trying to add feat Additional Animal Companion

[Reaper813]

HI, I'm looking for any help on trying to add the following feat:

"Additional Animal Companion

Prerequisite: Cha 13, ability to have an animal companion, effective druid level 4+ for purposes of
having an animal companion

Benefit: You gain an additional animal companion. Your effective druid level for the purposes of the second animal companion is your normal level -3.

Special: You can take this feat multiple times, each time gaining an additional animal companion."


I've tried following the guides for adding feats, and I have looked at the threads for previous attempts to do similar things, but my knowledge of programming is pretty bad. .

I found the formula:

Perform hero.assign[Hero.MultiComp]
Perform hero.child[cHelpRSL].assign[Hero.MultiComp]

I entered that under the Bootstrap option in the conditions section "Tag Expression", but only get the following reply:

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

Syntax error in 'bootstrap #1 condition' tag expression for Thing 'fAdAniComp'
-> Invalid tag template specified: 'Perform'"

I can't find a reference to 'tag template' on the wiki, so I tried removing 'Perform' and got:

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

Syntax error in 'bootstrap #1 condition' tag expression for Thing 'fAdAniComp'
-> Tag 'hero.assign' not defined"

The feat is to be used with a Treesinger Archetype Druid, so I figure MultiComp is not quite what I want, but not sure what i'd be switching it to. I narrowed it down to straight animal companion (AbReplace.cDrdComp, AbReplace.dAniComp or AbReplace.aaAnimComp), Nature's Companion (AbReplace.rcGozNatCo) or Variant Companion (AbResolve.cPFcAshComp). I tried it replacing MultiComp with the Variant Companion part, but still got the above two errors, so not sure if it didn't work, or the above errors interrupted the process.

 

[Mathias]

Capitalization matters - perform, not Perform.

 

[Reaper813]

tried, and still got the error msg:

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

Syntax error in 'bootstrap #1 condition' tag expression for Thing 'fAdAniComp'
-> Invalid tag template specified: 'perform'

 

[Mathias]

The code you've got belongs in an Eval Script on the feat, not in the tag expressions.

Sorry I didn't notice that in your original post - you're using normal script code, which is entirely different than what needs to be used in a tag expression, so I wasn't looking for that sort of thing.

 

[EricaOdd]

There's a druid variant called Pack Lord in Ultimate Magic that lets you split your druid level among multiple animal companions. If you can't get this feat to work and have the UM package, why not just use that?