Dawn of the Tiberium Age (DTA) is a stand-alone mod that combines Tiberian Dawn (C&C 95) and Red Alert. While classic mode gets as close to the original game-play and balance as possible, Enhanced mode provides improved game balance and a lot of fun new stuff. DTA features many customization options for Skirmish and multiplayer (where you can play as GDI, Nod, Allies and Soviet on over 200 maps), challenging original singleplayer missions, as well as co-op missions. Since this is a stand-alone mod, you don't require anything but the mod itself to be able to play: the original game is not required.
Traditionally, it has been practically impossible to control AI base building behaviour in multiplayer maps with the TS engine. The AI has had a more or less hardcoded build order, placement pattern and count for its buildings.
This has made it cumbersome to have AI bases that are both functional and pretty in multiplayer, which has limited co-op mission design.
This has not been the case in singleplayer, where the game offers a way to precisely define the AI's base layout and structure build order through a system known as Base Nodes.
I've now hacked the engine to make it possible to use the singleplayer Base Node logic in multiplayer maps. This will give us full control over AI base layouts in co-op missions, removing one obstacle from mission design.
Wow. That is truly stunning. I look forward to smash plenty of pretty enemy base sites.. That's truly outstanding work. A Fantastic job well done. I hope you guys will add many potential base layouts in the months, years to come. Still you should always adjust your base sizes to the most possible smallest map. Unless you can separate it even further by the general map size. So very small map size the ai uses specific patterns adjusted for the very small map size while on very large map sizes their bases look entirely different all together.
Hey, good for you!
that is incredibly impressive.
That's truly impressive!
Rampastring I wonder if this also works for skirmish? Because in the screenshot one can see that the buildings are set for a specific faction (Nod) so they may not work if another faction is set in skirmish, right? Or are these kind of templates which adapt depending on the faction chosen later?
No, they don't adapt and are faction-specific. Moreover, it is impossible to have different sets for different factions, the nodes for a specific player ("house" in game-technical vocabulary) are tied to their starting location.
So, the system doesn't work for maps where the AI can be of any faction. It does, however, work for missions where the AI has been configured to only use a specific faction.
Thank you very much for clarification!