[ploturo]

Mathias, as far as I can tell there isn't a division between permanent and temporary; it's separated by bonus type for the ability scores to determine what goes into the aNormal/aBonus and aFinalVal/aModBonus versions of the attribute.

I think the scripts for bonus spell book spells / alchemist formulas / etc are working off the aFinalVal/aModBonus values because enhancement bonuses can be permanent or temporary depending on the source, and enhancement bonuses aren't included in the aNormal/aBonus attribute values.

For example, ability score boosting items like the headband of vast intelligence or the belt of giant strength have enhancement bonuses which should be treated as permanent bonuses after the first 24 hours, with the added hiccup that the intelligence items still aren't supposed to affect skill points (since the items grant ranks in a particular skill instead).

The enhancement bonus from ability boosting spells like Fox's Cunning should be temporary, but there isn't a way to tell hero lab whether the enhancement bonus is a temporary enhancement bonus or a permanent one.

If the bonus wizard spell book / alchemist formula scripts are modified to use the current aNormal/aBonus they won't have the correct values when there is a permanent enhancement bonus from a stat-boosting item, and if all enhancement bonuses are added into aNormal/aBonus then we will still have a different error when there is a temporary enhancement bonus from a spell/etc.


(The number of languages known is an example of something that seems to use aNormal/aBonus instead of aFinalValue/aModBonus, and the stat-boosting items which raise intelligence have to manually increase the number of languages known. But using that approach for other things would require the script for those items to manually increase the wizard spell book spells and alchemist formulas too -- and probably more things which I don't know about off the top of my head -- and breaks in the case where a hero is wearing multiple items which grant a permanent enhancement bonus to intelligence since the manual adjustments "stack" even though the bonuses shouldn't.)