R&D to Increase Squad Size

[Bertilsson]

I will update the OrderedHigher-function tomorrow.

 

The plan is to simplify it to make space for ordering soldiers with * in name on top.

 

The original function sorts on the following criteras:

1. Rank
2. Number of missions
3. Number of kills
4. Soldier ID

The new sort order will be:

1. * in LastName
2. XP
3. Soldier ID

Rank is a direct result of XP.

Number of missions and kills pretty much equals XP so it makes minimal difference if sorted on XP or those criteras.

 

If anyone thinks this would be counter intuitive, please let me know before I begin :)

[dubiousintent]

Hmm. Sort order determines initial position in the loading bay and in the LZ. Any chance of using numbers instead of '*' to set load order as well?

 

-Dubious-

[Bertilsson]

I did consider that possibility but gave up on that idea due to the following reasons:

 

If you allow player to enter a number in the name and that number represents prefered slot in the skyranger...

 

And if you also sort on that critera so that for any soldier with a number in the name, the soldier with lowest number is placed on top...

 

How would conflicts be handled? If two soldiers with number 1 exists, would an arbitrary soldier 1 take slot 1 and the extra be left behind? or should the extra number one steal slot 2? I think that when soldies start dying/get wounded it would quickly get confusing or very tiresome to micromanage the name of the soldiers. Especially considering that the renaming itself does not trigger resort.

 

An alternative would be to make any number in the name the critera for being loaded and load the soldiers with lowest number first into any available slot.

 

That would basically be the same as using * but would allow the player to prioritize the soldiers, not having to remove * from all soldiers above rookies to bring one of those. But again it would allow players to confuse themselves, unlress resorting can be added as a result of renaming (I guess I will look into that in either case).

 

Hmm... But the more I think about it... Sorting soldiers with least experience on top is probably more user friendly since rookies are born without the matching critera, so giving * or number to a rookie would put him above the more experienced soldiers with number or * and he would be going before any of the more experienced soldiers are considered.

 

I will most like implement * and reversed XP-sorting since that is easiest and play testing is probably a good way to find out if it works well or needs refining.

[dubiousintent]

How about resolving conflicts by reverse XP sorting, and only putting the first instance of each number in the appropriate slot until you have at least one of each number, and then repeat to build another team? The basis would be that numbers are designating slots (and at least for me the position is based upon class rather than experience), so you wouldn't want to have a second instance 'bumping down' into a slot you want for another class. And by default you are usually training up people rather than using your most experienced for every mission, at least after the first few but numbering them lets you override that in the beginning. Names without numbers would be less generally desirable, and thus lower in the list.

 

That would give pre-slotted but least experienced at the top, then once as full pre-slotted a team as is available is sorted to the top, then your next least experienced team would be up, etc, then stray pre-slotteds, then unslotted. That way you can keep team mixes relatively stable even when a member is in the hospital, automatically.

 

Though admittedly that is a complicated sort. Hmm. Also need to be able to sort upon demand to pickup changes to names/slots. Keep forgetting that you only have limited bytes available. Such a pain we can't add completely new functionality without regard to existing space.

 

-Dubious-

Edited August 2, 2013 by dubiousintent

[Bertilsson]

Maybe a better approach altogether would be to only auto-populate the very last slot using * ?

 

If you have no soldiers with * then you will get six empty slots which you populate normally.

 

If you want 2 soldiers in the last slot you name 2 soldiers with a *

If you want 3 soldiers in the last slot you name 3 soldiers with a *

 

That way you never have to rename more than 3 soldiers before a mission.

 

Edit: If I remember correctly twinj was able to get the extra slots showing off screen.

 

If that can be done, it would only be required to rename 2 soldiers at most... And in that case I'm starting to think JL's (or was it amineris?) plan to use a "ticket" object would start to become a very good alternative as player would only need to keep track of 2 extra soldiers.

