[Wesnoth-patches] [patch #3625] allow units to be spliced into the advancement tree with [advancefrom]

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                 Summary: allow units to be spliced into the advancement tree
with [advancefrom]
                 Project: Battle for Wesnoth
            Submitted by: jp30
            Submitted on: Sat 01/08/05 at 15:35
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open

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It seems that people are often asking to have their new high-level Naga /
Drake / Saurian / etc. units added to the advancement tree. They should be
able to do this within their own campaigns without having to modify or
duplicate existing units.



One way to do this would be to configure the advancement tree with an
"advancefrom" tag rather than the "advanceto" attribute. That way an
additional unit can be spliced into the advancement tree by simply adding an
extra unit file (perhaps as part of a campaign). Since the additional unit
could be subject to standard CAMPAIGN_ preprocessing conditionals, it would
only appear in the advancement tree of the campaign that has installed it.



This would make it much easier for campaign developers to explore the
potentials of the less-widely-used races, while taking advantage of unit
graphics and definitions distributed with the game.



The config syntax and implementation of this patch is dicussed in the ideas
forum at:



http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4186







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Date: Sat 01/08/05 at 15:35  Name: wesnoth-advancefrom2.patch.gz  Size:
1.86KB   By: jp30
patch adding [advancefrom]
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/download.php?item_id=3625&item_file_id=4010>

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