[Baldo_the_Don]

Just you asking how to make the AI work in DFBHD makes me hopeful for you.

The problem is .ain files. We can't make 'em. The tech for that was never released and has been lost.

The following will seem tangential. It is relevant.

I used to play Mechwarrior 4 a bit. Either MW:4 or the MW4:Mercs had a mission editor. One tool in the that mission editor was called a node creator. It analyzed the terrain you made, the items you placed on that terrain, the positions of the 'mechs on that terrain, and it would map out a grid of interconnecting points that AIs could and could not traverse. Consider them sub-waypoints, if you like.

DFBHD missions also require a grid of traversable sub-waypoints so the AIs can know where they can and cannot go. That information is stored in an .ain (AI navigation) file.

An .ain creator is not a tool included in NeverLogic's releases for DFBHD. We cannot at this point create .ain files for DFBHD. And for all the clever work so many programmers in our community have done in pursuit of unlocked MEds and expanded item allocation counts, none of them have attempted to reverse engineer an .ain file and make a creator for them, because (here I raise my sarcastic eyebrow) nobody makes single player maps in DFBHD, so fok 'em.

Otherwise, you have to manually waypoint a path from roof to terrain and use a lot of redirecting and similarly tedious events. It's not impossible or even particularly difficult, but it's a rube goldbergian workaround.

Adding music to user-made missions is also a harrowing experience barely worth the effort. My advice is that it's only a good way to see how bad DFBHD really is cobbled together. Do you really need a lot of stress in your hobby-life for a barely functional effect? Go for it!

I spent the last week or so modding the Battlefield 2 demo. Yeah, the DEMO. I got the program to finally SHOW an undistorted spin/tac-map, but it still can't SEE an undistorted spin/tac-map, so I gave up after attempting an arty drop on the bots at the village CP and it landed 100m east of target.

I made some sweet new sight .dds-es, though, 'cause that's what I do. I love my hobby!