Over the past several days (on and off, in between other things) I've been trying to adjust govannon's Teach Spellcasting spell so that it effects all of a civilizations units rather than merely the units in the square, but have so far had trouble getting the effect to work.
To see if my understanding of the spell is correct (I have done some programming in the past, though not with Python, and have only just started adjusting some civ 4 stuff, so while I think i can sort of tell what the different parts of the code are doing, I may well be missing some parts.):
"req(spell)" is just for AI use, to determine whether it should cast the spell or not? (I notice a command along the lines of "if player is not human" for some other requirements, and other spells don't have this python command at all, despite only being castable in certain situations, but I am checking this just in case.)
The first several lines appear to simply be to collect all the level 1 spellcasting promotions that the caster has in a list. For what I'm trying to do, it looks like I would not fool around with these. (hopefully)
The last 7 lines appear to be the part that actually gives other units the promotions, except for birds, animals, and nonalive units, and again is something I wouldn't change.
The lines from pPlot to if pUnit.getowner () are the ones that it seems I'll have to adjust, as these effect the range of the spell. I've tried adding this(among other things, though this seems the most sensible at the moment):
from spells such as Veil of Night and Warcry and removing the pPlot bits of code, which seems to fit what those spells do, but it just makes Teach Spellcasting unscastable in any situation.
This seems somewhat sensible, but being new at this I may well have missed some extra bit of code, so am curious if I'm at least going in the right direction, and perhaps what sorts of other stuff I might try, or some p-laces to look for information, to get the spell working the way I'm looking for.
To see if my understanding of the spell is correct (I have done some programming in the past, though not with Python, and have only just started adjusting some civ 4 stuff, so while I think i can sort of tell what the different parts of the code are doing, I may well be missing some parts.):
"req(spell)" is just for AI use, to determine whether it should cast the spell or not? (I notice a command along the lines of "if player is not human" for some other requirements, and other spells don't have this python command at all, despite only being castable in certain situations, but I am checking this just in case.)
Spoiler :
The first several lines appear to simply be to collect all the level 1 spellcasting promotions that the caster has in a list. For what I'm trying to do, it looks like I would not fool around with these. (hopefully)
The last 7 lines appear to be the part that actually gives other units the promotions, except for birds, animals, and nonalive units, and again is something I wouldn't change.
The lines from pPlot to if pUnit.getowner () are the ones that it seems I'll have to adjust, as these effect the range of the spell. I've tried adding this(among other things, though this seems the most sensible at the moment):
Code:
py = PyPlayer(caster.getOwner())
for pUnit in py.getUnitList():from spells such as Veil of Night and Warcry and removing the pPlot bits of code, which seems to fit what those spells do, but it just makes Teach Spellcasting unscastable in any situation.
This seems somewhat sensible, but being new at this I may well have missed some extra bit of code, so am curious if I'm at least going in the right direction, and perhaps what sorts of other stuff I might try, or some p-laces to look for information, to get the spell working the way I'm looking for.
