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Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-28T18:52:06+02:00

partytime wrote:
Ok thanks IceDreamer. How do I know that I haven't created a bug though? Don't really know what the ramifications of my change are... so it feels irresponsible to just commit it blindly

Simply adding the Bomber category *should* have little or no impact. It's just a category.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 28 Nov 2014, 18:52

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-27T13:13:27+02:00

Yeah you would need to muck around with modules and hook in ways I don't understand, but you can use the mod to create new categories and assign them to new hotkeys, so I figured it might work - at the very least it would help write a mod to look at how this mod's written.

And yes, it's a really useful mod if you want to use your own hotbuild like I do, has a minor issue with how it's hooking in at the moment where it requires F1 to be hit twice to bind the hotkeys but Sheeo will get round to it when things calm down I think. <3 Sheeo.

Statistics: Posted by Sir Prize — 27 Nov 2014, 13:13

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-27T06:10:09+02:00

@Prize, hmm I will take a look at this mod ... not really sure how it will fix things but its interesting to me and worth a try

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 27 Nov 2014, 06:10

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-27T05:11:38+02:00

Ok thanks IceDreamer. How do I know that I haven't created a bug though? Don't really know what the ramifications of my change are... so it feels irresponsible to just commit it blindly

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 27 Nov 2014, 05:11

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-27T03:52:58+02:00

https://github.com/FAForever/fa

Fork, make a new branch, make the changes, make a pull request of the branch to the default People will be around to help if you need it, but this kind of simple change you can simply make, PR, and if your case is solid (I think it is), it will probably be merged!

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 27 Nov 2014, 03:52

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-26T12:32:37+02:00

I was going to try and muck around with hotbuildex in the vault, which allows you to create new categories for hotbuild, to see if I could stumble my way in to a solution, but if you're already on it I might hold off. Have you looked at this mod?

Statistics: Posted by Sir Prize — 26 Nov 2014, 12:32

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-25T18:42:59+02:00

Sir Prize wrote:
Edit - except I don't know how/where to paste in your seriously different syntax without breaking my game.prefs

you need to make a mod at this point ...

i would say it is easier if you just wait for me to do it

but first we need blueprints fixed

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 25 Nov 2014, 18:42

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-25T16:51:29+02:00

partytime wrote:
Thanks Sir. I am trying to make a hotkey for t1 interceptors, asf and swift winds... so at the moment I exclude ahwassa by excluding EXPERIMENTAL. Not great though.

Don't have a solution for Notha yet.

Here's what I'm using:

UISelectionByCategory("AIR HIGHALTAIR ANTIAIR", false,false,false,false)
SelectUnits(EntityCategoryFilterOut(categories.BOMBER + categories.EXPERIMENTAL, GetSelectedUnits()))

Lextoc - I'm actually doing this to keep my corsairs out of my air fights

Ah much more advanced than me, I didn't know how to filter out. I just have:

['Select all fighters'] = {
order = 2,
action = 'UI_SelectByCategory AIR HIGHALTAIR ANTIAIR BUILTBYTIER3FACTORY',
category = 'Custom Keys'
},

Which leads to Corsairs in dogfights as well . Would love the categories to work a bit better and to have a functioning key for this. Might have to open a github issue? I guess the workaround is to steal your order and not use Sera

Edit - except I don't know how/where to paste in your seriously different syntax without breaking my game.prefs

Statistics: Posted by Sir Prize — 25 Nov 2014, 16:51

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-25T16:44:55+02:00

Ok, great!

Statistics: Posted by lextoc — 25 Nov 2014, 16:44

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-25T16:44:09+02:00

Thanks Sir. I am trying to make a hotkey for t1 interceptors, asf and swift winds... so at the moment I exclude ahwassa by excluding EXPERIMENTAL. Not great though.

Don't have a solution for Notha yet.

Here's what I'm using:

UISelectionByCategory("AIR HIGHALTAIR ANTIAIR", false,false,false,false)
SelectUnits(EntityCategoryFilterOut(categories.BOMBER + categories.EXPERIMENTAL, GetSelectedUnits()))

Lextoc - I'm actually doing this to keep my corsairs out of my air fights

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 25 Nov 2014, 16:44

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-25T16:42:47+02:00

I think it's great fighterbombers get selected with bomber keybinding. However, when pressing all air fighters (I use this for interceptors, ASF, swift wings) also the corsairs or whatnot get selected, that is quite annoying sometimes (when planning a desperate snipe )

Statistics: Posted by lextoc — 25 Nov 2014, 16:42

Re: Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-25T16:39:18+02:00

You can exclude the Ahwassa by adding a "BUILTBYTIER3FACTORY" qualifier. Would be great to set up a hotkey that didn't include fighterbombers though.

Statistics: Posted by Sir Prize — 25 Nov 2014, 16:39

Please add BOMBER category to two air units

2014-11-25T16:06:42+02:00

Can Notha and Ahwassa please be given the BOMBER category like all of the other bombers?

I am trying to write a selection hotkey to select all fighters (excluding t2 bombers and ahwassa).

Is this the right place for this sort of request?

Blueprint ids:
XSA0202
XSA0402

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 25 Nov 2014, 16:06