tesbs tweaked spells

graywarden · Apr 17, 2010

tesb,

you load the TAG files with your config files

i will edit the HELP files as you indicated

and i will add the STRATEGY files if you approve their text.

I will upload the HELP/STRATEGY files on the SVN server after both you and Sephi approve

How does that work for you??

tesb said:

i apologize i already have done the txt tags

Spoiler :

this is the CIV4StreamlinedSpellsText.xml which is already included in the download above

the help texts are useful as are the strategy tags

good work just one minor detail:
the message that a spell is disabled for the cult of esus already shows up if you hover above the spell (like all other spells that are disabled for cult of esus just go in the pedia and look at sanctify for example)

edit: the spells themselves currently have no strategy tag/ help tag see here but i add them in the next batch

or you do it just tell me what i shall do

Spoiler :

Code:

<Civ4SpellInfos xmlns="x-schema:StreamlinedSpells_CIV4UnitSpellSchema.xml">
    <SpellInfos>
        <SpellInfo>
            <Type>SPELL_SHADOWSTEP</Type>
            <Description>TXT_KEY_SPELL_SHADOWSTEP</Description>
            <Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_SPELL_PLACEHOLDER_PEDIA</Civilopedia>
            <PromotionPrereq1>PROMOTION_SHADOW2</PromotionPrereq1>
			<PromotionPrereq2>PROMOTION_CHAOS1</PromotionPrereq2>
            <bAllowAI>1</bAllowAI>
            <bAllowAuto>1</bAllowAuto>															
            <bDisplayWhenDisabled>1</bDisplayWhenDisabled>
            <bHasCasted>1</bHasCasted>
            <AddPromotionType1>PROMOTION_SHADOWWALK</AddPromotionType1>
			<AddPromotionType2>PROMOTION_DANCE_OF_BLADES</AddPromotionType2>
            <Effect>EFFECT_SWORDS_SPARKS</Effect>
            <Sound>AS3D_SPELL_ENCHANTMENT</Sound>
            <Button>Art/Interface/Buttons/Promotions/Shadowwalk.dds</Button>
        </SpellInfo>
		<SpellInfo>
            <Type>SPELL_ADAPTIVE_ENCHANTMENT</Type>
            <Description>TXT_KEY_SPELL_ADAPTIVE_ENCHANTMENT</Description>
            <Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_SPELL_PLACEHOLDER_PEDIA</Civilopedia>
            <PromotionPrereq1>PROMOTION_ENCHANTMENT2</PromotionPrereq1>
			<PromotionPrereq2>PROMOTION_NATURE2</PromotionPrereq2>
            <bAllowAI>1</bAllowAI>
            <bAllowAuto>1</bAllowAuto>												
            <bDisplayWhenDisabled>1</bDisplayWhenDisabled>
            <bHasCasted>1</bHasCasted>
            <AddPromotionType1>PROMOTION_ENCHANTED_BLADE</AddPromotionType1>
            <RemovePromotionType1>PROMOTION_RUSTED</RemovePromotionType1>
			<AddPromotionType2>PROMOTION_FLAMING_ARROWS</AddPromotionType2>
			<AddPromotionType3>PROMOTION_POISONED_BLADE</AddPromotionType3>
            <Effect>EFFECT_ENCHANTED_BLADE</Effect>
            <Sound>AS3D_SPELL_ENCHANTMENT</Sound>
            <Button>, ,Art/Interface/Buttons/Promotions/Promotions_Atlas1.dds,3,8</Button>
        </SpellInfo>
		<SpellInfo>
            <Type>SPELL_BRAVERY</Type>
            <Description>TXT_KEY_SPELL_BRAVERY</Description>
            <Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_SPELL_PLACEHOLDER_PEDIA</Civilopedia>
            <PromotionPrereq1>PROMOTION_SPIRIT1</PromotionPrereq1>
			<PromotionPrereq2>PROMOTION_LAW3</PromotionPrereq2>
            <bAllowAI>1</bAllowAI>
            <bAllowAuto>1</bAllowAuto>									
