Scripting & Recruitable Generals

[Dol Guldur]

Recruitable Generals have traits and yet they are neither family, agents or admirals.

I assume they are classed (wrongly) as family?

My question is:

Is there a way to distinguish between a family member and a recruited general in the scripting/trait coding? I was sure I saw IsFamilyMember or something like that once - maybe I am just going mad.

Indirectly, if the above distinction is not directly possible, what complete set of circumstances could attribute a hidden trait to a family member that a recruited general could never have?

[Dromikaites]

Recruitable Generals have traits and yet they are neither family, agents or admirals.

I assume they are classed (wrongly) as family?

My question is:

Is there a way to distinguish between a family member and a recruited general in the scripting/trait coding? I was sure I saw IsFamilyMember or something like that once - maybe I am just going mad.

Indirectly, if the above distinction is not directly possible, what complete set of circumstances could attribute a hidden trait to a family member that a recruited general could never have?

I think the recruitable generals (I assume you talk about BI) are treated like the generals we can get through spawn_army or the ones from the "paralel family trees" (typical for rebels, also seen in mods like The First Triumvirate).

There is no way to distinguish them through code from the family members (=the named_characters who show up in the family tree scroll). The systems which handle the traits and the ancillaries use "family" to distinguish named characters from diplomats/spies/assasins/admirals but that doesn't mean they actually mean only the guys who show up in the family tree scroll. "Family" means only "named_character".

[Dol Guldur]

As I thought, though it is badly named ;)

[Malrubius]

Perhaps there's an event that could be used to give a hidden trait to these spawned generals? "RecruitedGeneral" or something? Or as an alternative, all the family member generals would have gone through the CharacterComesOfAge, OfferedForMarriage, OfferedForAdoption, or LesserGeneralOfferedForAdoption events, and could be assigned a hidden trait "FamilyGeneral".

Then "Trait FamilyGeneral < 1" means he's a recruited general.

[Dol Guldur]

all the family member generals would have gone through the CharacterComesOfAge, OfferedForMarriage, OfferedForAdoption, or LesserGeneralOfferedForAdoption events, and could be assigned a hidden trait "FamilyGeneral".

Then "Trait FamilyGeneral < 1" means he's a recruited general.

This is what I feel. Are those all the conditions?

[Malrubius]

Well, you'd want to take care of the ones in descr_strat, too. Something like this:

WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart
Condition I_TurnNumber = 0
        and AgentType = family

Affects FamilyGeneral  1  Chance  100