Blueknights Questions

[zookeeper]

Should be pretty straightforward:

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[event]
    name=prestart
    
    {VARIABLE_OP village rand "a,b,c"}
    
    [switch]
        variable=village
        
        [case]
            value=a
            
            {VARIABLE village_x 5}
            {VARIABLE village_y 7}
        [/case]
        
        [case]
            value=b
            
            {VARIABLE village_x 9}
            {VARIABLE village_y 6}
        [/case]
        
        [case]
            value=c
            
            {VARIABLE village_x 10}
            {VARIABLE village_y 4}
        [/case]
    [/switch]
[/event]

[event]
    name=moveto
    
    [filter]
        side=1
        x,y=$village_x,$village_y
    [/filter]
    
    # ...
    
    {CLEAR_VARIABLE village,village_x,village_y}
[/event]

Untested, though.

[blueknight1758]

Thank you zookeeper I'll test this very soon.
Also I've noticed that more complicated WML has $ signs in it and as in aspiring to get better at WML I wondered what the $ sign actually means, does anyone know?

[lipk]

The $ sign before a variable name means substitute-the-variable's-value-here.
So while

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[set_variable]
  name=hello_message
  value=_ "Welcome!"
[/set_variable]
[message]
  speaker=narrator
  message="hello_message"
[/message]

will display 'hello_message'

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[set_variable]
  name=hello_message
  value=_ "Welcome!"
[/set_variable]
[message]
  speaker=narrator
  message="$hello_message"
[/message]

will display 'Welcome!'.

I wonder how could you get by without this for so long

[blueknight1758]

Thanks again zookeeper that does work and very well.
Lipk thanks for that information it was very helpful and I wrote some code alongside Zookeeper's using $ and it works great.
Regarding the Catapult WML it does not work in the [scenario] tag with a unit that's attack id and name is catapult.
Do you have any ideas what might be causing it?

[lipk]

I'm not sure what do you mean by the unit's 'attack id and name', but this code works for a unit of the type Catapult (there's no such unit of course). You can replace that with Great Troll, Spearman, or anything you wish.

[blueknight1758]

Ohhh sorry I read the code as the attack name needing to be Catapult not the unit type sorry.

Also another dilema I would like to make it so that when youuncover the mage hiding in the derilict village some dialog occurs then Side 2 targets the mage with value 100 and the scenario is won 10 turns after that. So far I have got the attached file below (the concerned code is 97-216) and when the event fires it's all good until the [side] tag where I get the in-game error invalid <WML> [side] or something, could anyone:
a. Point out how to correctly do what I have done.
b. Tell me the code for the game ending 10 turns after the event.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: removed file

[Ceres]

It's [modify_side], not [side]. Or, if you just want to change ai behaviour, use [modify_ai].

[blueknight1758]

Lipk yes that Catapult works a treatnow thanks!
Yes Ceres that has definitely got rid of the error so I can assume the ai is targeting the Monk now.
So does anyone know how to make the scenarioend with a victory 10 turns after this event?

[Ceres]

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[set_variable]
   name=guy_found
   value=$turn_number  # when finding the monk
[set_variable]
...
[event]
   name=side 1 turn
   first_time_only=no
   [if]
      [variable]
         name=turn_number
         equals="$($guy_found+10)"
      [/variable]
      [then]
         <do stuff>

[blueknight1758]

So that code how does it work because I can't fathom where to put it exactly.
(also it looks like i'd need to have an exact turn the monk is 'found' but in the scenario that depends on how the player plays and is random: I might be wrong with this statement though.)

[Ceres]

turn_number is automatically storing the current turn number.
Put the [set_variable] part into the mage finding village moveto event.
Put the [event] somewhere in your [scenario] tag.

How this code works? You're storing the current turn in a variable (you need to save it in another variable because otherwise it'd be overwritten next turn). Every time it's your turn, Wesnoth checks if the current turn number equals the turn number when finding the mage plus ten. If yes, the code in the [event] is executed (an [endlevel] tag for example).

[blueknight1758]

i've tried that but I get an error when thegame has loaded saying invalid <WML> [then] not supported. Also I hadto put a [/if] at the end of [/set_variable] is that the right place?
Do you know why this is?
I'm on 1.9.7 if that helps.

[Ceres]

I can't exactly figure out how your code looks, so you'll have to post it.

(you know that the code I posted wasn't fully complete, namely missing the closing tags, as I only wanted to show which tags to use, right?)

[blueknight1758]

(you know that the code I posted wasn't fully complete, namely missing the closing tags, as I only wanted to show which tags to use, right?)

Yes I know and I closed them before launching the game, the game loads up and is all fine until the scenario the code is in loads and I get the error.
I'll post the scenario.cfg ASAP
EDIT: Uploaded scenario file, the code regarded is lines 132-233

[uncleshelby]

I think you want this:

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[event]
        name=new turn
        first_time_only=no
        [filter]
          side=1
        [/filter]
        [if]
          [variable]
             name=turn_number
             equals="$($guy_found+10)"
          [/variable]
          [/if]
          [then]
          [endlevel]
             result=victory
          [/endlevel]
          [/then]
[/event]

I'm not super good with wml, but I think this is it.