Hero selection at the start of the game

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Hero selection at the start of the game #7

Open russnes opened 4 years ago

russnes commented 4 years ago

There should be a set of heroes at the beginning of the game that the players can choose from. Once, a player has chosen their hero they will enter the arena and be able to control it.

mithray commented 4 years ago

I know three ways to choose a hero:

Delenda Est, a 0AD mod, already has a hero selection at the start of the game. I actually don't like the layout, but it does work.
You could "train" a hero once the game has begins, this is what happened in the original Warcraft 3, DOTA map.
Use the Civilization selection feature at the start of the game.

Delenda Est actually is putting quite a bit of work into historical heroes. We could potentially use all of that.

russnes commented 4 years ago

I think whichever one is the simplest is probably the best option. If it's possible to create a custom barracks where you can train all types of heroes, and limit the number of heroes to 1, then it's already good enough.

LenaTheWolfess commented 4 years ago

See https://github.com/SlavomirSlovenkai/MMO/blob/master/simulation/data/civs/archer.json as example Important is "SkirmishReplacements": { "units/mmoPlayerSkirmish": "units/mmoArcher" }, and having units/mmoPlayerSkirmish for every player placed on map also this component is needed inside unit being replaced 'SkirmishReplacer'

russnes commented 4 years ago

See https://github.com/SlavomirSlovenkai/MMO/blob/master/simulation/data/civs/archer.json as example Important is "SkirmishReplacements": { "units/mmoPlayerSkirmish": "units/mmoArcher" }, and having units/mmoPlayerSkirmish for every player placed on map also this component is needed inside unit being replaced 'SkirmishReplacer'

Great. Just for the record I would link to a specific commit just in case you end up moving this around, so the link doesn't die in the future.

So this is defining on a building with trainable units?

LenaTheWolfess commented 4 years ago

this is 0ad feature nothing special, you can find it in current civ files

no, you put 3 units for each team on the map and that units will have skirmishreplacer element in template. inside each civ file there will be defined which unit/entity will be used instead