Theron's wml questions

[Theron]

In a certain scenario there are 2 acquirable objects:
(1) sets all melee attacks to berserk.
(2) gives a new melee attack.

Objekt 1 + objekt 2 != object 2 + object 1

While I think its not a bug I wonder if its safe to assume that the object effects are always applied in this order (especially if the unit levels up).

What are my options if I want to make sure that really _all_ melee attacks will get berserk?
Drop and pick up the items in the "correct" order?

[Theron]

While fixing sighted events I had a look at others code.
I have found a macro which checks for:
'A' sees 'B'
'B' sees 'A'
'A' attacks 'B'
'B' attacks 'A'

The seeing part is obvious but I wonder if its even possible to attack (maybe involving ambush?) without not triggering the seeing part?

[Anonymissimus]

Depends on how they define "see" and such.
name=sighted events are inherently buggy since long (ever) ?. Avoid them whenever possible, especially if you set variables in them or do other stuff which would break your scenario if it's not executed. Use other events types instead, movetos are often a good replacement.

[Pentarctagon]

Object effects are always applied to current attacks, not any that are added, so to get the special(s) onto added attacks you will need to check if that unit has the berserk item and if it does then give berserk to the new attack as well.

[Theron]

In a certain campaign there are drake foes.
In a few scenarios they are normal drakes (now 1.9.x core units).
In other scenarios they are invisible drakes (copies of 1.6 (or 1.4?) core units with image="" and so on).

Invisibility is granted by the big bad boss.
Otherwise I think they should be ordinary drakes.
The problem is: ATM some stats differ between core drakes and invisible drakes.

Which is preferable?
a) Change the existing copies (e.g. introduce reef terrain).
b) Redo them with fresh copies from core.
c) Is WML capable of inheriting the invisible drakes from core and just applying modifications to images, animations, … (so its easier to stay in sync)?

[Alarantalara]

Check out [base_unit] in the unit type definition. It does exactly c).

[Pentarctagon]

Also, you already have an active thread in this forum, so could you post these questions in that thread instead of making a bunch of smaller ones?

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