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SR 5th ed. Need help on implementing a house rule

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Sacrelicious2

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So there is a house rule I use when playing Shadowrun that I would like to see if I can implement in HeroLab. Essentially the rule is that there is a single damage track that can be filled with either stun or physical damage. If you've ever played and White Wolf games, it essentially works exactly like that.

What I need to be able to implement in HeroLab should be fairly easy to do. I need to remove the Stun damage track, or just reduce it to 0, and change the physical damage track to have 8 + (Body + Willpower) / 2 boxes. I think it would be easy to do as a zero cost quality, but I am not sure what the values I need to adjust are, since there seems to be no documentation for creating eval scripts. Can anyone help me out with this?
 
If you're just getting started, since this is a complex house rule that you've chosen to implement as your first project in the editor, it's probably easiest to just give you a script that should work, rather than guiding you through the process.

Phase: Traits
Priority: 12000
Code: 
~hide the stun track
if (hero.childlives[cmStun] <> 0) then
  perform hero.child[cmStun].assign[Hide.Condition]
  endif

~add willpower to physical damage and to the grunt damage track,
~unless we're a vehicle (which doesn't have Willpower)
if (hero.tagis[Hero.Vehicle] = 0) then
  if (hero.childlives[cmPhysical] <> 0) then
    perform hero.child[cmPhysical].field[cmNormal].modify[+,round(#trait[attrWill] / 2,0,1),"Willpower/2"]
    endif
  if (hero.childlives[cmGrunt] <> 0) then
    perform hero.child[cmGrunt].field[cmNormal].modify[+,round(#trait[attrWill] / 2,0,1),"Willpower/2"]
    endif
  endif
 
Thanks, that helped. I ended up modifying it as follows, since I needed to make it 8 + (Body + Willpower) / 2, not 8 + Body/2 + Willpower/2 (subtle difference in at which point we are rounding).

Code: 
~hide the stun track
if (hero.childlives[cmStun] <> 0) then
  perform hero.child[cmStun].assign[Hide.Condition]
  endif

~add willpower to physical damage and to the grunt damage track,
~unless we're a vehicle (which doesn't have Willpower)
if (hero.tagis[Hero.Vehicle] = 0) then
  if (hero.childlives[cmPhysical] <> 0) then
    perform hero.child[cmPhysical].field[cmNormal].modify[-,round(#trait[attrBod] / 2,0,1),"Removing Body/2"]
    perform hero.child[cmPhysical].field[cmNormal].modify[+,round(#trait[attrBod] / 2 + #trait[attrWil] / 2,0,1),"(Body + Will)/2"]
    endif
  if (hero.childlives[cmGrunt] <> 0) then
    perform hero.child[cmGrunt].field[cmNormal].modify[-,round(#trait[attrBod] / 2,0,1),"Removing Body/2"]
    perform hero.child[cmGrunt].field[cmNormal].modify[+,round(#trait[attrBod] / 2 + #trait[attrWil] / 2,0,1),"(Body + Will)/2"]
    endif
  endif
 
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