The Battle for Wesnoth Forums

I am ready to dive deeper into Lua AI and am trying to wrap my head around the intended use of location_set. If I understand this right, I could implement my example of the Swamp Lurker moves using such sets. As a reminder, lurkers are dumb, impulse-drive creatures that move as follows: - They can m...

Yeah, I tried that, but couldn't get it to work. Is it not called like so: It is. I put this: [object] [filter] side=1 canrecruit=yes [/filter] [effect] apply_to=attack range=ranged [set_specials] {WEAPON_SPECIAL_MAGICAL} [/set_specials] [/effect] [/object] into my test scenario and it worked just ...

I don't know if this would work, but you could try [harm_unit] with a negative number of hitpoints. I don't know if that would work, but [harm_unit] is a 1.9 tag anyway. One of the most straight-forward ways of doing this (and the one Ceres was probably refering to) would be: - store unit, for exam...

What I need is to add options to a [message] from the message's [command] tag..... but that isn't possible is it? Not as far as I know. Although, I guess what you posted would work, but there would be a limited amount of attacks it could apply to (which is better than nothing, though). I don't reme...

Ey, you're right, seems there's no way to force the engine to use no caption unless speaker is narrator... Oh, rats, didn't I write that? No, I forgot... I also tested with caption=" " (string consisting of a single space), and then you get no caption (or at least no visible caption) with...

Okay, what about a [while] loop/tag (because isn't a FOREACH just a modified [while] loop? Also, I'm asking if they'll work within the [command] tag, within the [message] tag). @mattsc Sweet, thanks for the code! I'll probably be using it, if I can get this to work within a [command] tag, with in a...

What if the caller wants this wesnoth.wml_actions.message({ id = "the_valid_id_of_some_on_map_unit", caption = "" }) in which case your code would force him to use that unit's name (untested) ? I can confirm that that is the behavior. You could fix it by deleting the or caption ...

Very recently Gambit asked me about adding events from an addon in such way that they appear in every mainline/addon sp/mp scenario and said he got it to work. So I guess if you put the preload event or the lua code which loads this modifications of the [message] action handler outside of any campa...

Well, I had a look in the game code to see if I could find the default font size settings, and came across this: ... Thanks for all the information! I didn't get any suggestions for my code out of that, did I miss anything? What I wrote there really only affects the WML [message] tag, and nothing e...

Minor refinement suggestions: Can you add the default sizes as comments, and/or make them parameters which can be passed from main.cfg? That's a good idea, and an easy change. The new file is attached. You now call it from _main.cfg like this: [lua] code = << message_size, caption_size = 16, 20 wes...

If this works well, could it be added as a preference option in the game? mj: Somebody else will have to reply to that. I believe that the preference menu is written in C++ and cannot be modified by WML or Lua. The only thing you can do right now is add it to the right-click menu with [set_menu_ite...

I am progressing but very slowly now....am i being to thorough trying to test everything when I change it and also fiddling with every fine detail even if it is way beyond my ability?.... That's a question only you can answer. You could jump in, try to do things quickly, and learn as you need them....

2 - Is it possible (and if so, how) to create a menu for a unit's available attacks, have the user choose an attack, and then apply an object/effect to that attack? I know how you could loop through and create the menu, but I don't know how you'd apply the object based on the chosen attack (at leas...

Does anybody else ever get a headache because of the small font size when trying to read long dialogs on a high-res laptop screen? I've previously searched the forums and the web for this, but have never been able to find a method to change the font size for all messages. (I mean, of course one can ...

I also think I have got the basics down thanks to this thread and all of your help but i will prob still have lots of stupid questions with things not working.....is there a UMC with good coding that you recomend downloading? (apart from ASC which i already have and still refer too) Personally, my ...