Super simple script based name generator + Air Ace bomber

I wrote this yesterday as I was in need of AI pilot names for our game Air Ace Online www.airaceonline.com

Its so super simple that it hurts, but works fine for my usage. So why not share it with you.

The basis is to use a list of first names and combine randomly with a list of surnames.

For Air Ace in version 1 we have British and German pilots, so I fetched a little list of those.

To get some good names I went to
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surnames
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_name

In the bottom they have lists for common names for various countries.

Then I fixed this little code snippet and thats it. Enjoy!

// Random Name Generator
// Made by Thomas Lund
//
// Creates a random name from name lists
// per team/country

function NameGenerator::getRandomTeamName(%team)
{
	return NameGenerator::getFirstName(%team) SPC NameGenerator::getSurName(%team);		
}

$NameDB::UK_first = "James Benjamin Joshua Ryan John Patrick Samuel William Jack Thomas Daniel Matthew Jacob Ethan Ronald Michael Richard Jonathan Joseph Oliver Harry Charlie Sean Jack Conor Adam James Daniel Luke Michael Aaron Jack Matthew Adam James Ryan Joshua Conor Ben Daniel Dylan Lewis Jack Callum James Ryan Cameron Kyle Jamie Daniel Matthew Peter";
$NameDB::GE_first = "Alexander Maximilian Leon Lukas Lucas Luca Paul Jonas Felix Tim David Jens Joachim Johan Heinrich Hugo Hubert Xaver Wilmar Wolfgang Waldmar Uwe Udo Ulrich Theo Thorsten Sven Sigfried Rubens Rudi Niklas Otto Max Manfred Leopold Guido Gunther Friedrich Fritz Frank Frans Eckard Erich Diedrich Dietrich Diether Bernard Bodo Aldo Arnold August Arne";

function NameGenerator::getFirstName(%team)
{
	if (%team $= "UK") {
		%index = getRandom(0, getWordCount($NameDB::UK_first)-1);
		return getWord($NameDB::UK_first, %index);
		
	} else if (%team $= "GE") {
		%index = getRandom(0, getWordCount($NameDB::GE_first)-1);
		return getWord($NameDB::GE_first, %index);

	} else {
		error("Get first name - unknown team " @ %team);
		return "Unknown";
	}
}

$NameDB::UK_sur = "Anderson Brown Byrne Campbell Clark Davies Doyle Edwards Evans Gallagher Green Hall Harris Hughes Jackson Johnson Jones Kelly Kennedy Lewis Lynch Macdonald Martin McCarthy Mitchell Moore Morison Morris Murphy Murray O'Brien O'Connor O'Doherty O'Neill O'Reilly O'Sullivan Patel Paterson Quinn Reid Roberts Ross Ryan Scott Smith Stewart Taylor Thomas Thomson Walker Walsh Watson White Williams Wilson Wright Young";
$NameDB::GE_sur = "Altenstein Altmann Bach Becker Berger Brand Denke Dunkel Eisner Engels Feuerbach Fischer Fuchs Geissler Grass Hahn Hankel Heilmann Hoffmann Huber Hueber Jost Kirchner Klein Krause List Lorenz Mann Meyer Moltke Mueller Obenauer Reich Reuter Sachs Schanze Schindler Schmidt Schneider Schulze Simmel Sommer Spitz Thiele Volkmann Wagner Weber";
function NameGenerator::getSurName(%team)
{
	if (%team $= "UK") {
		%index = getRandom(0, getWordCount($NameDB::UK_sur)-1);
		return getWord($NameDB::UK_sur, %index);
		
	} else if (%team $= "GE") {
		%index = getRandom(0, getWordCount($NameDB::GE_sur)-1);
		return getWord($NameDB::GE_sur, %index);

	} else {
		error("Get first name - unknown team " @ %team);
		return "Unknown";
	}
}

Edit - damn. Almost forgot rule #1. No blog without images.

So hopefully Phil didnt post this one yet.

We recently got this baby into the engine - B17. First a render shot, and then a shot from ingame (glass material still being worked upon)




Edit 2

Ahh what the hell. Here is a little movie I made yesterday too. The first shot at the bomber AI controlled:

airaceonline.arcadersplanet.com/movies/AIBomberTest1.wmv

I was going to save that one for a different blog, but in the end I dont have much time currently. So feel free to read more about the AI here:

www.airacepilots.com/viewtopic.php?t=244