Temple+ Modding Question

Thanks for the well wishes, they're well now

What was that about three wishes now? (No guarantees, maybe a hanukkah miracle )

 

Oh I am glad to hear kids are healthy again

I don't know if this would be a lot of work, but if it's rather easy to do, here are my wishes:

1. Custom strings support for damage_packet.add_dice so I do not have to manipulate the damage.mes.

2. Custom strings support for bonus_list.add_zeroed. I didn't use this yet, because I don't want to manipulate bonus.mes as well, but now that I am doing more PrC's this would come in handy as well.

3. The same holds true for Python Actions. Haven't done alot of them in the past, but now that I am doing more of them, I'd wish to have more error codes, something like aec_ability_on_cooldown(maybe get a better description for that, but e.g. breath weapons can only be used every 1d4 turns)
and aec_already_used_this_turn. From my researches, these error codes are also handled in a mes file but are also limited to the existing ones I believe:
https://github.com/GrognardsFromHel...40a883f7/TemplePlus/action_sequence.cpp#L4313

Now if adding new AEC's would be fine, I think I could add them myself. I believe it would make sense to keep the strings in one place for error codes, so I would simply add new strings to the mes file and change the action_sequence.cpp

 

Grace grace be unto all of you!

 

Sorry to say, but items like those 3 are far down my priority list... And I'm strapped for time as it is.

 

@Sitra Achara no worries

Edit: may I modify the AEC's myself, or do you prefer not to have new AEC's?

@Shiningted
The problem with these files are the localizations, at least as far as I understand the topic. If I simply replace them, I turn of the localizations. So yeah, modding those files are not the problem, I did that locally it's just I don't want to mess up localizations.

 

Oh, but you can use extender files for any mesfile now. I think I might have added that when you were away

You can add AECs, sure.

 

Sorry @Sagenlicht even though I am aware you have the Zen Archery feat in preparation I have knocked it out whilst waiting in anticipation.

My question is even though there is no mention of any such prohibition in the splat books should Zen Archery and Brutal Throw be made mutually exclusive? Or have you found an entirely different mechanic to that used in Brutal Throw to literally "use the wisdom bonus instead of the dexterity bonus"?

Without either the former or the latter I can forsee the extreme example of a 1st level dwarven fighter Str 18 Dex 10 Wis 18 (others immaterial) with Zen Archery as his bonus feat and Brutal Throw as his class feat posting a +9 modified attack bonus with his throwing hammer.

 

Thanks for pointing out potential stacking issues @Pygmy. I originally did cap the Dex Modifier to 0 but had to change it, as a negative Dex Modifier would not have been negated by this.

I will change Brutal Throw and my already pushed Zen Archery Feat to not stack with each other. To my knowledge there is no other feat that replaces Dex with a different stat like Intelligence for ranged weapons correct? We are only taking about Brutal Throw for Thrown Weapons (Strength) and Zen Archery for any ranged attack (Wisdom).

 

I can't use an extender for bonus.mes.
bonus.cpp points to tpdata/tpmes/bonus.mes:

Code:

void BonusSystem::GetBonusMesLine(MesLine & line){
    if (line.key >= 335)
        mesFuncs.GetLine_Safe(bonusMesNew, &line);
    else
        mesFuncs.GetLine_Safe(*bonusMesHandle, &line);
    return;
}

I can either modifiy the bonus.mes in tpdata/tpmes or the code needs to modified. 2nd option would basically mean to remove the if clause and move the existing bonus.mes in tpdata/tpmes to the new bonus_ext.mes (or in the new bonus_ext folder). Whatever you prefer Sitra

 

You can modify that file without harming localizations, since it only grabs lines > 335 anyway (which don't even exist in vanilla; it's basically an early extension file). I'll refactor that later.
Or, if you prefer, you should be able to extend that file as well for easier refactor later on.

 

@Pygmy I fixed Zen Archery and Brutal Throw and pushed the fix to Temple+ (in the unarmed feats branch as Zen Archery is a part of that branch). If you want to add the fix to your local overrides (because you can't wait till the Zen Archery feat is availbe in T+ ) you can simply change the bonus_type integer in Brutal Throw and Zen Archery to 180 and the feats will not stack.

 

Thank you very much

 

I would like to understand the anim_goal thing.

In 0x100EAB60 I assume the animation for barbarian rage is triggered

Code:

//----- (100EAB60) --------------------------------------------------------
int __cdecl BarbarianRageOnAdd(DCA args)
{
  int conScore; // eax@1
  int conMod; // eax@1

  conScore = Dispatch10AbilityScoreLevelGet(args.objHndCaller, stat_constitution, 0);
  conMod = GetModFromStatLevel(conScore);
  CondNodeSetArg(args.subDispNode->condNode, 0, conMod + 5);
  AnimPushGoalAnimate(args.objHndCaller, 141);
  return 0;
}

but if I look through animgoals.cpp there are only 82 animgoals listed, so 141 can't directly point to an anim goal I suppose and in animgoals_callbacks I can't find ox100EAB60 either. So I actually fail to understand the basics I guess.

I actually hoped to be able to just copy and modify an existing anim_goal in python_object.cpp but yeah

 

I asked @DarkStorm exactly year ago about similar question, and that's what he said:

Also you can see this: https://github.com/anatoliy-savchak/toee.zmod.kots/blob/main/src/zmod_kots_core/scr/const_animate.py
And my experiments with animations: