carryover_percentage=    {can override the defaults}
       carryover_add=
+     bonus=
     [/result]
@@ Line 35: / Line 45: @@
       outcome=defeat
       side=2,3
+     fire_events=
     [/result]
@@ Line 41: / Line 52: @@
 Further discussion needed:
-* ''name=victory'' and ''name=defeat'' events are currently ignored when using [result] tags (possibly need to re-structure the way these events are handled...)
+* Handling of ''name=victory'' and ''name=defeat'' events
 * could the default for ''summary'' be controlled by a menu option / preference? to allow players to always see a summary...
+Another possible format would be as follows: (thanks Sapient for ideas)
+ [endlevel]
+   next_scenario=
+   bonus=
+   carryover_percentage=
+   carryover_add=
+   summary=
+   [victory]
+     side=1
+     fire_events=
+   [/victory]
+   [victory]
+     side=4
+     carryover_percentage=
+     carryover_add=
+     bonus=
+     fire_events=
+   [/victory]
+   [defeat]
+     side=2,3
+     fire_events=
+   [/defeat]
+ [/endlevel]
+This will produce the same result as the above format, but involves less WML typing and is clearer what is going on.  For ''continue'' and ''continue_no_save'' results, there is a ''[continue]'' tag in addition to [victory] and [defeat] tags, which takes a ''save='' key.
+ [continue]
+   side=
+   save=   {yes/no}
+ [/continue]
+==== 2008 SoC application ====
+[[MapEditorRewrite]]