An Intermediate Guide to Scripting

**SigniferOne** · 03-12-2006, 21:18

A few more questions: the only way to browse if a character has one of a list of traits is by having a monitor event for each trait, right? i.e. there's no way to do something like right:

if Trait X = 1
do A
if Trait Y = 1
do B

Also, is there a limit for how many "and" conditions can exist for event_monitors? This sort of information seems not to be included in the Hardcoded Limits thread.

**Epistolary Richard** · 03-12-2006, 22:10

I think that's because no one has ever hit it. From my understanding of CA it seems unlikely that they would have imposed a limit because they never expected people to be using big scripts. But equally there may be an extent by which a big monitor may not work right.

There's no easy way to do the trait thing - however if you want to use that in many different monitors then you may want to have a separate monitor to use the existence to set a counter. You can then use an if I_CompareCounter line within your monitors.

**Monkwarrior** · 03-19-2006, 17:28

I've found problems in making the command test_message working:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...65&postcount=8

Any of the experts in scripting could give me the tip?

**Piko** · 04-29-2006, 10:09

Can someone supply me with a code for changing diplomacy between factions? Thanks.

**Stuie** · 04-29-2006, 12:40

diplomatic_stance
Availability: campaign
Usage: diplomatic_stance <faction_a> <faction_b> <allied/neutral/war>:
Set the diplomatic stance between the two factions

So the usage in a script would look like this:

Code:

     console_command diplomatic_stance romans_brutii parthia neutral
     console_command diplomatic_stance romans_julii parthia neutral
     console_command diplomatic_stance romans_scipii parthia neutral
     console_command diplomatic_stance romans_senate parthia neutral

That makes all the roman factions "Neutral" toward Parthia, whether they were are war or allied. Note that only allied, neutral and war are available - there does not appear to be a way to force protectorates (I only mention this since that's what people usually seem to be looking for).

**Piko** · 04-29-2006, 19:12

Thanks, that was easier than I thought it was.
(BTW I'm Piko on the RTR forums, that was the only thing I wasn't able to locate in your TFT files, thanks again!)

Yet another question, can you force ownership?

**Spitful** · 04-30-2006, 18:36

Can you count how many battles the player has fought in the campaign so far?

**Legatus_Legionis** · 05-04-2006, 12:18

Hi all!

I have a question about assassination and whether it's possible to script it?

My idea involes the assassination a faction leader that i don't know the name of i.e a spawned character, has anyone tried this?

Cheers!

**Epistolary Richard** · 05-04-2006, 19:25

To my knowledge, no one's had any luck in scripting agent missions. The kill_character command, which could be used instead, as you say needs to know the character's name.

**Ciaran** · 05-07-2006, 13:01

Originally Posted by Stuie

So the usage in a script would look like this:

Code:

     console_command diplomatic_stance romans_brutii parthia neutral
     console_command diplomatic_stance romans_julii parthia neutral
     console_command diplomatic_stance romans_scipii parthia neutral
     console_command diplomatic_stance romans_senate parthia neutral

That makes all the roman factions "Neutral" toward Parthia, whether they were are war or allied. Note that only allied, neutral and war are available - there does not appear to be a way to force protectorates (I only mention this since that's what people usually seem to be looking for).

I wonder, is there a way to detect the event of one faction becoming a protectorate?
If so, there might be a way to work around the annoying alliance issue with protectorates (You can´t attack allies of your protectorate without losing the protectorate), simply by setting the relations of the protectorate to all other factions to neutral.