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Old August 7th, 2011, 04:50 PM
I'm adding custom qualities and magical traditions to the user file, the editor has a button for pre-reqs.

Where do I find the syntax for this? Or at least a tutorial that actually covers all the features of the editor?

I'm not a programmer, yet. So most of this is a bit foreign to me, and it looks like I'm going to have to give up and learn to punch code to be any good with this thing. Any suggestions for what to study?
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Old August 7th, 2011, 05:34 PM
I'm in the same place as you CeaDawg. And I'm familiar with or good with several programming languages. But without an object model or a functional reference, it's really hard to try to add the qualities from the books presently not covered in the base files.
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Old August 8th, 2011, 05:58 AM
Generally, the best way to learn is to look at the existing code. If you do an Add Copy, do any of the existing items have pre-reqs that resemble what you want?
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Old August 8th, 2011, 01:38 PM
Not that I can see, I've found the resource script I need to edit in order to enable Born Rich to work, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to make it test for the quality born rich. If I could, I could then make a quick mod and be good, and continue trying to put in all of Runner's Companion
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Old August 8th, 2011, 05:08 PM
Neither of the 2 traditions (Hermetic & Shaman) show pre-reqs or expr-reqs. However, the Quality Elf Poser does have an expr-req: #hasrace [racHuman] <> 0

The traditions is what I'm working atm & is eating my lunch trying to make Path of the Wheel and all of it's sub-traditions work.

According to the RL practitioners, I've only found two groups, there are either 6 or 7 sub-traditions within the wheel. Neither group is from Ireland, haven't found any real world reference to it being practiced there. The two groups I did find are from American Indian decent and African decent. In the American Indian practice there are 6; the hub (death), the 4 spokes (earth, fire, water, air), and the rim (life). The African version moves life to one of 5 spokes and replaces it on the rim with one that could be called called the Path of Kings.

In both groups one masters each of the spoke traditions before learning either the hub tradition, or the rim tradition, but not both. This makes sense in the first group as death is opposed to life, but seemed a bit convoluted to me when folks from the second group tried to explain it to me. Just have to use the "I believe" button I suppose.

In keeping with this concept I'm looking at a practitioner having to first choose Path of the Wheel, as their Primary tradition, and then each of the spoke traditions in turn until they have reached some level of initiation beyond rank 1. Having achieved this level of mastery they would then be able to choose another spoke tradition and repeat the process until they are at least rank 2 initiates in all of them. At that point the practitioner would then be able to choose either the Path of Death or the Path of Kings, or Life depending upon your mythos.

I envision this working something like the Martial Arts presented in Arsenal.
That being that a character chooses the Martial Arts quality, then chooses a Martial Arts Style/Tradition to go with it, and later picking up another style to master once they've boned up on their techniques a bit.

The process would be something like this at character creation:

1. The player chooses one of the magical qualities (Magician, Adept, Mystic Adept, etc.) to enable their use of magic.
2. They then choose "Path of the Wheel" from the qualities, which unlocks the limit on having only 1 tradition with respect to the other paths of the wheel AFTER the character is finalized. During character creation the player would be limited to choosing only one of the "spoke" traditions of the wheel.
3. The player finishes out the character and Locks the character to finalize it in the creation mode, moving it to play mode.

During play, the character initiates and gains meta magics as normal. With "Path of the Wheel" selected as a quality, an expression in the chosen tradition checks the initiation rank of that tradition. Once rank >1 becomes true then the player can choose another tradition from the "spokes" of the wheel. The expression is repeated for that tradition and the process continues until each of the "spoke" traditions is rank >1. During this whole series of learning new traditions is finished with the spokes, the expression within the "Path of the Wheel" quality checks to see if all the spoke traditions are rank >1. If this is true, then it unlocks the choice of taking either "Path of Death" or "Path of Kings". Once either of these is selected then further selections of paths is locked, preventing choosing both Death and Kings.
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Old August 11th, 2011, 12:10 PM
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During play, the character initiates and gains meta magics as normal. With "Path of the Wheel" selected as a quality, an expression in the chosen tradition checks the initiation rank of that tradition. Once rank >1 becomes true then the player can choose another tradition from the "spokes" of the wheel. The expression is repeated for that tradition and the process continues until each of the "spoke" traditions is rank >1. During this whole series of learning new traditions is finished with the spokes, the expression within the "Path of the Wheel" quality checks to see if all the spoke traditions are rank >1. If this is true, then it unlocks the choice of taking either "Path of Death" or "Path of Kings". Once either of these is selected then further selections of paths is locked, preventing choosing both Death and Kings.
Would it work to make the levels beyond the initial selection into qualities? They can be free, if these upgrades are something that happens automatically.
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Old August 11th, 2011, 04:07 PM
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Would it work to make the levels beyond the initial selection into qualities? They can be free, if these upgrades are something that happens automatically.
No, because each of the "Spoke" traditions (Bard, Druid, Life, Warrior, Steward) can be taken as traditions without taking the "Path of the Wheel" Quality in the same way that a character can learn a martial art style without taking the "Martial Art" Quality. In the case of the martial art styles the styles are just an adjustment to the unarmed combat skill, similar to a specialization or subskill. The "spoke" traditions would be treated as regular traditions, limiting the character to following only one tradition. "The Path of the Wheel" Quality is what allows them to stack up those traditions within the wheel. Normally, the character does not change their tradition within the life time of the character.
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Old August 12th, 2011, 11:03 AM
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No, because each of the "Spoke" traditions (Bard, Druid, Life, Warrior, Steward) can be taken as traditions without taking the "Path of the Wheel" Quality in the same way that a character can learn a martial art style without taking the "Martial Art" Quality. In the case of the martial art styles the styles are just an adjustment to the unarmed combat skill, similar to a specialization or subskill. The "spoke" traditions would be treated as regular traditions, limiting the character to following only one tradition. "The Path of the Wheel" Quality is what allows them to stack up those traditions within the wheel. Normally, the character does not change their tradition within the life time of the character.
My thinking here was that "Path of the Wheel" would be your tradition - and it would always stay your tradition.

The spokes you had acheived along the path would be represented by the qualities you had.
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Old August 11th, 2011, 12:07 PM
I apologize that I haven't had the time to write a proper set of documentation for the editor yet. That's on the to-do list, and I hope to get to it soon.
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Old August 11th, 2011, 12:12 PM
Being able to easily track what tradition/stream a character has is something I'll add for the next update.
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