SetNumRealBuilding

[Thalassicus]

I have two variables, city and buildingID. I print the city name and building ID, then call city:SetNumRealBuilding(buildingID, 1) with this code:

logger:Error("CheckFreeBuildings %10s best %10s building: %20s", city:GetName(), row.FlavorType, (buildingID == -1) and "None Available" or GameInfo.Buildings[buildingID].Type)
if buildingID ~= -1 then
  city:SetNumRealBuilding(buildingID, 1)
  logger:Error("Awarded Building")
end

This is the output:

ERROR  CheckFreeBuildings     London best FLAVOR_CULTURE building:      BUILDING_TEMPLE
ERROR  Awarded Building

No temple appears in London... how the heck is this possible?

 

[Spatzimaus]

I've been using that function for a long time now with no problems, although in my case it's a simpler

pCity:SetNumRealBuilding(GameInfoTypes.BUILDING_PLUS_1,happyCount);

since I already know exactly what building type I want to be adding. (I've got several of these as part of my "Head Start" mechanism.)

So if your BuildingID equals GameInfoTypes.BUILDING_TEMPLE, then it should work just fine. Now, I'm not sure how it deals with prerequisites for this; if the city doesn't have a Monument, will placing a Temple work? I know that it fails when doing that for the FreeStartEra stubs, so it's possible that the function limits you like that.

 

[Thalassicus]

I city:CanConstruct(buildingID) returns true, so in theory the prerequisite should be met. Maybe I'm getting the parameters wrong for CanConstruct? There are:

boolean city:canConstruct(int iBuilding, boolean bContinue, boolean bTestVisible, boolean bIgnoreCost);

There's only one example of where these parameters are used: "city:CanConstruct( buildingID, 0, 1 )" in ProductionPopup.lua.

 

[Spatzimaus]

The problem is that some places that have that sort of index want the building CLASS, not the entry in the Buildings table. The SetNumRealBuildings definitely uses the Buildings entry, but the CanConstruct might go by class...

 

[Thalassicus]

I can confirm CanConstruct goes by building ID, not buildingclass ID.