Disabling Melee AI for certain computer players.

[Phillzor]

Hey everyone,

I have a quick query, I want to disable the melee AI for players 10, 11 and 12. But keep them on for players 1 through 9.

As far as i can see theres only that melee game trigger which enables melee AI for ALL of the computers, but i dont want that.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Daffa]

I believe if you can get the Melee Script, you can use that with the AI action.

 

[Phillzor]

Huh?

 

[TriggerHappy]

Hey everyone,

I have a quick query, I want to disable the melee AI for players 10, 11 and 12. But keep them on for players 1 through 9.

As far as i can see theres only that melee game trigger which enables melee AI for ALL of the computers, but i dont want that.

Any help is appreciated.

I'm not sure if there any more efficient ways (ai editor, object data) to do this, but maybe;

• Player - Make Neutral Hostile treat Player 1 (Red) as an Ally

or is that completely different from what you want?

 

[Phillzor]

No sorry thats not what i want, i just want to make it so a few of the computers dont have their Melee AI enabled, which makes them do nothing in game as oppose to attacking and building things and shit.

 

[IcemanBo]

Why you want them to be player 10,11 and 12?

You could make them neutral hostile and change their colour if needed.

 

[TriggerHappy]

No sorry thats not what i want, i just want to make it so a few of the computers dont have their Melee AI enabled, which makes them do nothing in game as oppose to attacking and building things and shit.

I'm not sure how to do that, maybe check some AI Editor tutorials.

 

[Phillzor]

Ok, cant i disable the melee AI for the entire game, and then force start the melee AI for certain players using the trigger: AI - Start melee AI script?

 

[Xonok]

Ok, cant i disable the melee AI for the entire game, and then force start the melee AI for certain players using the trigger: AI - Start melee AI script?

This is the usual melee GUI action that you know as "Melee Game - Run AI"

The noteworthy part is exitwhen index == bj_MAX_PLAYERS
This is the highest player number that will be checked for AI.
Thus, you just have to replace bj_MAX_PLAYERS with 8(player 9, because players start from 0 in JASS)

Make a separate trigger and convert it to custom text. Then copy everything from here, except the first and last line.
Paste it into the actions function and voila.

function MeleeStartingAI takes nothing returns nothing
    local integer index
    local player  indexPlayer
    local race    indexRace

    set index = 0
    loop
        set indexPlayer = Player(index)
        if (GetPlayerSlotState(indexPlayer) == PLAYER_SLOT_STATE_PLAYING) then
            set indexRace = GetPlayerRace(indexPlayer)
            if (GetPlayerController(indexPlayer) == MAP_CONTROL_COMPUTER) then
                // Run a race-specific melee AI script.
                if (indexRace == RACE_HUMAN) then
                    call PickMeleeAI(indexPlayer, "human.ai", null, null)
                elseif (indexRace == RACE_ORC) then
                    call PickMeleeAI(indexPlayer, "orc.ai", null, null)
                elseif (indexRace == RACE_UNDEAD) then
                    call PickMeleeAI(indexPlayer, "undead.ai", null, null)
                    call RecycleGuardPosition(bj_ghoul[index])
                elseif (indexRace == RACE_NIGHTELF) then
                    call PickMeleeAI(indexPlayer, "elf.ai", null, null)
                else
                    // Unrecognized race.
                endif
                call ShareEverythingWithTeamAI(indexPlayer)
            endif
        endif

        set index = index + 1
        exitwhen index == bj_MAX_PLAYERS
    endloop
endfunction

What it should look like(Triggername is the name of the trigger that this function is inside)

function Triggername_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
    local integer index
    local player  indexPlayer
    local race    indexRace

    set index = 0
    loop
        set indexPlayer = Player(index)
        if (GetPlayerSlotState(indexPlayer) == PLAYER_SLOT_STATE_PLAYING) then
            set indexRace = GetPlayerRace(indexPlayer)
            if (GetPlayerController(indexPlayer) == MAP_CONTROL_COMPUTER) then
                // Run a race-specific melee AI script.
                if (indexRace == RACE_HUMAN) then
                    call PickMeleeAI(indexPlayer, "human.ai", null, null)
                elseif (indexRace == RACE_ORC) then
                    call PickMeleeAI(indexPlayer, "orc.ai", null, null)
                elseif (indexRace == RACE_UNDEAD) then
                    call PickMeleeAI(indexPlayer, "undead.ai", null, null)
                    call RecycleGuardPosition(bj_ghoul[index])
                elseif (indexRace == RACE_NIGHTELF) then
                    call PickMeleeAI(indexPlayer, "elf.ai", null, null)
                else
                    // Unrecognized race.
                endif
                call ShareEverythingWithTeamAI(indexPlayer)
            endif
        endif

        set index = index + 1
        exitwhen index == 8
    endloop
endfunction

 

[Phillzor]

I've never used jass before. From what i can see, it looks like it loops through all the players from 0 to 8, and force starts the melee AI if they are controlled by the computer?

If i understand this correctly, then thank you very much i will try it out soon as i get a chance.

 

[Phillzor]

Xonok, ive tested it and it works great. Thank you very much man.

Edit: + rep.