Add villager split on resource rather than timings

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Build Order Tool (for Age of Empires IV)

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Add villager split on resource rather than timings #12

Closed LENpolygon closed 2 years ago

LENpolygon commented 2 years ago

Suggestion by DrDabston on Reddit:

One thing that I would suggest is rather than having timings having a nice pretty look for vill split on resources. You can see how i chose to do it rather than timings. It gets difficult updating the time for each villagers (a lot of times to make it clean you say 4 onto gold) so then that would be 1 min 20 seconds unless you are french and then it will depend age or if you are chinese song dynasty. Also builds will always vary by seconds and sometimes more. I like having the benchmark times in there for the big events such as age up or tech up or song dynasty but feel it is less necessary for the whole entire build.

LENpolygon commented 2 years ago

Maybe this should be a switchable/alternate option somehow?

LENpolygon commented 2 years ago

Similar suggestion by o118899nine on Reddit:

Maybe add an option to add an extra column to show villager distribution the way I did here.

LENpolygon commented 2 years ago

Idea as follows:

Seperate columns for all 4 resources
Can only enter whole numbers in columns (?)
If number is different from previous row then background/number lights up to more easily see changes between rows

drewdunne commented 2 years ago

My partner is a UX designer - I can ask her opinion on how to format it if you'd like @LENpolygon.

I would definitely say the villager split is top-priority for some people. For ex: Grubby actually makes the villie split take up more than half the visual space in his build order graphics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnGwrVk-lI0

LENpolygon commented 2 years ago

Hi, @drewdunne, thanks for your comment and example! Would be awesome to have some help on this.

Please do ask her opinion, I currently have this idea in mind:

Per step you can see vill distribution. And when the number changes from previous step it gets highlighted to also indicate more easily on "what" you should focus next / where next villagers should be rallied.

Any advise/ideas/code is welcome!

drewdunne commented 2 years ago

Hey @LENpolygon - talked it over w/ the partner. She hasn't used an RTS build order before, so gonna walk through a few of those and then reevaluate!

LENpolygon commented 2 years ago

Hey @LENpolygon - talked it over w/ the partner. She hasn't used an RTS build order before, so gonna walk through a few of those and then reevaluate!

Cheers, looking forward to your replies!

LENpolygon commented 2 years ago

Implemented a first version. Updates or ideas to improve are still welcome!