Question about CP costs

[Kargha]

Hi there,

I'm quite new to the Authoring Kit. Been looking around at the wiki and the Savage World walkthrough.

In the skeleton files, you have CP cost per attribute as follows:

<eval index="2" phase="Traits" priority="10000">
      <before name="Calc resLeft"/>
      <after name="Bound trtUser"/><![CDATA[
          hero.child[resCP].field[resSpent].value += (field[trtUser].value - 1) * 7
      ]]>
</eval>

So in this one, it'll always cost 7 points. But I'm not sure why. In my brain it works out to:

Rank 1 = Free
Rank 2 = 7
Rank 3 = 14
Rank 4 = 21
etc.

But for some reason it saves the previous cost and just subtracts the difference.

How would I change this to make it actually remove as many CP as the cost would actually be?

So Rank 1 = free
Rank 2 = costs 7 CP
Rank 3 = costs 14 CP (total of 21 CP for rank 2 and 3)
Rank 4 = costs 21 CP (total of 42 CP for ranks 2-4)

I did it currently by using if/then statements (since I couldn't find anything in the reference material pointing towards arrays being available, and I'm not very good with XML yet, so there might be an XML feature that has it). The problem with if/then statements is if various stats would have various costs associated with it. For example if Strength would have the cost be Strength*3, while Stamina would be Stamina*4.

I'm not always very adapt at expressing my thoughts, but hopefully you get an idea of what I'm trying to accomplish.

Thank you for your time!

Best Regards,

Andreas

[Mathias]

You're not the first person to ask this. See posts #14 and #15 in this thread: http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=8776&highlight=excel&page=2

[Kargha]

Originally Posted by Mathias

You're not the first person to ask this. See posts #14 and #15 in this thread: http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=8776&highlight=excel&page=2

Wow, thanks Mathias. I hadn't seen this thread before (it didn't show up when I searched, since CP/XP is too short for the search function). It was even for the same system (L5R) that I'm messing around with in Hero Lab!

So yea, this is gonna help a lot! Haven't seen anything from SAbel in a while, and since none of AEG's data is public as far as I know, he wouldn't be allowed to share anything including the data. Hence why I figured I would test it myself and learn the Authoring Kit in the process.

[Mathias]

If he's stopped work on it, I doubt there would be a problem with him transferring his work-in-progress to you for you to continue.