Is movement_type inextricably married to type?

[voris]

This doesn't work:

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    [unit]
        side=6
        type=Yeti
        x=5
        y=17
        movement_type=smallfoot
    [/unit]

But this does:

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    [unit]
        side=6
        type=Yeti
        x=5
        y=17
        level=0
    [/unit]

So I know I wasn't taking crazy pills when I thought the general concept of overriding a key in the unit should work...just not movement_type? The only thing I can think of is there is some unbreakable bond between type and movement_type which is a shame if true. I even tried storing the unit, clearing stored_unit.movement_type and then assigning it a new value. Am I missing something obvious here?

[Mist]

Yes you are. It's called [modifications], [object] and [effect]. The concept of overriding [unit_type] keys directly never worked, some of them could be changed via storing-unstoring, but preffered approach was and still is [object] [effect] pair inside an [event] or [modifications] tag.

[Ken_Oh]

You made up "movement_type." According to http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/UnitWML , it's "movetype."

Storing and unstoring also wouldn't work. At that point you'd have to alter the [resistance]s and [movement_cost]s directly.

[voris]

You made up "movement_type." According to http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/UnitWML , it's "movetype."

So it does. That's odd, though, considering it's stored as movement_type in the save file and it's movement_type that i set when defining a unit using the unit_type tag.

[voris]

Yes you are. It's called [modifications], [object] and [effect]. The concept of overriding [unit_type] keys directly never worked, some of them could be changed via storing-unstoring, but preffered approach was and still is [object] [effect] pair inside an [event] or [modifications] tag.

Well I know about that but there is no way to modify the movement_type value using that from what I can tell.

[Ken_Oh]

You made up "movement_type." According to http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/UnitWML , it's "movetype."

So it does. That's odd, though, considering it's stored as movement_type in the save file and it's movement_type that i set when defining a unit using the unit_type tag.

Hah, so maybe you didn't grab the term out of thin air.

Just another irregularity in Wesnoth system of not directly modifying units.