Equip Soldiers

[HaJo]

Outfitting the soldiers is still very tedious, so here some suggestions:

* "Equip Soldiers" should be in a separate menu, not under "Aircraft"
 (at least, mention it in the tooltip)

* the keys 1-8 for selecting soldiers don't work in the Equip Soldiers-Screen
 (as during mission)

* a shortcut from Equip-Screen to Buy/Sell-Screen (and back) would be useful

* Sort/Highlight - Options for soldiers:
** by attribute (sniper/heavy-weapons/speed/...)
** by equipment (armor-value/weapons/ammo/...)
Sorting would also be useful on the selection-screen.

So you could select "has no primary weapon" and sort by "sniper-value",
then give the top two men sniper-rifles.
Repeat  for explosives-value --> rocket-laucher, etc.

* A quicker way to distribute items (armor, knife, grenades) to everyone,
e.g. a drop-in box where multiple items get distribute to all soldiers.

[Bandobras]

Ha! I like it very much. Could anybody volunteer to design this? First some sketches and discussion here, then some mockup menues (the menu scripts are easy to edit). And then, if people and mattn like it, someone could implement the inner bits...

[HaJo]

the keys 1-8 for selecting soldiers don't work in the Equip Soldiers-Screen (as during mission)

I looked into menu_hud.ufo to see how the check for keypresses is done,
but I can find only commands bound to "click" (e.g. bt_actor0).

So, probably keypresses are checked in the main program.
Is there any access to those from the .ufo-scripts ?

The documentation on http://ufo.myexp.de/wiki/index.php/UFO-Scripts
has no info about this subject...

[Mattn]

no - but have a look at the file keys.cfg (in base folder) there you can bind console command to keys. the binded console commands are of course available in all ufo-script files as normal command, too

[HaJo]

no - but have a look at the file keys.cfg

That means, I need some way to switch from

Code: [Select]

bind 1 "hud_select 0"
etc. during missions to

Code: [Select]

bind 1 "equip_select 0"
in the equipment-screen, and back again.

Maybe this could be hardcoded, but that would override keys.cfg

[Mattn]

seams like you are using an old version - the command is now soldier_select and you can select the soldiers with keys 1-8 in equipment screen (not in soldier selection screen - because this are more than 8 soldiers...)

[HaJo]

But the problem remains the same, using the same keybinding
for different commands.

E.g. Cursor-Up/Down for selecting view-level during a mission,
and selecting items or soldiers in the equip- or buy/sell-screen,
of F1 for bringing up different help-screens.

[HaJo]

sf.net issues 1535248 + 1535250, see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1535248&group_id=157793&atid=805245
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1535250&group_id=157793&atid=805245

[Taku]

A double on an item would be the common way. Double click on a primary weapon and it goes to the hand and one ammo clip goes to the belt . A secondary weapon first tries holster, then hand then back pack on a double click. Armour would be equipped or switched.

Double click on an equipped piece would remove it and if it is an weapon all ammo would be removed alongside.

Or instead a double click two clicks would be even better, first select, second (un)equip.

Taku

[v29a]

rmb could display item properties

[Bandobras]

A secondary weapon first tries holster, then hand then back pack on a double click. Armour would be equipped or switched.

There is actually a function for several days now, that does almost this: G_PackAmmoAndWeapon. But it's still some more work to do...