Characteristic Allocate Method, and maybe some other questions

[Kairos]

What page are you using as a model? Try:

<eval value="1" phase="Traits" priority="4000">
      <before name="Derived trtFinal"/>
      <after name="Calc trtFinal"/><![CDATA[
         field[trtBonus].value += #trait[attrDef] - 3
	 if (field[trtFinal].value <= -1) then
            field[trtFinal].value = 0
         endif
      ]]></eval>

The before and after elements indicate that the eval script should be timed between the Calc trtFinal script and the Derived trtFinal script. These elements shouldn't be enclosed in a CDATA, just your code.

[FourCartridge]

I'm using this as the example:

http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index....Traits_(Savage)

And that doesn't work either. It just ignores the if statement like it wasn't there.

[Mathias]

FourCartridge, please show us the code you're written (the updated version, after you removed the extra <![CDATA[ ), so we can help you debug it.

[FourCartridge]

Here you go.

<thing
    id="trDefense"
    name="Armor"
    compset="Trait"
    isunique="yes"
    description="Description goes here">
    <fieldval field="trtAbbrev" value="Def"/>
    <tag group="explicit" tag="3"/>
    <tag group="User" tag="Combat"/>
    <tag group="DashTacCon" tag="Combat"/>

    <eval value="1" phase="Traits" priority="4000">
      <before name="Derived trtFinal"/>
      <after name="Calc trtFinal"/><![CDATA[
         field[trtBonus].value += #trait[attrDef] - 3
	 if (field[trtFinal].value <= -1) then
            field[trtFinal].value = 0
         endif
      ]]></eval>
    </thing>

[Mathias]

Look in traits.str, at the Derived component's script named "Derived trtFinal". That script comes after this one, right? So, think about how they'll interact. What will happen to the trtFinal you're setting in this script when "Derived trtFinal" runs?