Messages

1

OXCE Suggestions DONE / Re: [Scripting] Unit-Tags wont work for me

« on: December 19, 2024, 01:27:30 pm »

Thanks you both for your highly valueable feedback on this, its working now via armor-tagging.

Now my mind can go on with conquering the world since i dont have any tears in my eyes anymore, which blocks my sight, with every dead dog!


I realy could have sworn that the variant via BattleUnit did work back the day on oxce 7.8

2

OXCE Suggestions DONE / Re: [Scripting] Unit-Tags wont work for me

« on: December 19, 2024, 01:02:53 pm »

I see, one thing is preventing me from that.

Is there any way for "get the unit type" within the scripts you know of?
Without that i would also be not able to set a tag on the "createUnit"-event, because its the same BattleUnit with the same getters/setters as in the damageUnit-event

Within the scripts i dont see how i can get the unit-type from the unit instance (BattleUnit) for a condintionaly check, there is no getter available, that is why i want to use the tags in the first place, its the only way for me to identify the BattleUnit new ability to be "UNIT_LIVES_FOREVER", which i would only need on a hand full unit-types. The script-api dont show any way to directly identify the BattleUnits type.

Identifying the unit in an event would solve all problems for me i guess, maybe iam just not seeing a obvious solution for this Old blind man me is haha

3

OXCE Suggestions DONE / Re: [Scripting] Unit-Tags wont work for me

« on: December 19, 2024, 12:03:18 pm »

Thanks for you feedback.

Ive tested your suggestions without any luck, the tag remains empty (0).
Using the RuleUnit renders the script unusable with an invalid operation error on unit.getTag

RuleArmor and BattleUnit dont crash, but also not seem to containe the tag defined in "units:"

Am i wrong in the assumption that a "units:"-tags are also part of these units instances (BattleUnit)?
Maybe, at least i cannot see any tag-information on the debugging log for the "unit".

4

OXCE Suggestions DONE / [DONE] Expose unit ruleset ptr to scripting

« on: December 19, 2024, 11:22:28 am »

Hi everyone!

last time ive modded was in april, everything worked fine then with the tags.
Ive started to play again with one of my mods and it stopped working, ive testen alot of possible issues i could imagein, ive also reverted to the OXCE version i used back in the day without luck.

Since i cannot image what might got wrong i kindly ask for help.

This is a little submod of mine for xpiratez. I REALLY DISLIKE hurting animals, even in video-games, therefor i made this mod which renders dogs, which would normaly die, unconscious.

The issue i see is that the tag i add to the BattleUnit STR_DOGG_TERRORIST (Tag: UNIT_LIVES_FOREVER: 1) is not available within the script-sections "damageUnit"-event.
To test this i debugged the value, also ive tested that script again by hard setting the UNIT_LIVES_FOREVER to the value of 1, which then triggered the desired effect correctly.

What might be wrong here?
Shouldnt the value for the tag always be 1 on the script in case the damaged BattleUnit is a STR_DOGG_TERRORIST?

The unit type is correct, the script gets triggered but the units tag value is always 0
Debug unit: BattleUnit(type: "STR_DOGG_TERRORIST" race: "STR_DEMON" id: 1000002 faction: Hostile hp: 25/25)

Another test i made was changing the units race to see if any changes i made via "units:" are applied, result is that changes apply

Here is the script:

Code: [Select]

units:
  - type: STR_DOGG_TERRORIST
    race: STR_DEMON
    tags:
      UNIT_LIVES_FOREVER: 1
extended:
  tags:
    BattleUnit:
      UNIT_LIVES_FOREVER: int
  scripts:
    damageUnit:
      - offset: 1
        code: |
          # Inits
          var int stunSummed;
          var int liveForever;
          var int armorForever;
          var int unitCurrStun;
          var int unitMaxStun;

          # Load game values into variables
          unit.getStun unitCurrStun;
          unit.getStunMax unitMaxStun;

          # DEBUG TEST
          #unit.setTag Tag.UNIT_LIVES_FOREVER 1;

          # Fetch unit-tag
          unit.getTag liveForever Tag.UNIT_LIVES_FOREVER;

          # DEBUG
          debug_log "UNIT: " unit;
          debug_log "LF_STATE: " liveForever;

          # Check if this unit shouldnt die
          if gt liveForever 0;
            # Transfer health-damage to stun-damage
            if gt to_health 0;
              set to_stun to_health;
              set to_health 0;

              add stunSummed to_stun;
              add stunSummed unitCurrStun;

              # Never overstun
              if gt stunSummed unitMaxStun;
                set to_stun unitMaxStun;
              end;
            end;

            # Never bleed
            if gt to_wound 0;
              set to_wound 0;
            end;
          end;

          return;

Ive installed only xpirates and my submod.

