ZeroK-RTS
F2 without units
The pathing map summoned by F2 shows the pathing map for the currently selected unit.
However, one of the more important times this comes needed is when choosing a factory. However, F2 requires an actual unit atm, and at this time the player has only one unit to use F2 with: the amphibious bot commander, so that most useful workflow is blocked.
The thing that does it is engine-side but also unsync, which suggests it's probably controllable with Lua.
I see several options to show this in the UI:
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The top bar button that triggers f2 could offer a dropdown for pathing types
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Selecting a factory blueprint could show that factory units' main movetype, rather than pathing for the static
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Alternatively, an unified view shader could be contrived to show pathing for all unit types simultaneously.
Sounds good. I think this has been a ticket for 12+ years so might not have made it here.
Unified shader (green/yellow/red for veh/bot/spider respectively) would IMO be best and I think somebody obtained a copy of the proof of concept implementation from the Lancer folk before they stopped playing.
You can enable the pathing view for a specific unitdef or movedef via Spring.SendCommands("/showPathType cloakraid") or /showPathType ABOT2 but I am unsure if there is a way to tell what unit/movetype is currently being shown so there wouldn't be accurate feedback (other than remembering what you set and hoping it hasn't changed since then).
As a minor related thing, we could consider changing the color coding from "green is speed, red is worst slowdown, pink unpathable" into "green is speed, yellow/orange is worst slowdown, red unpathable" since pink is a bit weird for that.
