I'I had to mess around with the GameInfoTypes functions and/or GameInfo.Technologies. Unfortunately I haven't been able to understand exactly what they do so I had to try and learn from examples from mods/threads and trial and error.
GameInfoTypes.TECH_IRON_WORKING will just return 17. If you're hard-coding something internally to always key of a specific tech, this is the way to do it. You can use this same method for pretty much anything: GameInfoTypes.YIELD_PRODUCTION, GameInfoTypes.UNIT_WORKER, and so on; any XML table with an ID field can be done this way. It's assumed that you understand exactly WHICH table you're getting the ID for, but generally speaking this is the best way to go when you know exactly what you need.
GameInfo.Technologies["TECH_IRON_WORKING"] returns the tech structure for Iron Working, so you can just do GameInfo.Technologies["TECH_IRON_WORKING"].ID to get that same 17. It's a bit longer to write, but this is the best when you don't know which tech you want to key off of, or when you want something other than ID. (Like GameInfo.Technologies["TECH_IRON_WORKING"].Description, if you want the text key for its name.) You see, each of the XML tables that has an ID field has a "key" entry, usually Type. Putting that Type variable, as a string, into the brackets is enough to identify the entry uniquely.
This option is best when you're constructing a name on the fly. For instance, in my game you pick a Pantheon, like PANTHEON_GREEK. Each Pantheon is explicitly tied to a Project the player has (PROJECT_PANTHEON_GREEK), which is used as a prerequisite for Greek-specific units. So if I pass in the pantheon number (0, in this case, for GameInfoTypes.PANTHEON_GREEK) as a variable "panthID" and want to access the linked Project's structure, I just go
Code:
local Proj = GameInfo.Projects["PROJECT_"..GameInfo.Pantheons[panthID].Type];
And then I can get Proj.Description, Proj.ID, and so on as necessary.
As for the Teams/TeamTechs thing, the way you do it is something like
Code:
local pTnum = pPlayer:GetTeam();
local pTeam = Teams[pTnum];
if pTeam:IsHasTech(GameInfoTypes.TECH_IRON_WORKING) then
(stuff here)
end
You can abbreviate this a bit, to something like
Code:
if Teams[pPlayer:GetTeam()]:IsHasTech(blah) then
but I generally like spreading it out a bit.
The point is that techs are not linked to the specific player, they're linked to the Team (which in a default game only has the single player). Yes, the devs provided a couple shortcuts to get this in other ways, but as I said before, this way ALWAYS works because it's how the database is built.
TeamTechs is managed off of Teams, that is pTeamTechs = pTeam:TeamTechs(), and then you query pTeamTechs for what you need. If all you want to know is whether a person has a specific tech, then the pTeam check above is just fine, but if you want to do something more complex like find out how much progress they've made towards their next tech or which techs they're currently queued up to research, that information's only accessible through the TeamTechs structures.
or look at the mod in its current state (attached to post)
I'm on vacation. No Civ5 access at all, and limited internet access. So I'm doing this from memory, and can't look at any files you provide until the new year.
dkim