            <bDisplayWhenDisabled>1</bDisplayWhenDisabled>
            <bHasCasted>1</bHasCasted>
            <AddPromotionType1>PROMOTION_COURAGE</AddPromotionType1>
			<AddPromotionType2>PROMOTION_VALOR</AddPromotionType2>
			<AddPromotionType3>PROMOTION_LOYALTY</AddPromotionType3>
            <bImmuneNotAlive>1</bImmuneNotAlive>
            <Effect>EFFECT_CREATION</Effect>
            <Sound>AS3D_SPELL_BLESS</Sound>
            <Button>, ,Art/Interface/Buttons/Promotions/Promotions_Atlas1.dds,1,16</Button>
        </SpellInfo>
		<SpellInfo>
            <Type>SPELL_RECOVERING_FLURRY</Type>
            <Description>TXT_KEY_SPELL_RECOVERING_FLURRY</Description>
            <Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_SPELL_PLACEHOLDER_PEDIA</Civilopedia>
            <PromotionPrereq1>PROMOTION_BODY1</PromotionPrereq1>
			<PromotionPrereq2>PROMOTION_BODY2</PromotionPrereq2>
            <bAllowAI>1</bAllowAI>
            <bAllowAuto>1</bAllowAuto>												
            <bDisplayWhenDisabled>1</bDisplayWhenDisabled>
            <bHasCasted>1</bHasCasted>
            <AddPromotionType1>PROMOTION_HASTED</AddPromotionType1>
            <RemovePromotionType1>PROMOTION_SLOW</RemovePromotionType1>
			<AddPromotionType2>PROMOTION_REGENERATION</AddPromotionType2>
            <bImmuneNeutral>1</bImmuneNeutral>
            <bImmuneEnemy>1</bImmuneEnemy>
            <bImmuneNotAlive>1</bImmuneNotAlive>
            <Effect>EFFECT_WIND_SWIRL</Effect>
            <Sound>AS3D_SPELL_HASTE</Sound>
            <Button>, ,Art/Interface/Buttons/Promotions/Promotions_Atlas1.dds,5,11</Button>
        </SpellInfo>
        <SpellInfo>
            <Type>SPELL_BATTLE_PREPARATION</Type>
            <Description>TXT_KEY_SPELL_BATTLE_PREPARATION</Description>
            <Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_SPELL_PLACEHOLDER_PEDIA</Civilopedia>
            <PromotionPrereq1>PROMOTION_ENCHANTMENT3</PromotionPrereq1>
			<PromotionPrereq2>PROMOTION_EARTH2</PromotionPrereq2>
            <bAllowAI>1</bAllowAI>
            <bDisplayWhenDisabled>1</bDisplayWhenDisabled>
            <bHasCasted>1</bHasCasted>
            <AddPromotionType1>PROMOTION_SPELLSTAFF</AddPromotionType1>
            <bBuffCasterOnly>1</bBuffCasterOnly>
			<AddPromotionType2>PROMOTION_STONESKIN</AddPromotionType2>
            <bBuffCasterOnly>1</bBuffCasterOnly>
            <Effect>EFFECT_SWORDS_SPARKS</Effect>
            <Sound>AS3D_SPELL_ENCHANTMENT</Sound>
            <Button>Art/Interface/Buttons/Promotions/Spellstaff.dds</Button>
        </SpellInfo>
		<SpellInfo>
            <Type>SPELL_POISONED_BLADE_ESUS</Type>
            <Description>TXT_KEY_SPELL_POISONED_BLADE_ESUS</Description>
            <Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_SPELL_PLACEHOLDER_PEDIA</Civilopedia>
            <PromotionPrereq1>PROMOTION_NATURE2</PromotionPrereq1>
			<ReligionPrereq>RELIGION_COUNCIL_OF_ESUS</ReligionPrereq>
            <bAllowAI>1</bAllowAI>
            <bAllowAuto>1</bAllowAuto>												
            <bDisplayWhenDisabled>1</bDisplayWhenDisabled>
            <bHasCasted>1</bHasCasted>
            <AddPromotionType1>PROMOTION_POISONED_BLADE</AddPromotionType1>
            <bImmuneNeutral>1</bImmuneNeutral>
            <Effect>EFFECT_SPELL1</Effect>
            <Sound>AS3D_SPELL_ENCHANTMENT</Sound>
            <Button>, ,Art/Interface/Buttons/Spells/Spells_Atlas1.dds,7,7</Button>
        </SpellInfo>
    </SpellInfos>
</Civ4SpellInfos>

