Example of skills tab like Cortex?

[TCArknight]

Thanks Mathias.

On another note, the needtag doesn't seem to be working for me.

<table_dynamic
      component="BaseSkill"
      showtemplate="baSklPick"
      choosetemplate="skThing"
      showsortset="SkillSort"
      choosesortset="SkillSort"
      scrollable="yes">
      <candidate inheritlist="yes">!Hide.Skill</candidate>
      <needtag container="HasSkill" thing="SkillGen"/>

  <!-- AllSkills - all skills and specialties -->
  <compset
    id="AllSkills">
    <compref component="Skill"/>
    <compref component="SkillSpec"/>
    </compset>

<!-- Sort skills, general first, then specialties -->
  <sortset
    id="SkillSort"
    name="SkillSort">
    <sortkey isfield="no" id="SkillGen"/>
    <sortkey isfield="no" id="SkillSpec"/>
    <sortkey isfield="no" id="_Name_"/> 
    </sortset>

  <!-- Skill component
        Each skill derives from this component
  -->
  <component
    id="Skill"
    name="Skill"
    autocompset="no">

    <!-- Each skill is associated with a specific attribute that must be identified -->
    <linkage linkage="attribute" optional="no"/>

    <!-- Each skill needs its own identity tag so existing skills can be identified during advancement -->
    <identity group="BaseSkill"/>
    <identity group="HasSkill"/>
    <identity group="SkillGen"/>

    <!-- Track the skill on the actor -->
    <eval index="1" phase="Setup" priority="100"><![CDATA[
      perform forward[BaseSkill.?]
      perform forward[HasSkill.?]
      perform forward[SkillGen.?]

      perform assign[SkillGen.zLast]

      ]]></eval>

  <!-- Skill Speciality component
        Each skill Speciality derives from this component
  -->
  <component
    id="SkillSpec"
    name="Specialty"
    autocompset="no">

    <!-- Each skill specialty is associated with a specific skill that must be identified  -->
    <linkage linkage="skill" optional="no"/>

    <!-- Each skill needs its own identity tag so existing skills can be identified during advancement -->
    <identity group="SkillSpec"/>
    <identity group="SkillGen"/>

    <!-- Track the skill on the actor -->
    <eval index="1" phase="Setup" priority="100"><![CDATA[
      perform forward[SkillSpec.?]
      ]]></eval>

With the above needtag in place, there's Nothing to Choose From when go to select skills, and without it, all skills and specialties show up.

With the screenshot below, the hero has the SkillGen.zLast and HasSkill.zLast
Thoughts?

[Mathias]

I think you missed this one:

Originally Posted by Mathias

Then, the general skills component has this entry:

 
 
<!-- They need a dummy SkillGen tag that matches the dummy assigned to the hero, so that the list expression will display them before any other general skills have been selected -->
<tag group="SkillGen" tag="zLast"/>

[Mathias]

Ah - you did that in a script, not a tag element.

Scripts on an item are not run until AFTER an item has been added to the character, so the script that you have assigning HasSkill.zLast will not run until after it's been added to the character. Needtag needs to look for that tag BEFORE it's been added to the character.

[TCArknight]

Thanks Mathias, that was it.

I appreciate the help

[TCArknight]

With the way things are set up, when a skill or specialization are chosen, it disappears from the list. Is there a way to keep a specific skill on the list if it can be chosen multiple times, say due to choosing a different domain each time?

[Mathias]

Those skills that can be chosen multiple times aren't set to useronce or unique, right? Only the skills that are supposed to be unique have that set?

[TCArknight]

Yep, I has it defined as forceunique="yes". Removed that, and I could set the needed skills to unique="no".

Thanks!