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Wesnoth on Liberapay
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Pentarctagon » April 5th, 2019, 2:09 pm
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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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Last post by shevegen
August 13th, 2019, 7:12 pm
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Compatibility-breaking changes between 1.12 and 1.13/1.14
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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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Last post by Ravana
May 29th, 2018, 5:43 pm
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September 3rd, 2011, 1:45 am
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[Policy] Community Guidelines — Updated July 28th 2019
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Forum Moderators Team » October 17th, 2010, 2:38 am
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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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July 28th, 2019, 6:59 pm
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What is the WML Workshop?
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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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Last post by Implementor37
March 17th, 2015, 5:27 pm
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WML FAQs
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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
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WML Syntax Highlighting for various editors index
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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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Last post by Bitron
November 6th, 2017, 2:10 am
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How to solve WML errors
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zookeeper » January 20th, 2007, 6:35 pm
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
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Call for Code Samples / WML Unit Tests
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iceiceice » May 15th, 2014, 8:00 pm
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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Last post by iceiceice
June 21st, 2014, 11:27 pm
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WML Reference Guide
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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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Last post by Development Team
August 6th, 2006, 7:44 am
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Issues with giving xp in a [fire_event]
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LordAwsomeness » Today, 2:44 pm
So im attempting to create scenario where anytime players kill an enemy unit, all of the teammates receive bonus xp. The idea behind it is that players level up and essentially receive skill points to spend on abilities. I felt there was a balance issue with turn order having the first player...
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Last post by LordAwsomeness
Today, 5:38 pm
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Count units on a side?
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LordAwsomeness » Today, 3:03 am
is there a way to count the units on a side? specifically units that have a static effect such as poisoned or slowed?
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Last post by Ravana
Today, 3:37 pm
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need help creating custom [status]
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LordAwsomeness » October 13th, 2019, 12:35 am
so I am curious if there is a way to create my own custom status effect. I want to create several that have different functions. For example, I would like to create a status effect called frost or frozen that is similar to petrifies. I am hoping that I can change the colors around a bit to make it...
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Last post by LordAwsomeness
Today, 3:52 am
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Questions about a Micro AI: Wolves
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nenau » October 7th, 2019, 6:28 pm
Hello,
I am using the Wolves MAI in one of my campaigns. This AI manages several groups of bandits (I don't use multi pack, the different bandits bands are just different sides). They're chasing traders (who use goto MAI), and the player has to protect the traders.
I join a replay and the wml.
I...
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Last post by nenau
Yesterday, 5:11 pm
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Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?
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wuxiangjinxing » October 10th, 2019, 11:33 pm
I'm thinking of making a weapon special that does more damage to higher-level enemies. But I cannot figure out an easy way to do it. Certainly I can use an event to give the unit damage modifier when attacking while removing the modifier after the attack finishes. But the code looks ugly. Is there...
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Last post by lhybrideur
October 14th, 2019, 3:09 pm
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Issues with [object] duration=turn_end
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LordAwsomeness » October 13th, 2019, 5:09 pm
having a little issue with my coding here. Im sure the coding is working as intended but I need a solution. so essentially I have created a macro that allows a player to cast a spell on themselves or an ally. for the player who casts it on themself, the effect continues until the beginning of their...
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Last post by LordAwsomeness
October 13th, 2019, 5:18 pm
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Divide variable help
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LordAwsomeness » October 12th, 2019, 6:57 pm
So essentially im trying to use variables to give gold from a chest to all of the players in a team. so say there is 25 gold in the chest but it needs to be distributed to 4 players, I want to give the 6 gold to each player and then the remainder gold (the last 1 gold) to the player who stepped on...
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Last post by LordAwsomeness
October 12th, 2019, 11:37 pm
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Last post by LordAwsomeness
October 12th, 2019, 4:22 pm
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[move_unit] exactly one hex back
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serclino » October 11th, 2019, 5:58 pm
Hello,
how can I set up following: When player's units reached deep forest in my scenario, I want them to turn back and prevent them to go further to the trees. I already wrote this:
So again: I would like to return unit EXACTLY one hex back.
Any ideas, please? Thank you.
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Last post by serclino
October 12th, 2019, 9:21 am
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[Solved] Scenario end with victory turn 1
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Vilebeggar » October 11th, 2019, 12:06 pm
So i want to make a scenario with no opposed sides, all the sides are allies and i want to be able to play multiple turns without ending the scenario. However i always get a victory screen no matter what i do. Also i don't want to include hidden opposing sides because i want the units on the map to...
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Last post by Vilebeggar
October 11th, 2019, 4:22 pm
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"upkeep=free" problem
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serclino » September 26th, 2019, 10:12 am
Hi, I'm developing my first campaign and I would like to set some of my units to zero upkeep cost. I don't want to use {TRAIT_LOYAL}, because it will cost me one slot of unit's attributes.
So instead of that I tried upkeep=free . It works fine until the unit levels up. Then it starts pay his/her...
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Last post by lhybrideur
October 10th, 2019, 3:00 pm
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Better method for this skill?
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wuxiangjinxing » October 10th, 2019, 1:22 am
Although this skill does work, I believe there shall be better methods for the same sake. Anyone can give me some help? Thanks a lot.