Sephi · Apr 17, 2010

tesb said:
@Sephi

3) and this is rather important: an spell that got obsoleted by it's successor still shows up, although you can't cast it (the autocast is not darkened)
just look at the picture in the attachment.

I will fix this

tesb said:
4) the spell blur is obsoleted by shadowwalk, yet i can not find this in the actual code o.O (i can find that scorch obsoletes spring in the code though). how did you manage that is still works?

it's in a module in FFHPlus.

tesb said:
5) (last edit i swear) it is not possible to merge hope, inspiration and wall of stone since you can only add one "building" a time with the current *.xml code

will take care of it when I have some time.

tesb · Apr 17, 2010

@sephi
these are great news sephi my very thanks

@graywarden
*phew* i thought for a moment you were doing work i already have done. i am glad with your work

graywarden · Apr 17, 2010

tesb said:
@sephi
these are great new sephi my very thanks

@graywarden
*phew* i thought for a moment you were doing work i already have done. i am glad with your work

haha........ i HAD done work you had already done..... haha......

but erasing the TAG files was an easy fix.

I stopped with these spells because you had clear definitions for me to build the Help/Strategy Tags with.

The "Shooting Stars" and "Poison Blade-2" spells did not have enough info at the moment. When you have those built, you make the <TAG> Files and give me the info to make the other files to add to your work, like with those above.

tesb · Apr 17, 2010

the shooting stars already exist they come when you have master of the elements promotion (or something akin to that. requirement is earth 3 water 3 air 3 and fire 3) that was includes in the arcane mastery module.

the second poisoned blade spell is a workaround:
for a civilization that does follow the cult of esus the spells: enchanted blade and flaming arrows are blocked. with that in mind i blocked the spell adaptive enchantment as well to avoid abuse.

now here is the problem: if this civilization has a mage with nature 2 and enchantment 2 the mage will loose the ability to cast poisoned blade, since it is replaced by adaptive enchantment which is blocked.

to make sure he could still cast poisoned blade i made a second spell that is nearly identical to the poisoned blade spell only requiring of the caster that he has the cult of esus religion.
this new spell will also replace poisoned blade.

in conclusion:
Civilization not following the cult of esus:
Enchanted Blade + Flaming Arrows + Poisoned Blade = Adaptive Enchantment

Civilization following the cult of esus:
Poisoned Blade = Poisoned Blade
(it has the same name in-game, but not in code)

the normal spell

Spoiler :

the substitute

Spoiler :

edit: in the attachment are pictures for comparison.

graywarden · Apr 17, 2010

tesb said:
the shooting stars already exist they come when you have master of the elements promotion (or something akin to that. requirement is earth 3 water 3 air 3 and fire 3) that was includes in the arcane mastery module.

Spoiler :

Ok I just made a help tag for shooting stars, and left poison blade alone, unless you see a need for something more.

