Enhanced Skills Slider

[DMarkwick]

This is a great addon. Cannot wait for full group/side functionality, single-unit useage is a little limited right now, but OK for testing. I'm not keen on the blue perma-hint in the middle of the screen, but I guess that's another beta detail?

With full group/side functionality, this will definitely be among my permanents.

[Old Bear]

New on front page at Armed Assault.info

Link to mirror :

Enhanced Skills Slider (v 0.1 beta) : http://www.armedassault.info/index.p...addons&id=1915

[Jedra]

This is a great addon. Cannot wait for full group/side functionality, single-unit useage is a little limited right now, but OK for testing. I'm not keen on the blue perma-hint in the middle of the screen, but I guess that's another beta detail?

With full group/side functionality, this will definitely be among my permanents.

Hello mate,

Side and Group functionality should be working. It is for me anyway ;-) It does not display slider values for Side/Group initially because it makes no sense to do so when each unit within a group or side will have different values. But certainly if you set a spread range or apply a percentage when a side / group are selected it does apply them to each unit in that group or side. Try it - set a spread range for a group and then check on an individual unit you know is in that group.

The perma-hint is because it is an addaction that is continually checking to see if the player is alive and an admin and it is generally first on the list. I guess because I play mostly with ACE I don't see it. I'll check if you can do something about this with the addaction command.

@Old Bear - thanks for the mirror - I'll update the first post.

[Neopas]

Thanks,that was desperately needed since the change in 1.60.

[Alex72]

The perma-hint is because it is an addaction that is continually checking to see if the player is alive and an admin and it is generally first on the list. I guess because I play mostly with ACE I don't see it. I'll check if you can do something about this with the addaction command.

If its the blue "set skill" menu then it goes away with a right click of the mouse like the action menu in general.

Great addon!

EDIT: Jedra, just to be clear to my daft head, is values sliders set to right always better or is it mixed? Thinking of Aiming Accuracy i can imagine its better with a higher value, but is it the same with Aiming Shake? Read the manual and although its clear to some people im uncertain myself. Cheers.

[Jedra]

If its the blue "set skill" menu then it goes away with a right click of the mouse like the action menu in general.

Great addon!

Thanks mate - I should play vanilla more often - sometimes I forget!!

[KeyCat]

Only tested it briefly so far but love it so far! I can see this one become a must have (at least for me) so it would be nice to be able to define some stuff in a "userconfig\jed_ess\jed_ess_config.hpp" that would be applied automaticly on mission startup.

Thinking mostly about random with spread function where in the jed_ess_config.hpp you define what skills to randomly change and sets the min/max limits. Would be awesome if this could be defined per SIDE as well. Leading to unpredictability and "never the same" even if a mission is played several times in row.

Also agree regarding the action menu in the middle of screen, would be better if there was a less intrusive way to do it.

Maybe an option in the config file that removes it from the action menu (but can still be called from a radio trigger/script) since I think after experimenting and finding good settings the GUI won't be needed as much...

Anyway, looking forward to whatever you decide to release!

/KC

[Jedra]

@KeyCat - thanks for the suggestions. I will look at implementing a userconfig at the weekend - it sounds like a good idea. As for the trigger thing. By using an AddAction, I know I am not going to interfere with a mission or other addon. Using a radio trigger may cause problems if a mission loaded also uses it. I think you may have to live with it, or use the right mouse button as Alex72 suggested.

[DMarkwick]

Hello mate,

Side and Group functionality should be working. It is for me anyway ;-) It does not display slider values for Side/Group initially because it makes no sense to do so when each unit within a group or side will have different values. But certainly if you set a spread range or apply a percentage when a side / group are selected it does apply them to each unit in that group or side. Try it - set a spread range for a group and then check on an individual unit you know is in that group.

The perma-hint is because it is an addaction that is continually checking to see if the player is alive and an admin and it is generally first on the list. I guess because I play mostly with ACE I don't see it. I'll check if you can do something about this with the addaction command.

@Old Bear - thanks for the mirror - I'll update the first post.

Hmm, OK I will try it again tonight, but when I tried it last night it seemed to me that only the single-unit functionality was working. Using single-unit functionality I successfully reduced their skills to useless, I tried the side/group options, and got creamed and when setting the sliders to their minimum on Side/group, upon checking the units individually they seemed to have retained their original values.

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@KeyCat - thanks for the suggestions. I will look at implementing a userconfig at the weekend - it sounds like a good idea. As for the trigger thing. By using an AddAction, I know I am not going to interfere with a mission or other addon. Using a radio trigger may cause problems if a mission loaded also uses it. I think you may have to live with it, or use the right mouse button as Alex72 suggested.

I've seen some addons of a similar nature to this have the button on the esc. screen. So you press esc. and get the window that allows you to restart/abort etc, and the button goes there. It doesn't affect the flow of the game either.

[Jedra]

Are you playing SP, MP or LAN? The sliders should be setting the individual units when you choose All Units or a group. The only time it won't is if you do it too early and the units are still spawning. Also, if you could let me know what mission you're using and I can check if it's something mission specific.

Regarding the ESC feature - I will look into that as it may be preferable to an action menu item - thanks for the tip!