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That is not valid use of [effect] https://wiki.wesnoth.org/EffectWML As you see from that, effect cannot change unit level. You need to use event to for that. I see. In the past, I've worked around this by implementing the change through a unit variation or unit type. I will try that route here. Fo...

My latest question (updated the thread title for this) I am (unsuccessfully) trying to use filtering on a custom AMLA advancement, but my complete failure convinces me that I don’t understand filtering at all. I could use some input. What I’m specifically trying to do: My units are 0-level units, an...

Huzzah!

Thank you both, kindly. I have now successfully implemented a variation type, and I can continue my experiments to see what else I can do with this functionality.

I would like to change a unit to one of its variations as an AMLA advancement. I have successfully implemented a number of other AMLA advancements (Yay, me!), but this one is giving me troubles, and I cannot understand why. The base unit I'm using is essentially a modified Ruffian. That unit has bee...

Yes!

It took a little poking around: my account already has admin privileges, so that wasn't it. Choosing to run WordPad as administrator, however, solved the problem.

Thanks for the assist.

I'm stymied. In the past, on other BfW installations on other computers, I've been able to modify core files to customize my BfW . This time, this computer, "denied"! BfW version is 1.12.5 Microsoft Windows 10 OS (should be fully up-to-date – I think it updates automatically these days) Sp...

Sooooooo , want to hear a funny story? Turns out, when they say, "Unit IDs must be unique," they really, really mean it. Turns out the problem was all of my own making, in a way that no one (without access to my own BfW files) would be able figure out. On the plus side, I have learned fro...

Still working on this. Thanks for the comments. Doesn't sound possible; even if you don't have a [binary_path] (the kind every add-on with custom images/sounds/music needs) to help the game find your version of the image, then image="icons/boots_elven.png" is still the correct path to the ...

New problem: I'm creating a series of AMLA choices, and I cannot get the images to display. Everything else about the advancements appears to be working properly. This is purely a cosmetic issue, but it highlights my lack of understanding. The icons I am using have been copied over from core into my...

My issue with Notepad is that it does not display line breaks and indentations. I'd open a file in Notepad and find it impossible to read. I was delighted to find WordPad fixed this.

Thanks for the tip. For the record, I appreciate all feedback. I think my WordPad file may have been corrupted. By copying my working _main.cfg (from SANLEra) and then copy-pasting everything from my original _main.cfg (Sif_Era) into that one and making it the new Sif_Era _main.cfg, I eliminated tha...

Me again. I expect I've messed up something very basic, but I'm flummoxed. I am trying to create a very simple era. I slavishly copied and then cut down from another era I have, which itself is a slavish copy-and-edit of "A New Land Era." (That one works.) Each time I try to load, I get th...

primary_unit is not valid key of unit filter. Besides, you should not filter units by name. See https://wiki.wesnoth.org/StandardUnitFilter for what you can use. I was going off of the recruit event, which seemed to require filters for both primary_ and secondary_unit. That probably means I'm just ...

Thanks for the advice. I am trying to implement it; so far, unsuccessfully. Here is my [event] code, which I have put in the [unit_type] cfg for the unit I want to affect: [event] name=recruit first_time_only=no [filter] primary_unit=Ruffian [/filter] [set_variable] name=trait_number rand=0..3 [/set...

(BfW version 1.12.5) I've tried a number of different methods, without success, to give a unit a random number of traits when it is recruited (0 to 3, if it matters). I'm beginning to wonder if this is maybe just not possible. I note the statement from the SyntaxWML page that "Variable substitu...