futureTechs (get/set)
Amazing, thanks!
You want the onCanFoundCity event/execution point:
function register.onCanFoundCity(unit,advancedTribe)
if unit.location.baseTerrain == object.bMountains or unit.location.baseTerrain == object.bDesert then
return false
end
return true
endYou don't do anything. register.onCanFoundCity is a function that is run by the game when someone tries to found a city (the template handles this part). The game supplies the unit parameter (a unit object, the unit founding the city) and the advancedTribe parameter (a boolean, true or false, depending on whether this possible city is the result of an advanced tribe from a village or not). If the function returns true, the city can be founded as normal, if not, the city is not founded.
object.bDesert = civ.getTerrain(0,0,0)
Over the Reich doesn't use the template. The template was a response to how disorganised OTR's events became after "one more feature" syndrome took hold. JPetroski's Hinge of Fate does use an older version of the template.
You should be extracting the Lua Scenario Template into the folder of your scenario (the same place as the custom rules.txt).
Yes, this is correct. However, you don't have to build the whole object table yourself. The beginning of this video shows how to install the Lua Scenario Template to an existing scenario and generate an object.lua file with a script. Since the template has changed a bit, you have to move legacyEvents.txt to the EventsFiles directory instead of LuaTriggerEvents.
Global variables are disabled
WARNING: setGuaranteeUnitActivationType was set to nil. The functionality to guarantee that a tribe will have an active unit is disabled. Some events may not work properly until a unit type is specified.
...Various\Scenarios\Pulp Test 2\LuaCore\generalLibrary.lua:2967:
The variable name 'register' doesn't match any available local variables.
Consider the following possibilities:
Is 'register' misspelled?
Was 'register' misspelled on the line where it was defined?
(That is, was 'local register' misspelled?)
Was 'local register' defined inside a lower level code block?
For example:
if x > 3 then
local register = 3
else
local register = x
end
print(register)
If so, define 'register' before the code block:
local register = nil -- add this line
if x > 3 then
register = 3 -- remove local from this line
else
register = x -- remove local from this line
end
print(register)
If you really did mean to access a global variable, write:
_global.register
If you are trying to work in the console, use the command:
console.restoreGlobal()
to restore access to global variables (locals don't work well in the console)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
...Various\Scenarios\Pulp Test 2\LuaCore\generalLibrary.lua:2967: in metamethod '__index'
...nd Pulp Testing Various\Scenarios\Pulp Test 2\events.lua:1011: in main chunk
I'm not sure what you've done.
-- this file can be deleted if it is unnecessary
local register = {}
-- Checking if a unit can found a city
-- Return true if the unit can found a city
-- return false if it can't
-- If any one of the consolidated event, the discrete events,
-- or the separate file event return false, then the city
-- can't be built
-- Notes: Returning true does NOT override any normal city
-- building condition (like no adjacent cities, or cities at sea)
-- Registers a function that is called to determine if `unit` can found
-- a city at the unit's location. `advancedTribe` is `true` when picking
-- up a hut with `unit` triggers an advanced tribe.
-- Return `true` to allow, `false` to disallow.
function register.onCanFoundCity(unit,advancedTribe)
if _global.eventTesting then
civ.ui.text("separate file onCanFoundCity for "..unit.type.name)
end
return true
end
return registerfunction register.onCanFoundCity(unit,advancedTribe)Sorry, my bad! I should have checked this before posting about it -- was replying from my phone instead of from the computer where all my Civ files are located. I updated my original post to avoid misleading anyone in the future. Thank you for setting the record straight!
Maybe I can help with your other issue?Catfish's graphics modpack also requires (and includes) modifications to Rules.txt. He is taking advantage of some advanced graphics features that are only supported with TOTPP, and which require simultaneous changes to both the terrain image files and also Rules.txt to teach the game how to interpret those files.
I successfully ran the make object script and have a valid objects.lua file. That was a great video! My success ends there, though. I added the code to onCanFoundCity.lua, but no luck. I tried writing the code in all of the files you mentioned, each of them separately -- a lot of combos, but I still get that error or a variant of it. I wholly believe that I am doing something wrong, and that it is probably something silly.
This worked like a charm! Silly me. I copied and pasted a rules.txt file from another folder from before implementing the graphics modpack. Thank you for this fix! Feeling very old today...
onCanFoundCity.lua doesn't have a line to access object.lua, so that must also be included.
-- this file can be deleted if it is unnecessary
local object = require("object")
local register = {}
-- Checking if a unit can found a city
-- Return true if the unit can found a city
-- return false if it can't
-- If any one of the consolidated event, the discrete events,
-- or the separate file event return false, then the city
-- can't be built
-- Notes: Returning true does NOT override any normal city
-- building condition (like no adjacent cities, or cities at sea)
-- Registers a function that is called to determine if `unit` can found
-- a city at the unit's location. `advancedTribe` is `true` when picking
-- up a hut with `unit` triggers an advanced tribe.
-- Return `true` to allow, `false` to disallow.
function register.onCanFoundCity(unit,advancedTribe)
if unit.location.baseTerrain == object.bMountains or unit.location.baseTerrain == object.bDesert then
return false
end
return true
end
return registerYes.