Sephi · Apr 17, 2010

promotion prereqs are already displayed in the pedia. Help entries should only list python effects.

tesb · Apr 17, 2010

@graywarden

i just checked the shooting stars and they have a pedia entry

Spoiler :

graywarden · Apr 17, 2010

tesb said:
@graywarden

i just checked the shooting stars and they have a pedia entry

[best is you focus on strategy and help of the spells that i add (shooting stars was not made by me)

@tesb,

yes i saw the pedia entry, there is also an existing strategy entry, which was why I only added the help file

@sephi,

thanks for clarifying the difference (again) between the help and strategy tags.

tesb · Apr 17, 2010

fyi

i have to redo some files to make the mod more modular. i going to sleep now, i update in some time tomorrow

graywarden · Apr 17, 2010

tesb said:
fyi

i have to redo some files to make the mod more modular. i going to sleep now, i update in some time tomorrow

have a good one, i will upload the help/strategy files later this evening to the SVN Server with the other fixes worked today.

meantime settling into a hotseat game/test for the rest of the evening

tesb · Apr 18, 2010

first release is out, update in the opening post is made. please comment

graywarden · Apr 18, 2010

tesb said:
first release is out, update in the opening post is made. please comment

tesb,

which spells need the help/strategy tags from the first post that I did not due last evening?

tesb · Apr 18, 2010

strategy tags like this

<TEXT>
<Tag>TXT_KEY_SPELL_SHADOWSTEP_STRATEGY</Tag>
<English>By combining the power of the Shadowwalk & the Dance of Blades Spells, your magic users can produce the Shadowstep Spell!</English>

would be usefull for
-Adaptive Enchantment
-Shadowstep
-Bravery
-Recovering Flurry
-Battle Preparation
-Embrace of Elements
-Sunrise

help is not needed (the one spell that does need a help txt already has one) and the general tags are already done by me. keep in mind that some special characters are not liked by the civ4 pedia.

they are however not that important but if you want to contribute you are very welcome

graywarden · Apr 18, 2010

Shadowstep is done
Battle prep is done
Bravery is done
Adap Enchantment is done

I will add Recovering Flurry/Embrace of Elements and Sunrise

yes i figured it out this morning when i loaded yesterdays tags, that the xml did not like the "&" and had to change them to "and"

I uploaded to svn this morning the files i did last night. I will quickly add these last few and get them uploaded, Sephi is working on the next patch. im pretty sure

tesb said:
strategy tags like this

would be usefull for
-Adaptive Enchantment
-Shadowstep
-Bravery
-Recovering Flurry
-Battle Preparation
-Embrace of Elements
-Sunrise

help is not needed (the one spell that does need a help txt already has one) and the general tags are already done by me. keep in mind that some special characters are not liked by the civ4 pedia.

they are however not that important but if you want to contribute you are very welcome

graywarden · Apr 18, 2010

@tesb

Added Help/Strategy tag files for these spells

Sunrise
Recovering Flurry
Embrace of Element

I had already made help files for the others, so i went ahead and did these as well to be consistant

@sephi

files uploade with Revision 175

Sephi · Apr 18, 2010

graywarden said:
thanks for clarifying the difference (again) between the help and strategy tags.

What i mean is this. A text "Requires Air 3, Earth 3, Fire 3 and Water 3 Levels!" adds zero information since the pedia already shows which prereqs are needed. A help TXT_KEY should only be added when there are python effects which the game can't read easily. I would also not make many strategy tags.

The thing is, once something gets changed, for example the prereq of shooting star spell, all the help/strategy TXT_KEY files might have wrong/old information. And since this module is in development it is more than likely that some things might get changed in the future

Sephi · Apr 18, 2010

so far I have merged

bravery
adaptive enchantment
shadowsteep
fireball->shooting stars

and added new buttons for the spells, else it might be a bit confusing

tesb · Apr 18, 2010

i hope you used the files in opening post. i just wonder, since it has zero views.

first release is out, update in the opening post is made. please comment

i modded them to be completely modular (the preview version was not)

Sephi · Apr 18, 2010

I had already merged them from the files you uploaded yesterday. moved the new spells to spellsplus module. But since I didn't change them at all, your module should also work fine with 8.02

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