[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/feature-requests/625 Item 625] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 20:23:02

The game chooses a gender in scripts.cpp::Com_GetCharacterValues, line 2241:

const int gender = rand() % NAME_LAST;

If I understand this correctly, this leads to a 50-50 split between both genders for Phalanx soldiers. Now that we have a lot more male than female soldier models, it would be really nice if the game chose a soldier model at random, and then set the gender based on that.

So, for instance, if we have 30 male models and 10 female models, it should choose one of the 40 and determine the gender from that. This will allow for maximum soldier diversity.

The scripts save the number of models for each gender in td->numModels[gender]. But I was unable to think of a safe and appropriate way to use this to implement this myself. It seems like a fairly simple change if someone could please do it.

Thanks.
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====== darkrainx (2012-12-18 18:58:47.790000) ======

This should be implemented now, see: [1b6273f02e7fcbf139a51084c43a88334f994a14]
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