Question about multiple attacks and lua

[AzraelZephyrian]

Sooo. I've been trying to set up a lua script to give a unit as many attacks as there are adjacent units (for a "war wagon", basically a mobile fort). My code compiles fine. I've tried for loops setting "isoutofattacks" to false for a given number of attacks, setting "blitzcount" to a custom value, and setting "isblitz" to true.

Nothing works. Do I have to figure out .dll modification if I want to do this? Is there any workaround anyone can think of?

Here's the current code (wherein I attempted to set the blitzcountt)

Spoiler :

function CallPolyPttack(iUnit)
    local bCanPoly = iUnit:GetIsCombatUnit()
    local bIsHigh = iUnit:GetIsSelected()
    if bCanPoly == true
    and bIsHigh == true then
        local iExtraAttacks = iUnit:GetNumEnemyUnitsAdjacent()
        if (not iExtraAttacks() == 0) then
            local iBlitzStock = iUnit:GetBlitzCount()
            local iBlitzTot = iBlitzStock() + iExtraAttacks()
            iUnit:SetBlitzCount(iBlitzTot())
            iUnit:SetMoves(iBlitzTot())
        end
    end
end
GameEvents.PreGamestart.Add(CallPolyAttack)
Events.SerialEventHexHighlight.Add(CallPolyAttack)

--Also tried this--

function CallPolyPttack(iUnit)
    local bCanPoly = iUnit:GetIsCombatUnit()
    local bIsHigh = iUnit:GetIsSelected()
    if bCanPoly == true
    and bIsHigh == true then
        local iExtraAttacks = iUnit:GetNumEnemyUnitsAdjacent()
        local iTiles = iUnit:GetMoves()
        local iTotalAttacks = iExtraAttacks() + iTiles()
        if (not iExtraAttacks() == 0) then
            for i=iTotalAttacks(),0,-1
            do
                iUnit:SetMadeAttack(false)
                while iUnit:GetMadeAttack() == true
                do
                    local iTimesink = 1 + 1                   
                end
            end
        end
    end
end
GameEvents.PreGamestart.Add(CallPolyAttack)
Events.SerialEventHexHighlight.Add(CallPolyAttack)

 

[LeeS]

lua API hooks never send an object variable to a listener. They send ID numbers.

Events.SerialEventHexHighlight never sends any data regarding any unit to any listener assigned to it: http://modiki.civfanatics.com/index.php?title=Events.SerialEventHexHighlight_(Civ5_API)

GameEvents.PreGameStart() first is not spelled correctly in your code, and second passes no known argument data whatever: http://modiki.civfanatics.com/index.php?title=GameEvents.PreGameStart_(Civ5_API) No listener assigned to it can therefore attempt to use an argument such as you are attempting. Further, anything that is "PreGame" in any way is pretty much useless to mod-makers who are not specifically attempting to re-engineer the manner in which game loading and the like are conducted.

Thee are no reliable pre-combat lua hook events. Serial Events that may seem like they ought to work for such do not actually do so primarily because they do not fire if the human player cannot see the action, or if quick combat is turned on, etc.


Unit:SetBlitzCount() does not exist as part of the BNW Firaxis-Made API. Sure you did not get that method off the CP forum ? Or from one of William Howard's mods ? There is a Unit:GetBlitzCount() but not a "Set" method.

 

[AzraelZephyrian]

lua API hooks never send an object variable to a listener. They send ID numbers.

Events.SerialEventHexHighlight never sends any data regarding any unit to any listener assigned to it: http://modiki.civfanatics.com/index.php?title=Events.SerialEventHexHighlight_(Civ5_API)

GameEvents.PreGameStart() first is not spelled correctly in your code, and second passes no known argument data whatever: http://modiki.civfanatics.com/index.php?title=GameEvents.PreGameStart_(Civ5_API) No listener assigned to it can therefore attempt to use an argument such as you are attempting. Further, anything that is "PreGame" in any way is pretty much useless to mod-makers who are not specifically attempting to re-engineer the manner in which game loading and the like are conducted.

Thee are no reliable pre-combat lua hook events. Serial Events that may seem like they ought to work for such do not actually do so primarily because they do not fire if the human player cannot see the action, or if quick combat is turned on, etc.


Unit:SetBlitzCount() does not exist as part of the BNW Firaxis-Made API. Sure you did not get that method off the CP forum ? Or from one of William Howard's mods ? There is a Unit:GetBlitzCount() but not a "Set" method.

Welp, I messed up quite a bit. I'm very new to programming in general...and lua mods with respect to civ 5. Thanks for the pointers.