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Last post by josteph
October 10th, 2019, 3:26 am
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Remove object bug
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LordAwsomeness » October 6th, 2019, 5:04 pm
Hey I dont know if this is a bug or if it was intended to work like this but when I try to remove an object by the name such as a created item then it does not remove the object. However it is weird because when I use the not syntax as a filter it recognizes the names of the weapons that I dont...
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Last post by LordAwsomeness
October 8th, 2019, 2:51 am
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Submerge ability not working as expected
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Spannerbag » September 25th, 2019, 3:13 pm
Hi everyone,
I'm stuck... again ...
I've hit a bit of interface weirdness and would like to check I'm not doing something stupid.
In my scenario there are several water villages owned by an enemy side.
Originally these were guarded by hidden (ABILITY_SUBMERGE) units in deep water, but this (I...
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Last post by Spannerbag
October 6th, 2019, 7:34 pm
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Change control over side to AI and back mid turn
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Nyanyanyan » October 4th, 2019, 4:38 pm
For a mod I'd like to change the control over a player's side to the ai for the movement of some units and then back to the player.
The first thing I thought of was simply switch the control of the side to controller=ai at the beginning of the turn and then give it over to the player once the AI...
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Last post by mattsc
October 6th, 2019, 2:12 am
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Headache with [tunnel]
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WhiteWolf » September 26th, 2019, 12:23 pm
Hello,
I'm having a bit of trouble making some tunnels appear. The idea is to store some locations, then select the sources and targets randomly. Currently, I'm just testing for 1 random tunnel, because that doesn't work already. Here is the code:
Sorry for the terrible indentation, there's some...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
October 3rd, 2019, 4:17 am
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AI behaviour query
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Spannerbag » September 23rd, 2019, 1:51 am
Hi,
Apologies if this isn't the right forum to post an ai-related query...
I'm slowly creeping towards finishing my campaign, but I have a query regarding some frustrating ai behaviour whilst testing/balancing the last playable scenario. This scenario spawns random enemy units. At this stage of...
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Last post by Spannerbag
September 24th, 2019, 10:06 pm
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how to work with array and random numbers
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ultimatux » September 22nd, 2019, 6:03 am
Basically, what I would need would be an example code to guide me with this, since although I understand programming, I am still a newbie in wml, I would like to create an array indexing different types of troops to then be able to add them as an enemy leader, troops to recruit, etc ... it should...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
September 23rd, 2019, 12:57 pm
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change unit statistics at the beginning of a scenario
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ultimatux » September 20th, 2019, 3:06 am
I am beginning to develop my first test campaign, although I know programming, I get lost sometimes in the examples by the theme of the different versions of Wesnoth ...
Bluntly, I need to change some statistics of my initial units, including the leader. step fragment of my code, thank you very...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
September 23rd, 2019, 12:52 pm
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[solved]modified Plague questions
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Rodil » September 9th, 2019, 12:37 am
Hi, I'm working on making a special kind of plague. I'm having a hard time trouble shooting vairous aspects of it because it works sometimes but not others and I can't find any predictable pattern of when it works and when it doesn't.
I'm having a couple problems with it:
1) It is a basic unit...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
September 23rd, 2019, 12:46 pm
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Unitmarkers [SP/MP modification for 1.14]
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Paulomat4 » December 19th, 2013, 11:13 pm
Some time ago, for my UMC Campaign, I created a Unitmarker system, which lets you label your units, to make it easier to keep track of important ones, that you don't want to lose. (because of a special trait combination, or an item that was given to it for example)
Then I saw, that Admant14...
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Last post by josteph
September 9th, 2019, 5:35 am
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Filtering for Unit ID on [set_extra_recruit]
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AkaMeDaemon » September 5th, 2019, 2:40 am
Hey there! Sorry if this is addressed elsewhere; I couldn't find any posts on it. I have looked over the filters and StandardUnitFilters sections extensively; however, this is my first time using WML and filters. I'd appreciate any help on this.
Basically, I've created a scenario where you have...
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Last post by beetlenaut
September 6th, 2019, 1:18 am
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Possible [for] bug, 1.13.8
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Samonella » June 20th, 2017, 9:21 pm
If I understand it right from the wiki, this should be perfectly valid code, iterating from 0 to 3:
But it results in this error:
So I tried adding step=1 in the code, and then it worked fine. According to the wiki, 'step' should default to 1 (or -1, based on 'start' and 'end') so this is a bug?
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Last post by WhiteWolf
August 31st, 2019, 9:13 pm
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excluding terrain (villages) in [terrain] when changing terrain
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Gwledig » August 31st, 2019, 8:40 am
hi I have some WML where an 'engineer' type unit can be used to transform terrain using e.g. to create a cobbled area, or build a bridge, i have only just noticed that this also changes villages into the desired terrain.... so I need to exclude village tiles so they remain as villages (and owned by...
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Last post by Gwledig
August 31st, 2019, 1:43 pm
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[micro_ai] error: bad argument #1 to 'insert' (table expected, got nil)
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WhiteWolf » August 26th, 2019, 8:22 pm
Hello,
I'm trying to make some scattered animals behave like animals with the ai_type=forest_animals setting. Here's the code:
The unit types are valid, and the scattered units are on the map. Yet, each time it's side 3's turn, after a few moves, this error happens:
Screenshot at 2019-08-26...
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August 28th, 2019, 11:55 pm
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