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Your grammar there makes it a bit hard to understand that last part. But I think you could just loop this

vstart (state=fighting)
qv set "qv1" 1
vend
qvmodify "qv1" -1
conditional qvcheck "qv1"=0
fire event
conditionalzend
conditional qvcheck "qv1"<0
disable event
conditional zend

... And uh... That wasn't that simple...
Specify your problem and i'll try and simplyfy things if you can't understand what I did there

state=fighting won't work.
Leave state as 2 (for alive), and use Action ID instead.

6 is HandAttack
9 is Idle
12 is RangedAttack
18 is Attack
So you can try any of those to see if they work for you.
I think I included the full action list in a text file in the v trigger download.

For the AI question - when you select the AI, make sure you select the file and click OK. Double clicking won't do anything for some reason.
The usual files to use are aomdefaultai.xs and aomxdefaultai.xs

If you load the map up on ESO and play with all computers, it forces them to have AI, so you can see how it would be behaving with a working AI.

[This message has been edited by HailToTheOboe (edited 06-13-2010 @ 11:38 AM).]

1) instead of doin this <><><><> try this
<hr> it looks a bit neater

2) there is a condition I think in one of the TRT's links with state conditions. You can use that or just use vtriggers if you can't be bothered. But essentially do this

trigger 1
condition: is fighting
effect: fire event #2

Trigger 2
Effect:
qv randomize
Fire event based on qv (Winston made that one check the last question thread's second to last page to find it) 3, 4, 5... With apporpriate qv values.

Triggers 3,4,5,6...
Condition qv check
effect: whatever you want to do with the hotkeys
fire event trigger 1

sorry for not posting the effects you may not have but I'm a phone... These are all nonlooping but it Makes a cycle so it should work. When the unit stops fighting the cycle will stop at trigger 1. Adding the timer on trigger 2 I think would be best.

3) @anubite: I copied that from my typetest so replace Percent with the qv name

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edit: ninjaed and corrected...

[This message has been edited by THYMOLE (edited 06-13-2010 @ 12:16 PM).]

Once again, they're doing nothing.

I truly apologize for being a bothersome pest, but could anyone DIRECT me to a forum that explain, step by step, HOW to create a custom map AND play it? Nothing's going to help unless it shows how to assign the players and whatnot.

I'd really appreciate it, and once again, apologizing in conclusion, I'm sorry for stating my issue twice.

I've been designing for years, but I need to know weird unit statistics like how fast Gaia regenerates and how frequently a given unit attacks. Where can I find this information? Is there a list or utility that would yield such values?

SUCCESS! THANKS FOR THE HELP GUYS.

You'll be hearing from me soon.

Thanks both of you guys

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@HailToTheOboe
I looked for a action list in the text file but I didn't see it...I probably missed it some how. Anyway could you please post a list here? It would be appreciated. Again thanks.

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@THYMOLE

First off thanks for the tip...you right it looks alot neater.

Second I think the trigger setup with QV randomise will work alot better then what I have right now._{I already knew how to do the hotkeys and QVs...but thanks any way.}

I've been designing for years, but I need to know weird unit statistics like how fast Gaia regenerates and how frequently a given unit attacks. Where can I find this information? Is there a list or utility that would yield such values?

I think all that information is available in protox.xml
I believe you can access that by using AoMEd to extract data2.bar and convert protox.xmb

For attack rate, the units stats show damage per second, not damage per hit (except for petsuchos, circe, SOO and probably statue of lightning because they use a different combat mechanic), and the visual attack rate is just the animation length which you can see in the animation viewer.

For Ranfeld:
ActionBored=0;
ActionBuild=1;
ActionConvert=2;
ActionDeath=3;
ActionDecay=4;
ActionGather=5;
ActionHandAttack=6;
ActionHeal=7;
ActionHunting=8;
ActionIdle=9;
ActionMove=10;
ActionMoveByGroup=11;
ActionRangedAttack=12;
ActionRepair=13;
ActionResearch=14;
ActionTrain=15;
ActionOverrideAnimation=16;
ActionWork=17;
ActionAttack=18;
ActionUnused0=19;
ActionWander=20;
ActionEnter=21;
ActionAutoConvert=22;
ActionBirth=23;
ActionAreaAttack=24;
ActionFreeze=25;
ActionDormant=26;
ActionGatherPoint=27;
ActionMoveAttack=28;
ActionThrown=29;
ActionLightning=30;
ActionLight=31;
ActionJumpAttack=32;
ActionUnused1=33;
ActionMeteor=34;
ActionAttach=35;
ActionGuide=36;
ActionJumpMove=37;
ActionPickup=38;
ActionDiveBomb=39;
ActionUnused2=40;
ActionRegenerate=41;
ActionUse=42;
ActionEmpower=43;
ActionAutoGather=44;
ActionThrow=45;
ActionGore=46;
ActionDropoff=47;
ActionWhirlwindAttack=48;
ActionChargedRangedAttack=49;
ActionEject=50;
ActionFreezeAttack=51;
ActionConvertAttack=52;
ActionTrade=53;
ActionGuard=54;
ActionAutoMover=55;
ActionGetOnMover=56;
ActionSwallow=57;
ActionGate=58;
ActionLightningAttack=59;
ActionExplore=60;
ActionEat=61;
ActionBoost=62;
ActionCorpseDecay=63;
ActionTeleport=64;
ActionBuckAttack=65;
ActionTownBell=66;
ActionHeroDeath=67;
ActionUnbuild=68;
ActionAutoLOS=69;

Thanks Hail,
With a few more special effects, my RPG is begining to look really cool.

