[solved] Where is "ai.attack" explained?

[doofus-01]

data/ai/lua/extCAexample.lua has the following line:

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 ai.attack(2, 12, 3, 12, 1, 1) -- showcasing the presence of the AI table

If I wanted to find out what that meant, where would I look?
Thanks.

(A bit unrelated, but if I wanted to search the forum for "ai.attack", how could I enter that without resulting in a (rejected) search for the two words attack and ai?)

EDIT:Changing title because this is solved.
EDIT2: Changing title again, new question. No, it was a stupid mistake on my part...

[Ravana]

Didnt think of way for searching "ai", but for attack att*ack works relatively well.

Searching git repo found trace of this ai.attack(attacker, defender, weapon). Might be worth looking data/ai/lua/ai_helper.lua and https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/sear ... &type=Code

[gfgtdf]

you can also look up the definition of the ai.attack function in this file https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/blob ... a/core.cpp, it tslly you that it takes the parameters (attacker, defender, weapon_used, i_dont_know) where parameters 1 and 2 are eigher lua units, or locations passed as 2 integers.

I i understand that code correctly then this table https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/blob ... e.cpp#L846 contains all the ai. functions.

In 1.13 you can maybe also alternativeley use [do_command] actionwml which lets you execute game actions in the format explained here in the replaywml wiki file.

[doofus-01]

Didnt think of way for searching "ai", but for attack att*ack works relatively well.

Thanks, using the astrix to tied things together looks like it works. I tried searching "ai*attack" and got no results, but at least it was a search for what I intended (I think).

you can also look up the definition of the ai.attack function in this file ...

Thanks as well, that answers my question. After all that, [do_command] is probably more my speed. Neither were quite what I was hoping for, but good to know anyway.

Thanks again, this is closed.

[mattsc]

doofus-01: I know you already got your answer, but just for future reference: Customizing_AI_in_Wesnoth_1.8#Lua_AI_syntax

[doofus-01]

Well that's embarrassing. Thanks for the link, mattsc.

[mattsc]

(A bit unrelated, but if I wanted to search the forum for "ai.attack", how could I enter that without resulting in a (rejected) search for the two words attack and ai?)

I forgot to comment on this earlier. It's frequently bugged me that you cannot search the forums for "ai", but there's a workaround by using Google (and probably other search engines). In your case, you can type this into the Google search:

"ai.attack" site:forums.wesnoth.org

A minor annoyance is that the . is a placeholder here as Google ignores most special characters, so it will also find "ai attack", "ai_attack" etc., but there aren't so many instances of those on the forums that that is a serious problem.