A few years ago I was debugging the engine to make adjustable LOD's cutoffs possible. I mean controlling all cutoffs from UI so this won't cause a desync. Managed to find a good place for a hook, where modifying values doesn't cause desync, but I just didn't have enough motivation to continue tbh Playing with numbers directly via debuger and making a working function that allows all that from Lua - these are 2 different stories.

I know Az0t made a lot of work to make C++ engine patches easier (instead of writing all in asm), so who knows, mb at some point we'll have this LOD feature too.

Personally I don't care much about graphics, but, for example, being able to increase all wreck's cutoffs so it's easier to spot reclaim fields, would be very useful (also all these black wreck models when zooming out will be a good notification for a player about reclaiming Anyway, even this wasn't enough for me to continue

"UI_SelectByCategory [+add] [+nearest] [+idle] [+goto] categoryExpression\n"
        "+add :            add to current selection\n"
        "+nearest :        select only nearest unit matching category\n"
        "+idle :           select only idle units\n"
        "+inview:          select only units in the current view\n"
        "+goto:            goto the unit if it's already selected\n"

No zoom argument here, but this will work too:

ConExecute('UI_SelectByCategory +nearest +goto COMMAND')
Camera:SetZoom(zoom,seconds)

https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/deploy/fafdevelop/lua/sim/Unit.lua#L736

Can add some logic here that adjusts engie's buildpower (unit:SetBuildRate) if the target is live building and then revert it back in unit.OnStopReclaim

I'm not gonna do it, just giving ideas

@melanol said in Small suggestions topic:

Can we fix that annoying thing that resets the currently selected construction tab for various reasons? Like when you selected a T3 engi, switched to T1 to choose something from there, and then an event happens, and you are back in the T3 tab.

This happens because of Common Mod Tools mod that provides info about player's units to other UI mods. Unfortunately there is no special UI function to get all player's units, so from time to time we have to select ALL units on the map, get info about them and then revert selection back. All this happens in 0.1 sec, so it is not noticeble for your eyes, but still counts as reselection and causes reset of construction tab

Yep. That's why I added special cursors for each mode. 2 for reclaim and 1 for hard move. Left mouse button also disables HardMove btw.

Also I forgot to mention in start post that TML order can also be tweaked so it's placed only on the ground. But there should be 2 versions of it for sure, because sometimes you just zooming out and casually clicking enemy mexes with tml and it's very handy when orders snap to mexes.

Anyway, if someone want to use it now as default, just change 14 line in this file 'Mods\RUI\hook\lua\ui\game\commandmode.lua' to:

local selectTolerance = {RULEUCC_Attack = true, RULEUCC_Nuke = true, RULEUCC_Tactical = true}

Only with replay parser I guess. If player uses macros there should be a lot of reclaim orders that are related to one object. When macros clicks 10+ times at same rock, player will do 2-3 clicks at max. But yes, with this mod detecting macros requires more efforts

Yeah, mod is under WTFPL license, so feel free to do anything you want.

I was thinking about making a pr to fa repo, but then I should probably rework the code a little bit and all that stuff (don't want to spend time on that now). In UI mods everything is simple: it works and doesn't lag to death? Approved.

Random UI improvements in the mod vault. I putted [UI mod] in title so it's easier to recognize that it's actually a mod name and not just name of the topic where I posted some random things

This mod contains some UI improvements that I coded a long time ago but as I stopped playing ~3yrs ago and lost motivation, all these were buried on my harddrive backyard Now they finally collected in one mod. Better late than never, right?

1. EasyReclaim hotkey

New reclaim order that behaves almost same as default one, except that it ignores empty spots and accepts only those clicks that were placed on reclaimable objects. So no more fake orders while manually reclaiming stuff:

2. Attack/nuke orders ignore units and always placed on the ground

No need to drag attack orders anymore, just put it wherever you want.

3. While using "Move" command it's no longer transform into patrol

Now you can place as many move orders in one spot as you want. Very useful when dodging with single unit, like t1 arty etc.

4. HardMove hotkey for air fights

When HardMove mode is active, all right mouse clicks will be move orders, no matter where they placed, even if there is an enemy unit under cursor. Very useful for ait fights

That's all for now

Adaptive Crateria. I don't like this map (sorry Morax) because of 2 things:

1. textures (looks depressive :D). But that's just personal taste so nvm
2. Early t1 air fights for these crystals fields which are too concentrated and also located too close to mexes. So loosing your transport/engies hurts too much, because your lose both reclaim and mexes, and it's very hard to compete in eco after that.

My sugesstions:

Also textures on Adaptive Kusoge are so painful for eyes, mb it's just me idk. Anyway Petric is afk, so unlikely it will be fixed.

Speaking about spread-build/reclaim/tml/whatever orders, they all were in a game a while ago, but we had to remove them as they create a hole for UI mods which automate basically everything as we pass orders and their coordinates from UI to sim, and on UI side you can do whatever you want: make a bot that executes perfect BO for you, auto dodging for engies (still there as spread-move/attack wasn't removed), auto-hovering for bombers etc etc.

Note for lua coders: to make it works without adding loopholes for abusers, sim function unit:GetCommandQueue() should be modified in engine, so it actually returns a command type, its position an so on, instead of useless pointer to C-object. Mb I will look at it st some point but can't promise anything.