Have the ingredients, but need help with the recipe

[Bob G]

Originally Posted by Mathias

Back to the scripting tutorials:
http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=21688

You're doing math here, so what does the math tutorial say about how you can use an abbreviation to save yourself a lot of typing when doing arithmetic?

Once you've got that fixed, then we'll do another fix for this line - competence bonuses are non-stacking, so you're not actually adding a bonus in the correct way. As written, your bonus will stack with anything else that's adding a competence bonus. But still best to make sure you understand how to set up the basic math, and then we'll do a lesson on how to apply non-stacking bonuses.

Will do, sir!

[Bob G]

Originally Posted by Mathias

Back to the scripting tutorials:
http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=21688

You're doing math here, so what does the math tutorial say about how you can use an abbreviation to save yourself a lot of typing when doing arithmetic?

Once you've got that fixed, then we'll do another fix for this line - competence bonuses are non-stacking, so you're not actually adding a bonus in the correct way. As written, your bonus will stack with anything else that's adding a competence bonus. But still best to make sure you understand how to set up the basic math, and then we'll do a lesson on how to apply non-stacking bonuses.

I think the abbreviation you're referencing is something like this:

field[usrChosen1].value += field[BonComp].value += 5

But I know that's not exactly right. I want to point to the skill that the user selects, go to that skill, and add a +5 competence bonus to it. Is it better to do:

field[usrChosen1].field[BonComp].value +=5

Thanks for all your patience with me. I'm learning slowly, but surely.

[Mathias]

The first of those will not work. The second one is close, but you've made a mistake in your transitions - there's something missing in-between field[usrChosen1] and field[BonComp].value.

[Bob G]

Originally Posted by Mathias

The first of those will not work. The second one is close, but you've made a mistake in your transitions - there's something missing in-between field[usrChosen1] and field[BonComp].value.

Figured it out!

~Take the selection chosen by the user and grant a +5 competence bonus to the skills selected
     field[usrChosen1].chosen.field[BonComp].value +=5

There's one thing left to fix, and this ability is perfect:
1. If the user is selecting two skills to apply the bonus to, and choses the first skill, can we eliminate that choice from the list of candidates on the second list?

[Mathias]

Eliminating the second one is more work than we consider it to be worth for our own material when writing abilities that make changes to two separate choices from the same list. If you want, you can write an eval rule to complain if the user selects the same thing twice (there should be several examples of that sort of thing out there).

Now, in the editor's help menu...help on using the editor, and then read the section named "Reference Information". Start with the "General Modifiers" section there, and then scroll back up a little ways, and look within "Useful Macros" for things that are designed to work along with those General Modifiers.

[Bob G]

Originally Posted by Mathias

Eliminating the second one is more work than we consider it to be worth for our own material when writing abilities that make changes to two separate choices from the same list. If you want, you can write an eval rule to complain if the user selects the same thing twice (there should be several examples of that sort of thing out there).

Now, in the editor's help menu...help on using the editor, and then read the section named "Reference Information". Start with the "General Modifiers" section there, and then scroll back up a little ways, and look within "Useful Macros" for things that are designed to work along with those General Modifiers.

Right, so the #applybonus macro already has the Maximum function built in, so that non-stacking bonuses don't stack:

#applybonus[BonComp],field[usrChosen1].chosen, 5

[Mathias]

You're closing the [ ] too early - you're closing it just after the bonus type, but you'll need to close it at the end.

[Bob G]

Originally Posted by Mathias

You're closing the [ ] too early - you're closing it just after the bonus type, but you'll need to close it at the end.

Whoops. Got it. All working wonderfully now.