Development Diary #7 - 14th of October 2009

Hello everybody, and welcome to our seventh development diary for ‘For the Glory’ (FTG).

Today's diary is a little short because we're rushing to meet deadlines, but there's still plenty to talk about. I'll start with a sampling of new event commands.

If you followed the suggestions thread in the AGCEEP forum, you already know about the discover command.

Code:

command = { type = discover which = <id or -1> } # -1 = random adjacent to a known province

Want to model the historic HRE better? Use the hre command.

Code:

command = { type = hre which = <id> value = yes/no }

Another closely related command is electors:

Code:

command = { type = electors which = <tag> value = <number> } # leave "which" out for THIS

Stuck on which goods to give a province, because it has changed over time? Use the goods command!

Code:

command = { type = goods which = <id> value = <goods> }

The annex command has the exact behavior of the old inherit command, and the inherit command no longer gives provinces to their controller. No more jumping on Aragon and waiting for the event...

And now for a few triggers.
The other-country trigger allows you to check whether conditions are valid for a country other than the one receiving the event. For example, a Spanish event can check whether England is Protestant:

Code:

trigger = {
    ENG = {
        OR = {
            religion = protestant
            religion = reformed
        }
    }
}

Check whether this country is a vassal or an overlord:

Code:

isvassal = yes/no

Code:

isoverlord = yes/no

Check whether there is a trading post, a colony or a colonial city in a certain province:

Code:

tradingpost = <id>

Code:

colony = <id>

Code:

colonialcity = <id>

Note that because of the other-country trigger, all of the new province-based triggers check for the current country.

There are many more triggers and commands, but they'll have to wait for later. Now it's time for some eye candy!


BeBro and thrashing mad have been hard at work making new sprites. Here's a sampling of their handiwork:
















Birger has been busy, too, but his project will remain a secret for now. Stay tuned!

 

I continue to be impressed with the scope and thoughtfulness of your additions to EU2.

 

Great sprites! These new sprites on the new map will look great!

Edit: The new event commands looks great as well. Not as sexy as new sprites though.

 

The new sprites are awesome. What nation is that black clothed peasent? A rebel?

 

The new event commands look great! And one of those sprites (Archer, top left) looks just like a friend of mine

 

The name of the animated gif file should be an important clue.

 

Much better. I hope for a video of them in action for the next dev?

 

Very good!

 

x2

Protesting rebel
Maybe rebels shoud be able to "recruit" some people from other provinces (if province's RR > 0) which they visited?

 

looks great, just noticed that the game is listed on GG with a "coming soon" sticker on it

 

Great sprites, nice new commands...overall a good DD!

 

GamersGate even gives the release date : 10th november.
Which explains Yoda's comment about the deadline. These are hectic times.

I like the sprites : they show a great attention to details.

 

BeBro and ThrashingMad sure got some skills.

 

Indeed!

And what are you up to...

 

How will you solve the use of "AND = {" in the trigger?

 

What do you mean by "solve"?

 

Those sprites look awesome! The new event commands are also a welcome news.

 

[censored], those sprites just blew me away, AWSOMEO3000


I appreciate your enthusiasm, but please try to keep it clean. Thanks! --MichaelM

 

There are no words to describe how much I want this game.

EDIT: I hope there are some cool new sprites for the 15th and 17th centuries!

 

Those land sprites are from 15th century, but there will be sprites for later eras as well.