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Ravencloak August 25th, 2007 05:30 PM

Adding regions for a Forgotten Realms campaign
 
All right, this bit seems really complicated, so I'd appreciate whatever advice/guidance I can get.

I'm prepping HL files for a Forgotten Realms campaign, but they've introduced the concept of character regions. Essentially, the region your character comes from is almost as important as his race. It determines one of the character's bonus languages, the availability of some feats (specific regions are prereqs for some FR feats), and affects some Knowledge skills.

So, how do I build in a new widget so the player can choose from a predefined set of regions? Or, do I need to somehow incorporate this into the races?

Colen August 27th, 2007 06:44 PM

Adding regions for a Forgotten Realms campaign
 
Ravencloak wrote:
>
>
> All right, this bit seems really complicated, so I'd appreciate whatever
> advice/guidance I can get.
>
> I'm prepping HL files for a Forgotten Realms campaign, but they've
> introduced the concept of character regions. Essentially, the region
> your character comes from is almost as important as his race. It
> determines one of the character's bonus languages, the availability of
> some feats (specific regions are prereqs for some FR feats), and affects
> some Knowledge skills.
>
> So, how do I build in a new widget so the player can choose from a
> predefined set of regions? Or, do I need to somehow incorporate this
> into the races?


The easiest way to do this is probably to add a new template (with a +0
level adjustment) for each region. The template can then automatically
add the appropriate language, and be a pre-requisite for appropriate
feats and knowledge skills.


Hope this helps,


--
Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development
http://www.wolflair.com/

Ravencloak August 28th, 2007 06:52 PM

Thanks, Colen, you've definitely pointed me in the right direction and I see how I can easily bootstrap in automatic languages. However, it's a bit more complicated than that...isn't it always.

They also use these regions to determine which additional bonus languages (beyond those assigned by race) are available to a character. Evidently, in the Forgotten Realms not all languages are available as bonus languages for humans, instead the character's home region determines which languages are available as bonus languages.

So, unless I miss my mark, it looks like I need to learn more about scripting and portals. I think that I need to figure out the name of the portal responsible for allowing bonus language picks and then "enable" the appropriate bonus languages by setting their values to 1.

I'm certain I'll run into more problems along the way :) but for now I haven't got a clue as to how I identify the name of the portal. While I'd greatly appreciate just getting the name of this specific portal, I'd be even happier if you could tell me in general how to go about "finding" the names of portals.

Brian

Colen August 30th, 2007 03:54 PM

Adding regions for a Forgotten Realms campaign
 
Ravencloak wrote:
>
>
> Thanks, Colen, you've definitely pointed me in the right direction and I
> see how I can easily bootstrap in automatic languages. However, it's a
> bit more complicated than that...isn't it always.
>
> They also use these regions to determine which additional bonus
> languages (beyond those assigned by race) are available to a character.
> Evidently, in the Forgotten Realms not all languages are available as
> bonus languages for humans, instead the character's home region
> determines which languages are available as bonus languages.
>
> So, unless I miss my mark, it looks like I need to learn more about
> scripting and portals. I think that I need to figure out the name of the
> portal responsible for allowing bonus language picks and then "enable"
> the appropriate bonus languages by setting their values to 1.
>
> I'm certain I'll run into more problems along the way Smile but for now
> I haven't got a clue as to how I identify the name of the portal. While
> I'd greatly appreciate just getting the name of this specific portal,
> I'd be even happier if you could tell me in general how to go about
> "finding" the names of portals.


I don't think you need to worry about portals for this stuff. Here's
what you'll need to do:

1) Create these 'regional' languages in the editor, and mark them as
"Secret Languages". This will ensure that humans, half-elves, and other
races that can choose "Any" language won't be able to pick them by default.

2) Now, create a script that runs at an early priority, that assigns the
"Language" tags for those languages to the hero.


For example, let's say that "Gnothic" is a regional language that you
want to add. First, you add it as a language with the unique id
"lGnothic", and mark it as a secret language.

Now, on the "Gnothic Native" template, add a script with phase "First"
and priority 10000 that does this:


~ Add the Gnothic language as a possible bonus language
var result as number
result = hero.assign[Language.lGnothic]


This should make the Gnothic language available when that template is
taken - otherwise it will be greyed out.

