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Armor Proficiency enforcement

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Paragon

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This actually has to do with a different incarnation of system, but since I looked at the PF files and they seem to do things the same way as what I'm working on: how does HL enforce armor proficiency requirements in selection of armor? Looking at Full Plate, it doesn't seem to be any sort of script or the like on the armor itself, so I'm assuming its somewhere else in the coding, maybe a Procedure or some such?
 
AndrewD2 said:
Probably a prereq on the armor component checking for the proficiency tag on the hero.
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Doesn't seem to be. There's nothing there but some tags and a couple informational fields. There's no pre-reqs, expr-reqs or anything.

So I'm guessing whatever is going on is the same thing as what I'm doing elsewhere, but its not obvious what that is; its clearly not the straightforward check on the armor that I'd have expected. My guess is something somewhere else is searching the tags when you pull it up or some such, but I don't have a clue where that would be.
 
Paragon, AndrewD2 is right, it is a prereq on the Armor component - that's not something a user would be able to see without having access to the structural files, where Armor is defined.

It sounds like what you're trying to do is that you're writing a new game system with the authoring kit - if that's the case, have you looked at armor in the 4e files? I'm pretty sure they'll have something like what Pathfinder has.
 
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Mathias said:
Paragon, AndrewD2 is right, it is a prereq on the Armor component - that's not something a user would be able to see without having access to the structural files, where Armor is defined.
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Ah. As usual, I thought I was understanding what I was hearing when I didn't.

It sounds like what you're trying to do is that you're writing a new game system with the authoring kit - if that's the case, have you looked at armor in the 4e files? I'm pretty sure they'll have something like what Pathfinder has.
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Actually, its the 4e files I'm working on that I couldn't figure out how the armor access is being enforced, and thought that PF, which is much better supported, might enlighten me, since the 4e armor data also doesn't seem to have anything to control access, but it obviously does so somehow. I'm trying to fix some of the late-in-the-day armors which are not properly requiring their proficiencies to be available.

And since it doesn't seem to be a simple control on the armor itself, I don't even have any idea where to look.
 
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