Racial Channel Negative Energy

[AndrewD2]

I've got a template that gives channel negative energy. In fact it's figured just like the Nightshade subtype. The nightshade uses two scripts on a racial ability to generate this.

Post-Levels 1000
      var tagexpr as string
      tagexpr = "SpecSource.stNightsha"
      call ChanEnFind
      doneif (state.isfocus = 0)

      ~ Add our CR to our turning level.
      focus.field[abValue].value += hero.findchild[BaseRace].field[rCR].value

AND

Post-Attributes/10000
      var tagexpr as string
      tagexpr = "SpecSource.stNightsha"
      call ChanEnFind
      doneif (state.isfocus = 0)

      ~we can turn undead 3 + CHA mod / day
      focus.field[trkMax].value += 3 + #attrmod[aCHA]

I copied this and I'm sure my problem is the SpecSource but I'm not sure what to put there. The Nightshade uses the subtype so I used the template and I've used the racial ability id there, but neither is working.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks,
Andrew

[Aaron]

Make sure that when bootstrapping the xChannel pick, you give it the same SpecSource tag you have in the tagexpr string variable.

[AndrewD2]

Well it seems to be showing up in the Background tab, but it's not adding to the trkMax field so it's not showing up in the specials tab or in-play

[AndrewD2]

I think I may have found a bug because if I had something with the Nightshade subtype it shows up twice then and still says the specSource is stNightshade even though I changed it.

EDIT: Well I tested again and it disappeared, but no matter what SpecSource I use that's on the hero it's not showing up.

[Aaron]

If you have the nightshade subtype, that grants you a separate channel from whatever it is you are making, so it makes sense there would be two.

Why don't you send me the file and I'll take a look at it.

[AndrewD2]

Thanks Aaron, I sent it out.

[Aaron]

Alright, it looks to be working correctly to me when added to any monstrous race with a CR. I think the issue is probably one of testing, as this line:

focus.field[abValue].value += hero.findchild[BaseRace].field[rCR].value

means that if you add the template without a race, or to a race with no CR value, then the xChannel gets nothing added to the abValue field. In this case, abValue is the effective Cleric level of the channeling, and if there is nothing there then an eval script hides the special.

So in this case, I think you may want to set the value added to something else or else add some more eval scripts to manually re-set the values and un-hide the xChannel pick. (The script which hides it runs at Post-Attr 10001, so your scripts to unhide it would need to apply Helper.ShowSpec after that).

Hope that helps!

[AndrewD2]

Well the actual code in the file I sent you has abValue set to herofield[tCR].value instead of base race because I need to account for the CR added by the template. I tried assigning Helper.ShowSpec and it still doesn't show up for me.

[AndrewD2]

I just want to get this right, you're saying you added my template and everything showed up on a race that had a CR value?

[AndrewD2]

I've manually set all the abValues on xChannel and it still doesn't show up. I guess I'll try bootstrapping it straight to the template.