Owl's WML (Currently: Solved)

[zookeeper]

I believe variations persist across levelups automatically, assuming of course that the unit type being leveled up into has such a variation.

[UnwiseOwl]

Ok, I never was any good at wml, and I don't mind saying this is beyond me.
I've made a start and put this in the unit .cfg file, and plugged in the only way I know how to random, but...who can show me how to get the event to use [object] trigger the variation?

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    [variation]
	name=_"adapted"
	alignment=neutral
    [/variation]
    [event]
	name=prerecruit
        first_time_only=no
        {RANDOM 1..2}
        [if]
            [variable]
                name=random
                numerical_equals=1
            [/variable]
            [then]
		
            [/then]
	[/if][/event]

[James_The_Invisible]

Here you go:

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[object]
  silent=yes
  [effect]
    apply_to=variation
    name="adapted"
  [/effect]
[/object]

[UnwiseOwl]

Thank you all!

EDIT: Turns out I also needed a {[heal_unit] amount=full} in there, as variation units that had resilient were being recruited with less than full health. Seems a bit odd, so I just thought that I'd mention it.

[Vanagandr]

Sounds like this bug maybe: https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?22178

[UnwiseOwl]

Sure does. Easy workaround, but I'm glad the dev team are on to it.

[UnwiseOwl]

Hello all, it's that time of year again, so I'm back to Wesnoth and again stuck in the WML mire. I'm trying to port some of the old 1.10 campaigns to 1.12, and am getting stuck. Below is the code of my first scenario, which is a very simple one that just displays a message to get the player to choose between two modes, but the game appears to be skipping the scenario completely now.

My thoughts were that some change has been made to priorities of prestart and message, potentially? Can anyone shed any light on what changes I would need to make to get this scenario to function again?

Spoiler:

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#textdomain wesnoth-Fall_of_Silvium
#SCENARIO 0: Fall of Silvium
#
#Scenario that just includes the choices for wordy/nonwordy campaign.
#For some reason I'm needing to call a team to make this scenario work, which means it looks a little odd. But hey, it works.
[scenario]
    name= _ "Fall of Silvium"
    id=0_Fall_of_Silvium
    turns=-1
    map_data="{~add-ons/Fall_of_Silvium/maps/0_Imperial_Forum.map}"
    next_scenario=0t_Before_the_Emperor
    {DEFAULT_MUSIC_PLAYLIST}
    {AFTERNOON}

    [side]
        side=1
        controller=human
        team_name=good
        user_team_name= _ "12th Legion"
        type=IE Lavinian Tribune
        id=CaiusR
        name= "Caius Regilius"
        canrecruit=yes
    [/side]
    #Gives players a choice between the full-text version and a fight-only mode.
    [event]
        name=prestart
        [message]
            speaker=narrator
            message= _ "This campaign includes a large amount of dialogue and character interaction designed to introduce some of the lore of the world of Orbivm during the Imperial Era, in which the campaign is set, and produce a greater emotional attachment to the characters. Would you like to see this content or prefer to play the basic campaign?"
            [option]
                message= _ "Yes, I want the full experience of this campaign."
                [command]
                    {VARIABLE wordytext yes}
                [/command]
            [/option]
            [option]
                message= _ "No, I just want to hit stuff."
            [command]
                {VARIABLE wordytext no}
            [/command]
            [/option]
        [/message]
    [/event]
    [event]
        name=prestart
        [endlevel]
            result=victory
            carryover_report=no
            carryover_percentage=100
            linger_mode=no
            replay_save=no
        [/endlevel]
    [/event]
[/scenario]

Thanks, wOl.

[tamanegi]

Messages are not shown during "prestart" events in the current version. You should use "start" event instead.

(see http://wiki.wesnoth.org/EventWML for details)

[UnwiseOwl]

Thank you, that worked (after a fashion), but was this a change? I could have sworn this scenario worked fine as it was back in 1.10.

[gfgtdf]

Yes this is a change, [message]s with [option]s were disabled in 1.12 for the following reason: during prestart events the screen is usually black and also chat does not work, so if in multiplayer one player has to make a choice (for example with [message][option]) during a prestart event then the other players have to wait for him while seeing a black screen and not knowing whats going on (and in some 1.11.x versions the game also crashed while clicking on that black screen).

It is possible to work around this limitation with lua if you really need that in sp.

[UnwiseOwl]

Nope. I'm all good. Lua is a slippery slope that I'm perfectly happy staying well away from.

Thanks very much for the prompt replies.

[UnwiseOwl]

Not actually a WML question for once, but I noticed that the Imperial Era fellows aren't appearing in units.wesnoth.org because there's some kind of parsing error. Can anyone tell me where this error might be and what I can do to rectify it?

[zookeeper]

I don't know about that, but when I tried the 1.12 version and started just one local test match, I immediately ran into this:

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error engine: could not find unit 'IE Arendian Falcon'

[UnwiseOwl]

Thanks Zook!...I didn't get the error message (I'm running 12.4, do I have to turn errors on somewhere, or is it a dev_version feature?), but I've identified and hopefully fixed the issue with a new version on the 1.12 server.

Kind of embarrassing that I didn't catch that when I uploaded that version (a year ago...) and sad that no-one has noticed... Does it work for you now?

[Temuchin Khan]

Thanks Zook!...I didn't get the error message (I'm running 12.4, do I have to turn errors on somewhere, or is it a dev_version feature?), but I've identified and hopefully fixed the issue with a new version on the 1.12 server.

Kind of embarrassing that I didn't catch that when I uploaded that version (a year ago...) and sad that no-one has noticed... Does it work for you now?

Actually, I did notice. But if I remember rightly, the problem only effected the stable version of the Arendians and not the development branch, so I just used the development branch. But double check to be sure!

Also, it's good to see you back at work on the IE!