Scripting

[Modding Forum]

Important points

- You can use "give_trait this" to give the selected character a trait. -- found by Somec

- The game doesn't have to be restarted to load a new campaign script. Restarting the campaign is enough

- Show Me scripts don't have the same functionality as the campaign script. This is presumably because they are loaded on game start whereas the campaign script is loaded on campaign start. The exact problems are with map-related commands (i.e. stuff like spawn_army that uses coordiates)

Docudemon files
Which include a list of all commands and their syntax, can be found here:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...26#post1316726

[alpaca]

This supposedly removes the need for the infinite while loops at the end of scripts (from the campaign script):

; keep script unfinised until last monitor termination
	wait_monitors

[Myrddraal]

I believe backgrounds scripts are now launched on loading of a savegame, giving us great opportunities.

Here's waiting for the docudemon files.

[alpaca]

First post updated.
The "give_trait this" command could be very useful if we can find a way to select characters with scripting.

Edit: The "select_character <Name>" and, more importantly, "e_select_character" commands should do the trick. The "e_" prefix should select a character that triggered an event. Will test that.

[Myrddraal]

Added the link to the docudemon files

[alpaca]

We should try to collect some information about the "log" scripting command. It works (i.e. it writes stuff to the log) only erratically. It logs all messages, but it seems to be pretty random when it writes them out.