[This message has been edited by Ranfeld (edited 06-13-2010 @ 07:09 PM).]

Excuse me guys, I've another issue at hand.

I put a mod in for Zeus (God), which thank you to whomever made it, can't remember the name, but I'm trying to include Poseidon. Someone made a Poseidon one, and I'm eager to test it out as it's had fairly decent reviews I do believe.

Well, to put Zeus (God) in, I had to put the proper files where they need to be, but to deal with the protox was another story. It was pasted into the 'data' folder via its own notepad document, with its protox data and what not (ex. unit number and all that jazz).

Well, Zeus was numbered as 802, and I can't get Poseidon to be 801 or even 803, and I'm not sure why. The whole protox.xml deal is very confusing at this point in time, in my opinion, that is, and I also have another issue. xD

When I chose to open protox.xml in a wordpad/notepad document, a bunch of foreign text appeared. My computer started opening all the files like that with notepad, and I couldn't edit anything because of the foreign language. Now, when I chose to play the expansion, an error occurred. This resulted in my having to reinstall the game and then leave the files alone. Now, the game is working with the NEWLY chosen method of opening the protox.xml file, which is wordpad.

I need advice, as if I open the file I'm afraid of what will happen. I don't want the game to crash again. -_-

Advice, suggestions, help!

Hey, I think Winston made a trigger called change name by protounit and I was wondering whether I could get the trigger code for that. Thanks in advance.

[This message has been edited by CharlieDog (edited 06-14-2010 @ 04:17 AM).]

Ere ya go mate.

<Effect name="PC Change Protounit Name">
  <Param name="PlayerID" dispName="Object Player" varType="float">0</Param> 
  <Param name="Object" dispName="Object Protounit" varType="protounit">Villager</Param> 
  <Param name="Target" dispName="Target Name" varType="string">default</Param> 
  <Command>for(Qid=1;>0) {}</Command> 
  <Command>xsSetContextPlayer(%PlayerID%);</Command> 
  <Command>kbLookAtAllUnitsOnMap();</Command> 
  <Command>Qid=kbUnitQueryCreate("QueryProtounit");</Command> 
  <Command>kbUnitQuerySetPlayerID(Qid, %PlayerID%, true);</Command> 
  <Command>kbUnitQuerySetUnitType(Qid, kbGetProtoUnitID("%Object%"));</Command> 
  <Command>kbUnitQuerySetState(Qid, 2);</Command> 
  <Command>for(i=kbUnitQueryExecute(Qid)-1;>-1){</Command> 
  <Command>trUnitSelectClear();</Command> 
  <Command>trUnitSelectByID(kbUnitQueryGetResult(Qid,i));</Command> 
  <Command>trUnitChangeName("%Target%");}</Command> 
  </Effect>

Does either:

trSetPlayerDefeated(1);
or
if(trPlayerDefeated(1)) {

Cause sync issues?

I've been having sync issues, following a player resigning midway through the game by alt+f4ing or closing the game.

I think that this might be the cause, as it's the only thing that triggers near a resignation, though that trigger seems to work some (or most) of the time.

Are there other problems associated with players resigning?

That is jsut a general bug in the game nothing you can do really except I suppose prevent people resigning lol.

What are QV strings? And what do AG Move Triggers do?

Strings are words or phrases. Like QV1 could be "Apples"

useful if you want to change a repeating message or something

ag triggers basically move things relative to another

Interesting. Perhaps strings could be used to get the player to choose a name for their character?

Yeah

I think Perp or someone made a, get qv string from chat effect recently. If that works it could be used often. If not you could make a selection area where you make the string one letter at a time.

A good example that just occured to me is the Pokemon games. In the beginning you make up a name, this name is stored as a string, so when they write the dialouge it would be like,
"Oh, so your name is "playername""

That effect to read names from chat and store them as QV strings came about after I posted an effect to read a number from chat, Oboe modified it to read letters but couldn't test it (it's Titans only) then lostrozzacavalli and I both fixed and refined it. So it was a team effort.

You can find it here

There are other methods of getting a player to enter a character name but they can be more cumbersome.

Here is a video from an RPG scenario I've been working on for a while that shows an early version of the hero creation process, including entering the name using one of the other methods (I think it required about 80 triggers just for the name).

Perp, I beat you to that idea.

http://aom.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=st&fn=13&tn=27435&f=0,0,0,0&st=850#post1468

but damn its great someone managed to fulfill that there, can come in handy.

edit: looks like it will be a great rpg by the way though. but my problem is, how do you type stuff in when the game is in cinematic mode?

[This message has been edited by WinstonShnozwick (edited 06-15-2010 @ 03:59 PM).]

The gift of hotkeys .

I don't have time to view it now but I'm curious as to how it requred 80 triggers. What I would have done is created a single letter string for each letter and then added them up.

You can map the hotkey to add a letter to the end of a current string, so you'd just need one trigger for every letter, number, or other character you want to include. 63 for upper/lowercase, numbers, and spaces. That's getting pretty high.

But don't do it that way, do it the new chat contains way, as long as you precede the name with some kind of tag, the trigger should find it. (should also add numbers and spaces to that alphabet string).

In my program files im missing my screenshot folder. But when i go ingame to take a screenshot, it says it saves and doesnt provide me any sort of error notice. Any suggestions as to what might be wrong?

I'd guess you could make a folder and name it Screenshots.

The other option is that if you're on AOT (but I think you're a silly vanilly, like me), there are two game folders, one in program files and one in my documents, and if you can't find what you're looking for, you can always try looking in the other one.

[This message has been edited by HailToTheOboe (edited 06-15-2010 @ 08:33 PM).]

Will it save into the folder if i make it though?