Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

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wuxiangjinxing
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Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

Post by wuxiangjinxing »

I'm thinking of making a weapon special that does more damage to higher-level enemies. But I cannot figure out an easy way to do it. Certainly I can use an event to give the unit damage modifier when attacking while removing the modifier after the attack finishes. But the code looks ugly. Is there some better way to do it? For instance:

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[damage]
	id=more_damage_to_stronger_enemies
	apply_to=self
	add="a formula that gets the opponent's level"
[damage]
Is it doable?
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Re: Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

Post by gfgtdf »

yes im quite sure that would work. It it doesn't maybe you could tell what exact syntax you have tried?
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Re: Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

Post by wuxiangjinxing »

gfgtdf wrote: October 11th, 2019, 1:54 am yes im quite sure that would work. It it doesn't maybe you could tell what exact syntax you have tried?
I tried something like add="other.level" but this does not work correctly. It seems that it always add the level of current unit, instead of opponent.
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Re: Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

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did you try putting it in parentesis like add="(other.level)"
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Re: Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

Post by wuxiangjinxing »

gfgtdf wrote: October 11th, 2019, 2:41 am did you try putting it in parentesis like add="(other.level)"
Yes I did but still it only adds the level of the current unit instead of the opponent's level.
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Re: Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

Post by gfgtdf »

ohh hmm it seems like this was written mostly with the leadership ability in mind where one unit has the ability and the 'other' unit it the unit that 'received' the ability.

So it seems that is itnot possibel that way maybe we can add this possiblity to wesnoth 1.15 in time.
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Re: Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

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do you create your "other" with a

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[store_unit]
    [filter]
        x,y=$x2,$y2
    [/filter]
    variable=other
[/store_unit]
?
If yes, other.level should normally work.
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Re: Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

Post by Celtic_Minstrel »

ihybrideur – That's not how this works. Your code creates a WML variable, but the formulas in a weapon special use WFL variables, which are not the same thing (I know, it's a little confusing to have three types of variables, but that's how it is).

The other WFL variable is created by the engine in the weapon special filters, but I guess it's not included when calculating values in the weapon special itself.
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