Temple+ Modding Question

My understanding of Sudden metamagics was that they worked like metamagic rods: No casting time increase/spell slot level increase.

 

Hi Sitra!
I am at a loss trying to find a statistic that I thought would be somewhere in the obj_get_int realm but evades me..
I have the need to obtain the value of a given critter (my PC in this case)'s melee attack range. I.E. if I am wielding a standard weapon with a human, I expect my reach is 5 feet, and if I am wielding a longspear, I expect 10 feet. Etc for if my PC is enlarged or reduced.. Where/how could I obtain this vital statistic through my scripts?

 

,aybe in stats

 

There is sadly no reach stat, but there is a GetReach function that takes the action type into consideration.
Vanilla @ 0x100b52d0
TP C++ has it @ LegacyCritterSystem::GetReach

I don't believe this is currently exposed to Python.
If you want to work your way around that, the individual pieces of the C++ code can most certainly just be re-built in Python:

Code:

float LegacyCritterSystem::GetReach(objHndl obj, D20ActionType actType) {

    float naturalReach = (float)objects.getInt32(obj, obj_f_critter_reach);
    auto protoId = d20Sys.d20Query(obj, DK_QUE_Polymorphed);
    if (protoId) {
        auto protoHandle = gameSystems->GetObj().GetProtoHandle(protoId);
        if (protoHandle) {
            naturalReach = (float)gameSystems->GetObj().GetObject(protoHandle)->GetInt32(obj_f_critter_reach);
        }
    }

    if (naturalReach < 0.01) {
        naturalReach = 5.0;
    }

    if (actType != D20A_TOUCH_ATTACK)
    {
        objHndl weapon = inventory.GetItemAtInvIdx(obj, 203);
        // todo: handle cases where enlarged creatures dual wield polearms ><
        if (weapon){
            auto weapType = objects.GetWeaponType(weapon);
            if (weapons.IsReachWeaponType(weapType)){
                return naturalReach + 3.0f; // +5.0 - 2.0
            }
            
            return naturalReach - 2.0f;
        }
    }
    return naturalReach - 2.0f;
}

 

Bingo, that sounds like what I was looking for. Thanks! I'll probably expose it to python.
Hmm.. this function looks wrong. It's subtracting 2 from the reach value leading me to see a range of 3 with a weapon, which is definitely wrong, because it should be 5. Is the implementation just wrong? For what purpose is 2 subtracted?

 

Another question. Why are the condition arguments hardcoded to have a limit of 8? I hit the assert in condition.cpp when trying to use more than 8 arguments for a python modifier. Can I just increase this limit?

 

If you need more args, you should probably use something different to store your data.

I don't know about reach, that's hpw ot is in the orignal code. Maybe abstracting some radius.

 

Normally I would be clever and use bit masking to store multiple values in a single argument, but my use case that just came up was that I have around 10 different values that I need to link to radial checkboxes, and to my understanding of it, I have to link the entire arg to the checkbox and can't just use a bitmasked portion of it to share one arg for multiple links.

 

Why do you need 10 checkboxes???

 

Mind Blade Enhancement has a bunch of different options for enhancements to your weapon (keen, lucky, collision, etc). I took a brief look through some of the ui code and it looks thoroughly complicated that it would take me weeks of understanding to hook in a new ui like the CMA&A box, so I went with a radial parent "Mind Blade Enhancement" and submenu in it with every enhancement being a checkbox that I will parse values on to control the allowed set enhancements.

 

Denied.

 

What, more modifier args?
Is there a reason the value you assert it's less than can't just be changed from 8? Would it tie into dll code and break the game?

It's fine if that isn't done though, I made two accompanying modifiers for the feat just to manage the checkboxes and it is working as planned right now. Just about to the point that I get to do the fun part of making 12 modifiers for each of the different enhancements. Soulbreaker and great cleaving are the only ones I might have to think on.