URL:
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Summary: Pre-setting game variables from within game hall
Project: Battle for Wesnoth
Submitted by: iinscrutabilis
Submitted on: Среда 02.09.2009 at 13:42
Category: Feature Request
Severity: 1 - Wish
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Multiplayer
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 1.7
Operating System: Any
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Details:
Many multiplayer scenarios require 1st player to set up game at start. This
really slows down the process, makes 1st player appear as sleeping or
disconnected, and other players can't discuss game settings until everything
is done and there is no way back (except of remaking game).
I wish host player to be able to set some game variables right in the game
hall screen, and other players to be able to see those settings, just like
they can see faction/leader/gold settings now.
Scenario definition may contain following tag (example for abstract
scenario):
[receive_variables]
[input_control] # input box accepting integer values within [1 .. 10]
range, with default 5
user_name= _ "Gold for each kill" # players will see this name
name=predef_gold # actual variable where value will be stored
type=input_int # type of input control
min=1
max=10
default=5
[/input_control]
[input_control] # input box accepting text values with length from 1 to
20 characters. Default is "Dungeon Keeper". Default can not be marked as
translatable because of OOS possibility
user_name= _ "Name of the big evil boss"
name=predef_boss
type=input_text
min=1
max=20
default= "Dungeon Keeper"
[/input_control]
[input_control] # listbox control with 4 named positions. Default
position is Moderate. Index of selected position will be stored in variable,
so names can be translated without risk of OOS
user_name= _ "Difficulty level"
name=predef_diff
type=list
list= _"Easy", _"Moderate", _"Hard", _"Impossible"
default=2
[/input_control]
[/receive_variables]
# attached file contains (ugly) example of layout
Where to put those controls? I think it is good idea to truncate buddy list
when in the game hall screen, because there will not be hundreds of players
in a single game anyway. So, we need to list only 9 players + few observers,
and truncating buddy list to the half of its length is ok. Extra free space
under the buddy list can be used to display new controls.
I think it is relatively easy to impletent this new functionality, since
Wesnoth already contains necessary gui controls and this feature does not
require huge changes (it seems that the only changed parts are gui, wml, and
network protocol).
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Date: Среда 02.09.2009 at 13:42 Name: Example.jpg Size: 35kB By:
iinscrutabilis
Ugly example of layout
<http://gna.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=6556>
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