Modding examples from devs

Rayne asked me recently for an example on how to make a custom block. It's relatively simple but if nobody shows you, you can get stuck. Trying to find how it works in one of the 200 game scripts can be overwhelming too. http://doc.kag2d.com might be useful but won't teach you how to implement.

So I made an example for Rayne which will be included in the Mods folder in the next patch. I think this is the best way to learn how to make cool mods, by short examples.

We think modding is the most important thing now for the future of KAG. Mods made by you have the most potential for bringing the awesomness from KAG.

So, if you want me or Geti to write a short example of how to make something with scripts just ask and we'll try to write it and include in the next game patch.

 

Sweet...
Could you devs make an example mod with 3 kind of weapons -rifle, auto, shotgun- for the archer, which will be triggered by a single click and need you to press a key to reload?

 

Anything more?
We'll be focusing on mod examples and fixing bugs this week.

 

A script to change the character bodies (More than heads)

 

Code:

//supply the filename of a new sprite with replacement frames
void ChangeSprite(CSprite@ this, string filename) {
    this.ReloadSprite( filename, this.getConsts().frameWidth, this.getConsts().frameHeight,
                        this.getBlob().getTeamNum(), this.getBlob().getSkinNum() );
}

enjoy

 

DefaultVotes.as line 30 to 37: (expanded to 38 due to the added line)

Code:

enum nextmap_reason {
    nextmap_reason_ruined = 0,
    nextmap_reason_stalemate,
    nextmap_reason_bugged,
    nextmap_reason_your_reason_here,
    nextmap_reason_count,
};

string[] nextmap_reason_string = { "Map Ruined", "Stalemate", "Game Bugged", "Your Reason Here" };

Same goes for the handful of lines above it for votekicking reasons.

 

You sure? Might not work on the first round, but onRestart is how it's handled in the gamemode code.

Not possible, at least currently; I didn't bind that menu text box thing because they require callback registration and a variable to write into - things that I'd have to create an interface to for AS, and that it wouldn't be hard to fuck up and crash the game with. Sorry about that.

A possible workaround would be binding a chat command !kickreason or something and then using that, but you might have to change how the reason was synced, depending on how that's done now.


Re: triple slash, multiple weapons etc - these are not trivial examples to provide, and triple slash in particular is something you should be able to nut out yourself from the existing double-slash code - you just need to detect the transition point from double to triple slash - like we already do from single to double. These modding examples aren't a "how to code" course, you need to pick that up yourself.

Re: Changing weapons - I think Skinney and Rayne may have been working on something along those lines as part of their archer deathmatch mod thing. Either way it's not particularly hard but it requires quite a bit of code and a lot of assets - and if you're at the point where you're considering a heap of different weapons, you might want to just code them as separate blobs that you can pick up rather than try to put them all inside a single entity (the code would be MUCH cleaner with them as separate entities).

 

The old F5 mantis bug reporting thing isn't written in scripts?

 

tile animation based on tile hp in attacking blob code

pls