Melee Area Attack & New Ancillary Questions

[SMZ]

It's this trigger in the export_descr_character_traits file, and the unrecognized ancillary it refers to is on the 'and FactionWideAncillaryExists' line:

;------------------------------------------
Trigger piracy
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd

    Condition AgentType = diplomat
	  and FactionwideAncillaryExists letters_of_marque true

    Affects Piracy  1  Chance  10

[Foz]

Lol... that's exactly where I was expecting it would be... so unfortunately that doesn't help me much.

I think I've got it though! While I can't seem to find any game files that use FactionwideAncillaryExists at all, I did find a condition very similar: I_WorldwideAncillaryExists:

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Identifier:              I_WorldwideAncillaryExists
Trigger requirements:    character_record
Parameters:              logic token
Sample use:              I_WorldwideAncillaryExists actor true
Description:             Does this ancillary already exist in the world?
Battle or Strat:         Strat
Class:                   WORLDWIDE_ANCILLARY_EXISTS
Implemented:             Yes
Author:                  Lee
---------------------------------------------------

That wouldn't be remarkable in and of itself, except that this one I DO see used in the game files, for instance like this:

;------------------------------------------
Trigger shard_of_the_true_cross_anc_trigger
    WhenToTest GeneralCaptureSettlement
    Condition Attribute Piety > 3
          and SettlementName Tripoli
          and not I_WorldwideAncillaryExists shard_of_the_true_cross
          and not HasAncType Relic

    AcquireAncillary shard_of_the_true_cross chance  10 

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

Notice anything? It's used almost exactly like the sample, except for one thing: There is no true following the name of the ancillary like they use in the example. It's about the last thing I can think of, but seems pretty solid: it's likely the condition descriptions for these two are incorrect, and should NOT have true following the name of the ancillary. My bet is that the parser picks up "letters_of_marque true" as the name of the ancillary from that line you have highlighted up there, and therefore cannot find it. Try it without true... and hope it works.

[SMZ]

nope, tried that, lol - i'm going nuts trying to figure this out

from the docudemon:

---------------------------------------------------
Identifier:              FactionwideAncillaryExists
Trigger requirements:    character_record
Parameters:              logic token
Sample use:              FactionwideAncillaryExists actor true
Description:             Does this ancillary already exist in this faction?
Battle or Strat:         Strat
Class:                   FACTIONWIDE_ANCILLARY_EXISTS
Implemented:             Yes
Author:                  Lee

and as used in the ancillaries file:

;------------------------------------------
Trigger armour_custom_trigger1
    WhenToTest CharacterComesOfAge
    Condition IsGeneral
          and FatherAttribute Command > 4
          and FactionwideAncillaryExists master_smith true

    AcquireAncillary armour_custom chance  15

[SMZ]

ok, something odd... in an attempt to see if maybe my text files weren't working correctly I deleted the string bins in the folder - although I've made description alterations before and seen them show up in game, but at this point I'm trying anything...

however when I check the log file after running the game like that, all of a sudden there is a loooong list of "missing" descriptions which I've added, even tho they are all in the text files... so I put the string bins back, and once again, only that one Ancillary is said to be unrecognized

I thought that once you had the text files you didn't need the string bins? I just left them because before it seemed to be working regardless... so now I'm more confused than ever

[Foz]

From comments I've seen, the game is supposed to MAKE the strings.bin files from the txt files if the txt files are present. So when you delete the strings.bin files, it should mean the game decides to compile the txt file into a strings.bin file again, and then should theoretically use that new bin file to run the game.

[SMZ]

that's what I thought too, lol - but I started the game, then exited, checked the log file - saw the long line of reported errors from "missing" items, looked in the folder and it was just text files, no string.bins... so me confused and I manually pulled them from the recycle bin and put them back

started the game again, exited again - checked the log file, no long list of errors, just the one ancillary item left