An Intermediate Guide to Scripting

[Hans Kloss]

Quick question Richard

With use of script would that be possible to spawn mercenary unit for hire only for non-Roman factions (playable and non playable one) for example "Roman deserters".Obviously such a unit would not be available for Romans.Is that at all possible ?

[Epistolary Richard]

Yes, perfectly possible - but obviously not through the existing mercenary mechanism. Look at the Client Kingdoms mod for one way of doing it for the player. For non-player factions you would have to do it in a background script using a monitor_event with whatever conditionals you want and a create_unit console command inside.

[pilatus]

a wonderful Thread...

I'm posting for very first time in this forum but i'm not reading in this section for first time...my english is not very good..please forgive me some grammar faults!

A quick question:
has anybody checked the disable_ai console command if it works?
I would like to make a script that disable all the ai_actions and combine this with the faction switcher script! I have some problems with this matter because in the faction switcher script the ai make some stuff at the end of every turn...
i would like to execute this...

could it be that the command terminate_script?

here is the script:

script

declare_counter player_faction

	if I_LocalFaction romans_julii
		set_counter player_faction 1
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction macedon
		set_counter player_faction 2
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction egypt
		set_counter player_faction 3
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction seleucid
		set_counter player_faction 4
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction carthage
		set_counter player_faction 5
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction parthia
		set_counter player_faction 6
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction pontus
		set_counter player_faction 7
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction gauls
		set_counter player_faction 8
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction germans
		set_counter player_faction 9
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction britons
		set_counter player_faction 10
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction armenia
		set_counter player_faction 11
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction dacia
		set_counter player_faction 12
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction greek_cities
		set_counter player_faction 13
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction numidia
		set_counter player_faction 14
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction scythia
		set_counter player_faction 15
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction spain
		set_counter player_faction 16
	end_if
	if I_LocalFaction thrace
		set_counter player_faction 17
	end_if

;---------------------------------------------

	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 1
		console_command disable_ai thrace
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 2
		console_command disable_ai romans_julii
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 3
		console_command disable_ai egypt
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 4
		console_command disable_ai seleucid
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 5
		console_command disable_ai carthage
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 6
		console_command disable_ai parthia
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 7
		console_command disable_ai pontus
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 8
		console_command disable_ai gauls
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 9
		console_command disable_ai germans
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 10
		console_command disable_ai britons
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 11
		console_command disable_ai armenia
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 12
		console_command disable_ai dacia
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 13
		console_command disable_ai greek_cities
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 14
		console_command disable_ai numidia
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 15
		console_command disable_ai scythia
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 16
		console_command disable_ai spain
	end_if
	if I_CompareCounter player_faction = 17
		console_command disable_ai thrace
	end_if

;----------------------------------------------
	
	console_command control slave
if I_LocalFaction romans_julii
	console_command control macedon
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction macedon
	console_command control egypt
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction egypt
	console_command control seleucid
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction seleucid
	console_command control carthage
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction carthage
	console_command control parthia
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction parthia
	console_command control pontus
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction pontus
	console_command control gauls
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction gauls
	console_command control germans
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction germans
	console_command control britons
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction britons
	console_command control armenia
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction armenia
	console_command control dacia
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction dacia
	console_command control greek_cities
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction greek_cities
	console_command control numidia
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction numidia
	console_command control scythia
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction scythia
	console_command control spain
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction spain
	console_command control thrace
	terminate_script
end_if
if I_LocalFaction thrace
	console_command control romans_julii
	terminate_script
end_if

end_script

[Hans Kloss]

Yes, perfectly possible - but obviously not through the existing mercenary mechanism. Look at the Client Kingdoms mod for one way of doing it for the player. For non-player factions you would have to do it in a background script using a monitor_event with whatever conditionals you want and a create_unit console command inside.

Thx for your reply Richard

Would something like this make any sens ?

script
if I_SettlementOwner Tarsus =(probably list of all non roman factions or is that another way ?)
console_command create_unit Tarsus "merc roman deserters" 1
end_if
end_script

[Epistolary Richard]

pilatus I remember Myrddraal saying something about the disable_ai command when putting together the Hot Seat Mod. He certainly used halt_ai for that.

Maly Jacek If that's an event script then you're better off putting the conditionals in the trigger. If that's a background script you need a loop to keep it running and a monitor event in there to tell the game when to check the conditionals.

[pilatus]

thx richard
but i've already checked the halt_ai command in myrdaals script and there is the problem that you can't make all factions playable at yourself..only two of them...if you make more the script says good bye!

I've also already checked the set_ai off command but i think this is only for the battle_ai...

has nobody checked the disable_ai command ?