Event help needed please

[Tripod]

Hello.
I try to add a randomevent to the game that can occur everywhere on the map at any time.Thinking of a stormevent that can damage Units and,if possible ,can destroy improvements when hit.It was no real problem to change the tornadoevent do this,but I would like to have an event that could happen on a plot that is not owned by a civ.
Does anyone can help please?

 

[The_J]

Could you maybe show us the current tornado event?

And i don't see much sense in it. You'll probably never notice, that it only happens on owned tiles.

 

[Tripod]

All I did isn`t really my work,I just change the Tornado ModComp by Fierabras,took the Blizzard Feature from FfH Age of Ice so that it more looks like a Storm,make it passable but with a high movement.When it occurs it appears at 4Tiles (I did that because I like to play on huge europe maps) and it destroys the improvement on the triggerd plot and gave a damage/Turn to units on all 4 plots.This were nearly all XML things,so it wasn`t really hard.After that I try to give the feature the chance to move via iDisappearance and iGrowth but it works not really the way I want.
I allready take a look at the Blizzard ModComp by TC01 but its too much python for me(and it only works for Ffh ).I hope I can use the movechance from this modComp but at the moment its even to hard for me to create a trigger that the feature can appear anytime/anywhere.I hope its possible in python but I nearly know anything about it
The reason I want to let it happen on a completly random plot is because it should have the chance to move around and I don`t want to hit only one civ

 

[The_J]

After that I try to give the feature the chance to move via iDisappearance and iGrowth but it works not really the way I want.

What does not work there?


And i thought, the tornado event has some python incorporated.

 

[Tripod]

Yes,there is some python.But it wasn`t hard to reach what I want.Just copied a few lines I found there and changed the x and y data.

Spoiler :

def applyStorm1(argsList):
iEvent = argsList[0]
kTriggeredData = argsList[1]

plot = gc.getMap().plot(kTriggeredData.iPlotX, kTriggeredData.iPlotY)
plot.setFeatureType(gc.getInfoTypeForString('FEATURE_STORM'), 0)

plot = gc.getMap().plot(kTriggeredData.iPlotX+1, kTriggeredData.iPlotY)
plot.setFeatureType(gc.getInfoTypeForString('FEATURE_STORM'), 0)

plot = gc.getMap().plot(kTriggeredData.iPlotX, kTriggeredData.iPlotY+1)
plot.setFeatureType(gc.getInfoTypeForString('FEATURE_STORM'), 0)

plot = gc.getMap().plot(kTriggeredData.iPlotX+1, kTriggeredData.iPlotY+1)
plot.setFeatureType(gc.getInfoTypeForString('FEATURE_STORM'), 0)

Changing the Blizzard files unfortunately isn`t so easy,because there are a few things you only find in FfH in there
The problem with Growth/Disappearance is that it only hit tiles where is no Feature and no improvement.

 

[The_J]

Mmhh...thinking about it...i don't know, if this is doable at all.
The event has to occur for somebody, so the tile has to be seen by somebody, so somehow a civ must be involved in that.
Moving the features from an already occured event could be done, but that would be ugly work.

I'm thinking about a global list, where all the coordinates are stored in for every event, and then per round it must be moved...ugly. Mmmhh...does anybody see a better way?

 

[Tripod]

Oh,that sounds much harder as I thought/hoped...
I don`t really know how python works but while looking at the blizzard modcomp I saw the "onBeginGameTurn"function and I thought it means that this is sometihng the game checks every turn(->'Called at the beginning of the end of each turn').Please do not lough if I understand this totally wrong-never did anything in python before
I thought it could be possible to implemt a random function in there that decides if the event is happening or not.And if it happens to find the x and y positions for it with a random function too.Hope that doesn`t sound to stupid...