Hope this helps,

--
Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development
http://www.wolflair.com/

Ravencloak August 31st, 2007 08:01 AM

Thanks again, Colen. As usual, I was trying to make things more difficult for myself than necessary. ;)

Your solution works beautifully. One more question. Is there a way to combine multiple "bonus languages" into a single script statement? What you suggested above works just fine, I simply need to enter multiple scripts and increment the index value so they aren't seen as redundant. However, it seems like there ought to be a more elegant way to handle assigning multiple bonus languages in one script. Then again, I've been wrong before.

Thanks again, Colen.

Brian

Colen August 31st, 2007 10:37 AM

Adding regions for a Forgotten Realms campaign
 
Ravencloak wrote:
>
>
> Thanks again, Colen. As usual, I was trying to make things more
> difficult for myself than necessary. Wink
>
> Your solution works beautifully. One more question. Is there a way to
> combine multiple "bonus languages" into a single script statement? What
> you suggested above works just fine, I simply need to enter multiple
> scripts and increment the index value so they aren't seen as redundant.
> However, it seems like there ought to be a more elegant way to handle
> assigning multiple bonus languages in one script. Then again, I've been
> wrong before.

You can absolutely do multiple languages in the same script. For
example, if you wanted to add Lang1, Lang2 and Lang3:

var result as number
result = hero.assign[Language.lLang1]
result = hero.assign[Language.lLang2]
result = hero.assign[Language.lLang3]

With the unique ids of the languages changed appropriately.

--
Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development
http://www.wolflair.com/

rob August 31st, 2007 10:42 AM

Adding regions for a Forgotten Realms campaign
 
At 09:01 AM 8/31/2007, you wrote:
Quote:

Your solution works beautifully. One more question. Is there a way to combine multiple "bonus languages" into a single script statement? What you suggested above works just fine, I simply need to enter multiple scripts and increment the index value so they aren't seen as redundant. However, it seems like there ought to be a more elegant way to handle assigning multiple bonus languages in one script. Then again, I've been wrong before.
You can assign any number of tags in the same script, so assigning access to three optional languages for a given region in a single script would look like the following:

var result as number
result = hero.assign[Language.lGnothic]
result = hero.assign[Language.lLang2]
result = hero.assign[Language.lLang3]

.....continue as necessary

-Rob

TobyFox2002 December 24th, 2013 11:32 AM

Lets say you wanted to set up a selection of languages based on race.

I have the code working and it gives no errors (except an editor error) an but it seems to work regardless of the if statements.

Secondary tagexpr for pick 'trAglaReg' is scheduled after primary condition test is scheduled
(This pick was added from the editor - reloading the game system my fix this problem)

Levels/10000
Code:

var result as number
if (tagis[Race.Human] <> 0) then
  result = hero.assign[Language.lChessenta]
  result = hero.assign[Language.lDamaran]
  result = hero.assign[Language.lDraconic]
elseif (tagis[Race.HalfElf] <> 0) then
  result = hero.assign[Language.lChessenta]
  result = hero.assign[Language.lDamaran]
  result = hero.assign[Language.lDraconic]
endif


Sendric December 31st, 2013 05:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobyFox2002 (Post 172818)
Lets say you wanted to set up a selection of languages based on race.

I have the code working and it gives no errors (except an editor error) an but it seems to work regardless of the if statements.

Secondary tagexpr for pick 'trAglaReg' is scheduled after primary condition test is scheduled
(This pick was added from the editor - reloading the game system my fix this problem)

Levels/10000
Code:

var result as number
if (tagis[Race.Human] <> 0) then
  result = hero.assign[Language.lChessenta]
  result = hero.assign[Language.lDamaran]
  result = hero.assign[Language.lDraconic]
elseif (tagis[Race.HalfElf] <> 0) then
  result = hero.assign[Language.lChessenta]
  result = hero.assign[Language.lDamaran]
  result = hero.assign[Language.lDraconic]
endif


You can remove the variable "result" and replace "result =" with perform.

TobyFox2002 December 31st, 2013 09:56 AM

The code still gives

Code:

Secondary tagexpr for pick 'trAglaReg' is scheduled after primary condition test is scheduled
(This pick was added from the editor - reloading the game system my fix this problem)

And works no matter what happens, regardless of what race I choose. Human, Half-Elf, Orc, Goliath, etc...


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