Wiki: Complete overview of unit names, roles and factory.

Hi, as mentioned in this thread: https://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/27807?page=1
I think it would help new players to have a complete overview of all the units and what they are, in one handy page.


I'm willing to give it a try, otherwise someone more familiar with the wiki might be able to whip it up pretty quick.

I'm proposing the following information:

[FACTORY NAME]

Unit name / role / icon -> Link to unit's page
Aliases (ie. nicknames, previous names)
Cost / HP
On mouseover, information on weapons, DPS, etc.



Also, structures are included in the list too after all the factories, especially combat structures.


Are we ok with this? Should I make a new wiki page or expand one of the existing pages?
(eg. this one: https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=Units )

Yes, considering the information is partially replicated in several different places, being able to do it automatically would reduce double maintenance.


It would be great if you think this is a worthwhile thing to do :D

Sure! Do you mean manually or using scripting? Because I'm not familiar with the latter.

Are you able to do the scripting component? Or are we waiting for Histidine? How should we begin?

Sample version
Don't have a good idea for how to implement weapon tooltip. Or indeed whether the information is needed at all, for what appears to be a quick navigation/lookup table...

pls more upvotes for the post above...

Histidine
That's great! The weapon tooltips were a nice to have, but if it's hard then it's easily skipped I guess.


I'm trying to understand the code, do you run this in the engine to generate files for the wiki? Does this mean the aliases have to be edited in by hand each time? I guess the aliases can be saved into a text file with the engine and your code could pull out the data when generating...?

Edited to try a version with a separate column for the map icon.

You shouldn't need to run the tool more than once per factory btw, this is just to help quickly generate templates. The tables can be edited entirely manually afterwards.