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RayPrancer

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I'm having a problem with pips in this system and I know other related questions have been asked before. My issue is that you can have 15 pips in a mundane attributte but only 12 in skills and I can't work out how to tell Hero Lab about the lower total. There are also 2 Extranormal attributes that I want Hero Lab to ignore the pip limit for but in all other ways treat as mundane attributtes.

A related issue is that all skills tied to Extranormal abilities cost double - since there are a total of 7 and they otherwise work the same as normal skills how would I do this for example for the Strife skill which is tied to the Miracles attribute.

You can also Specialize in this setting for 1/3 cost of skill with 12 pips spent on each of them a maximum. Specilizations for skills linked to Extranormal attributes also cost double. Those with the higher cost are numerous enough to be worth defining seperatly as they include every example spell.

Ideally I'd like to set the default maximum to 12, increase it to 15 for attributes then remove it for the attributes Magic and Miracles.

Another issue is that you must buy a whole number of dice in each category so that the total cost of Attribute pips needs to be a multiple of 4 (4/3 per pip) and for Skills and Specializations an exact multiple of 1 (1/3 and 1/9 per pip respectively but drawn from the same pool).
 
I've made some progress now but still need to know how to tell Hero Lab "Whenever I buy a rank in this skill charge me an extra CP"
 
RayPrancer said:
I've made some progress now but still need to know how to tell Hero Lab "Whenever I buy a rank in this skill charge me an extra CP"
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Have a look at the Skill component in the sample files. There's an eval script that does just that in the Trait phase IIRC.
 
I've now found the relevent item in the Savage World source files. It's the bit of code that tells Hero Lab to charge more if the value of the skill is higher than the linked attribute. I need to change it so that if the id of the linked attribute is attrMag or attrMir then charge me user value / 3 again for every pip added. I've now tried the following incorrect code to do this:

if (linkage[attribute].id = attrMag)
hero.child[resCP].field[resSpent].value += field[trtUser].value / 3
endif
 
RayPrancer said:
I've now found the relevent item in the Savage World source files. It's the bit of code that tells Hero Lab to charge more if the value of the skill is higher than the linked attribute. I need to change it so that if the id of the linked attribute is attrMag or attrMir then charge me user value / 3 again for every pip added. I've now tried the following incorrect code to do this:

if (linkage[attribute].id = attrMag)
hero.child[resCP].field[resSpent].value += field[trtUser].value / 3
endif
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Code: 
if (compare(linkage[attribute].idstring, "attrMag") = 0) then
   hero.child[resCP].field[resSpent].value += (field[trtUser].value / 3)
endif
 
Something seems to be wrong with Hero Lab as adding the code appears to be stopping it recognising the field element in the default derived script trait.
 
Not entirely sure what was happening because it's now compiling - must have made a mistake when typing in your suggested code change by hand as I use a seperete device to access the forums. Appear to have entered feild.[respCP] and Hero Lab been reporting back what I thought was a later line number.

Now that's sorted I need to order the skills by linked attribute and add a scroll bar to the basic tab as there are more skills than the height of the window will accomodate.

The rest of the questions from the original post will need answering eventually but the scroll bar is the priority. Can someone point me to where this has already been covered or if not advise what I need to do?
 
Next task is some relatively minor display changes - all references to Character Points that display in Hero Lab need changing to Creation Points because the term Character Points is used for experience. Need to rename the Abilities tab to Character Options as I have expanded it to include Disadvantages and Advantages as well. Then I'll try customising Derived Attributes to match the system and probably be back with more specific questions then.
 
My next task is to add the derived trait "Silver" (trSilver) which represents a weekly salary and determines starting funds - the trait is the funds in silver pieces which are worth 8 copper or 1/8 gold. I know this means I need to change the script for funds to trSilver.[final]/8 but I'm having trouble working out how to calculate funds which Silver is derived from (trSilver = trFunds * 30).

The issue is I need to add all skills with a linked attribute of skTrading to the value of skTrading and if more than 8D (total of 24) give trFunds a +1. What's the best way to get the totals - would a for each statement be right? At the moment I just have an if statement comparing skTrading > 24 because the others don't exsist yet but I'm going to need to add a currency trading skill and a "write skill specialisation here" (non-unique) at minimum
 
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