Carriers

Carriers are specialized workers that carry wares along the roads. Each tribe has a basic human carrier + a second carrier for busy roads - usually a beast of burden.

Carriers, like workers, are defined in data/tribes/workers/<tribe name>/<worker_name>/init.lua. The carrier will also need its help texts, which are defined in data/tribes/initialization/<tribe_name>/units.lua

new_carrier_type{table}

This function adds the definition of a carrier to the engine.

Parameters

table – This table contains all the data that the game engine will add to this carrier. It contains the Common Worker Properties.

For making the UI texts translateable, we also need to push/pop the correct textdomain.

Example:

push_textdomain("tribes")

wl.Descriptions():new_carrier_type {
   name = "atlanteans_carrier",
   descname = pgettext("atlanteans_worker", "Carrier"),
   animation_directory = dirname,
   icon = dirname .. "menu.png",
   vision_range = 2,

   buildcost = {}, -- This will give the worker the property "buildable"

   spritesheets = {
      idle = {
         fps = 10,
         frames = 50,
         rows = 8,
         columns = 7,
         hotspot = { 13, 24 }
      },
      walk = {
         fps = 10,
         frames = 10,
         rows = 4,
         columns = 3,
         directional = true,
         hotspot = { 8, 25 }
      },
      walkload = {
         fps = 10,
         frames = 10,
         rows = 4,
         columns = 3,
         directional = true,
         hotspot = { 8, 25 }
      },
   }
}

pop_textdomain()