Programatically adding a feat

[Fuzzy]

I am trying to create a racial special that gives the option to add one of three bonus feats. I've got the racial special set up, and it displays the list of possible feats in the dropdown (usrCandID1 = thingid.fEndure | thingid.fGreatFort | thingid.fIronWill). I can select the item, but I'm not sure how to add the feats from the eval block via a script, or via 3 separate bootstraps, limited by conditions. Any ideas?

[Fuzzy]

Okay, so i found a way to work around this. Would have been a LOT easier if there was a way to create a bootstrap, or add a pick, whatever, from code, but here's how I did it.

My faction bootstraps a Racial Special (this is so i can have a chooser to pick which of the three bonus feats to acquire). The eval script in the Racial Special checks the chosen thing and stores a number for which one of the three it was in it's abValue field.

var result as string
result = this.field[usrChosen1].chosen.idstring
if (compare(result,"fEndure")=0) then
     this.field[abValue].value=1
elseif (compare(result,"fGreatFort")=0) then
     this.field[abValue].value=2
elseif (compare(result,"fIronWill")=0) then
     this.field[abValue].value=3
else
     this.field[abValue].value=0
endif

I then have 3 bootstraps from the special, one for each of the possible feats. Each uses a Condition check that checks the abValue to determine whether to bootstrap in the feat.

fieldval:abValue=1

or

fieldval:abValue=2

or

fieldval:abValue=3

It's not elegant, but it does work for my usage. Setup time is going to take forever, as it's just a lot of duplicated effort (each of 22 regions has three feats. The feat thingid has to be entered 3 places (the choose list, the Eval Script, and the Boostraps). Plugging right along then...

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Okay, so i found a way to work around this. Would have been a LOT easier if there was a way to create a bootstrap, or add a pick, whatever, from code, but here's how I did it.

Using bootstraps and conditional bootstraps is one way of doing this.

You maybe better off having the Faction add a extra feat and then causing an error if the correct feat for this faction is NOT taken. I am thinking this way would be allot easier to code.

Pre-Levels/10000

~ Add to feats allowed
#resmax[resFeat] += 1

Give a bonus feat so the person can choose a faction feat.

This code goes into a "Pre-reqs" section.

~ If we didn't get picked then we are valid for this test
if (@ispick <> 1) Then
  @valid = 1
endif
~ Just get out if we didn't get picked
doneif (@ispick <> 1)
~ Test for the existence of each feat below and if we found any of them
~ then we are valid. These ValidIf tests will ONLY run after we have 
~ been picked and added to Hero.
validif (#hasfeat[fEndure] <> 0)
validif (#hasfeat[fGreatFort] <> 0)
validif (#hasfeat[fIronWill] <> 0)

The above is all done in one thing the Faction instead of multiple Things and you don't have to deal with bootstraps or conditional bootstraps. That would be my idea.

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

var result as string
result = this.field[usrChosen1].chosen.idstring
if (compare(result,"fEndure")=0) then
     this.field[abValue].value=1
elseif (compare(result,"fGreatFort")=0) then
     this.field[abValue].value=2
elseif (compare(result,"fIronWill")=0) then
     this.field[abValue].value=3
else
     this.field[abValue].value=0
endif

The above code is a little out of date and a will use up allot of CPU power. Here your code redone using a little more up to date methods. The important part is test Tags not strings and to do nothing if nothing was chosen.

~ Don't do anything if nothing was chosen
doneif (field[usrChosen1].ischosen <> 0) 

~ So here we test for the Tag instead of doing a string 
~ compare which is allot of over head
If (field[usrChosen1].chosen.tagis[thingid.fEndure] = 1) Then
   ~ Notice that "This" is no longer required as its Assumed you 
   ~ meant your dealing with the Pick we are running on.
   field[abValue].value = 1
elseIf (field[usrChosen1].chosen.tagis[thingid.fGreatFor] = 1) Then
   field[abValue].value = 2
elseIf (field[usrChosen1].chosen.tagis[thingid.fIronWill] = 1) Then
   field[abValue].vaue = 3
Endif
~ Notice nothing sets the value to 0 as 0 was set by HL initially so if nothing else
~ changes it then it will still be 0.

[Fuzzy]

Thanks for the input.. but I've already finished setting it up as I had - took some time, but it's done, no need to go in an change it now. I actually still like my method better from the player's standpoint, as it is more obvious where the extra feat is coming from, and what the choices are, much like the way a fighter's bonus combat feats are chosen on the Fighter tab, and not the Feat tab.

As for the coding method, I think i did have it using tags at some point - i think i moved towards using the idstring in some of my many fights with figuring out how to get the conditional to work. (I really wish the Bootstrap conditionals were scripted with @valid properties like Pre-req's are). Besides, I'd hate to be stuck with a computer slow enough to even notice the 'delay' to do the string compare. It bootstraps in the feat right now virtually instantly after selecting it from the background tab. I had tried so many ways, that once I got a method that worked, I just stuck with it and started spamming Duplicate...

[Mathias]

Sorry I didn't get this in earlier, but have you tried the Configure tab in the editor - those can offer bonus feat selection tables. Just bootstrap the configurable from the ability, and then have the ability set the lists of potential feats to choose from.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Mathias

Sorry I didn't get this in earlier, but have you tried the Configure tab in the editor - those can offer bonus feat selection tables. Just bootstrap the configurable from the ability, and then have the ability set the lists of potential feats to choose from.

I think I looked there, because I did see the Bonus Feat section, but it also said Bonus Feats Per Level, so I'm not sure how to make it just once on character generation.

[Fuzzy]

Also, i did just try out bootstrapping a configurable from the Faction, and it spews up an error:

Live panel not found for thing 'cfgBonusF'
Location: 'evalrule' script for Component 'Configure' (Eval Rule '#1') near line 12

There is no UI it seems for this configurable to latch on to to provide the bonus feat. And I am not sure how to create said panel.

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I think I looked there, because I did see the Bonus Feat section, but it also said Bonus Feats Per Level, so I'm not sure how to make it just once on character generation.

Ignore the part that says "per level" - that was a mistake when cutting and pasting from some other tab.

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Also, i did just try out bootstrapping a configurable from the Faction, and it spews up an error:

Live panel not found for thing 'cfgBonusF'
Location: 'evalrule' script for Component 'Configure' (Eval Rule '#1') near line 12

There is no UI it seems for this configurable to latch on to to provide the bonus feat. And I am not sure how to create said panel.

I apologize, the feats part of the configurable appears to be bugged right now.

[Fuzzy]

No worries, like said, i like the result of how i did this, just not the time it took to implement.