Deactivate an Ability?

[zarlor]

They should have an abilActive field, heck they all show up on the In Play tab with a checkbox which is exactly what we check for when using abilActive to see if something is checked.

I'll change up that component line. I had no idea if that made any kind of difference at all. As long as I've been doing this I still feel like a total n00b with it.

[Mathias]

I just took a look at the compsets, and there's only one that includes the SPCPower component. It's named SPCPower, and contains the following components: SPCPower, Tracker, UserSelect, Domain.

The abilActive field is in the Ability component, so it's not in that compset.

[zarlor]

I'm at a loss. Maybe Caped has some idea what I should be looking at here, then? I'm feeling completely clueless here.

[zarlor]

Ok, I think I'm just going to give up on the Deactivating Abilites part, in part because I just can't figure it out but also because I'm not sure that the ANE version of the Allergy Hindrance should actually affect ALL Super Powers anyway. After all, if you have some powers in a Device does your Allergy affect those as well? (In other words, if Superman had a stun gun, would Kryptonite prevent his Stun Gun from working?) Or maybe vice-versa, what if the Allergy is for those things in a Device, so let's say if Namor were flying around in Iron Man's suit, but the suit he had has an Allergy to water (it wasn't waterproof, in other words), would Namor loose his super strength because of the suit's allergy? I'm not sure if there is an official answer for that, but I figure it's better to leave the flexibility of leaving it to the player to deactivate only those things affected by his Allergy.

That being said I still can't see what I'm doing wrong with the first part of my code above.

The way I read what's happening is that I set a modifier variable to equal 4, then I check to see if the user has made this hindrance a Major Hindrance and, if so, I change the modifier to equal 0.

Next I check if the Allergy have been Activated by the user. If it has then I apply whatever my modifier is to all Skills and Attributes, which should mean at a Minor hindrance I'm applying a -4 modifier, but if it's selected as Major I'm applying a modifier of 0. Unfortunately when I select it as Major I'm still getting a -4 being applied.

BTW, since Mathias mentioned using just SPCPower above instead of component.SPCPower I tried that syntax with the component.Skill | component.Attribute line as well, but it gives and error of that being an invalid tag expression. Just as an FYI, so I'm still using the component. part.

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by zarlor

BTW, since Mathias mentioned using just SPCPower above instead of component.SPCPower I tried that syntax with the component.Skill | component.Attribute line as well, but it gives and error of that being an invalid tag expression. Just as an FYI, so I'm still using the component. part.

If you're getting a syntax error, could you please post the code that's giving you an error?

[zarlor]

Prettum much just the same as above, but I remove the "component." part, as below.

var modifier as number
modifier = 4

if (tagis[User.HindMajor] <> 0 ) then
      modifier = 0
endif

if (field[abilActive].value <> 0) then
   foreach pick in hero where "(Skill | Attribute)"
      eachpick.field[trtRoll].value -= modifier
   nexteach
endif

It compiles fine, but if you click the checkbox to activate the hindrance it gives an error that it's an invalid tag expression at that point. There is no error if I use component. before Skill and Attribute above, though, on that foreach line.

[Mathias]

In the "from component" part of a foreach, component is just the Id of the component, without "component." in front of it.

In the "where expression" part of a foreach, expression must be a normal tag expression, so you have to use the normal group.tag format for any tags.

As a reminder, there's a discussion of foreaches in post #7 of this thread: http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=21663

[zarlor]

Thanks. But it's not much of a reminder because I don't normally have any real reason to visit the Pathfinder forum. Heck, they already get lots of love there, I don't want to encourage them to get even MORE attention over us Savage Worlders! (Yeah, I know I actually have links pointing to your posts from our Common Code thread here. Half of it is still over my head, though!)

[zarlor]

Bump, in case anyone has some ideas on this. I'm still getting the -4 on everything whether it's user selected at Minor or Major.

[zarlor]

CapedCrusader? Mathias? Either of you have some idea on this? It's the last thing I need to complete the Necessary Evil file.