Transitioning to a chosen item from a different ability

[AndrewD2]

I've got a special that allows the character to add abilities to their special blade, since it can be any blade they have I have a class special that creates a list of all the members of the BladeLight and BladeHeavy groups on the character.

So then I have a configurable for selecting the Boons that they can activate. On each boon it would then transition to that selected weapon and apply the applicable effect.

I was trying this for a boon that added fire damage, but Hero Lab didn't like it:

#extradamage[hero.child[cRPIERitSw].field[usrChosen1].chosen, signed(#attrbonus1[aCHA]) & " fire", field[name].text]

If I have to I can make a big script on the main ability that checks for the abilActive field on the boon, but that seems very cumbersome.

Any ideas?

 

[Mathias]

What's the exact error message for that? Why didn't it like it?

 

[AndrewD2]

The 2 error messages I am getting thus far are:

Hero Lab was forced to stop compilation after the following errors were detected:

Syntax error in 'eval' script for Thing 'rcRPRitFiS' (Eval Script '#1') on line 3
  -> Error parsing parameter 1 of function
Syntax error in 'eval' script for Thing 'rcRPRitGuS' (Eval Script '#1') on line 3
  -> Error parsing left-side expression in relational comparison

First one is from the #extradamage macro. Second one is from trying to check if the weapon is equipped.

 

[AndrewD2]

For reference the code from the second error is:

if ([hero.child[cRPIERitSw].field[usrChosen1].chosen.field[gIsEqup].value <> 0) then
endif

 

[Mathias]

Try setting a focus to the chosen thing, then use just the focus transition within extradamage.

For #2, that's a typo - you've got an extra [ near the beginning of the line.

 

[Mathias]

Also, you can't nest macros - you can't use #attrbonus1 inside another macro

 

[AndrewD2]

well ignore the gIsEquip error, I fixed that, but can't get the #extradamage

 

[Mathias]

You've fixed the nested macros and switched to using focus?

 

[AndrewD2]

Actually I posted that at the same time as your were posting, fixed the nested macro and that fixed the problem. Good to know about the nested macro thing

 

[Mathias]

Okay, so the .chosen wasn't the problem - it was the nested macros?

 

[AndrewD2]

Yep, I set abValue = #attrbonus1[aCHA] and used it in the macro and worked just fine!

Thanks again for your help.