Were you bootstrapped?

[barrelv]

part of the system I'm modeling involves a set of skills that automatically show up when you first pick a career. Later, you get more points to buy or increase skills.

I have a resource called resOSkill that tracks the number of skill points the user has to spend. When a new skill THING gets added I use the following code:

#resspent[resOSkill] += 1

Now, the problem I'm running into is that I specifically *don't* want this to happen when I'm adding something due to the class (right now I'm bootstrapping these things within the career THING). When I bootstrap things, I end up instantly with skills over-spent. I know I could just increase the skills resource every time I bootstrap the skill, but that seems like not the right way to go about this.

So my question, is there anything I can do to determine if the skill thing is being added by a bootstrap in the career THING or by a table on the skills tab and use that to determine if I want to increase the resspent resource or not?

 

[Mathias]

Take a look in the Skeleton files at the Ability component (traits.str). See how it's script #1 starts with a comment of "~we must ignore bootstrapped abilities from races and abilities added via advances"?

Line 220 if you're looking at an un-modified copy.

Take a look at the line of code just after that - you'll see how it determines whether the item was added by the user or added through a displaced pick (which is how advancements function).

 

[barrelv]

I have no clue why that works, but it does work perfectly.

Thanks!

 

[Mathias]

The "isuser" test will = 1 if the user added it, and = 0 if not.

 

[barrelv]

Okay, thanks - that makes a lot more sense. the adding the two things together just seemed odd.

You've been a big help with this, thank you so much.