Freeciv Event Examples

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by demipomme
I can't find the tutorial.sav in the freeciv I downloaded and can't get these events to work. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Which version did you download and for what operating system?

[demipomme]

Freeciv 2.0.8 non-gtk for windoze. I've downloaded the tutorial.sav file from the web (just did a search), but the events stuff won't show up i.e. no messages. (Please bear in mind when answering that my computer ineptitude knows no bounds). Cheers!

[CapTVK]

The tutorial is included in the 2.1 beta (which supports events), try that one instead.

[himasaram]

Civworld for 2.1 is now available !

This package courtesy of Christian Prochaska, essentially a build of the latest dev version with editor capabilities. Just load a game, switch to observer and enter editor mode.

[Harry Tuttle]

NICE!!!!

[himasaram]

Ok ok! I'll provide a direct link to the editor too

ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/pub/freeciv/pa...gtk2-setup.exe

[demipomme]

OK. I've tried 2.1 and played to tutorial and seen the pop-up messages etc. However if I edit the scripts.lua file in the default directory the game crashes. All I've tried to do is put in the "Hello World!" script from the events page (http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Eve...ference_Manual). Suggestions?

[demipomme]

Sweet. Got my first event to work:

function city_built_callback(city)
local owner = city.owner
local workers = find.unit_type('Workers')
create_unit(owner, city.tile, workers, 0, city, -1)
end
signal.connect('city_built', 'city_built_callback')

This should encourage the ai to do a little more terrain development!

Need to put in a tech check and an if statement to produce engineers for later in the game.

[CapTVK]

Ok, more good news. The Freeciv map collection is about to double. I've converted a number of realworld maps to the FC format. Most maps didn't list an author but where known I've included the name in the SAV description field.

I've only given a few maps a quick test so I if anyone would like to give it a try and report the bugs, be my guest.
[list=1][*] america.SAV [*]Canada.SAV [*]BRITISLS.SAV[*]ALASKA.SAV [*]ATLANTIC.SAV[*]AUSSIE.SAV [*]BARBADOS.SAV[*]BATIC.SAV [*]BOSNIA.SAV [*]BRASIL.SAV [*]BRAZIL.SAV [*]AFRICA3.SAV [*]Antartic.SAV[*]CARIBE.SAV [*]cmapgbr.SAV [*]EASTUSA.SAV [*]EURASIA.SAV [*]EUROAMER.SAV[*]euroatl.SAV [*]GERMANY2.SAV[*]GEUROPE.SAV [*]GR8LAKES.SAV[*]Greece.SAV [*]holland2.SAV[*]INDIA.SAV [*]IRELAND.SAV [*]ITALIA.SAV [*]JAPAN.SAV [*]MEDITERR.SAV[*]MIDEAST.SAV [*]NORTHPOL.SAV[*]samap.SAV [*]se-asia.SAV [*]usa.SAV
[/list=1]

[Harry Tuttle]

Hey Cap, how do you work the converter? I'm having trouble.

[Harry Tuttle]

OK, for everyone. The new Freeciv version, linked himasaram, has a terrain editor built in. In game it can edit:

Terrain (including rivers)
Terrain Improvements
Add (and delete?) cities
Add (and delete?) units
Expand borders.

[Harry Tuttle]

Originally posted by demipomme
Sweet. Got my first event to work:

function city_built_callback(city)
local owner = city.owner
local workers = find.unit_type('Workers')
create_unit(owner, city.tile, workers, 0, city, -1)
end
signal.connect('city_built', 'city_built_callback')

This should encourage the ai to do a little more terrain development!

Need to put in a tech check and an if statement to produce engineers for later in the game.

Awesome! Keep it up!

[CapTVK]

Harry,

You need to include "-o" option, otherwise it doesn´t generate a new file, so for example:

civ2mp2fc world.map -o world.sav

[CapTVK]

demipomme,

Please keep sharing your attempts, the more we learn about Lua and the FC event structure the better.

[himasaram]

Originally posted by CapTVK
Ok, more good news. The Freeciv map collection is about to double. I've converted a number of realworld maps to the FC format. Most maps didn't list an author but where known I've included the name in the SAV description field.

I've only given a few maps a quick test so I if anyone would like to give it a try and report the bugs, be my guest.

(snippet)

Reply and bug report in the "Freeciv map creation" tread!