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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 26, 2019, 10:57:21 am »

I thought it should be in "units" because if I define it in "soldiers" I get an error. The rest of the code is the same as above, only "units" are replaced with "soldiers":

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soldiers:
  - type: STR_SOLDIER
    tags:
      IS_SOLDIER: 1


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[ERROR] Error in tags: 'IS_SOLDIER' unknown tag name not defined in current file


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Released Mods / Re: Wounds proportional to damage [OXCE]

« on: August 26, 2019, 10:38:51 am »

Well, about ammo, I'm gonna give it a thought, but I have other things on my mind now.

In melee weapons it behaves exactly the same. If you want them to be more/less wounding you need to give them the tag. This is exactly why these ..._UNARMED items are there. Because in my personal changes to the game mechanics I have these "items" that allow soldiers and aliens to fight unarmed These unarmed attacks actully deal very minor damage, that is why I don't see the reason to release them as a mod. They are just for flavor, you can't actually beat anyone up except a civilian or a sectoid. And I also gave them that tag and specified that unarmed attacks don't cause wounds at all (they inflict minor damage, but even when you manage to deal more than 5 damage per hit, there still will be no wounds).

Would you recommend to give your tag to a weapon with low damage?

You mean, so that less damaging weapons would still inflict significant amount of wounds? Personally I see no reason, because I see it as this: if the weapon deals little damage, than it's less likely to inflict more wounds. As I said above, I even prevented (already low-damaging) unarmed attacks from inflicting wounds even when the amount of damage would allow it. But in your mod it's your choice.

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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 26, 2019, 10:13:56 am »

But after the correction of the mistake above, I still get zeroes. Probably another stupid mistake on my part, but I don't see it Here's the code:

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extended:
  tags:
    BattleUnit:
      LAST_HIT_FRAME: int
      IS_SOLDIER: int
  scripts:
    accuracyMultiplierBonusStats:
      - offset: 10
        code: |
          var int unitFloating;
          var int unitSoldier;
          unit.getTag unitSoldier Tag.IS_SOLDIER;
          debug_log 96580879 unitSoldier;
          return bonus;
units:
  - type: STR_SOLDIER
    tags:
      IS_SOLDIER: 1

And after clicking on a weapon in the Battlescape I get this in the log:

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[26-08-2019_10-00-05] [DEBUG] Script debug log at     0x2d: 96580879 0

I can't see what am I doing wrong now.

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Released Mods / Re: Wounds proportional to damage [OXCE]

« on: August 26, 2019, 07:18:39 am »

The script will just treat the weapon with this tag as "not special", as if it had no such tag. I inserted only a check for SPECIAL_WOUND=1, because any weapon that does not have this tag is gonna have this value equal to 0. So the check for 1 is simply to make sure that someone wanted this weapon to not use the amount of wounds calculated by this script.

You have some suggestions of using it for anything else?

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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 25, 2019, 11:15:37 pm »

(Banging my head on the wall) I have copied it from somewhere and didn't change the type. Thanks!

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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 25, 2019, 09:03:46 pm »

I would also like to have tags on soldiers as BattleUnits for other purposes, is there a way for it? As I said, neither

Code: [Select]

soldiers:
  - type: XCOM
    tags:
      SOLDIER: 1

nor

Code: [Select]

units:
  - type: XCOM
    tags:
      SOLDIER: 1

is working. (By not working I mean that when I try to get the tag, the result is 0).

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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 25, 2019, 06:29:54 pm »

I think it would be better to create a separate theme for these questions for readability sake, since they are not related to scripting (mission scripts are a different kind of scripts, not the one discussed here).

PS I answered your questions briefly in a private message, to keep this theme about scripts.

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Released Mods / Re: UFOpaedia-friendly Celatid [UNIT] [OXCE]

« on: August 25, 2019, 05:52:13 pm »

Ah, if I try to add an empty file, then the part with the X1.PCK looks like this:

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extraSprites:
  - type: X1.PCK
    width: 1024
    height: 64
    subX: 128
    subY: 64
    files:
      96: Resources/UFOpaedia-friendly_Celatid/Blank.png

And I place the specified png to the specified location, of course.

