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All right, this bit seems really complicated, so I'd appreciate whatever advice/guidance I can get.
I'm prepping HL files for a Forgotten Realms campaign, but they've introduced the concept of character regions. Essentially, the region your character comes from is almost as important as his race. It determines one of the character's bonus languages, the availability of some feats (specific regions are prereqs for some FR feats), and affects some Knowledge skills. So, how do I build in a new widget so the player can choose from a predefined set of regions? Or, do I need to somehow incorporate this into the races? |
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Ravencloak wrote:
> > > All right, this bit seems really complicated, so I'd appreciate whatever > advice/guidance I can get. > > I'm prepping HL files for a Forgotten Realms campaign, but they've > introduced the concept of character regions. Essentially, the region > your character comes from is almost as important as his race. It > determines one of the character's bonus languages, the availability of > some feats (specific regions are prereqs for some FR feats), and affects > some Knowledge skills. > > So, how do I build in a new widget so the player can choose from a > predefined set of regions? Or, do I need to somehow incorporate this > into the races? The easiest way to do this is probably to add a new template (with a +0 level adjustment) for each region. The template can then automatically add the appropriate language, and be a pre-requisite for appropriate feats and knowledge skills. Hope this helps, -- Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com) Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development http://www.wolflair.com/ |
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Thanks, Colen, you've definitely pointed me in the right direction and I see how I can easily bootstrap in automatic languages. However, it's a bit more complicated than that...isn't it always.
They also use these regions to determine which additional bonus languages (beyond those assigned by race) are available to a character. Evidently, in the Forgotten Realms not all languages are available as bonus languages for humans, instead the character's home region determines which languages are available as bonus languages. So, unless I miss my mark, it looks like I need to learn more about scripting and portals. I think that I need to figure out the name of the portal responsible for allowing bonus language picks and then "enable" the appropriate bonus languages by setting their values to 1. I'm certain I'll run into more problems along the way but for now I haven't got a clue as to how I identify the name of the portal. While I'd greatly appreciate just getting the name of this specific portal, I'd be even happier if you could tell me in general how to go about "finding" the names of portals. Brian |
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Ravencloak wrote:
> > > Thanks, Colen, you've definitely pointed me in the right direction and I > see how I can easily bootstrap in automatic languages. However, it's a > bit more complicated than that...isn't it always. > > They also use these regions to determine which additional bonus > languages (beyond those assigned by race) are available to a character. > Evidently, in the Forgotten Realms not all languages are available as > bonus languages for humans, instead the character's home region > determines which languages are available as bonus languages. > > So, unless I miss my mark, it looks like I need to learn more about > scripting and portals. I think that I need to figure out the name of the > portal responsible for allowing bonus language picks and then "enable" > the appropriate bonus languages by setting their values to 1. > > I'm certain I'll run into more problems along the way Smile but for now > I haven't got a clue as to how I identify the name of the portal. While > I'd greatly appreciate just getting the name of this specific portal, > I'd be even happier if you could tell me in general how to go about > "finding" the names of portals. I don't think you need to worry about portals for this stuff. Here's what you'll need to do: 1) Create these 'regional' languages in the editor, and mark them as "Secret Languages". This will ensure that humans, half-elves, and other races that can choose "Any" language won't be able to pick them by default. 2) Now, create a script that runs at an early priority, that assigns the "Language" tags for those languages to the hero. For example, let's say that "Gnothic" is a regional language that you want to add. First, you add it as a language with the unique id "lGnothic", and mark it as a secret language. Now, on the "Gnothic Native" template, add a script with phase "First" and priority 10000 that does this: ~ Add the Gnothic language as a possible bonus language var result as number result = hero.assign[Language.lGnothic] This should make the Gnothic language available when that template is taken - otherwise it will be greyed out. Hope this helps, -- Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com) Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development http://www.wolflair.com/ |
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Thanks again, Colen. As usual, I was trying to make things more difficult for myself than necessary.
Your solution works beautifully. One more question. Is there a way to combine multiple "bonus languages" into a single script statement? What you suggested above works just fine, I simply need to enter multiple scripts and increment the index value so they aren't seen as redundant. However, it seems like there ought to be a more elegant way to handle assigning multiple bonus languages in one script. Then again, I've been wrong before. Thanks again, Colen. Brian |
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Ravencloak wrote:
> > > Thanks again, Colen. As usual, I was trying to make things more > difficult for myself than necessary. Wink > > Your solution works beautifully. One more question. Is there a way to > combine multiple "bonus languages" into a single script statement? What > you suggested above works just fine, I simply need to enter multiple > scripts and increment the index value so they aren't seen as redundant. > However, it seems like there ought to be a more elegant way to handle > assigning multiple bonus languages in one script. Then again, I've been > wrong before. You can absolutely do multiple languages in the same script. For example, if you wanted to add Lang1, Lang2 and Lang3: var result as number result = hero.assign[Language.lLang1] result = hero.assign[Language.lLang2] result = hero.assign[Language.lLang3] With the unique ids of the languages changed appropriately. -- Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com) Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development http://www.wolflair.com/ |
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At 09:01 AM 8/31/2007, you wrote:
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var result as number result = hero.assign[Language.lGnothic] result = hero.assign[Language.lLang2] result = hero.assign[Language.lLang3] .....continue as necessary -Rob |
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Lets say you wanted to set up a selection of languages based on race.
I have the code working and it gives no errors (except an editor error) an but it seems to work regardless of the if statements. Secondary tagexpr for pick 'trAglaReg' is scheduled after primary condition test is scheduled (This pick was added from the editor - reloading the game system my fix this problem) Levels/10000 Code:
var result as number if (tagis[Race.Human] <> 0) then result = hero.assign[Language.lChessenta] result = hero.assign[Language.lDamaran] result = hero.assign[Language.lDraconic] elseif (tagis[Race.HalfElf] <> 0) then result = hero.assign[Language.lChessenta] result = hero.assign[Language.lDamaran] result = hero.assign[Language.lDraconic] endif Last edited by TobyFox2002; December 24th, 2013 at 01:41 PM. Reason: Problem not solved. |
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The code still gives
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Secondary tagexpr for pick 'trAglaReg' is scheduled after primary condition test is scheduled (This pick was added from the editor - reloading the game system my fix this problem) |
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