Can I access a parent item from within a fieldval: statement

[Mathias]

I'm working on adding a cleric domain which has powers that don't kick in until you have a few levels - that part I can do - put in a condition statement that checks for count:Classes.Cleric >=x.

Then I looked closer at the thing I'm entering - they're based on caster level, not cleric level, which means that if you have a pretige class that improves your cleric caster level, it counts toward these powers.

The thing I want is field[cMagicLev].value on the cleric helper item, but how do I access the parent thing from within a fieldval: statement?

 

[huntercc]

Try this:

var total as number
total = hero.childfound[cHelpCle].field[cMagicLev].value

 

[huntercc]

My custom cleric class uses cHelpCle as the helper item... change that to whatever yours is

 

[Colen]

mgehl wrote:
>
>
> I'm working on adding a cleric domain which has powers that don't kick
> in until you have a few levels - that part I can do - put in a condition
> statement that checks for count:Classes.Cleric >=x.
>
> Then I looked closer at the thing I'm entering - they're based on caster
> level, not cleric level, which means that if you have a pretige class
> that improves your cleric caster level, it counts toward these powers.
>
> The thing I want is field[cMagicLev].value on the cleric helper item,
> but how do I access the parent thing from within a fieldval: statement?


Count the "Hero.Caster" tags on the hero to tell how many caster levels
you have. So your condition expression would be something like
"count:Hero.Caster >= x".


--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com

 

[huntercc]

If I'm not mistaken though... that counts ALL spellcaster levels, arcane + divine

 

[Mathias]

hunter, I'm in the condition on a bootstrap, so I can't use the syntax you're talking about.

Colen, when testing it, I used a Mystic Theurge to find what the tags/fields were quickly, and a Clr 3/Wiz 3/Mystic Theurge 1 has 8 Hero.Caster tags, but only 3 Caster.Divine tags.

 

[Colen]

mgehl wrote:
>
>
> hunter, I'm in the condition on a bootstrap, so I can't use the syntax
> you're talking about.
>
> Colen, when testing it, I used a Mystic Theurge to find what the
> tags/fields were quickly, and a Clr 3/Wiz 3/Mystic Theurge 1 has 8
> Hero.Caster tags, but only 3 Caster.Divine tags.


count of Hero.Caster tags = caster levels the hero has.

count of Hero.Divine tags = levels of divine spells this hero can cast.
For example, a hero with 3 Hero.Divine tags can cast level 0, 1 and 2
Divine spells.


--
Colen McAlister, colen@wolflair.com

 

[huntercc]

Colen - the issue mgehl is working thru is that he needs to determine how many Divine caster levels a hero has (actual class levels, not spell levels).

mgehl - I found an earlier post from Colen on how to determine Arcane cater levels, should be easy to modify for Divine:

You'd need to go through all the classes on the hero and count how many
of them are arcane spellcasters. For example:

~ We start with 0 arcane spellcaster levels
var total as number
total = 0

~ Go through all classes on the hero that are arcane spellcasters
foreach pick in hero where "component.BaseClHelp & CasterSrc.Arcane"

~ Add this classes number of levels to our total
total += each.field[cMagicLev].value

~ Go on to our next class
nexteach

 

[Mathias]

hunter - your examples are from scripts.

I'm looking at the validation context.

The same language isn't used in each. In the authoring kit docs, scroll down to "Tags and Tag Expressions".

 

[huntercc]

That's right, sorry about that. But, I think you could always bootstrap the thing, then on the thing have a script that disables it & sets any bonuses to 0 if Helper.ShowSpec is off. That should accomplish the same thing, right?

 

[Mathias]

Thanks, hunter, I had forgotten about the disable. I'll use that is Colen doesn't have any better suggestions.