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Released Mods / Re: UFOpaedia-friendly Celatid [UNIT] [OXCE]

« on: August 25, 2019, 05:47:37 pm »

Well, I made only two changes to the code: inserted the piece from my previous message in the end of the file, and inserted hitAnimation in the item description like this:

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  - &STR_CELATID_GEMMA
    type: STR_CELATID_GEMMA
    size: 0.1
    weight: 0
    power: 0
    damageType: 0
    battleType: 4
    blastRadius: 0
    hitAnimation: 96 # the inserted line
#    fixedWeapon: true
...


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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 25, 2019, 05:41:06 pm »

Thanks, but how do I declare the variable for holding "getGeoscapeSoldier"? I tried this:

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          var ptr BattleUnit isSoldier;
         
          unit.getGeoscapeSoldier isSoldier;
          if neq isSoldier null;
            debug_log 0 12345;
          end;

But I get an error "Conflicting overloads for operator 'clear'". If I try "var ptr GeoscapeSoldier isSoldier;", I get "invalid type" error.

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Released Mods / Re: UFOpaedia-friendly Celatid [UNIT] [OXCE]

« on: August 25, 2019, 05:21:09 pm »

1. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it doesn't seem to be working. If I specify an empty X1.PCK like this:

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extraSprites:
  - type: X1.PCK

the game just displays the same one-tile explosion as before. If I add a path to a non-existent file, it crashes. If I give it a transparent png I found on my computer, it crashes.

2, 3, and Yankes's suggestion: I would need sprites of these objects for it. And since anything I draw is not even half-decent, I can't make mods with graphics. Maybe if this mod actually finds some users, and one of them would be willing to contribute the graphics...

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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 25, 2019, 07:41:37 am »

There is separate attack on psi-amp that do weapon damage. Aliens can use it too.

Really? Can I combine it with the regular attacks? I wanted Mind Control to inflict minor damage (say, 2-3 HP). It is insignificant from one attack, but with repeated attacks it would take its toll.

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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 25, 2019, 07:35:27 am »

what do you want to do?

accuracy and damage can be modded to oblivion also without scripts, have you checked the existing ruleset attributes?

Yes, they can, but I want to give soldiers a penalty to accuracy when they are flying, and that does not seem to be doable without scripts. The script for reducing the accuracy is already working, here it is:

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    accuracyMultiplierBonusStats:
      - offset: 10
        code: |
          var int unitFloating;
          var int unitSoldier;
          var ptr RuleItem itemRuleset;

          unit.isFloating unitFloating;
          if eq unitFloating 1;
            muldiv bonus 8 10;
          end;
         
          debug_log 1 bonus;
          debug_log 2 unitFloating;
         
          return bonus;

Now I only need to insert a check for whether a unit is a soldier or not, since I don't want to affect other flying units. (Since soldiers in flying suits are affected by not having a foothold, while for massive hovertanks and cyberdiscs it is not such an issue, and flying aliens should be adapted to it, since flying is their natural means of locomotion).

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OXCE Support Y-scripts / Re: Scripting basics

« on: August 24, 2019, 11:07:27 pm »

How can I trigger accuracyMultiplierBonusStats only for soldiers? I tried using tags, but neither

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soldiers:
  - type: XCOM
    armor: STR_NONE_UC
    tags:
      SOLDIER: 1

nor

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units:
  - type: XCOM
    armor: STR_NONE_UC
    tags:
      SOLDIER: 1

works.

Also I would like it to apply to all weapons except psionic ones, and I can't get item rulesets from within accuracyMultiplierBonusStats. Could you advise something about it?

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OXCE Suggestions Rejected / Re: [REQUEST] Retain ammoless weapons that emptied their clip

« on: August 24, 2019, 04:15:57 pm »

The engine doesn't work that way.

If you want the weapon to stay after ammo is spent... you must define a weapon and a separate ammo.

Okay, if it's impossible, it's impossible. But creating a weapon and a separate ammo does not seem to work, for "overheating" lasers at least. If the weapon does not have "compatibleAmmo", then I can manipulate its ammo directly from "createItem" and "newTurnItem" via "getAmmoQuantity" and "setAmmoQuantity". But if it has a "compatibleAmmo", then I need to use "getAmmoQuantity" and "setAmmoQuantity" on the clip, not on the weapon.

So, if I create a separate ammo for a weapon, I need to define its clip, and manufacture/buy these clips, and load them into the craft. Otherwise they are not in the craft, and I can't do anything about their ammo. Perhaps someone could suggest a workaround?