Some stupid questions about event coding

[Legolas]

Hello,

I am trying to mod some events for Doomsday, but I couldn't find several features noted in any of the existing FAQs or even in Wiki. So I hope someone on the boards will know, or be able to refer me to where all that is written.

a) if I have an event A which is directly triggered by another event B, can I have event A fire a set amount of time after event B, as opposed to immediately afterwards? Will the offset trigger work? Or should I use "sleepevent" commands instead of "trigger" commands in event B?
b) is it possible to use IF logic within commands? As in, IF {condition} THEN {command [blah] } else {command [blah]}. This would greatly reduce the amount of nearly duplicate events in some cases.
c) is it possible to create any modifiers to ai_chance for an action?
d) is there a command that would allow country X to ban country Y from its alliance (provided that X and Y are allied and X is the alliance leader)?
e) most importantly, is there a tool I could use to check the syntax of my events without loading the game and waiting for an error message?

That's all for now, thank you for any replies

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

Hello,

I am trying to mod some events for Doomsday, but I couldn't find several features noted in any of the existing FAQs or even in Wiki. So I hope someone on the boards will know, or be able to refer me to where all that is written.

a) if I have an event A which is directly triggered by another event B, can I have event A fire a set amount of time after event B, as opposed to immediately afterwards? Will the offset trigger work? Or should I use "sleepevent" commands instead of "trigger" commands in event B?

Use the event B as trigger in the event A. Like

	trigger = {
		event = B

And then set the trigger time to whatever you want. If you use sleepevent it will prevent event from happening.

b) is it possible to use IF logic within commands? As in, IF {condition} THEN {command [blah] } else {command [blah]}. This would greatly reduce the amount of nearly duplicate events in some cases.

No.

c) is it possible to create any modifiers to ai_chance for an action?

You can edit the AI chance but not really make it different unless you do duplicate events with slighty different triggers and AI chances.

d) is there a command that would allow country X to ban country Y from its alliance (provided that X and Y are allied and X is the alliance leader)?

Use

		command = { type = leave_alliance }

command. Remember to add proper peace commands if you want the country to be at peace.

e) most importantly, is there a tool I could use to check the syntax of my events without loading the game and waiting for an error message?

That's all for now, thank you for any replies

There used to be some event parser tools but I don't know if they are still around. Good way is to keep the intendation as that helps in tracking missing brackets.

 

[Legolas]

Use the event B as trigger in the event A. Like

	trigger = {
		event = B

And then set the trigger time to whatever you want. If you use sleepevent it will prevent event from happening.

Ok, thanks.

Use

		command = { type = leave_alliance }

command. Remember to add proper peace commands if you want the country to be at peace.

Do I have to make a separate event for the country leaving the alliance? Or is it possible to code the alliance leaving command for another country?

There used to be some event parser tools but I don't know if they are still around. Good way is to keep the intendation as that helps in tracking missing brackets.

That's what I'm trying to do. Thank you for the replies.

Oh, and another question - are flag names limited in any way? Or do any alphanumeric characters work as parts of their names?

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

Do I have to make a separate event for the country leaving the alliance? Or is it possible to code the alliance leaving command for another country?

Make separate event. The command does not define which country leaves the alliance so separate event specifically for that country is needed.