Fudge Traits

[RayPrancer]

The first step in programming Fudge properly should have been to get the trait levels set. They range from Terrible (-3) to Legendary (4) with each intermidate step also being represented by a word rather than a number. In theory it should just be an eight part if statement but I'm having trouble with the proper syntax. I've tried making it eight seperate if statements but I think there may also be a timing issue - currently at Render with priority 5000

 

[Mathias]

Could you copy what you've got, so I can take a look at it?

 

[RayPrancer]

Not easily as I don't post to these boards from the computer where I have Hero Lab installed but I've typed it out again below.

<code>
<field
id="trtDisplay"
name="Attribute Level to Display"
type="derived"
maxlength="50">
</field>
</code>
(default delta script)
<code>
<eval index="2" phase="Render" priority="5000" name="Calc trtDisplay>
<after name="Calc trtFinal"/>
~bound the final trait including in-play adjustments
var final as number
final = field[trtFinal.value]

~convert the final trait to the proper string for display
var display as string
if final = 0 then
display = "Terrible"
endif
if final = 1 then
display = "Poor"
endif
if final = 2 then
display = "Mediocre"
endif
if final = 3 then
display = "Fair"
endif
if final = 4 then
display = "Good"
endif
if final = 5 then
display = "Great"
endif
if final = 6 then
display = "Superb"
endif
if final = 7 then
display = "Legendary"
endif

~display the text in the correct place
field[trtDisplay].text = display
]]></eval>
</code>

Typing this out again suggests I have a ] in the wrong place so I've tried changed to
final = field[trtFinal].value
which is now prompted Hero Lab to say "Expected ( following if or while statement" when I try to compile

 

[Mathias]

You were correct in identifying that you had the ] in the wrong place.

Now, it's telling you that you're missing the ( and ) in your if...thens:

if (final = 0) then
display = "Terrible"
endif

 

[RayPrancer]

After doing that it was still giving an error message but that was because the last line should have been just </eval> given I hadn't opened with a CDATA. It's now compiling and rendering correctly for derived traits. Next step: render skills and attributes which is covered on the wiki if I get stuck