How to make a Campaign AI

[moyackx]

This tutorial can be read here

 

[Archian]

Welcome to the Hive Workshop
Great tutorial

For the anchors, use:

(GOTO="[B]?[/B]")[B]?[/B](/GOTO)

(POINT)[B]?[/B](/POINT)
[B]?[/B]

The JASS tags is fucked up atm, but they will be fixed soon.

Stay tunned.

 

[moyackx]

Thanks Archian:

I'll be doing all the necessary changes in order to fit this tutorial with the Hive Workshop VBcode.

 

[moyackx]

*Bump*

I just want to say that this tutorial has been fixed as much as possible to fit with the Hive theme.

 

[Xarwin]

Kewl tutorial man!

 

[Archian]

*Bump*

I just want to say that this tutorial has been fixed as much as possible to fit with the Hive theme.

Thanks.

Approved.

 

[Jaakko]

AI - Send Player 2 (Blue) the AI Command (0, 0)
Custom script: call DestroyTrigger( GetTriggeringTrigger() )

Why is there (0,0) command? Why not only 0 if this is what the AI receives when the trigger is run?
What does destroytrigger do?

Is there a way to make the campaign AI build expansions?? Any other useful commands or something for campagn AIs?

 

[moyackx]

AI - Send Player 2 (Blue) the AI Command (0, 0)
Custom script: call DestroyTrigger( GetTriggeringTrigger() )

Why is there (0,0) command? Why not only 0 if this is what the AI receives when the trigger is run?
What does destroytrigger do?

This trigger is used as a communication between the AI and the trigger part, and the main purpose of this is to control what the AI can do according to the events in the map. About the values, there are not default data, you set your values as you need in the AI code.

Why is there (0,0) command?? I think Blizzard did this because they can send pair of data to the AI (coordinates for instance), but you can use this feature to make an order table, something like this:

Command value	Data value	Action
1	0	Attack Player(0) (Player 1 in GUI)
1	1	Attack Player(1) (Player 2 in GUI)
1	...	And so on with attack
2	4	Train 4 specific units for the assault group

As you can see, you can give a good usage of this command, and make the AI react better according to the situation, and you can do this by triggers.

Is there a way to make the campaign AI build expansions?? Any other useful commands or something for campagn AIs?

Yes, there is one command for that: StartExpansion(qty, Hall) where qty is the number of expansions you need and Hall is the building rawcode. I haven't tested this function, but according with the data inside that command, it selects a worker and start the expansion if needed. If you want to see more functions, check the common AI file, or use JASSCRAFT and browse the common.ai commands. Other good way to learn about these functions is to make an AI, export it as a *.ai file and check how the code is.