Count Number of Skill Tricks

[AWizardInDallas]

Is there a way to count the number of tricks in a category?

 

[Mathias]

Try adding lots of skill tricks to a test character, the go to the develop menu, floating info windows, show hero tags - does anything useful show up there?

If not, right click on a few skill tricks once they're added to the character, and look at their tags - what tag defines the categories there?

On the hero, it's easy to find out how many tags exist:

hero.tagcount[x.x]

If they only exist on the skill trick itself, you'll need something more complex:

var total as number
foreach pick in hero where "component.(whatever skill tricks' component is) & (your category's tag)"
total +=1
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[AWizardInDallas]

Thank you! I'll give that a shot.

 

[AWizardInDallas]

The only useful things seem to be in hero fields:

tSklTricks
tSklTrkUsed
tSklLeft

I'm working on the Cool Head feat, the Complete Scoundrel, pg 75. I need to check for two mental skill tricks (i.e. the category) and I need to be able to add two free skill tricks and raise the character's skill trick limit by 1 if they have the mental skill tricks.

 

[Mathias]

In that case, look at the tags on the skill tricks themselves - is there a tag specifically for mental tricks? If so, you can use a foreach loop to find them and increment a counter.

 

[AWizardInDallas]

There's no tag.

<pick thing="oCornerPer" saveindex="28400000" index="284" batchindex="183" oldbatch="183" root="yes" refcount="0" fieldcount="7" source="kTricks" default="yes">
<tag group="portal" tag="kTricks"/>
<tag group="thing" tag="user_added"/>
<field id="fChosen"></field>
<field id="fFreeform"></field>
<field id="hUsed" value="0." user="0."></field>
<field id="hUsed2" value="0." user="0."></field>
<field id="hIsOn1" value="0." user="0."></field>
<field id="hIsOn2" value="0." user="0."></field>
<field id="hCustText"></field>
</pick>

 

[Mathias]

In that case, go back to the skill tricks themselves - there's an option in the editor to add user tags, so add User.skMental to all the mental skill tricks, and then you'll be able to test for it with the foreach loop I descibed earlier.