Any help would be appriciated!
Thanks

5

XPiratez / Re: A thread for little questions

« on: February 02, 2024, 06:00:17 pm »

Hi!
I really tried to find an answer to this myself, had no luck with that

Anyone here can answer me why some of my gals are almost/complete naket when defending my base?
Before the invasion they all wear amor, on the defense event some gals are like they have been suprised doing gals stuff and are now mostly naked.

If this is a feature, is it controllable somehow via rules/settings?



UPDATE:
Guess i just found it in Piratez/Ruleset/Piratez_Globals.rul

  - type: STR_STARCON_HIDEOUT
    defaultArmor:
      STR_SOLDIER: &HideoutDefaultArmorz
        STR_PIR_NUDE_UC: 5
        STR_PIR_TOPLESS_UC: 3
        STR_WHITE_DRESS_UC: 1
        STR_LINGERIE_TEDDY_UC: 1
        STR_NIGHTGOWN_UC: 3
        STR_LINGERIE_BRA_UC: 1
        STR_RAGS_UC: 1
        noChange: 85

6

XPiratez / [Submod] De-Yarr Drunken Gals will find the X!

« on: January 19, 2024, 11:47:32 pm »

Yarr, erm hello everyone!
Today i want to share a little submod of mine, but first things first!

Dear Dioxine, thank you for that really great mod. Your mod was it which re-ignited my love for the old X-Com game.
Luckily the OpenXCom-Team exist, you sirs, made a really wonderful job with creating OpenXCom, thank you for making that possible.

Because i sadly never came to finish a Piratez campaign for various reasons, i decided to give it another try with the recent version. Before i started, i made my mind what it was that was preventing me from finishing a campaign.
The only reason i came up with was that iam probably an bad player on this game, a save-scum®mer and rage-quitter.

To sum it up, its plain to difficult/depressing and unrelaxing for me. The more progress i had made in the campaign the more stressed i was. Iam aging, i remeber the good old days where this game came out and i was a young one.
I had no money and had no other choice to pirate that game! How funny, now i love to Pirate in that game

But still, like the young me, i cant stand the brutal nature of that game but want soo badly enjoy this, especially all the boobs by all the nice unlocks that require progress!
I, erm probably many of you in fact, came up with the idea of making modifications to the rules of the mod to bring the game to a level enjoyable to play on. I tested it and found it sooo much more fun and relaxing to be the James Bond, the John Wick, Mr Rambo and Terminator, THE STAR in this game.

Suddenly everything in this games feels like it turns around me now, iam no longer just a sidekick, iam the star of the show! Sure, iam still that bad that i lose my Peasants here and there on a base-defense and finally DONT save-scum!
Iam also feeling that i realy get better at this game, for some reason the save-scum is much less now, not just because the enemies miss much more, because i simply understand how many things work now. Uh, doesnt matter, i get lost on the topic...

I took some minutes to put all my debuffing of Piratez together to a submod, so that others, who are like me, can enjoy to be the Pirate King straight from the beginning!
To make up for the difficulty debuff one may turn on the Drunken-OpenGL-Shader i have put together, if you dare to use this shader you really dont need any hefty difficulty-settings to have a diffcult time controlling your gals/mouse-pointer!

Shader in action:




For guys who want the details:
- Disables Demigod-mode, which spawns always the max amount of enemies, even on the lowest difficulty
- Reduces the enemy-count on base defense missions
- All around weakens enemies by reducing their armor and aim stats
- Enemies dont react to melee-attacks from behind anymore
- Losing game conditions are much more forgiving
- Bughunting triggers a bit earlier
- Retaliation happens less often
- Living quaters now boost health recovering a bit what helps in the beginning
- OPTIONAL: All missions (422+) are at daytime, this can be enabled by editing Factions.rul, see comments in that file
- Manacles/Shackle cost much less and are way more effective (longer stun duration)
- Less Gals are now naked on Base-Defense (Hideout) Missions
- AI First Turn TUs/Stamina reduced to 25 - 50
- Earlier Contacs: Krazy Hanna (Rogue instead of Boss)
- AI Chooses weapon to use more randomly instead of optimized

Thank you for taking the time of reading. And again, thank all of you guys who made this game, the mods and this site possible!