Edited August 2, 2013 by Bertilsson

[XMarksTheSpot]

Edit: If I remember correctly twinj was able to get the extra slots showing off screen.

It's quite possible to add more soldier slots to the selection screen, indeed:

http://i.imgur.com/VV3k6hj.jpg

Note that the slots are defined and referenced from right to left (unit0, unit1, and so forth) and that I modified the UISquadSelect_SquadList#Init() method to fill the slots in that same order. I had set the skyranger's capacity to 8 via DGC edit and inside the Add Unit dialog two more soldiers showed up marked as 'On Mission'. Trying to add more units by clicking the empty slots also marked them as 'On Mission' but neither did they fill the slot in the selection screen nor did they appear in the tactical game.

 

So basically there's a bit of UPK re-coding necessary to make any new slots actually functional :geek:

 

On a related note, has anyone been looking into displaying additional soldier pawns in the hangar? In the XGFacility_Barracks#OnLoadSoldier() method I can see

Soldier.SetHQLocation(1, false, false, SlotIdx);

being called which points to XGStrategySoldier#SetHQLocation() then further to XGStrategySoldier#AddToLocation() which, oddly enough, references SeqEvent_HQUnits.AddUnitToRoomSequence() and finally the SeqEvent_HQUnits#AddUnit() methods inside XComGame.upk at which point I don't quite understand what's going on anymore (or if I've taken a wrong turn somewhere) :confused:

Though in there I do see various conditionals referencing slot ids going up to 11 which might be interpreted as some rooms being able to support up to 12 pawns. Or maybe all 12 slots are spread out throughout the whole base (hangar, infirmary, gym, recreation area)?

[Bertilsson]

Nice! :smile:

 

Did you also change static var MAX_UNITS = 6; to 8?

 

Any chance you could share the edits done in command1.upk so that someone else could poke on it in the XComStrategyGame.upk to see what happens?

 

Edit: Also, did you tab around the entire team to make sure the soldiers marked as on mission were not spawned in one of the aliens spawn locations?

Edited August 2, 2013 by Bertilsson

[johnnylump]

Gah! Yes! Code, please!

 

EDIT: Any way to make the text boxes smaller so they fit on the screen?

Edited August 2, 2013 by johnnylump

[Amineri]

 

So basically there's a bit of UPK re-coding necessary to make any new slots actually functional :geek:

 

 

I definitely felt like I spent more time with the perk tree mod making the required upk changes than I did the sprite changes (although I ended up with more ambitious plans than simple displaying more perks).

 

On the other hand, the launch window sprite only really needed 4 changed to 6 in a bunch of places in the upk code to get working UPK-side (they didn't reference a variable or even a constant but instead had hard-coded the maximum of 4 launch interceptors in many places).

 

For those not familiar with the upk-side UI coding conventions that Firaxis used (and maybe are standard for Unreal Engine games??), each UI functionality is typically broken into two parts. The first part is named UI<name> and the second is named XG<name>UI. The XG<name>UI class is referenced in the code as the "manager". Typically each UI<name> class has a functin called GetMgr() that returns the appropriate manager class associated with the UI. The UI<name> class is always the one that contains the actionscript calls, and is also where any callbacks from the UI are first handled. Typically there is no or very little data handling in the UI class. Most data manipulation is handled within the XG<name>UI manager class.

 

For the squad select UI, there are two UI "driver" classes :UISquadSelect and UISquadSelect_Squadlist, while the "driver" class is XGChooseSquadUI. They appear to have slightly bent their naming convention here by not using the same core name. The UISquadSelect_SquadList appears to the the driver that handles individual soldier display info, call the actionscript functions SetAddUnitText, SetSelected, SetUnitHelp, and SetUnitInfo (all of which are defined in the actionscript package Squadlist).

