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Wesnoth on Liberapay

Last post by Pentarctagon « April 5th, 2019, 2:09 pm
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by Pentarctagon » April 5th, 2019, 2:09 pm » in Users’ Forum

Greetings!

We are happy to announce that Wesnoth is now able to accept donations on Liberapay . While Wesnoth does rely on the work of dedicated volunteers, no project can function completely cost-free. Revenue from the Apple App Store and from donations goes towards maintaining our servers,...

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Compatibility-breaking changes between 1.12 and 1.13/1.14

Last post by Ravana « May 29th, 2018, 5:43 pm
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by Development Team » November 18th, 2017, 5:34 pm

The thread for changes from 1.10 to 1.12 is here .

Deprecated or removed feature:

The FOREACH macro is deprecated, use instead
The ABILITY_LEADERSHIP_LEVEL_1 ..5 macros are deprecated and are now aliases for the new more general ABILITY_LEADERSHIP macro.
The ~BRIGHTEN() (which was...

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May 29th, 2018, 5:43 pm
[Policy] Important links for new users

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by Forum Moderators Team » September 3rd, 2011, 1:45 am » in Users’ Forum

There have been numerous important forum posts and wiki articles written by users and developers. We reference these pages a lot, and decided to put them together in a convenient list.

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[Policy] Community Guidelines — Updated Feb 23rd 2019

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by Forum Moderators Team » October 17th, 2010, 2:38 am » in Users’ Forum

Write clearly, be nice to others, and be very careful when posting anything related to politics or religion. When asking for help, remember that everyone here is a volunteer. Prefer editing your previous post over double posting. No animated avatars or graphical signatures. Don’t plagiarize other’s...

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February 24th, 2019, 1:59 am
What is the WML Workshop?

Last post by Implementor37 « March 17th, 2015, 5:27 pm
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by scott » February 18th, 2006, 8:10 pm

You are welcome to post any WML-related question here, even if they pertain to a campaign or map that you're working on.

If this is you:

How do I...
Can you help me debug...
In my campaign, I am trying to...
On my map, I want to...
Can you add the following to WML...
I need help...

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WML FAQs

Last post by ghype « June 13th, 2018, 1:13 pm
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by Pentarctagon » May 29th, 2017, 2:53 pm

The purpose of this thread is to provide links to particularly useful information and code examples of WML and Lua on the wiki, without cluttering up this forum with more and more stickies. As such, the wiki pages linked here should be kept working and up to date - if an unmodified piece of example...

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Last post by ghype
June 13th, 2018, 1:13 pm
WML Syntax Highlighting for various editors index

Last post by Bitron « November 6th, 2017, 2:10 am
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by Forum Moderators Team » November 15th, 2006, 10:07 am

Here you can find configuration files to enable WML syntax highlighting for various text editors :

Gedit (and other Gnome based editors): Has full WML support and partial inline lua support.
wml.lang goes in /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs .
cobalt-wml.xml goes in...

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November 6th, 2017, 2:10 am
How to solve WML errors

Last post by gavenkoa « January 22nd, 2015, 10:01 pm
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by zookeeper » January 20th, 2007, 6:35 pm
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Does you campaign produce obscure WML errors on startup and you don't know what line in your 2000 lines of WML causes it? Instead of going through everything line by line and try to spot the mistake you've made, or before posting your entire campaign on the forums in the hopes that someone wants to...
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Last post by gavenkoa
January 22nd, 2015, 10:01 pm
Call for Code Samples / WML Unit Tests

Last post by iceiceice « June 21st, 2014, 11:27 pm
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by iceiceice » May 15th, 2014, 8:00 pm
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I'm writing to announce a development feature that I hope will help to solve two problems.

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So, if you have an idea for a test, whether or not it's based on your add-on, please consider submitting it to us. We will continue to write tests ourselves, but to get the full benefit we...
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June 21st, 2014, 11:27 pm
WML Reference Guide

Last post by Development Team « August 6th, 2006, 7:44 am

by Development Team » August 6th, 2006, 7:44 am

People often use WML attribute or tag names that are misspelled or just plain fictitious when trying to debug WML — or even tag structures that (to the trained eye) are logical to the writer but have no basis in reality. You should always look up the proper format first, and we have a dedicated...

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August 6th, 2006, 7:44 am
Invisible Unit Bugs

Last post by Ravana « Yesterday, 6:02 pm
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by Diskman » Yesterday, 3:44 pm

I can't make my unit pictures appear. I need someone to tell me what is wrong with my script so I can fix it:

The Unit pictures are stored in a folder called images, within the units folder of my addon.
please help.

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Yesterday, 6:02 pm
Show a WML variable in [theme][status]

Last post by josteph « May 17th, 2019, 5:24 pm
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by WhiteWolf » May 17th, 2019, 12:15 pm

Hello,

I'm just starting out with ThemeWML. Is it possible to show the status of a WML variable inside the tag? If I understand correctly, I can place an icon next to it with , but I need to somehow show that value of the variable, but only recognizes certain tags. Is this possible somehow?

