Profile of eliw00d

Yeah, you have to manually fix all the meshes. It can be somewhat painstaking but that is what I remember having to do. It also depends on what you are trying to do. There were some Relic models that could be imported and then re-exported from 3DS Max 7/8 that worked well with the Object Editor.

If I have time I'll try to dig through my CoH1 stuff and see what I can find.

When is the last time your mod built without errors? Backtrack any recent changes until it builds to troubleshoot it. Alternatively, start removing files/folders until it builds. Unfortunately, that's pretty much all you can do.

Unfortunately, I believe this to be impossible. The Stats_* functions are C functions exposed to Lua, so there's no way to "find" the function to look at it - and even if you could, you can't modify the C code, anyways.

There are a few undocumented functions, but they do not provide anything more than what the others already do. But, they might be useful in other ways:

Stats_BeginBalanceStatsDump(string filename)
Creates a .csv file in /LogFiles that looks like: gamestats-<filename>-01260.2019-06-08.10-20-01.csv; it starts out blank.

Stats_BalancePrint(string row)
If a balance stats dump has begun, prints a row to the current file.

Stats_EndBalanceStatsDump()
Closes the current file for a balance stats dump.

Stats_DumpFramesToDisk(string ?)
I haven't been able to figure this one out, yet. All I know is that it only takes a string. Maybe filename?

Stats_GetScenarioName()
Returns the current scenario name.

Stats_ReportGameStats(string filename, float realTime)
Creates a .lua file in /LogFiles that looks like: <filename>.lua; it prints all of the current stats for the game, and will set realTime to "minutes : seconds" of the passed in float (which I believe are seconds). I'm not 100% sure what that's for.

The closest you could get to what you're looking for is to handle the GE_EntityKilled event and maybe do a Stats_BalancePrint or something to log the entity's blueprint at time of death. However, I don't think there's a way to figure out who killed that entity.

I believe that availability does not override requirements. I would check the requirements of that ability.

Yeah, you always need that import due to maps using the functions it provides.

You don't need to use parentheses, but it's not a bad habit to get into if you ever wanted to program in a different language. It is entirely optional in Lua, so up to you in the end. I just did so out of habit and I like the way it looks. *shrug*