Event parameters

[hypercross]

So I am trying to make a mod that reduces random damage deviation in Wesnoth. The idea is, before every attack I calculate a sequence of chances that will override literal chances of hit for every hit, so that the randomness distribution can be limited.

For example for a 4-4 50% attack I will generate a permutation of {hit, hit ,miss, miss} and override the chance of hit for every hit in the sequence with 100% or 0% accordingly.

The problem is I am using WML events to hook into combat calculation. I need to override chances every hit, that's not a problem because there is attacker hit and attacker miss. But there's no information about which attack the combatants are using in the events, so I don't know the length of my sequence.

Is that information actually in there, or is there a way around this ?

[Luther]

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H = wesnoth.require 'lua/helper.lua'

-- weapon may be either 'weapon' or 'second_weapon'
local length = H.get_child(wesnoth.current.event_context, weapon).number

[hypercross]

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H = wesnoth.require 'lua/helper.lua'

-- weapon may be either 'weapon' or 'second_weapon'
local length = H.get_child(wesnoth.current.event_context, weapon).number

Thanks.

[8680]

The second argument to helper.get_child should be a string, "weapon".

[Luther]

Yes, that's noted in the comment.