Detecting abilities linked to skills

[frumple]

I am trying to implement the various insanities as adjustments. Some of them require a penalty to all skills with a certain base attribute, CHA for example. Is there a way to pick out all skills that are linked to specific attribute?

 

[frumple]

Doh... found a way to do it in another thread... here is the code I used (for CHA skills)

foreach pick in hero from BaseSkill
  if (eachpick.tagis[SkillOver.aCHA] <> 0) then
      eachpick.field[Bonus].value -= 4
  elseif (eachpick.islinkage[skillattr] <> 0) then
    if (eachpick.linkage[skillattr].tagis[thingid.aCHA] <> 0) then
       eachpick.field[Bonus].value -= 4
    endif
  endif
nexteach

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Doh... found a way to do it in another thread... here is the code I used (for CHA skills)

Just as a FYI I think you could simplify the above code a little to:

~ loop through all the skills on the hero
foreach pick in hero from BaseSkill
  ~ If we are a Charisma based skill give a -4 Penalty
  If (eachpick.tagis[SkillOver.aCHA] + eachpick.linkage[skillattr].tagis[thingid.aCHA] <> 0) then
       eachpick.field[Penalty].value += -4
  Endif
nexteach

Guess the only difference I am not 100% sure about is if the "eachpick.islinkage[skillattr]" really needs to be checked.

Also just an FYI but if giving a penalty you should use the Penalty field not Bonus. Mathematically it works out the same but if you wanted to know if a skill has a penalty checking field[Penalty].value would give 0 even though you actually had given it a -4 penalty.

 

[Mathias]

I'd say do use islinkage[] - you don't know if some 3PP thing down the road will add a skill that doesn't have an associated attribute, and HL's editor will allow you to create skills without attribute linkages. Using linkage[skillattr] will give errors if it's not connected to anything, which is what islinkage[skillattr] tests.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

I'd say do use islinkage[] - you don't know if some 3PP thing down the road will add a skill that doesn't have an associated attribute, and HL's editor will allow you to create skills without attribute linkages. Using linkage[skillattr] will give errors if it's not connected to anything, which is what islinkage[skillattr] tests.

Ahh. Thanks Mathias.

I actually have skills in my game actually that are NOT linked to a attribute. I was hoping though that HL would just return 0 if no linkage existed.

 

[Mathias]

It's more like hero.child[]. than hero.childfound[].

 

[bodrin]

Frumple, I think we're working on the same book in the council of thieves AP. Maybe we need to collaborate otherwise duplicate data is going to arise.

 

[frumple]

Actaully this was for the various types of insanity. I needed to implement paranoia for Serpent's Skull.

For CoT I have done all the monsters from Bestiary (though I still cannot get the False Divinity ability of the Advodaza Devil working... ). Right now I am working on Legacy of Fire.

 

[bodrin]

Actaully this was for the various types of insanity. I needed to implement paranoia for Serpent's Skull.

For CoT I have done all the monsters from Bestiary (though I still cannot get the False Divinity ability of the Advodaza Devil working... ). Right now I am working on Legacy of Fire.

Ahh, that explains a lot, Paranoia also appears in the Council of Thieves. I too can't get the Advodaza Devil divine ability working, it's an all or nothing solution ATM.

If I read correctly you've done ALL the monsters from CoT? Including the ones previously entered?

 

[frumple]

I have been doing them my own as a way of teaching myself the scripting language.... I am not submitting them to the community to avoid overlap except to for the ones I am explicitly doing for the community (such as Serpent's Skull which I just submitted to SC).