[ian-reeds-games] Re: CraigBrett's stacking script
- From: Monkey <murtagh69.monkeys@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:08:51 -0700
Oh yes, with your move_other_unit away and toward scripts...they
aren't designed to be used alongside damaging skills, are they?
Because after I removed the move_other_unit_away script from some of
my damaging skills the bug I had with units not dying when they
reached 0 hp seemed to disappear.
On 2/28/15, Monkey <murtagh69.monkeys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know.
>
> Damn. I was getting excited for the potential here.
> Thank you, though!
>
> On 2/28/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Well it might. So was worth a try.
>>
>> I'm afraid I have no idea. The skill, apart from it targeting the wrong
>> thing, looks like it should work.
>>
>> On 28/02/2015 18:01, Monkey wrote:
>>> The catapult uses it. I'm not sure if that would make a difference
>>> though, since I just tried modifying the skill so I can use it on the
>>> unit beside it (there were three catapults on the tile on which the
>>> affected catapult was sitting).
>>>
>>> On 2/28/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Well I know it definitely won't work if the target is a tile. How
>>>> strange that that didn't fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Is it a catapult that uses that skill? Or a commander type unit?
>>>>
>>>> On 28/02/2015 14:25, Monkey wrote:
>>>>> Just tried that suggestion, and the one in your previous message...I'm
>>>>> still getting the same error message.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/28/15, Craig Brett <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Aha, nevermind, ignore that last suggestion, I think I know what it
>>>>>> is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The target of the skill needs to be one of the units that's going to
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> in the stack, rather than the tile that they're on. Try replacing the
>>>>>> line setting the target to tile with self. That should do it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Craig
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 28/02/2015 11:42, Craig Brett (Redacted sender
>>>>>> craigbrett17@xxxxxxx
>>>>>> for DMARC) wrote:
>>>>>>> Well, it looks fine to me, nothing's jumping out at me as being off.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It checks for the units having the same identical indexedName. Hmmm.
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> wonder if it's a casing thing? I'd be surprised though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could you try giving your catapult file either all lowercase or a
>>>>>>> capital first letter? Whichever it doesn't currently have. It's a
>>>>>>> long
>>>>>>> shot but worth a try.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Craig
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 24/02/2015 21:08, Monkey wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>> I recently attempted to make a stacking skill, to combine three
>>>>>>>> catapults into a great catapult. The skill looks like this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> skill
>>>>>>>> 10
>>>>>>>> |flags
>>>>>>>> description Combines three catapults into a great catapult. Costs 6
>>>>>>>> AP's. Key is c.
>>>>>>>> tile
>>>>>>>> range=0
>>>>>>>> AP's_cost=6
>>>>>>>> sound=great_catapult_cursor
>>>>>>>> key=c
>>>>>>>> |script_flags
>>>>>>>> stack_into great catapult
>>>>>>>> stack_number 3
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However, when I have three catapults on a tile and try the skill,
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> tells me "Not enough units of this type on this tile to use a
>>>>>>>> stacking
>>>>>>>> skill".
>>>>>>>> So I tried reducing the amount to two, and still the same
>>>>>>>> message...
>>>>>>>> It works if I reduce the stacking number to 1, but then it's
>>>>>>>> technically not a stack.
>>>>>>>> Am I doing something wrong here, or is this a bug with the stacking
>>>>>>>> script?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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