Recognizing Composite Bows in scripts?

Quatar · December 8th, 2011, 10:46 AM

Hi

I'm trying to manually add a feat to Herolabs that increases the damage of Composite Bows by +2, but I'm not sure really how to reliably recognize them.

So far I went with this, and it seems to work well enough.

Code:

foreach pick in hero from BaseWep where "IsWeapon.wCompLong" 
  eachpick.field[wDamBonus].value += 2
nexteach

foreach pick in hero from BaseWep where "IsWeapon.wCompShort" 
  eachpick.field[wDamBonus].value += 2
nexteach

But is there a better way to do it?

Mathias · December 8th, 2011, 11:14 AM

Code:

where "IsWeapon.wCompLong | IsWeapon.wCompShort"

So you only need a single foreach.

There's not a tag or anything else that specifically distinguishes composite bows from regular bows, so looking for each of the composite weapons specifically is probably the best you can do.

Quatar · December 8th, 2011, 03:32 PM

Ah thank you that's working.
I've been looking for an OR, but wasn't able to find it.

I had tried OR and || but didn't think of a single |

"IsWeapon.wComp?" did work as well, but I feared it might suddenly trigger on other weapons that start with Comp for some reason, even though I didn't know if there are any.

Mathias · December 8th, 2011, 03:45 PM

Yes, a ? in a tag expression matches anything after that point, but I agree that I wouldn't trust users to only use "wComp" for new composite weapons that were added, and wouldn't trust that with all the content that could possibly be added, that some weapon that isn't a composite bow won't end up beginning its Id with "wComp"

Mathias Senior Member Lone Wolf Staff Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 13,213 December 8th, 2011, 11:14 AM	Code: where "IsWeapon.wCompLong \| IsWeapon.wCompShort" So you only need a single foreach. There's not a tag or anything else that specifically distinguishes composite bows from regular bows, so looking for each of the composite weapons specifically is probably the best you can do.
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Quatar Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 21 December 8th, 2011, 03:32 PM	Ah thank you that's working. I've been looking for an OR, but wasn't able to find it. I had tried OR and \|\| but didn't think of a single \| "IsWeapon.wComp?" did work as well, but I feared it might suddenly trigger on other weapons that start with Comp for some reason, even though I didn't know if there are any.
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