Thanks

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Last post by josteph
May 17th, 2019, 5:24 pm
EarthCake's problems

Last post by octalot « May 11th, 2019, 12:49 pm
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by EarthCake » April 19th, 2019, 5:27 pm
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Hello!

I have problem:

I made an 'moveto' event:

and I need to prevent this event from happening before ie. turn 14. Otherwise, it ends scenario everytime I stand with xxxxx unit on that place. How can I do that?
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Last post by octalot
May 11th, 2019, 12:49 pm
Way to match a group of units to a dying unit

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « May 10th, 2019, 11:47 am
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by Nyanyanyan » April 14th, 2019, 10:33 pm

Hi, I'm trying to match a group of units to a specific leader, to switch them all over to another side once that specific leader dies.

I tried this by giving every unit of that batch and their leader a status that's just a running number ($rebellionnumber, starting from 1001).
Now I'm trying to...

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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
May 10th, 2019, 11:47 am
Possible 'select' event for AI side?

Last post by WhiteWolf « May 9th, 2019, 2:02 pm
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by WhiteWolf » April 24th, 2019, 2:28 pm

Hello,

I am looking for a way to fire an event every time before a move is made, for a side that's controlled by the AI. Technically, a 'select' event with first_time_only=no and respective filters would be perfect, however, it seems the AI doesn't actually select its units before moving them, and...

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Last post by WhiteWolf
May 9th, 2019, 2:02 pm
A problem with storing a diing unit

Last post by Mathel « May 5th, 2019, 7:09 pm
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by Mathel » May 5th, 2019, 6:34 pm

So I am trying to make a unit in a campaign immortal by putting it on the recall list whenever it is killed. My attempt is to store it in a last breath event and unstore it into the recall list.

The event is as follows:

The event fires, the talking happens, but then Wesnoth writes in chat :...

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Last post by Mathel
May 5th, 2019, 7:09 pm
Giving arrays variable names and values that are also variables

Last post by Atreides « April 21st, 2019, 9:22 pm
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by Nyanyanyan » April 16th, 2019, 12:01 pm

What I'm trying to do is making an array out of multiple variables, though for some reason using a variable as the name for the value in the array doesn't work and the game just saves the array as empty.
What I did and which isn't working:

$leaderdeadsidevillages .x and y are just iterating over...

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Last post by Atreides
April 21st, 2019, 9:22 pm
Creating a campaign

Last post by beetlenaut « April 20th, 2019, 5:21 am
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by Daniel17022002 » March 22nd, 2017, 8:48 pm
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Hey everyone! Sorry if I waste your time with my post but I'm willing to try create my first campaign around here and I don't really know where to start from ( I'm learning C++ currently and I know nothing about the language of coding of wesnoth yet so, well... :mrgreen: ). Any tips?
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Last post by beetlenaut
April 20th, 2019, 5:21 am
Creating a side using Era or Modification

Last post by The_Gnat « April 19th, 2019, 10:07 pm
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by Nyanyanyan » April 13th, 2019, 12:44 pm

Hello there,

I'd like to write a rebellion system to either implement in my Era or as a standalone modification.
When a leader is killed, instead of losing it's win condition, I intent to make two units of that faction into leaders, put one of them in a different (ai controlled) side and randomly...

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Last post by The_Gnat
April 19th, 2019, 10:07 pm
Instructing AI

Last post by Nyanyanyan « April 16th, 2019, 9:59 pm
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by EarthCake » April 16th, 2019, 8:06 pm

Hey everyone!

I am making my own campaign, and I don't know how to instruct AI. Can somebody help me?

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Last post by Nyanyanyan
April 16th, 2019, 9:59 pm
remove a trait to WML

Last post by Ruvaak « April 14th, 2019, 3:35 pm
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by Ruvaak » April 12th, 2019, 4:59 pm

Hello,

From my understanding, and works in similar ways, stored in tags of unit.

There is a (which sometimes creates bugs, like resetting completely or partially unit/attack default values, for a reason I still didn't understood), but apparently not a (can be a feature suggestion, BTW).

Is...

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Last post by Ruvaak
April 14th, 2019, 3:35 pm
dabber's questions: last breath

Last post by dabber « April 10th, 2019, 6:21 pm
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by dabber » August 6th, 2014, 1:38 pm
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Maybe these are more design questions than WML questions, but I feel like I'm missing something, so I'll ask anyway. Is there an easy way to set a side's current gold to a specific value, instead of adding to it? I seem to have figured out how to do it below, but I'm surprised there isn't a more...
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Last post by dabber
April 10th, 2019, 6:21 pm
Custom Unit

Last post by beetlenaut « April 9th, 2019, 10:16 am
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by Daseka » April 7th, 2019, 6:33 am
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Hello, first of all, I am very new in modding, so I apologize for the stupid mistakes I may have made. And second, English is not my mother tongue. After having clarified that, I continue.
I'm trying to include Robin (from Fire Emblem Awakening), but I can not get the unit to be in the game. Here...
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Last post by beetlenaut
April 9th, 2019, 10:16 am
Traits and names along side races.

