Chess for AoT v3.00

Click on the image and find out.

Single or multiplayer?

also did you make chess because of how i said it would be really hard to make chess once?

OMG I always wanted to make/play a game like this !

You actually made it!!!
From what I saw (though I haven't played it yet) it looks very well done
I'm also glad you used my icon.

This is awesome, something I always wanted to do but never could imagine how it would be possible.

Wait a second... no... this can't be!... IT IS!!! YOU DID IT! YOU MADE A LEGIT, REALISTIC CHESS GAME! DAMN it sucks my FRICKEN aom is down otherwise I would play this immediately! This is a HUGE BREAKTHROUGH! Congratulations on achieving this! This will be well remembered.

EDIT: Props to Mythic_Freak everyone, and don't you forget it!

[This message has been edited by Aom Expert (edited 03-30-2011 @ 04:50 PM).]

Seems very awesome

Single or multiplayer?

Well duh

OMG I always wanted to make/play a game like this !

I guess EVERYONE here at least already tried to make a chess game... but got bored after, eh ? Samething for me XD

Single or multiplayer?

It could do both, but the way I uploaded it, it only works in multiplayer (because you don't get control over the other player's pieces in single player). It's a minor change (2 letters) in the script to switch it into single player mode though.

You actually made it!!!
From what I saw (though I haven't played it yet) it looks very well done
I'm also glad you used my icon.

Haha, thanks!

Quoted from Mythic_Freak:

Hmm... programming chess... Sounds fun.

Did it all start from this post on that thread?

Sort of. That day I quickly programmed chess in java and wrote the RMS code. Then I wrote some basic XS code to add/move/remove pieces from the board. But I somehow never properly finished it.

Some days ago my internet went down for a couple of hours (*horror*) so I needed something to keep me busy. I stumbled across this chess project and decided to finish it. Reloaded the old java project, wrote some stubs to emulate quest vars and rewrote it a bit so it looked 90% like XS code (Took out OO-concepts, !var changed to var == false, etc...). Then I could basically copy-paste those parts in XS scripts. Only thing I had to do was make a different user interface using AoM.

Wow

WOOOWWWWWW

Really nice job man !

Also try the space button

What does the space button do ?

Very excellent Mythic_Freak! I can only attempt to imagine the triggering it would take for each chess move to work. *shudders*

I've really GOT to give this one a try!

What does the space button do ?

It simply actives lure, so you don't have to go all the way to the top to grab it (lazy mode FTW ).

Very excellent Mythic_Freak! I can only attempt to imagine the triggering it would take for each chess move to work. *shudders*

I didn't make this in the editor, makes it so much easier.

looks absolutely amazing

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Excellent!

[This message has been edited by Ranfeld (edited 04-01-2011 @ 09:52 PM).]

Thanks

But has anyone actually tried it yet, I could use some feedback on the whole thing. Suggestions?

Also, I've managed to get it working on vanilla fairly easy. Just need to use the vanilla trigger loader, and disable the "Disable GP Blocking" trigger which apparently is unavailable there. :/ This means on AoM you shouldn't play isis, and on AoT you shouldn't use Gaia on the map!

I'll put the updated version for download after I get some more suggestions.

Looks very very cool. I'll surely download and give you feeback. What did you use to trigger it if it wasn't the editor?

Notepad

I've consolidated all triggers in 1 file, and put it in the rm2 folder. By adding an xml file I could trick AoM into thinking it was an RMS file too, so it can be transfered over ESO now. If you download the new version, you'll see 2 maps: Chess and Chess Engine. To play online, first put the Chess Engine (with the triggers inside) for download so all participants have it. Then host the actual Chess map.

This should make testing quite a bit easier. As always, suggestions are still welcome.

Some people have asked me to rename the pieces. I tried, but for some reason it won't work in RMS, so I can't help you there. If you play for a while you'll get used to the setup though.

Yeah the only command that works in scenarios and does not it RMs is the change name one

Shame

Anyway, I managed to fix most of the bugs. The only problems left now are Gaia Lush in AoT and Isis monument blocking in AoM. I don't think there's a direct solution to this, so I'm considering choosing other unit types as pieces. Requirements:
- vanilla units only => ensures compatibility
- no monuments => no GP blocking
- no buildings => no lush
- preferably no embellishment => can't be picked up by unit queries
- something that can't move => no running around

Or a workaround for the last requirement. I was thinking about using impassable terrain, but I can't invoke lure on that. Modify protounit to reduce speed won't work in AoM.

Suggestions?

[This message has been edited by Mythic_Freak (edited 04-16-2011 @ 12:23 PM).]

Here's a suggestion. You just made a huge breakthrough in aom scn design. Well done.