Need some help updating my campaign

[cephalo]

I'm trying to update my old campaign, 'The Library of Kratemaqht' and I''m running into some trouble. I have some hero units that you can select on a map, but you can't see them or move them. It might have something to do with the recall list carryover, as the campaign switches perspective before this scenario comes up.

It's been ages since I worked with WML, and I don't have the chops to guess whether it's a problem with my scenario or a new bug in wesnoth. I have run wmllint on the campaign, which fixed various problems but not this one.

Can I upload a non working campaign unto the UMC server for the purposes of getting help with it? It's a huge campaign because of the dragon animations, and maybe it's not something I should upload to the forums.

[Pentarctagon]

As long as your campaign isn't completely broken(aka it can't even load the first scenario, or something of that nature), then uploading is fine.

[cephalo]

Ok, I uploaded the campaign and I have included a saved game here in this post. This will take you right to the problem scenario without having to play through.

LoK-Loyalty's Cruel Reward.gz

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You'll notice at the beginning that two of my heroes are talking, but can't be interacted with or seen. There is some complicated history here, one hero hadn't been seen for several scenarios, and the other one hadn't been seen for two. Recall list seems ok as far as what units are available for recall, but I can't remember how I managed to save characters over scenarios like that.

Here are a couple of macros for storing, unstoring units let me know if there is a problem with these

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#define ENTER_STAGE VAR_NAME X Y
{VARIABLE_OP ({VAR_NAME}.moves) value (${VAR_NAME}.max_moves)}
{VARIABLE_OP ({VAR_NAME}.hitpoints) value (${VAR_NAME}.max_hitpoints)}
[unstore_unit]
	variable={VAR_NAME}
	find_vacant=yes
	x={X}
	y={Y}
[/unstore_unit]
#enddef

#define EXIT_STAGE ID VAR_NAME
[store_unit]
	[filter]
		id={ID}
	[/filter]
	kill=yes
	variable={VAR_NAME}
[/store_unit]
#enddef

[cephalo]

Is there a way to see any internal failure messages that might appear in wesnoth? Like an error log or something?

[enclave]

as far as I know you could start with running wesnoth with console (go to start - > all programms -> battle for wesnoth -> battle for wesnoth (with console)
It will help a little bit... but dont expect miracles...

The only thing i would try with your store/unstore is to remove brackets... () round your {VAR..}

After that try to change {VARIABLE_OP {VAR_NAME}.moves value ${VAR_NAME}.max_moves}
into {VARIABLE {VAR_NAME}.moves ${VAR_NAME}.max_moves}

[cephalo]

Those commands bump the moves and hitpoints to max, for automatic healing and so forth between scenarios, and they seem to be working. The inspector reports these units as normal as far as I can tell, you just can't interact with them. I'm thinking this is a bug within wesnoth. Is there a proper channel for reporting bugs?

[enclave]

Those commands bump the moves and hitpoints to max, for automatic healing and so forth between scenarios, and they seem to be working. The inspector reports these units as normal as far as I can tell, you just can't interact with them. I'm thinking this is a bug within wesnoth. Is there a proper channel for reporting bugs?

not sure what you mean but they said this is their recommended bug tracker: https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/