advisor/script problem/bug

**Giovi** · August 28, 2008, 07:34 AM

i don't kwnow why but the advisor when i press esc doesn't appear..... any help will be much appreciate....

btw if see http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=46 FRRE mod the scirpt activation is much easier maybe u can ask to salvor or someone of this team to help you

**Hister** · August 28, 2008, 07:51 AM

You have to press esc and then click on the menu's question mark - advisor will then appear! press on show me how. That's it.

Thanx, we will ask them for a tutorial.

**Giovi** · August 28, 2008, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Hister

You have to press esc and then click on the menu's question mark - advisor will then appear! press on show me how. That's it.

Thanx, we will ask them for a tutorial.

Ty can u provide a screenshoot plz?

**Hister** · August 28, 2008, 10:34 AM

Here you go Giovi - it should help now

When you pres esc this appears - click on the encircled questionmark:

Then press on encircled "show me how" button -> 4tpy script is activated.

**Giovi** · August 28, 2008, 11:43 AM

ty so much now it works perfectly really ty hister

btw your metos of activating the script is great i have just not understood how it works but now is very fine and for the next version you should leave it as it 's now

**Hister** · August 28, 2008, 12:05 PM

You think so - dunno, i also forget some time to activate the script but if we would have an advisor to appear I wouldn't so it's best to figure it out how to implement that. It shouldn't be to hard.

**Pode** · September 01, 2008, 10:12 AM

At least in my case, the script doesn't always "take" and has to be activated twice. I have the same problem with EB's script. I compulsively save before every end turn, so it's not a problem. I can always tell when a turn processed without the script because every historical event in vanilla BI gets triggered and I get a flood of message boxes.

**HouseOfHam** · September 02, 2008, 01:45 PM

Yeah, this problem exists in many mods, especially where a script generating program was used to create the 4tpy script. It's due to a problem in the way RTW processes scripts. Most 4tpy scripts have code that looks like this:

Code:

console_command date -229
console_command season summer
while I_TurnNumber = 38
    suspend_unscripted_advice true
end_while

console_command date -229
console_command season winter
while I_TurnNumber = 39
    suspend_unscripted_advice true
end_while

console_command date -228
console_command season summer
while I_TurnNumber = 40
    suspend_unscripted_advice true
end_while

Maybe the person who wrote the script/script generator did not think this was that big of an issue, or maybe they just did not realize what the problem was. Certainly took me a while to come up with an explanation...

When you quit a game to start a new campaign, the script from the previous game is still running (this is a bug in RTW!) and it still thinks it's on turn number n. When you hit 'End Turn' and the value of I_TurnNumber changes (to 1, in case of a new campaign), the condition in the while loop becomes false and it moves on to the next line of code, to update the year/season, then checks the next while loop condition. That condition is also false, so it will keep updating the year/season until it gets to the end of the 4tpy script. Since historical events are triggered by year/season changes, you then end up getting a whole bunch of them.

To prevent this from happening, the code can be modified slightly so the while condition stays true and the old script just does not do anything:

Code:

console_command date -229
console_command season summer
while I_TurnNumber < 39
    suspend_unscripted_advice true
end_while

console_command date -229
console_command season winter
while I_TurnNumber < 40
    suspend_unscripted_advice true
end_while

console_command date -228
console_command season summer
while I_TurnNumber < 41
    suspend_unscripted_advice true
end_while