The Knight

[dartnet]

Originally Posted by blzbob

Thanks. I knew it had to be something simple.

Thank you for your patience. I will get the hang of this and ask fewer questions as I go on. I hope I'm not a pain in the butt.

No by all means ask away. Your questions will help others later.

[blzbob]

I realized that there is one more thing I would like to do with the knight. It has an ability where if he is wearing heavy armor, he adds +4 to his intimidate check. Is there a way to set that up?

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by blzbob

I realized that there is one more thing I would like to do with the knight. It has an ability where if he is wearing heavy armor, he adds +4 to his intimidate check. Is there a way to set that up?

Here's how to go about this:

First, in the Develop menu, make sure that the first item "enable data file debugging" is checked.

Now, add a few armors to your character - you'll want light armor, medium armor, heavy armor, and shields.

For each of those armors, right-click, and select "Show debug tags for XXX". Now that you have a few tag lists showing, study those lists, looking for differences - you want to figure out what tags mark something as heavy armor, medium, etc.

(The answer is "ArmorClass.Heavy")

Next, try equipping one of them - watch the list of tags, and see what's added to the equipped armor.

(The answer is "Helper.CurrArmor")

Later on, you'll need to search through armors, so while you have those tag lists open, see if you can find a component tag that appears to be specific to armor (you may also want to add some weapons and regular gear, so you can compare the armor tags to their tags). component.BaseArmor is the tag you're looking for here.

Now for the script. This will be an Eval Script, running on whatever class special grants this ability. In terms of timing, we'll choose Post-Levels/10000, since that's when all class specials run their scripts, unless there's a reason to run it at another time.

We'll start with the standard opening for a class special, then declare a variable that we'll use later.

 
~ If we're not shown, just get out now
doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)
 
var bonus as number

Next, we'll search through all the armor on the character, restricting our search to heavy armors that are equipped:

 
foreach pick in hero from BaseArmor where "ArmorClass.Heavy & Helper.CurrEquip"

If we find one of those, we'll set our variable to 4 (and close the foreach)

 
  bonus = 4
  nexteach

Now, we're done searching through all the armors on the hero. If one of them was heavy and equipped, bonus = 4. If not, bonus = 0. So, now we'll add the variable to the intimidate skill:

 
#skillbonus[skIntim] += bonus

Assembling all that for easy copying (and adding some comments to the code):

Timing: Post-Levels/10000

 
~ If we're not shown, just get out now
doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)
 
var bonus as number
 
~if we have any heavy armor that's equipped, set the bonus
~we'll be granting to 4
foreach pick in hero from BaseArmor where "ArmorClass.Heavy & Helper.CurrEquip"
  bonus = 4
  nexteach
 
~assign the bonus we've calculated
#skillbonus[skIntim] += bonus

[blzbob]

Thanks for all of that. I think I can have some fun with some of the other things now too. I am so gonna play around with this when I get some free time this weekend.

For some reason though, it didn't work. I'm not sure what I did wrong. I found everything you mentioned, which is cool that it's something I can look up. I then copied everything you said and it didn't add it in.

[Mathias]

Please be more specific about what didn't work - did you get compile errors? Did you get runtime errors? Is everything there, but there's just no bonus being applied to Intimidate?

[blzbob]

Sorry, the bonus just didn't add. I didn't get any errors.

[Mathias]

Okay, then we'll use some debug statements to track down what's not working.

The "debug" instruction tells Hero Lab to report some information to the user.

debug "Class Level: " & field[xAllLev].value
 
~ If we're not shown, just get out now
doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)
 
var bonus as number
 
debug "We've passed the basic test"
 
~if we have any heavy armor that's equipped, set the bonus
~we'll be granting to 4
foreach pick in hero from BaseArmor where "ArmorClass.Heavy & Helper.CurrEquip"
  debug "Found Armor: " & eachpick.field[name].text
  bonus = 4
  nexteach
 
debug "Total Bonus: " & bonus
 
~assign the bonus we've calculated
#skillbonus[skIntim] += bonus

On the Class Special, replace the script with this version, with debugging statements entered. Then use the "Test now!" button to replace the existing copy of the class special with the revised copy, and add a sufficient number of class levels to the class.

Now, go to the Develop menu ... Floating Info Windows ... Show Debug Output. Hopefully that will help you figure out what parts of the script are being reached. If that doesn't tell you what's going wrong, you can right-click on that window and use "Copy to clipboard" to copy it. Then just paste it here, and I'll give you some suggestions for where to go from there.

[blzbob]

So it looks like I've passed all the tests:

********** Start Evaluation Cycle **********

Class Level: 1
We've passed the basic test
Total Bonus: 0

********** Start Evaluation Cycle **********

Class Level: 1
We've passed the basic test
Total Bonus: 0

********** Start Evaluation Cycle **********

Class Level: 1
We've passed the basic test
Total Bonus: 0

********** Start Evaluation Cycle **********

Class Level: 1
We've passed the basic test
Total Bonus: 0

The ability is a level 1 ability. I put dwarven plate mail on him.

I know I can just use the Adjust Tab as a work around so thank you for all your help. I really do appreciate this.

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by blzbob

I put dwarven plate mail on him.

When you say you put it on him does that mean you actually equipped it? Just asking as the script Mathais wrote will only add the bonus when the armor is equipped and its not getting into the do loop.

[blzbob]

Yeah. That was the first thing I double checked.