[Python-SDK]Change LeaderHead & Change Player

[Fabrysse]

My questions are about my Mod España 1936 (Spanish civil war).
All is OK (or not so far), except 2 important functions.
I'm afraid I'll have to go into the SDK. And each time I did it I couldn't compile. I'm ready to try again, but I have questions...

2 problems, 2 questions :

• Change LeaderHead :
  I want, at a turn n, a civ to change of LeaderHead (graphical change minimally, real changing would be cool). With python, I tried to use these functions :
  

  in CvArtInfoLeaderhead :
  [LIST][*]VOID setKFM(STRING szDesc)
  [*]VOID setNIF(STRING szDesc)
  [*]VOID setTag(STRING szDesc)[/LIST]
  
  in CyPlayer :
  [LIST][*]VOID setPersonalityType(LeaderHeadType eNewValue)[/LIST]

  It doesn't work !!
  I saw that Rhye's and Fall added a gc.getGame().setLeader(something) in the SDK. But the only copy/paste DLL to my mod crashes the game.
  
  
• Change Player :
  At a turn n, I want the human player to choose if he wants to lead an other civ.
  In my Warlords version, I used the Revolution DLL. But with BtS, the DLL crashes my game when I use my map and creates several other problems.
  I saw that Rhye's and Fall added a gc.getPlayer(int).setActivePlayer(something, boolean) in the SDK. But the only copy/paste DLL to my mod crashes the game.

First : are we sure that there is no way doing that with python ?

Second : If I try to get these RiseNFall functions, and compile my special DLL, wich files will I have to change ? Will it be easy for a first try with dll mod ?

 

[Ploeperpengel]

It would be cool to be able to do this with python. I second this request. I'd love to be able to change Leaderart as pythonresult of an event if that's possible.

 

[Fabrysse]

It would be cool to be able to do this with python.

I didn't find the way to do it with python.
The solution I finally choosed, is to compile my own dll.
I didn't write any C++ line, I just compiled whith what I needed. I explain :
I needed 3 elements :
- ChangePlayer (existing in Revolution Mod)
- Change Leader (existing in Revolution Mod)
- AnimosityAttack (existing in Warhammer FB Mod, copied from the Vanilia version)

With python, I know in wich file are these elements (ie, if python calls for exemple player.ChangerPlayer(), I know that the C++ function ChangePlayer will be found in the files cvplayer & cyplayer, .cpp and .h : it's easy to find, the files are well commented in these cases, thanks to the autors). So I copied these functions and the other functions necessary (the functions called by the function...), I pasted them in a new file, and with the Chazcon Tut, I compiled my dll successfully.
Just a thing I didn't know : how to expose these functions to python ? I found that the functions I needed was present too in the [...]interface files. Again, I copied/pasted, recompiled and it runs !!!

At the beginning of this thread, I didn't want to have anything else than python (because I had tried to compile with CodeBlocks and it failed). Now, I know it's easy to compile with MsVisualC++, and I'm ready to try to add modifications in C++ files !

So, I think you should try the same thing...

 

[Ploeperpengel]

Animosityattack!? Didn't know you need orcish behavior for Leaderchanges

Yeah I definitly will do SDK changes but since the new Warhammer Mod is based on FFH code for everthing that can't be done in python alone I will have to wait until Kael releases the sources - and Im truly afraid of the mess I'm going to create then

 

[Fabrysse]

Animosityattack!? Didn't know you need orcish behavior for Leaderchanges

No, no, no, no !!
I wanted animosityAttack too, because of the historic fighting between Anarchists & Communists in the Popular Front (in Spain 1936).
But ChangeLeader doesn't need that. The jdog5000's code runs very well.

 

[Ploeperpengel]

No, no, no, no !!
I wanted animosityAttack too, because of the historic fighting between Anarchists & Communists in the Popular Front (in Spain 1936).
But ChangeLeader doesn't need that. The jdog5000's code runs very well.

Cool. I'll keep that in mind. Thx! Also good to know the animositycode still works in BTS. I already miss my Orcs hacking each other to bits.

 

[Fabrysse]

Cool. I'll keep that in mind. Thx! Also good to know the animositycode still works in BTS. I already miss my Orcs hacking each other to bits.

I just use the animosityAttack function, not all the animosity code.