A Beginner's Guide to Scripting & Scripting "How To"s

**JoristhePagan** · 05-17-2009, 17:58

Is it possible to remove random units from an army if it reaches a certain point/region? (In RTW, no expansion)
And if this is not possible, can you add an army to the slave and make it attack the army (and disappear afterwards)

**Makanyane** · 05-17-2009, 18:37

Originally Posted by JoristhePagan

Is it possible to remove random units from an army if it reaches a certain point/region? (In RTW, no expansion)

not that I know of

And if this is not possible, can you add an army to the slave and make it attack the army (and disappear afterwards)

you can spawn a slave army - you can't make it attack unless you know the name of the general of the other army (which is unlikely) - but if you spawn it close to area and its big enough it probably will attack.

Don't think you can make it disappear exactly - if its leader is still alive after battle you could try using the move character commands to send it off somewhere else... beware of using the non console_command move commands if you don't know if character is alive, trying to apply the other types of commands to a non-existent character can make game CTD

if you know name of leader you can kill him and hence his bodyguard but I don't know of any way of killing other units by script.

**JoristhePagan** · 05-17-2009, 20:10

Ok thanks, I'll have to find another way.

**JoristhePagan** · 05-18-2009, 08:15

Here's a new idea: Can I make the rebel general invulnerable? that way, I could easily make the army is destroyed and then move it to a save location.

**lim_lucky** · 12-31-2009, 18:10

I seem to have a wierd problem with the following code:

Code:

declare_counter aedui_age
set_counter aedui_age 11

;AI - console_command date -300 (BC)
monitor_event FactionTurnStart Factiontype gauls
and not I_LocalFaction gauls
and I_CompareCounter aedui_age >= 10
and I_TurnNumber > 1
	set_counter aedui_age 12
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

monitor_event SettlementTurnStart SettlementName Burdigala
and I_SettlementOwner Burdigala = gauls
and I_CompareCounter aedui_age = 12
and not SettlementBuildingExists = agee2
	console_command set_building_health Burdigala agee 0
	console_command create_building Burdigala "agee2"
end_monitor

When I am using the faction gauls, the building will be created properly in the settlement.
The problem only occurs when I am not using the faction gauls, whereby the game will always crash when the turn for the AI faction gauls start after clicking the end turn.
I initially thought that it may not be possible to create buildings for AI factions... but the code below worked, in which the building agee1 is lower in the hierarchy than agee2 in EDB. So I'm not really sure why the code causes the game to crash and not work as expected.

Code:

declare_counter aedui_age
set_counter aedui_age 11

;AI - console_command date -300 (BC)
monitor_event FactionTurnStart Factiontype gauls
and not I_LocalFaction gauls
and I_CompareCounter aedui_age >= 10
and I_TurnNumber > 1
	set_counter aedui_age 11
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

monitor_event SettlementTurnStart SettlementName Burdigala
and I_SettlementOwner Burdigala = gauls
and I_CompareCounter aedui_age = 11
and not SettlementBuildingExists = agee1
	console_command set_building_health Burdigala agee 0
	console_command create_building Burdigala "agee1"
end_monitor

Next, I tried working around the crash by inserting one additional line to building creation code as shown below. The game did not crash like before, but the building agee2 failed to be created. Then I tested it out with agee6 and it worked only for a certain settlement, i.e. rest of the settlements do not have the building agee6 created despite the code being executed.

Code:

monitor_event SettlementTurnStart SettlementName Burdigala
and I_SettlementOwner Burdigala = gauls
and I_CompareCounter aedui_age = 12
and not SettlementBuildingExists = agee2
	console_command set_building_health Burdigala agee 0
	console_command create_building Burdigala "agee1"
	console_command create_building Burdigala "agee2"
end_monitor

The building levels are as follows:
building agee
{
levels agee1 agee2 agee3 agee4 agee5 agee6 agee7 agee8
{
...

**lim_lucky** · 01-01-2010, 08:21

Originally Posted by lim_lucky

Next, I tried working around the crash by inserting one additional line to building creation code as shown below. The game did not crash like before, but the building agee2 failed to be created. Then I tested it out with agee6 and it worked only for a certain settlement, i.e. rest of the settlements do not have the building agee6 created despite the code being executed.
...

The additional line did not prevent the crashes, instead, it seems like that the game crashed only for some factions. Does someone have any advice? I have tried using factions { all, } in EDB but game still crashed.

**Makanyane** · 01-02-2010, 22:28

have you tried it without the

console_command set_building_health Burdigala agee 0

line? that doesn't actually destroy the building just damages it 100%
when you add new building from script it gives settlement both buildings, despite fact they are in same tree. So maybe AI's attempt to repair old building at same time as getting new building is what is causing problem?

Do you have enough spare building trees to split them up to prevent weirdness in the same tree?

If its not that and its only related to certain factions / cultures check for missing EB texts for certain factions, or if its related to Carthaginian new building problem.