Other fun stuff I have found:

   <Effect name="AI set blank AI">
  <Param name="Player" dispName="Player" VarType="string">0</Param>
  <Command>aiSet("NoAI", %Player%);</Command>
   </Effect>

Replaces the player's AI with a blank do nothing one. (Make the aggro distance works however) It can also be used to forcefully remove a CPU's AI scipt even if the player didn't set it to off.

   <Effect name="AI set custom AI">
  <Param name="Player" dispName="Player" VarType="string">0</Param>
  <Param name="AI" dispName="AI" VarType="string">NoAI</Param>
  <Command>aiSet("%AI%", %Player%);</Command>
   </Effect>

Replaces the player's AI with the one provided.

   <Effect name="AI set aggro distance">
      <Param name="Player" dispName="Player" VarType="string">0</Param>
  <Param name="Distance" dispName="Distance" VarType="string">100.0</Param>
  <Command>xsSetContextPlayer(%Player%);</Command>
  <Command>aiSetAttackResponseDistance(%Distance%);</Command>
   </Effect>

This sets the distance that a player will react to an attack when an AI is used. (This includes No AI in multiplayer!) Setting this to 0 makes a player very passive, but setting to a huge number will cause the player to throw everything they have against you if you so much as damage a single unit.

   <Effect name="AI send message">
      <Param name="FromPlayer" dispName="From Player" VarType="string">2</Param>
      <Param name="ToPlayer" dispName="To Player" VarType="string">1</Param>
  <Param name="Type" dispName="Chat Type" VarType="string">1</Param>
  <Param name="Variation" dispName="Variation" VarType="string">-1</Param>
  <Command>xsSetContextPlayer(%FromPlayer%);</Command>
  <Command>aiCommsSendStatement(%ToPlayer%, %Type%, %Variation%);</Command>
   </Effect>

Send one of the predefined AI messages. The type are as follows (Use the ID):

None=0;

AIBuildSettlement=1;

AIResignGatherers=2;

AIResignSettlements=3;

AIResignActiveEnemies=4;

Intro=5;

GenericGodPower=6;

OffensiveGodPower=7;

EconomicGodPower=8;

AILostSettlement=9;

AILostLastSettlement=10;

EnemyBuildSettlement=11;

EnemyLostSettlement=12;

EnemyLostLastSettlement=13;

AIWinningAgeRace=14;

AILosingAgeRace=15;

AIWonderDestroyed=16;

PlayerWonderDestroyed=17;

PlayerBuildingWalls=18;

AIAttack=19;

AIAttackHere=20;

AIRetreat=21;

HelpHere=22;

HelpHome=23;

AITakeWater=24;

TakingEnemyRelic=25;

TakingAllyRelic=26;

ResignQuestion=27;

[This message has been edited by nottud (edited 11-18-2018 @ 06:38 AM).]

Hmn I should have made a post somewhere I guess, I was already wondering when people would start to use this but apparently the information didn't spread to others.

There is lots of other things that can be done now as well. It's basically possible to script an AI in the editor now.

One useful thing that comes up to mind is polling what type of terrain a unit is on.

oooh - which function does that? I'm currently in middle of making an effect to allow the casting of Tsunami as the current invoke god power doesn't do it but I found a working ai function to do it.

Just currently trying to figure out the direction as it is going all over the place at the moment - I have seen some code in the ai script that does a direction correction but even that seems to not be quite right based on what I got.

EDIT: Got it working - turns out the second location measures from top of map with directions negated.... weird! (Also having a different y value causes some really weird behaviour for the end position where the power faces a different direction to the direction it actually travels)

   <Effect name="AI cast Tsunami">
      <Param name="Player" dispName="Player" VarType="string">0</Param>
      <Param name="DstPoint1" dispName="From" varType="area">0,0,0</Param>
      <Param name="DstPoint2" dispName="To" varType="area">0,0,0</Param>
  <Command>xsSetContextPlayer(%Player%);</Command>
  <Command>aiCastGodPowerAtPositionFacingPosition(598, vector(%DstPoint1%), xsVectorSet(kbGetMapXSize() - xsVectorGetX(vector(%DstPoint2%)), xsVectorGetY(vector(%DstPoint1%)), kbGetMapZSize() - xsVectorGetZ(vector(%DstPoint2%))));</Command>
   </Effect>

[This message has been edited by nottud (edited 11-18-2018 @ 08:33 AM).]

Just as a note, all of this works in the Steam Extended Edition (EE) only, rite?

Yea was told it was an EE thing - probably explains why it took so for me to find out about it.

It's basically possible to script an AI in the editor now.

One useful thing that comes up to mind is polling what type of terrain a unit is on.

Really? Where can I read up on this?

Out of curiousity, what AI file is set when you use the aiSet("", 0) command? And when you set one of the existing AI files for the Gaia player, does it start behaving like normal CPU players or does it only enable unit interaction? It would be interesting if the latter is the case, although it's not as useful anymore because the NoAI AI file is a thing now.

If I recall if you set an AI to AI it will start doing AI stuff as if it is an AI player. The other AI methods also work on Mother Nature when enabled like the agro distance.

   <Effect name="AI set world difficulty">
  <Param name="Difficulty" dispName="Difficulty" VarType="string">0</Param>
  <Command>aiSetWorldDifficulty(%Difficulty%);</Command>
   </Effect>

This sets the world difficulty - unlike other difficulty setter commands this one works in multiplayer. This is useful for making the AI super aggressive for a Scenario.

wow, this stuff is actually really useful for multiplayer designers!

i suspect a new trigger pack is in store

Couple I meant to add but forget as one to set the military and economic population. If you wack up the military pop the AI will go crazy with building units. :P (Probably something similar will happen with the economic but say with villagers)

At work so can't add it right now but will try and remember when I get back.

But yes eventually should get added to a pack - need to also put together my Delegate and For Player as well as a couple of recent misc ones I have written locally.

[This message has been edited by nottud (edited 11-26-2018 @ 07:21 AM).]

Will the AI set blank AI trigger work in multiplayer too?
I want to make a multiplayer map with some bots do specific stuff but in multiplayer bots always have AI even if i didn't add one.

Yes that should solve your problem.

Will it work in classic version of the game or in Extended only?

EDIT: Tried it, didn't work :/

[This message has been edited by Someone_9999 (edited 11-28-2018 @ 02:04 PM).]

Yea extended edition only I am afraid.