and AI in JA2. Any questions there?

pathfinding,

I worked on items,

I worked on items, the bullet tracing code, pathfinding, and AI in JA2. Any questions there?

I very much doubt there are any item questions at this point

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I worked on items,

The flamethrower is a perennial favourite here

The Russians have used an attack jeep with mounted MG , animation is poor though , also paratroop drops , actually those Russki's have added a lot of things.... clever devils..... :diabolical:

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yes there is a limit (170 r/npcs)

Hm... than the last questions surrounding this idea (if this is indeed a no it will be impossible I reckon).

Smeagol said that he was told that without Gabby, Bobby and Rat the Crepitus don't appear. However, in a WF_SVN_AIMNAS game the Crepitus are gone anyways, as the weapon of the Crepitus Queen was used for the flame thrower, is it not possible to replace these people with other RPC's?

Another idea I had was to create one RPC that generates are Kingpin's assassins. They probably need to loose their voice and portait, a shame I know, but they could be than more numerous, attack in groups, and it frees up 4/5 slots for other RPC's...

In total that is 7/8 slots free. Meaning that you could bring back Gumpy, Bubba, Numb, Cougar, Buns, Malice and Clifford that were cut from the WF mod, and perhaps 1 or 2 more
(leaving out Pablo's replacement (the guys does nothing for game progress or anything - or is Bobby Ray shipment coupled to him being there?) and Skipper (though he may be removed already, did not see him))

P.s. what is the link for?

maybe you could have different locations and orders depending on whether the enemy know there's any danger (green status) or not.

think I would just pick the currently selected character and assume they're going to be the leader of the formation. The other characters, rather than all pathing to the target location, should all be trying to maintain a location relative to the other character's position, as that character walks their path.

So, say you wanted just a straight line perpedicular to the direction of travel, and let's assume it's going straight up a nice open road. The selected character should have a path, and walk it, and then the next character should always be trying to move to the spot 1 to the left of that character, or 1 to the left of the tile they're walking to. The next person, 1 to the right. Then the next, 2 to the right.

I hope with modern computers it wouldn't be too expensive to constantly calculate paths. Logically it should also be possible for each character to have a path, parallel to the others in the formation, and then they try to pick points in the path to get to be in the correct spot in the formation.

You can walk in formation perfectly fine in turn based.

If you are talking about an extension of the real time mode, I am against it. If you want real-time combat, it takes training of the player by repetition under tension

I don't know how "predefined" formations could be coded in, however, and what would they be (line, wedge, whatever). Personally, I never missed that concept much in JA2 - with such a perspective on combat, formations simply don't matter, you go where and when you need to be.