Scripts: thoughts on Vocabulary versus grammar

[Bob G]

Originally Posted by Mathias

In the link Minous gave you, follow the second link - the Location, Location, Location article, and then take another look at the syntax for the field transition. What you've got here is not correct.

'Location, location, location' was a very helpful tutorial Mathias, thanks for writing it. I have a question about the foreach command: When you indicate to insert a tag ID in place of "test expression", do you use the full tag ID, or just the extension (what follows after the ".")?

Example: Do I use

foreach pick in hero where wCategory.Firearm

or just

foreach pick in hero where Firearm

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Minous

Aaron the only reason I suggested a variable was for readability purposes. I find int_bonus far easier to remember then what hero.child[aINT].field[aBonus].value is referring to. Had this been a more complex request or a scaling value I would agree. But for what is just a simple reference value that is not going to be used outside of the script I felt that limiting the scope using a variable was appropriate.

The other way to keep things easier to read is to use Macros. So the above aInt stuff can be shortened to:

field[abValue].value += #attrbonus[aINT]

The above macro gets pretty much turned into hero.child[aINT].field[aBonus].value by the compiler. I find the ability to remember #attrbonus[] or #attrbonus1[] or #attmod[] much easier than remembering the field names.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Bob G

'Location, location, location' was a very helpful tutorial Mathias, thanks for writing it. I have a question about the foreach command: When you indicate to insert a tag ID in place of "test expression", do you use the full tag ID, or just the extension (what follows after the ".")?

The Full tag (ie the word before the period and after). Your constructing a "Custom Expression" at that point.

Take a look at THIS post I did about doing that. Hopefully it helps.

[Minous]

Originally Posted by ShadowChemosh

The other way to keep things easier to read is to use Macros. So the above aInt stuff can be shortened to:

field[abValue].value += #attrbonus[aINT]

The above macro gets pretty much turned into hero.child[aINT].field[aBonus].value by the compiler. I find the ability to remember #attrbonus[] or #attrbonus1[] or #attmod[] much easier than remembering the field names.

that would require me to remember the scripts, something that I dont always do.