Something like exprreq

[barrelv]

Thanks again to everyone who has helped me with this project. Took a long break while actually running an Iron Kingdoms game instead of playing it it. Now getting back to my character generator.

I have a situation where character can only take a particular career (Iron Fang) if he already has another career from a specified list (Aristocrat, Military Officer, Soldier, or Warcaster)

Typically, it's a single requirement (Must be Human, etc), but this is the first time I've had to deal with several potentials.

Here's how I've done it for single choices:

  <!-- Must have certain starting careers -->
  <exprreq iserror="yes" message="Must be Human"><![CDATA[
      compare(hero.findchild[Career].field[name].text, "Aristocrat")= 0 
  ]]></exprreq>
    </thing>

what do I do for multiples though? I don't see any way to extend exprreq to do this.

[AndrewD2]

I would have careers forward a HasCareer.? identity tag to the hero and then just check with a tagexpression

@valid = tagexpress[HasCareer.Aristocrat|HasCareer.Military|etc]

[barrelv]

There is a tag on the hero for all careers (Career.crAristocr, etc) But I'm not sure what you mean by "tagexpress"

[AndrewD2]

actually its tagexpr sorry, it's on the wiki, its like tagis but checks for a whole tag expression, alternately you can check for a tagis of each

[barrelv]

still should be inside an exprreq element? because the below code is returning true even if one of those two tags aren't present on the hero.

  <!-- Must have certain starting careers -->
  <exprreq iserror="yes" message="Must have certain career"><![CDATA[
      @valid = tagexpr[Career.crAristocr|Career.crInvestig]
  ]]></exprreq>

[AndrewD2]

actually in an exprreq it probably should be something like

tagexpr[Career.crAristocr|Career.crInvestig] <> 0

also might have to have it be hero.tagexpr[Career.crAristocr|Career.crInvestig]

[barrelv]

This did it. Thanks!

  <!-- Must have certain starting careers -->
  <exprreq iserror="yes" message="Must have certain career"><![CDATA[
      tagexpr[Career.crAristocr|Career.crInvestig] <> 0
  ]]></exprreq>

[AndrewD2]

No prob, I'm used to using prereqs when I'm working with XML and only use Expr-Reqs when I'm in the editor

[RavenX]

Originally Posted by barrelv

This did it. Thanks!

  <!-- Must have certain starting careers -->
  <exprreq iserror="yes" message="Must have certain career"><![CDATA[
      tagexpr[Career.crAristocr|Career.crInvestig] <> 0
  ]]></exprreq>

Open Definition.dat

Create a macro called hascareer that checks for the career you want.
It could be something like hero.childlives[#career] for the code. Then you can just use #hascareer[] <> 0 in your expr-reqs.

[AndrewD2]

I usually assume people already know how to make macros as its covered really early in the walk-thru.