BonusSplAt tag for secondary spells?

frumple · November 23rd, 2015, 07:42 PM

Is there an equivalent tag like BonusSplAt but for secondary spells?

I have a class that automatically gets specific secondary spells at specific levels. The spells are taken from a selected patron and I would like to just replace the BonusSplAt tag on the spells bootstrapped by the patron to one that automatically adds them onto the hero as a secondary spell.

AndrewD2 · November 23rd, 2015, 08:11 PM

Not recalling which off the top of my head, but I think one of the advanced or occult classes does that. I think it's the Shaman from the ACG.

frumple · November 23rd, 2015, 08:27 PM

Thanks I will check it out!

frumple · November 24th, 2015, 06:03 AM

Ok. I got is working... sort of.

Here is the code I have on my class helper to convert a patron's spells into secondary spells for the class

Code:

~ We select a patron an gain its spells as bonus spells at particular 
~ levels. We handle this similar to a shaman's bonus spells instead
~ of like a domain spell because we automatically get these spells

~ we need to get a list of our patron spells and modify when
~ we get them
~ We get our bonus spells as follows
~   Spell         -  Cultist   -   Witch
~ 1st level spell - 2nd level  -  2nd level
~ 2nd level spell - 6th level  -  4th level
~ 3rd level spell - 8th level  -  6th level
~ 4th level spell - 10th level -  8th level
~ 5th level spell - 12th level -  10th level

perform hero.findchild[Ability,"abCategory.WitPatron & CustTaken.cHelpCul"].setfocus

doneif (state.isfocus = 0)

perform focus.assign[SpecSource.cHelpCul]

~ now go through spells and modify for cultist use
foreach pick in hero from BaseSpell
  ~ Is this bootstrapped by something?
  if (eachpick.isroot <> 0) then
    ~ Is that something a witch patron and selected by the cultist?
    if (eachpick.root.tagis[abCategory.WitPatron] * eachpick.root.tagis[CustTaken.cHelpCul] <> 0) then
     ~ modify the spell
      perform eachpick.delete[Spellbook.?]
      perform eachpick.tagreplace[SpellSort.?,SpellSort.cHelpCul]
      perform eachpick.tagreplace[SpellType.?,SpellType.cHelpCul]
      perform eachpick.assign[Helper.NoPrepCnt]
      perform eachpick.tagreplace[CasterType.?,CasterType.MemAll]

      ~ adjust Level we get bonus spells
      if (eachpick.tagvalue[sLevel.?] = 1) then
        perform eachpick.tagreplace[BonusSplAt.?,BonusSplAt.2]
        perform eachpick.assign[SecClsAllw.cHelpCul]
        perform eachpick.assign[SecSplType.cHelpCul]
      elseif (eachpick.tagvalue[sLevel.?] <= 5) then
        var newLvl as number
        newLvl = eachpick.tagvalue[BonusSplAt.?] + 2
        perform eachpick.delete[BonusSplAt.?]
        perform eachpick.assignstr["BonusSplAt." & newLvl]

        ~ how for a bit of a kludge to make sure these show at the 
        ~ correct level
        if (eachpick.tagis[sLevel.2] * tagexpr[fieldval:cTotalLev >= 6] <> 0) then
           perform eachpick.assign[SecClsAllw.cHelpCul]
           perform eachpick.assign[SecSplType.cHelpCul]
        elseif (eachpick.tagis[sLevel.3] * tagexpr[fieldval:cTotalLev >= 8] <> 0) then
           perform eachpick.assign[SecClsAllw.cHelpCul]
           perform eachpick.assign[SecSplType.cHelpCul]
        elseif (eachpick.tagis[sLevel.4] * tagexpr[fieldval:cTotalLev >= 10] <> 0) then
           perform eachpick.assign[SecClsAllw.cHelpCul]
           perform eachpick.assign[SecSplType.cHelpCul]
        elseif (eachpick.tagis[sLevel.5] * tagexpr[fieldval:cTotalLev >= 12] <> 0) then
           perform eachpick.assign[SecClsAllw.cHelpCul]
           perform eachpick.assign[SecSplType.cHelpCul]
          endif
         
      else
        perform eachpick.assign[Hide.Spell]
        endif
      endif
    endif
  nexteach

But I cannot quite get the timing to work out. I find if I have this run and some timings it works but I get "none!" expressions under the Spell: heading on the Class tab for spell levels we do not have access to yet. I run it to late and the spells show up grayed out and not on the spells tab.

Additionally, there is a small twist. At levels 2 and 3, before the class can normally get 1st levels spell at 4th level (well they get 0 so they can get bonus spells from high attributes), the class gets the level 1 patron spell. I cannot get this to show up at all since we do not have any normal spell slots available.

In other words the class progression for 1st level spells is
1st level - none
2nd level - patron spell
3rd level - patron spell
4th level - 0 + patron spell
5th level - 1 + patron spell
etc.

Finally I think there might also be a conflict between the normally gained spells (which are in a spellbook) and the patron spells (which are gained like a shaman). The normally gained spells have the tag CasterType.MemBook, while the patron spells have the tag CasterType.MemAll.

frumple · November 24th, 2015, 10:21 AM

Whew. Ok I got it working. Turns out I needed to manually adjust the cSecCur, cSecMax and cMemMax fields at certain levels for everything to work as it was supposed to.

