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Title: [DONE][Suggestion] Ability to define the item needed for research
Post by: MontyDrake on October 15, 2020, 08:27:28 pm

I've been looking around and only show an old post about something similar, and didn't want to resurrect it.

I'm developing a mod that makes the UFO campaing a little bit more lore-focused, and I had in mind the posibility of having to research alien weapons as a general concept first, kind of what you initially do with laser weapons. I added an ufopaedia article about laser tech, and I wanted to do the same thing with plasma weapons. I was thinking on make recovered plasma weapons trigger the "Alien weapon technology" before having the chance to research the weapons themselves. But I found out OXCE only allows for a research to be dependant on the item it shares ID with. I couldn't think on an alternative, right now, maybe I'm missing something.

Is it possible to include the possibility of researching any topic in base to having an item with a different ID?

Thank you in advance.

Title: Re: Research through alternative items
Post by: Meridian on October 15, 2020, 10:23:33 pm

Quote from: MontyDrake on October 15, 2020, 08:27:28 pm

Is it possible to include the possibility of researching any topic in base to having an item with a different ID?

Currently it is not possible.

Title: Re: Research through alternative items
Post by: MontyDrake on October 16, 2020, 07:35:23 pm

Too bad, I'll have to rethink my approach. Thank you anyway, and great work with OXCE, I'm having a lot of fun modding.

Title: Re: [DONE][Suggestion] Ability to define the item needed for research
Post by: Meridian on December 29, 2023, 05:26:47 pm

Done.

Sample ruleset:

Code: [Select]

research:
  - name: STR_MOTION_SCANNER
    cost: 180
    points: 20
    needItem: true
    destroyItem: false
    neededItem: STR_ELECTRO_FLARE
  - name: STR_MEDI_KIT
    cost: 210
    points: 20
    needItem: true
    destroyItem: true
    neededItem: STR_ELECTRO_FLARE

https://github.com/MeridianOXC/OpenXcom/commit/bfaf3ee36f31eaeefa1c9bcfb17a979ffb6c47fe