A Beginner's Guide to Scripting & Scripting "How To"s

[Hannibal Smith]

Thanks Makanyane,
thats the second time you've bailled me out when I've made a stupid mistake

Sorry, but Ive got another question. Ive tested out the script and works fine now, however when I save the game and reload the script wont work. I figured I'd have to reload the script using show-me how but even then it does nothing

[Bardo]

Yes, the only way to relaunch the script after reloading the game is to use the show-me button.
Depending on how did you implement the script and the show-me advice to launch it, sometimes it is not possible to reactivate the script until you restart the game. At least it happens to me, I'm not sure if other scripts have the same problem...

[Monkwarrior]

Yes, the only way to relaunch the script after reloading the game is to use the show-me button.
Depending on how did you implement the script and the show-me advice to launch it, sometimes it is not possible to reactivate the script until you restart the game. At least it happens to me, I'm not sure if other scripts have the same problem...

AFAIK you cannot launch another script (for example in another campaign) or even the same script starting the same campaign with another faction, if you don't restart the game.

[Bardo]

Europa Barbarorum used a workarround in his previous version, that I have been using for long time, but I do not really recomend it since it is possible to duplicate the actived scripts, and after many tested, I still do not know how it acts exactly.
The method is simple, just introduce the whole script inside a while loop. Then it is always possible to relaunch the script without exiting the game. But I recomend always to restart the game before starting a new campaign, as Monkwarrior said.

[HouseOfHam]

After looking at some historical battle scripts, I thought I'd do a little experimenting with the play_sound_event command. I added a bunch of new events to descr_sounds_narration.txt, plus the mp3s for them. It seems to work in the most basic form, but I ran into some strange behavior when trying to add a counter condition to the monitor.

This works fine:

monitor_event SettlementSelected SettlementName Rome
    play_sound_event RomeSelected
end_monitor

This also works:

declare_counter PlaySpeech
set_counter PlaySpeech 1

monitor_event SettlementSelected SettlementName Rome
         and I_CompareCounter PlaySpeech = 1
    play_sound_event RomeSelected
end_monitor

This produces a "Sound event TEUTOBURG_SPEECH_00 not found." error when closing the game.

declare_counter PlaySpeech
;don't initialize or initilize to something other than 1
;set_counter PlaySpeech 1

monitor_event SettlementSelected SettlementName Rome
         and I_CompareCounter PlaySpeech = 1
    play_sound_event RomeSelected
end_monitor

Ideally, rather than having them always on, I'd like to let the player toggle them on/off at any time, something along the lines of:

declare_counter PlaySpeech

monitor_event ScrollAdviceRequested ScrollOpened helpScroll
    if I_CompareCounter PlaySpeech = 0
         set_counter PlaySpeech 1
    end_if
    if I_CompareCounter PlaySpeech = 1
         set_counter PlaySpeech 0
    end_if
end_event

monitor_event SettlementSelected SettlementName Rome
         and I_CompareCounter PlaySpeech = 1
    console_command
    play_sound_event RomeSelected
end_monitor

Any thoughts?

[HouseOfHam]

Err... "Sound event RomeSelected not found."

[Bardo]

Did you try to initialize the counter in this lastest case?

declare_counter PlaySpeech
set_counter PlaySpeech 0

monitor_event ScrollAdviceRequested ScrollOpened helpScroll
if I_CompareCounter PlaySpeech = 0
set_counter PlaySpeech 1
end_if
if I_CompareCounter PlaySpeech = 1
set_counter PlaySpeech 0
end_if
end_event

monitor_event SettlementSelected SettlementName Rome
and I_CompareCounter PlaySpeech = 1
play_sound_event RomeSelected
end_monitor