Ghetto Recruiting Ability HELP!!!!

[Anonymissimus]

2) In a [unit_type] tag, which will mean the event will be active for any scenario said unit is in. This, however, does depend on having a certain unit, and depending on your event, it might be problematic if it is duplicated (if there are three of those units, there will be three times the event).

Afaik no. (If silene was here we could be sure about that...)
The common problem with the feeding ability is caused by different unit_types having the same event. But if the same unit_type appears several times in the same scenario the event is inserted only once.

[Dixie]

Hmm, interesting. I'll take good note about this. (would explain why sometimes I got the duplicate problems, and why some other I didn't seem to).

[zengetsu88]

Alright what Dixie and Mabuse have told me, I will put it in the ERA tag.
Can I get a little more detailed instructions about that, like exactly where the files are located under resources or data in the wesnoth files.
Then can I get detailed instructions of how and where to put the code in the ERA tag.

Dixie, you said that I would add it to the era file in my main.cfg under my add-on's directory.
This is probably a really stupi question but where is the add-on's directory... I'm doing most of my stuff directly to the files of wesnoth... so when everybody says put it in the era tag im thinking the resources/core/multiplayer/eras.cfg... is this right?

Here is the code ihave in the eras.cfg for wesnoth itself.

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    [event]
        name=prestart
        [set_menu_item]
            id=spawn_unit
            description="Spawn Unit"
            [show_if]
                [not]
                    [have_unit]
                        x,y=$x1,$y1
                    [/have_unit]
                [/not]
            [/show_if]
            [filter_location]
                [filter]
                    ability=spawn
                    side=$side_number
                [/filter]
                radius=1
            [/filter_location]

            [command]

                [store_gold]
                    side=$side_number
                    variable=gold
                [/store_gold]

                [store_side]
                    side=$side_number
                    variable=my_side
                [/store_side]

                [store_unit]
                    [filter]
                    ability=spawn
                    side=$my_side
                    [filter_location]
                        x,y=$x1,$y1
                        radius=1
                    [/filter_location]
                    [/filter]
                    variable=unit
                [/store_unit]

                [if]
                    [variable]
                        name="unit.moves"
                        greater_than_equal_to=1
                    [/variable]
                [then]
                    [message]
                        speaker=narrator
                        message= _ "Would you like to build a Zealot?"

                        [option]
                            message= _ "Cancel Spawn"
                        [/option]

                        [option]
                            message=_ "Spawn a unit"
                        [command]
                            [if]
                                [variable]
                                    name=gold
                                    greater_than_equal_to=5
                                [/variable]
                            [then]
                                {GENERIC_UNIT $my_side Wolf $x1 $y1}
                                [gold]
                                    side=$my_side
                                    amount=-5
                                [/gold]
                            [/then]
                            [else]
                                [message]
                                    speaker=narrator
                                    message= _ "Not Enough Gold!"
                                    [option]
                                        message= _ "Back"
                                    [/option]
                                [/message]
                            [/else]
                            [/if]
                        [/command]
                        [/option]
                    [/message]
                [/then]
                [else]
                    [message]
                        speaker=narrator
                        message= _ "Unit does not have enough moves."
                    [/message]
                [/else]
                [/if]

                {CLEAR_VARIABLE gold}
                {CLEAR_VARIABLE my_side}
                {CLEAR_VARIABLE unit}
            [/command]
        [/set_menu_item]
    [/event]

right now when i click on the spawn unit menu item. the olny message that comes up is "unit does not have enough moves...
so i think that it is this that is messing it up

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                [if]
                    [variable]
                        name="unit.moves"
                        greater_than_equal_to=1
                    [/variable]

how can i fix this...

[zengetsu88]

BOOM!!!! after long and arduous work, I got it to finally work!

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#define SPAWN_MENU_THING
    [event]
        name=prestart
        [set_menu_item]
            id=spawn_unit
            description="Spawn Unit"
            [show_if]
                [not]
                    [have_unit]
                        x,y=$x1,$y1
                    [/have_unit]
                [/not]
            [/show_if]
            [filter_location]
                [filter]
                    ability=spawn
                    side=$side_number
                [/filter]
                radius=1
            [/filter_location]

            [command]

                [store_gold]
                    side=$side_number
                    variable=gold
                [/store_gold]

                [store_side]
                    side=$side_number
                    variable=my_side
                [/store_side]

                [store_unit]
                    [filter]
                        [filter_location]
                             [filter]
                                ability=spawn
                                side=$side_number
                            [/filter]
                            radius=1
                        [/filter_location]
                    [/filter]
                    variable=bob
                [/store_unit]

                {IF_VAR bob.moves greater_than_equal_to 1(
                [then]
                    [message]
                        speaker=narrator
                        message= _ "Would you like to build a Zealot?"

                        [option]
                            message= _ "Cancel Spawn"
                        [/option]

                        [option]
                            message=_ "Spawn a unit"
                        [command]
                            {IF_VAR gold greater_than_equal_to 5 (
                            [then]
                                {GENERIC_UNIT $my_side Wolf $x1 $y1}
                                [gold]
                                    side=1
                                    amount=-5
                                [/gold]
                                [store_unit]
                                    [filter]
                                        side=$side_number
                                        x,y=$x1,$y1
                                    [/filter]
                                    variable=spawn_unit
                                [/store_unit]
                                {VARIABLE spawn_unit.moves 0}
                                [unstore_unit]
                                    variable=spawn_unit
                                    find_vacant=0
                                [/unstore_unit]
                            [/then]
                            [else]
                                [message]
                                    speaker=narrator
                                    message= _ "Not Enough Gold!"
                                    [option]
                                        message= _ "Back"
                                    [/option]
                                [/message]
                            [/else]
                            )}
                        [/command]
                        [/option]
                    [/message]
                [/then]
                [else]
                    [message]
                        speaker=narrator
                        message= _ "Unit does not have enough moves."
                    [/message]
                [/else]
                )}

                {CLEAR_VARIABLE gold}
                {CLEAR_VARIABLE my_side}
                {CLEAR_VARIABLE bob}
                {CLEAR_VARIABLE spawn_unit}
            [/command]
        [/set_menu_item]
    [/event]
#enddef

I put it in my eras.cfg file and i use it in conjunction with a dummy ability called spawn.

A lot of credit needs to go to Mabuse and a few others. Without their help I wouldn't have been able to do it. Thanks!