Hiding Derived Traits from Creatures/Monsters
 

So, a couple of different settings I am working on have some Derived Traits I created, like Beast & Barbarians > Savings and for Lankhmar > Corruption, and some others.

All well in good, no problem there.

The question, is it possible to tag such Traits as "character" only? Meaning they won't show up on a creature/monster? Especially since in most cases, the creatures don't have other relative traits, edges, etc. that relate to the derived trait.

I am just about completed on creatures from B&B (Core Book Golden Edition, Jalizar, and Tricarnia) and doing work on Lankhmar and some other settings. So I am noticing this effect now that I am putting in the critters.

It doesn't stop the program from working, and no specific errors, just a message occasionally that I do not remember right now.

Just curious.

You could check to see if it's creature and if it is, assign a Hide.Trait tag to it.

That should prevent it from showing up for Creatures.

Hmm, this looks like it should work so I am guessing I am putting it in wrong spot or maybe a timing issue?

I added a mechanic to setting:

And I get the following error when trying to save file in Editor:

I also tried placing this on a creature itself to try out, same error, as well as on the derived trait itself. So obviously I am doing something wrong :)

That's because it's

And you should probably put in on the Derived Trait itself rather than a mechanic.

Well, getting closer with the correction from ( to [ but still getting an error. This is with the script attached directly onto the Derived Trait. So we have the following script:

Initialization 1000
and we get to line 2 now before an error occurs:

Also, hope everyone had a nice Christmas!

Try

instead of Hide.trBBSavings. I didn't catch that last time.

Double oops, take the 'hero.' out of that...

Well, the good news is I am no longer getting any errors across characters or creatures. The bad news, it still does not "hide" the derived trait when in creature mode of HeroLab :)

Using the corrected code from above, at Initialization 10000.

I also have the Show Hero Tags floating window open and it "sees" the piece of code apparently:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1bopod6hhs...Tags.png?raw=1

So much closer than ever but not quit hitting the target.

BTW, many thanks every time Caped Crusader reads and posts a suggestion. He has a day job, and is busy working towards getting us a version for the new SWADE version. I also backed the Kickstarter so have even made my own "test" files to test things out. I do like what I see so far.

Cheers...wow, a new year coming, where did the old one go?

That looks like the tag is on the hero - it should be on the trait. And that's on me. Take the 'hero.' out of that.

In case someone reads this thread looking for a solution. Caped Crusader closed the deal!

the proper code is: