Event trigger: Why didn't work?

[Exasperation]

You're misinterpreting what he's doing - he's making a copy of the unit that killed it, and putting that copy onto the hex that the dead unit had occupied. Of course, that unit is also already stored, but it's in second_unit, not unit.

[AssassinT90]

Thank you all!
Another problem... Could you help me here?
Messages:

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[message]
		side=1
		type=Lieutenant
		message= _ "Orders, sir?"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=1
		type=General
		message= _ "We must kill those zombies, then we kill the survivors!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=1
		type=Lieutenant
		message= _ "But sir, our orders were to...!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=1
		type=General
		message= _ "SHUT UP! I'm your superior! You shall obey me!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=1
		type=Lieutenant
		message= _ "Yes, sir...(idiot)"
	[/message]

Full event:

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[event]
{SET_LABEL_PERSISTENT 29 1 "Escape Point"}
name=prestart
[objectives]
	side=2,3,4
	[objective]
		description=Move a leader to 29 1(North east village)
		condition=win
	[/objective]
[/objectives]

#ALLOW_RECRUITS

[disallow_recruit]
type=ghost
side=5
[/disallow_recruit]
[allow_recruit]
type=Dark Sorcerer
side=5
[/allow_recruit]
[allow_recruit]
type=Boneshooter
side=5
[/allow_recruit]
[allow_recruit]
type=Revenant
side=5
[/allow_recruit]

[allow_recruit]
type=Swordsman
side=1
[/allow_recruit]
[allow_recruit]
type=Dragoon
side=1
[/allow_recruit]
[allow_recruit]
type=Longbowman
side=1
[/allow_recruit]
[allow_recruit]
type=Red Mage
side=1
[/allow_recruit]

#---/ALLOW_RECRUITS
#STARTING ZOMBIES

{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE dwarf 6 24 21}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE dwarf 6 6 21}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 14 18}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 18 18}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 20 17}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 23 17}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 25 14}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 25 13}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 28 10}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 24 10}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 22 7}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 19 9}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 15 9}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 14 7}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 12 10}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 10 9}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 9 12}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 10 14}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 12 15}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 13 17}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 27 27}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 27 28}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 27 29}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 27 30}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 28 27}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 28 28}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 6 25}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 6 26}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 6 27}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 6 28}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 6 29}
{GENERIC_ZOMBIE_RACE human 6 6 30}

#---/STARTING ZOMBIES



	[message]
		side=1
		type=Lieutenant
		message= _ "Orders, sir?"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=1
		type=General
		message= _ "We must kill those zombies, then we kill the survivors!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=1
		type=Lieutenant
		message= _ "But sir, our orders were to...!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=1
		type=General
		message= _ "SHUT UP! I'm your superior! You shall obey me!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=1
		type=Lieutenant
		message= _ "Yes, sir...(idiot)"
	[/message]




[/event]

Those messages simply don't appear. I already tried puting "speaker=(unit's id)", but didn't work.

Aaand:

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[message]
		side=2
		canrecruit=yes
		message= _ "Did you hear it, guys? We have to fight.
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=3
		canrecruit=yes
		message= _ "I never liked to kill humans, but when it's necessary..."
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=4
		canrecruit=yes
		message= _ "Seems like we'll have to face humans..."
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=2
		canrecruit=yes
		message= _ "Then you should wake up, many commanders are as stupid as that one"
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=3
		canrecruit=yes
		message= _ "Let's talk less and work more."
	[/message]
	[message]
		side=2
		canrecruit=yes
		message= _ "Agreed"
	[/message]

When I use those messages wesnoth crashes like when we wrongly use a macro, simply crashes and closes.

[melinath]

the prestart event messages aren't working because when you use [message] with a filter, it checks to see if the unit exists. If the unit doesn't exist, Wesnoth assumes the unit is dead and doesn't display the message. It looks like when the code runs, side 1 doesn't have any units.

[AssassinT90]

the prestart event messages aren't working because when you use [message] with a filter, it checks to see if the unit exists. If the unit doesn't exist, Wesnoth assumes the unit is dead and doesn't display the message. It looks like when the code runs, side 1 doesn't have any units.

No, it's not it. I already tried with other events. Thanks anyway.
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Let me try again.
Heh. Still doesn't work. I think it's something wrong with the filters.
How could I use a filter to these units:

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[unit]
	type=General
	side=1
	x,y=18,14
	id="Commander Joy"
	name= _ "Commander Joy"
	unreanamable=yes
	canrecruit=yes
	experience=42
[/unit]
[unit]
	type=Lieutenant
	side=1
	x,y=18,15
	id="Hogward"
	name=Hogward
	unreanamable=yes
	canrecruit=yes
	experience=23
[/unit]

?

[zookeeper]

Messages don't do anything in prestart events, because prestart events happen before anything is drawn on screen. Put everything you want to be visible to the player in a start event instead.

[AssassinT90]

Here you are:

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[event]
	name=start
	[message]
		speaker=Hogward
		message= _ "Orders, sir?"
	[/message]
	[message]
		speaker="Commander Joy"
		message= _ "We must kill those zombies, then we kill the survivors!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		speaker=Hogward
		message= _ "But sir, our orders were to...!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		speaker="Commander Joy"
		message= _ "SHUT UP! I'm your superior! You shall obey me!"
	[/message]
	[message]
		speaker=Hogward
		message= _ "Yes, sir...(idiot)"
	[/message]
[/event]

Still doesn't work. =D
Edited:
Sorry, I got an obscure error... Now it's fixed... You were right, after putting it on a start event, it worked.

[melinath]

Messages don't do anything in prestart events, because prestart events happen before anything is drawn on screen. Put everything you want to be visible to the player in a start event instead.

The following code works inside a prestart event on my Wesnoth:

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    [message]
        speaker=narrator
        message=_"Whatever."
        image=wesnoth-icon.png
    [/message]

I find it very useful for things like emulating a storyboard. But maybe it only works with speaker=narrator.

[zookeeper]

Messages don't do anything in prestart events, because prestart events happen before anything is drawn on screen. Put everything you want to be visible to the player in a start event instead.

The following code works inside a prestart event on my Wesnoth:

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    [message]
        speaker=narrator
        message=_"Whatever."
        image=wesnoth-icon.png
    [/message]

I find it very useful for things like emulating a storyboard. But maybe it only works with speaker=narrator.

Oh. Well, that's news to me. Maybe it was changed at some point.

[AssassinT90]

Oh, and after fixing that bug, the message at prestart worked.
Everything was black, but the characters talked to each other.

[AssassinT90]

Hello!
I've got a crazy "bug", and I can't see where I went wrong...
Yes, I came here to ask for help:

First, the codes:
Event that triggers everything:

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[event]
name=new turn
first_time_only=no
{ACTION $mstatus}
[/event]

Variables:
morale(inside a prestart event):

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{VARIABLE morale -20}

mstatus(inside a "new turn, first_time_only=no" event):

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[if]
	[variable]
		name=morale
		greater_than_equal_to=13
	[/variable]
	[then]
		{VARIABLE mstatus high}
	[/then]
[/if]
[if]
	[variable]
		name=morale
		less_than_equal_to=6
		greater_than=0
	[/variable]
	[then]
		{VARIABLE mstatus low}
	[/then]
[/if]
[if]
	[variable]
		name=morale
		greater_than=6
		less_than=13
	[/variable]
	[then]
		{VARIABLE mstatus normal}
	[/then]
[/if]
[if]
	[variable]
		name=morale
		less_than_equal_to=0
	[/variable]
	[then]
		{VARIABLE mstatus zero}
	[/then]
[/if]

Variable ops:
Inside a "new turn" event:

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{VARIABLE_OP morale add 1}

Inside die events:

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[event]
name=die
[filter]
	side=2,3,4,5
[/filter]
[filter_second]
	side=1
[/filter_second]
{VARIABLE_OP morale add 1}
[/event]


[event]
name=die
[filter]
	side=6
[/filter]
[filter_second]
	side=1
[/filter_second]
{VARIABLE_OP morale add 0.1}
[/event]


[event]
name=die
[filter]
	side=1
[/filter]
{VARIABLE_OP morale add -1}
[/event]


[event]
name=die
[filter]
	side=2,3,4,5
[/filter]
[filter_second]
	side=1
[/filter_second]
{VARIABLE_OP morale add 1}
[/event]


[event]
name=die
[filter]
	side=6
[/filter]
[filter_second]
	side=1
[/filter_second]
{VARIABLE_OP morale add 0.1}
[/event]


[event]
name=die
[filter]
	side=1
[/filter]
{VARIABLE_OP morale add -1}
[/event]

Macro definition for {ACTION low}(works fine):

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#define ACTION low
[message]
	side=1
	canrecruit=no
	type=Swordsman
	message= _ "They're killing all of us!"
[/message]
[message]
	speaker=Hogward
	message= _ "Hold on! Reinforcements are comming!"
[/message]

[message]
	side=2
	canrecruit=yes
	message= _ "Something tells me that they will soon flee away."
[/message]
[message]
	side=3
	canrecruit=yes
	message= _ "You're right. Let's help them by killing some soldiers..."
[/message]

#enddeff

Macro definition for {ACTION zero}(works fine):

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#define ACTION zero
[message]
	speaker=Hogward
	message= _ "Guys, we have to go back to the Fortress!"
[/message]
[message]
	speaker="Commander Joy"
	message= _ "What are you doing? Men, don't hear him!"
[/message]
[message]
	speaker=Hogward
	message= _ "If you want to die it's not my problem, but I'll save my men!"
[/message]
[message]
	speaker=Commander Joy
	message= _ "If any of you follow him, your destiny will be certainly the death!"
[/message]
[message]
	side=1
	canrecruit=no
	message= _ "I'm with our captain!"
[/message]
[kill]
	id=Hogward
[/kill]
[delay]
	time=1000
[/delay]
[kill]
	side=1
	canrecruit=no
[/kill]
[message]
	id="Commander Joy"
	message= _ "I can't believe they flew away... Stupid soldiers..."
[/message]
[kill]
	side=1
[/kill]
[delay]
	time=500
[/delay]

[message]
	side=3
	canrecruit=yes
	message= _ "It's our chance to get the Escape Point! HURRY!'
[/message]
#enddeff

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At prestart, the morale is defined as -20(mstatus=zero).
At turn 1, before the guys do their turns and after the start events, mstatus is defined as "zero".

There are four ways to change the morale value:
A new turn(morale +1).
Killing an enemy not-zombie unit(morale +1).
Killing an enemy zombie unit(morale +0.1).
Losing an unit(morale -1).

The definitions for mstatus are:

morale<12.9, ->mstatus=high
12.9>morale<6 ->mstatus=normal
6.1>morale<0.1 ->mstatus=low
0>morale ->mstatus=zero

Like morale=-19(-20+1[new turn]), mstatus=zero

At every new turn, and after the mstatus be defined, the event that triggers everything I'm interested will be triggered, using a "macro variable", that, on this case, should be {ACTION zero}.
The problem is this one:
The macro used is {ACTION low}, instead of {ACTION zero}.

Without the first event that triggers everything, no action is triggered, with the first event, the macro used is {ACTION low}, I think the problem might be:
1: On the macros.
2: On the event.
I'm sure that the $mstatus is rightly defined.

[Exasperation]

When you define a macro, the parameters you pass are substituted into the macro wherever you put {<PARAMETER_NAME>}. Try something along these lines:

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#define MORALE_ACTION MORALE
	[switch]
		variable={MORALE}
		[case]
			value=high
			...stuff to happen with high morale
		[/case]
		[case]
			value=normal
			...stuff to happen with normal morale
		[/case]
		[case]
			value=low
			...stuff to happen with low morale
		[/case]
		[else]
			...stuff to happen with zero morale
		[/else]
	[/switch]
#enddef

And then to use it, {MORALE_ACTION mstatus} (no $).

[AssassinT90]

@Exasperation:
Thank you very much! I never understood well how to use the Conditional Actions(save "if", and "then"), but now you explained everything.