 

Note that the barracks situation is a bit mixed up as there is one common "manager" XGSoldierUI that handles data for all of the various barracks-related UI "driver" classes

 

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Went trawling through the code and didn't initially see any hard-coded references limiting display of soldiers to only 6 in either the driver or manager classes. However in the actionscript package Squadlist there is the const definition : static var MAX_UNITS = 6; I'm not sure if you already updated this or not to even get more than 6 boxes displaying on screen.

 

The actionscript package Squadlist has the following bit of code for SetSelected boundary checks against MAX_UNITS.

 

Another place that likely needs to be updated is the

 

UISquadSelect_SquadList.Init function:

simulated function Init(XComPlayerController _controller, UIFxsMovie _manager, UI_FxsScreen _screen, XGMission kMission, bool bNav)
{
    local XGShip_Dropship kSkyranger;

    PanelInit(_controller, _manager, _screen);
    bCanNavigate = bNav;
    kSkyranger = kMission.GetAssignedSkyranger();
    m_iMaxSlots = kSkyranger.GetCapacity();
    m_arrFillOrderIndex.AddItem(3);
    m_arrFillOrderIndex.AddItem(2);
    m_arrFillOrderIndex.AddItem(4);
    m_arrFillOrderIndex.AddItem(1);
    m_arrFillOrderIndex.AddItem(5);
    m_arrFillOrderIndex.AddItem(0);
    m_iCurrentSelection = ((m_iMaxSlots == 6) ? 5 : 4);
    m_arrUIOptions.Add(6);
    //return;    
}

m_arrUIOptions is a dynamic array but only initialized to contain 6 elements, so would have to be increased to hold more.

 

 

m_arrUIOptions is a dynamic array of structs defined as:

struct UISquadList_UnitBox
{
    var int iIndex;
    var string strName;
    var string strNickName;
    var string classDesc;
    var string classLabel;
    var string item1;
    var string item2;
    var int iStatus;
    var bool bPromote;
    var bool bEmpty;
    var bool bUnavailable;
    var bool bHint;

So, it basically contains pretty much all of the info displayed in each unit box (also note that it is hard-coded to only have two item strings, thus making display of a third or subsequent small item really challenging).

 

The other thing of note is the dynamic array m_arrFillOrderIndex. This appears to be what controls how the squadselect boxes are filled out "from the middle out", while the sprite is defined (as pretty much all the sprites are) from right to left.

 

The sprite box order should be :

5 4 3 2 1 0

 

The m_arrFillOrderIndex array basically remaps the fill order to:

4 2 0 1 3 5

 

Since the element of m_arrUIOptions is always referenced via code such as:

        iDropShipIdx = m_arrFillOrderIndex.Find(iOption);
        m_arrUIOptions[iOption].bUnavailable = iDropShipIdx >= m_iMaxSlots;

the m_arrFillOrder has to be taken into account in order to properly access the new sprites at positions 6 and 7.

[XMarksTheSpot]

m_arrUIOptions is a dynamic array but only initialized to contain 6 elements, so would have to be increased to hold more.

However in the actionscript package Squadlist there is the const definition : static var MAX_UNITS = 6; I'm not sure if you already updated this or not to even get more than 6 boxes displaying on screen.

Did you also change static var MAX_UNITS = 6; to 8?

Yes to both, I didn't go into much detail regarding those minor edits, did I? Sorry about that.

I did change the m_arrUIOptions array to hold 8 elements

m_arrUIOptions.Add(8);

as well as increasing the MAX_UNITS var to 8 (as can be seen in the flash edits below).

 

Any chance you could share the edits done in command1.upk so that someone else could poke on it in the XComStrategyGame.upk to see what happens?

Gah! Yes! Code, please!