Anyway here is the working code:

This converts patron spells for use by my class

Code:

Pre-Levels/50

~ We select a patron an gain its spells as bonus spells at particular 
~ levels. We handle this similar to a shaman's bonus spells instead
~ of like a domain spell because we automatically get these spells

~ we need to get a list of our patron spells and modify when
~ we get them
~ We get our bonus spells as follows
~   Spell         -  Cultist   -   Witch
~ 1st level spell - 2nd level  -  2nd level
~ 2nd level spell - 6th level  -  4th level
~ 3rd level spell - 8th level  -  6th level
~ 4th level spell - 10th level -  8th level
~ 5th level spell - 12th level -  10th level

~ since we want to be done if we have not chosen a patron, but we 
~ want to add a tag to the patron, just use findchild to find
~ our chosen patron and focus on it. If no focus, we get out.
~ Afterwards, clear the focus.

perform hero.findchild[Ability,"abCategory.WitPatron & CustTaken.cHelpCul"].setfocus

doneif (state.isfocus = 0)

perform focus.assign[SpecSource.cHelpCul]

perform state.clearfocus

~ now go through the patron spells and modify for cultist use
foreach pick in hero from BaseSpell
  ~ Is the spell bootstrapped by something?
  if (eachpick.isroot <> 0) then
    ~ is it a witch patron that was selected by the cultist?
    ~ (note to self: + -> logical OR, * -> logical AND)
    if (eachpick.root.tagis[abCategory.WitPatron] * eachpick.root.tagis[CustTaken.cHelpCul] <> 0) then
     ~ modify the spell we are on
      perform eachpick.delete[Spellbook.?]
      perform eachpick.tagreplace[SpellSort.?,SpellSort.cHelpCul]
      perform eachpick.tagreplace[SpellType.?,SpellType.cHelpCul]
      perform eachpick.assign[Helper.NoPrepCnt]
      perform eachpick.tagreplace[CasterType.?,CasterType.MemAll]
      perform eachpick.assign[SecSplType.cHelpCul]
      perform eachpick.assign[SecClsAllw.cHelpCul]

      ~ adjust level we get the bonus spell
      if (eachpick.tagvalue[sLevel.?] = 1) then
        perform eachpick.tagreplace[BonusSplAt.?,BonusSplAt.2]
        perform eachpick.assign[SecClsAllw.cHelpCul]
      elseif (eachpick.tagvalue[sLevel.?] <= 5) then
        var newLvl as number
        newLvl = eachpick.tagvalue[BonusSplAt.?] + 2
        perform eachpick.delete[BonusSplAt.?]
        perform eachpick.assignstr["BonusSplAt." & newLvl]

      else
        ~ if we are above 5th level spell, hide us
        perform eachpick.assign[Hide.Spell]
        endif
      endif
    endif
  nexteach

This fixes the various array fields so the spell counts come out correctly, and we can
have our patron spell at 2nd and 3rd level without primary spellcasting

Code:

Final/500

~ now we need to fix the array cSecCur for our cultist level
~ this is a kludge because the class looks to be counting all the 
~ secondary spells when it shouldn't
~ doing this prevents HL from throwing errors of to many spells chosen

~ first remove anything higher than 5th level
field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[6] += -1
field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[7] += -1
field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[8] += -1
field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[9] += -1

~ now the rest is level based
~ at 12th we have access to our 5th level patron spell
if (field[cTotalLev].value < 12) then
  field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[5] += -1
endif

~ at 10th we have access to our 4th level patron spell
if (field[cTotalLev].value < 10) then
  field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[4] += -1
endif

~ at 8th we have access to our 3rd level patron spell
if (field[cTotalLev].value < 8) then
  field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[3] += -1
endif

~ at 6th we have access to our 2nd level patron spell
if (field[cTotalLev].value < 6) then
  field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[2] += -1
endif

~ below 4th level, but above 1st, we do not get any 
~ primary spells, just our patron spells, so we zero the cMemMax field
~ this way we show our spellcasting tab (and on the statblock)
~ but only get the 1st level patron spell
if (field[cTotalLev].value < 4) then
   var ii as number
   ii = 0
   while (ii<= 9)
     field[cMemMax].arrayvalue[ii] = 0
     ii+=1
     loop
  endif

~ just make sure below 2nd we have no spellcasting at all from
~ secondary spells
if (field[cTotalLev].value < 2) then
  field[cSecCur].arrayvalue[1] = 0
  field[cSecMax].arrayvalue[1] = 0
endif

frumple Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: South Riding, VA Posts: 841 November 23rd, 2015, 07:42 PM	Is there an equivalent tag like BonusSplAt but for secondary spells? I have a class that automatically gets specific secondary spells at specific levels. The spells are taken from a selected patron and I would like to just replace the BonusSplAt tag on the spells bootstrapped by the patron to one that automatically adds them onto the hero as a secondary spell.
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AndrewD2 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Muskegon, MI Posts: 2,975 November 23rd, 2015, 08:11 PM	Not recalling which off the top of my head, but I think one of the advanced or occult classes does that. I think it's the Shaman from the ACG.
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