Last post by Vilebeggar « April 6th, 2019, 10:58 am
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by Vilebeggar » April 1st, 2019, 1:02 pm

So i made a unit part of the monster race, it showed up in game without a name or trait (like intelligent or strong). So how do you makes the links within these. Also how do you make a brand new race?

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Last post by Vilebeggar
April 6th, 2019, 10:58 am
How to turn off auto-parantheses in [difficulty]label

Last post by WhiteWolf « April 4th, 2019, 6:46 pm
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by WhiteWolf » March 18th, 2019, 10:57 am
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Hello,

Today I updated my campaign's difficulty descriptions from the old difficulties= , and difficulty_descriptions= to the new tags, due to the report of issue 3983 .

However, I did notice then, that the label tag automatically adds parentheses, () around the text, which is not exactly...
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Last post by WhiteWolf
April 4th, 2019, 6:46 pm
Alternate Saurian Flanker Sprite Custom Unit

Last post by gweddeoran « April 4th, 2019, 7:49 am
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by gweddeoran » April 4th, 2019, 6:00 am

Hey everyone!

I edited the existing Saurian Flanker sprite (just a few colour changes). I wanted Inarix, the protagonist, to look different from the other Saurian Flankers in the campaign. However, I don't want a separate entry in the units database for the campaign. Also, I want it to retain all...

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April 4th, 2019, 7:49 am
Stupid Questions (see last post)

Last post by beetlenaut « April 1st, 2019, 9:24 pm
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by TrashMan » February 25th, 2019, 1:46 pm
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I used to do haling potions like this in the scenario files:
*NIPPEd*
EDIT: Problem solved. See question below
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Last post by beetlenaut
April 1st, 2019, 9:24 pm
Changing a side mid-scenario

Last post by octalot « March 26th, 2019, 11:30 am
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by Stupidbro » March 15th, 2019, 1:17 am

So, I've been working on a campaign and I ran into an interesting issue; to make a scenario more difficult, I wanted to give the enemy side more gold and improve it's recruit list, BUT it has to happen at a specific turn event. Ideas?

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Last post by octalot
March 26th, 2019, 11:30 am
Getting rid of the wreath after beta testing

Last post by Stupidbro « March 26th, 2019, 11:22 am
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by Stupidbro » March 23rd, 2019, 8:54 pm
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So, I recently finished building my own campaign (yay!!! 🎉🎉🎉) but noticed that whenever you finish playing a campaign, which I did several times in development, it forever leaves a golden wreath around the campaign icon. Is there any way to get rid of it without simply changing the id of the...
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Last post by Stupidbro
March 26th, 2019, 11:22 am
Terrain codes

Last post by beetlenaut « March 26th, 2019, 9:10 am
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by Vilebeggar » March 23rd, 2019, 2:42 pm

So is there like a list of the terrain codes of the map you know like (^Eb, ^Ebn) and what not. I'm trying to make ambushed units like those in heir to the throne scenario crossroads. I kind of know whats going on but the terrain codes are a bit confusing.

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Last post by beetlenaut
March 26th, 2019, 9:10 am
Need Help with WML Tutorial

Last post by Vilebeggar « March 23rd, 2019, 2:35 pm
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by Cookedpoo » February 23rd, 2019, 7:08 pm

I want to create content with this game, along with trying to learn how to write code, so I started with the WML tutorial for complete beginners. Everything has made sense so far, but I'm stuck on the end of chapter 5, where it tells you to play/test the campaign that was created. I can't seem to...

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Last post by Vilebeggar
March 23rd, 2019, 2:35 pm
Creating a unit in the middle of a round

Last post by Vilebeggar « March 23rd, 2019, 2:28 pm
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by Stupidbro » March 16th, 2019, 10:49 pm

So, in a scenario I'm building, there's a spot where I want a unit to be built on an event instead of the beginning, and I want him to specifically target the player's leader, if possible.

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March 23rd, 2019, 2:28 pm
Killing weapon special doesn't work

Last post by Beer « March 22nd, 2019, 4:52 pm
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by Beer » March 21st, 2019, 6:20 pm

I wanted to make a weapon special in wesnoth called assasination wich, when in backstab, kills the ennemie unit if it is of level 0 or 1. I am a real beginner in wml but after some research I made this code

The problem is that the defender AND the attacker die and I don't know how to fix it . I...

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Last post by Beer
March 22nd, 2019, 4:52 pm
Units only showing as '?'

Last post by josteph « March 21st, 2019, 1:00 pm
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by AetherBytes » March 21st, 2019, 4:08 am

I'm new to modding, and I'm trying to create an Era, and with it 1 extra faction. The faction only has 3 units on it, 2 of which can be leaders, 2 of which can be recruited. However, when I try to select them in the leader selection menu, they only show up as ? with no picture, as well as having...

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March 21st, 2019, 1:00 pm
Special move type and resistance

Last post by The_Gnat « March 17th, 2019, 8:45 am
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by Stupidbro » March 15th, 2019, 10:37 pm

How do you make it so a unit has a special movement type and resistance?

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March 17th, 2019, 8:45 am

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