Adding bonuses to specific weapon on leveling

[Aaron]

I'm back to work tomorrow morning, so if you're still having trouble you can send me a copy to look at.

[Zimrathon]

I seem to have sorted it and I was going to copy the code in for you to see if I've done it 'correctly' but the Launch Editor menu item seems to have stopped working, lol.

The effect I wanted is now working however but I combined them into one as a post attr and used your example of how to loop around the weapons only affecting the Warhammers found. I've also exported to a .hl and moved it over onto the iPad and it's working there too so thanks for all your help, the Debug feature was the most useful bit of learning by far, thanks.

One last question if you don't mind, is there any better documentation on the 'things' and the 'language' associated with HL, for example, how would one find the technique you provided as an example for looping through the weapons and checking for a Warhammer if you hadn't helped?

Zim

[Aaron]

There are tutorials you can access through the editor, we have a wiki (though that's more focused on creating new game systems it does have language intrinsics), there are some fan-made youtube videos. Oh, and you can copy things in the editor to learn how similar abilities work and apply that to your future endeavors. That's largely how I learned.

[Zimrathon]

Aye, I've done most of the tuts, watched most of the YouTube vids etc but none of them cover something like a class reference library. So I don't know what I could do were I to be more informed. Reference back to your looping of weapons, I wouldn't know where to start with that, i wouldn't even know the syntax of the foreach.

You allude to a way of looking at how the standard stuff is done! Is there a way to look at the existing code for other classes, races etc to see how they are implemented?

Zim

[AndrewD2]

use the New (copy) button and you can make a copy of something and see how the scripts for it work, that's how I've learned almost everything.

[Zimrathon]

Ahh, that will be what Aaron meant too. Thanks both, I'll check that out. Is there any way of knowing what 'childs' a 'thing' has too. For example it would be great to know all the child properties of a 'hero' thing.

Zim

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Zimrathon

Ahh, that will be what Aaron meant too. Thanks both, I'll check that out. Is there any way of knowing what 'childs' a 'thing' has too. For example it would be great to know all the child properties of a 'hero' thing.

Zim

I would say watch the YouTube videos on the editor especially THESE four. The third video shows where to find info about Things/Picks on a hero.

Also reading the Glossary of Terms is very helpful.

[Zimrathon]

Awesome, I haven't read/watched all the stuff you've recommended but I most definitely will do in next day or two. Thanks all of you for your further input, I really appreciate it.

Zim

[Zimrathon]

Just thought I'd pop back and advise that after following the tutorials etc and watching the YouTube vids I've managed to complete the class features as desired. Just wanted to say thanks to you guys for helping point me in the right direction.

Cheers,

Zim