Hi,
Here is an experimental version of Lix. Edit 2024-01-14: Removed the attachment. All of this is now in the stable 0.10.18.
This allows you, when you start an
n-player map in singleplayer, to control all
n teams.
Put the
attached executable into an existing Lix directory. Start an
n-player map (from
levels/network/) from the singleplayer browser. You'll play with lix in
n different colors for the
n different teams. Whenever you hover over a different color of lix, the skills in the panel change to that team, and you can assign skills to that lix.
This cannot netplay; it fails to connect. I gave it version number 0.10.−17 to distinguish it. Keep a regular current Lix 0.10.x around for netplay.
I hope that this is helpful for Flopsy to illustrate his multiplayer strategy guide with screenshots.
In the long term, I'd like to include this feature in the normal stable releases. It's not only useful to stage multiplayer screenshots; it's a useful feature on its own: We can playtest
n-player maps with this and see the correct spawn timings, correct hatch orders, ..., as it would be in real multiplayer. But it's too early for me to call it stable: Behind the scenes, this has lot of assignment code changed to allow switching the local team. I'll have to playtest it several times and sand a few more rough corners. Still, I release this ASAP as experimental because Flopsy has a lot of time over the holidays and asked for this feature. Here it is. Merry Christmas.
-- Simon