Count Number of Skill Tricks

AWizardInDallas · February 26th, 2009, 07:02 PM

Is there a way to count the number of tricks in a category?

Mathias · February 27th, 2009, 07:31 AM

Try adding lots of skill tricks to a test character, the go to the develop menu, floating info windows, show hero tags - does anything useful show up there?

If not, right click on a few skill tricks once they're added to the character, and look at their tags - what tag defines the categories there?

On the hero, it's easy to find out how many tags exist:

hero.tagcount[x.x]

If they only exist on the skill trick itself, you'll need something more complex:

var total as number
foreach pick in hero where "component.(whatever skill tricks' component is) & (your category's tag)"
total +=1
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AWizardInDallas · February 27th, 2009, 12:57 PM

Thank you! I'll give that a shot.

AWizardInDallas · March 9th, 2009, 07:27 AM

The only useful things seem to be in hero fields:

tSklTricks
tSklTrkUsed
tSklLeft

I'm working on the Cool Head feat, the Complete Scoundrel, pg 75. I need to check for two mental skill tricks (i.e. the category) and I need to be able to add two free skill tricks and raise the character's skill trick limit by 1 if they have the mental skill tricks.

Mathias · March 9th, 2009, 07:32 AM

In that case, look at the tags on the skill tricks themselves - is there a tag specifically for mental tricks? If so, you can use a foreach loop to find them and increment a counter.

AWizardInDallas · March 10th, 2009, 08:28 PM

There's no tag.

Mathias · March 11th, 2009, 07:10 AM

In that case, go back to the skill tricks themselves - there's an option in the editor to add user tags, so add User.skMental to all the mental skill tricks, and then you'll be able to test for it with the foreach loop I descibed earlier.

AWizardInDallas Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 147 February 26th, 2009, 07:02 PM	Is there a way to count the number of tricks in a category?
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Mathias Senior Member Lone Wolf Staff Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 13,213 March 9th, 2009, 07:32 AM	In that case, look at the tags on the skill tricks themselves - is there a tag specifically for mental tricks? If so, you can use a foreach loop to find them and increment a counter.
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