Alright, alright, no need to be so pushy :laugh:

Needs two replacements, the first is an updated "Squadlist MC" sprite definition placing two extra soldier slot boxes to the right and the left:

original header
FF 09 8C 00 00 00 3C 00 01 00
new data, 44 (0x2C) extra bytes
FF 09 B8 00 00 00 3C 00 01 00 BF 06 10 00 00 00 26 01 00 3B 00 1F 1D 87 8D 98 75 6E 69 74 37 00 BF 06 10 00 00 00 26 01 00 3B 00 1F 56 17 8D 98 75 6E 69 74 36 00 BF 06 10 00 00 00 26 1E 00 3B 00 1D 1D 4E 36 60 75 6E 69 74 35 00 BF 06 10 00 00 00 26 3B 00 3B 00 1B 1C D8 D9 80 75 6E 69 74 34 00 BF 06 10 00 00 00 26 58 00 3B 00 1B FF 18 D9 80 75 6E 69 74 33 00 BF 06 10 00 00 00 26 75 00 3B 00 1A E1 58 D9 80 75 6E 69 74 32 00 BF 06 10 00 00 00 26 92 00 3B 00 1C E1 CE 36 60 75 6E 69 74 31 00 BF 06 10 00 00 00 26 92 00 3B 00 1E A9 77 8D 98 75 6E 69 74 30 00

The second one contains edits to the SquadList ActionScript class to free up space needed by the first change (removing debug stuff) and to increase MAX_UNITS to 8:

original header
5F 5F 50 61 63 6B 61 67 65 73 2E 53 71 75 61 64 4C 69 73 74 00 FF 0E 78 0C 00 00 60 00 88 D5 03 54 00
(alternatively search for '__Packages.SquadList' string, without quotes)
new data, 44 (0x2C) bytes less
5F 5F 50 61 63 6B 61 67 65 73 2E 53 71 75 61 64 4C 69 73 74 00 FF 0E 4C 0C 00 00 60 00 88 D1 03 54 00 5F 67 6C 6F 62 61 6C 00 53 71 75 61 64 4C 69 73 74 00 61 6E 63 68 6F 72 00 45 6E 76 69 72 6F 6E 6D 65 6E 74 00 41 4E 43 48 4F 52 5F 42 4F 54 54 4F 4D 5F 43 45 4E 54 45 52 00 50 61 6E 65 6C 00 70 72 6F 74 6F 74 79 70 65 00 6F 6E 4C 6F 61 64 00 75 6E 69 74 42 6F 78 65 73 00 41 72 72 61 79 00 4D 41 58 5F 55 4E 49 54 53 00 75 6E 69 74 00 70 75 73 68 00 55 70 64 61 74 65 41 6E 63 68 6F 72 69 6E 67 00 6D 78 00 75 74 69 6C 73 00 44 65 6C 65 67 61 74 65 00 63 72 65 61 74 65 00 69 6E 73 74 61 6E 63 65 00 53 75 62 73 63 72 69 62 65 54 6F 52 65 73 6F 6C 75 74 69 6F 6E 55 70 64 61 74 65 00 64 69 73 70 6F 73 65 00 73 65 74 41 6E 63 68 6F 72 00 5F 79 00 6F 6E 50 6F 70 75 6C 61 74 65 44 65 62 75 67 44 61 74 61 00 63 75 72 72 65 6E 74 53 65 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 00 64 65 62 75 67 5F 63 75 72 72 65 6E 74 53 65 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 00 43 6C 65 61 72 00 49 63 6F 6E 5F 58 5F 53 51 55 41 52 45 00 45 64 69 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Enjoy! :happy:

 

EDIT: Any way to make the text boxes smaller so they fit on the screen?

Yes, I suppose there are a few ways to achieve this, e.g. by editing some sprite definitions directly or adding a bit of ActionScript code, which is less of a pain in the rear as you don't need to bother decoding the sprite stuff. Most of the PlaceObject tags in the sprite definitions usually don't feature scaling information, so you'd need to free up space for that by editing some ActionScript class anyway.

 

Edit: Also, did you tab around the entire team to make sure the soldiers marked as on mission were not spawned in one of the aliens spawn locations?

Yes, I did that. Since I haven't added any fixes related to soldier placement I got the usual 6 units near the LZ and two more stacked on top of each other at an alien spawn point, no more.