The Script-o-Rama (last updated April 15th 2009)

[just]

The only thing that needs to be modified is the number type, it's float in empire, double in default Lua. At this point the disassembler works.
To get the decompiler to work on that you'll need to add some missing stuff, especially setlist with variable number of arguments (b == 0) is missing and a cause for many scripts not to decompile.

[harshman_chris]

The only thing that needs to be modified is the number type, it's float in empire, double in default Lua. At this point the disassembler works.
To get the decompiler to work on that you'll need to add some missing stuff, especially setlist with variable number of arguments (b == 0) is missing and a cause for many scripts not to decompile.

Alright I will pass that along to him.

[just]

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[just]

If you want I can give you output with the errors still in them.
Nearly always when this happens the actual code should be:

function FunctionName (...)
  for i,v in ipairs(arg) do

There are a lot I can't handle yet, attached are those I can handle.

btw, functions are written as:

l_0_0 = function() ... end
FunctionName = l_0_0

The variables are named l_?_? for locals. The first question mark indicates the function (0 if not in a function), the second which variable it is for that function.

[Cursisanafou]

alpaca, i should have just done with your scripting environment to start with..... after i substituted your scripts into the game, it tooks about 2 minutes to get a trait added to boston and only boston.

Thank you so much...

One question though.... do you have any function stuff i could use to find out if a faction exists in the world?

The problem is that faction turn start and slot turn start seem to happen at the same time... so having faction turn start set a value doesn't totally work... although it may work for what i want to do since it's going to happen much later int he grand campaign.

[alpaca]

alpaca, i should have just done with your scripting environment to start with..... after i substituted your scripts into the game, it tooks about 2 minutes to get a trait added to boston and only boston.

Thank you so much...

One question though.... do you have any function stuff i could use to find out if a faction exists in the world?

The problem is that faction turn start and slot turn start seem to happen at the same time... so having faction turn start set a value doesn't totally work... although it may work for what i want to do since it's going to happen much later int he grand campaign.

There's also FactionRoundStart that's probably implemented for just such cases. Glad that you can work with my environment. It'll change often though so make sure you make notes what you put in. Also make sure you edit the region saving and loading if you need to store values (or even better wait for the next version of TI because that changes a lot about the save/load mechanism)

[Cursisanafou]

There's also FactionRoundStart that's probably implemented for just such cases. Glad that you can work with my environment. It'll change often though so make sure you make notes what you put in. Also make sure you edit the region saving and loading if you need to store values (or even better wait for the next version of TI because that changes a lot about the save/load mechanism)

i haven't added a whole lot so far so it's all good.

Now i'm trying to call CampaignUI within the slot turn start function.. as far as i can tell it doesn't seem to work...

Have you tried anything with that? I'm pretty sure i was putting it in right..

Oh well, i'm not totally going for a historically accurate game... although it would be nice to be able to check the year in order to add traits later in the game and such.

Maybe i have to go by turn number... which wouldn't be bad just a pain in the ass, and if anyone has a mod to change the amount of turns per year would screw it up.

Basically i got rid of all the minor factions and just have the major faction in the game right now... makes for a bit more interesting AI gameplay.

At the moment though britain and france don't create troops in america... which basically makes the americas useless.... so what i'm going to do is give a trait to boston to increase the unhappiness in order to force a revolution. Then when the US controls boston i'll remove the trait.

[alpaca]

i haven't added a whole lot so far so it's all good.

Now i'm trying to call CampaignUI within the slot turn start function.. as far as i can tell it doesn't seem to work...

Have you tried anything with that? I'm pretty sure i was putting it in right..

Oh well, i'm not totally going for a historically accurate game... although it would be nice to be able to check the year in order to add traits later in the game and such.

Maybe i have to go by turn number... which wouldn't be bad just a pain in the ass, and if anyone has a mod to change the amount of turns per year would screw it up.

Basically i got rid of all the minor factions and just have the major faction in the game right now... makes for a bit more interesting AI gameplay.

At the moment though britain and france don't create troops in america... which basically makes the americas useless.... so what i'm going to do is give a trait to boston to increase the unhappiness in order to force a revolution. Then when the US controls boston i'll remove the trait.

CampaignUI works fine in SlotTurnStart. Can you post the function you're using?

[demis14]

is there a way to add a building or an empty slot to a city through script?

[alpaca]

No, I don't think so

[demis14]

no problem, I have found the way to do it from the start!

[Bladerunner]

Any advance wih the luac-decomplilation? Imo open them up, would be a boost for the modding possibilities. The Empire.exe is quite small, so there need to be many things in other files and the luac-files seem to me the best place to search in...

[alpaca]

Yeah I made some progress on porting the decompiler a bit further to 5.1 but you're mistaken about the changes that'll allow you to make. The luac files only contain UI stuff so the best we can hope for with them is creating things like custom messages and decisions, etc. for the player.

[The Vicar]

Is there anyway to script diplomacy?

That is, script a declaration of war, or force a peace or alliance?

I'm specifically thinking of the scripting.game_interface:force_diplomacy but the more I look at it, the more it looks like it activates/deactivates the ability to access these options in the diplomacy screen.

[alpaca]

No, force_diplomacy doesn't work for this and there's no other similar command unfortunately

[harshman_chris]

Is there anyway to script diplomacy?

That is, script a declaration of war, or force a peace or alliance?

I'm specifically thinking of the scripting.game_interface:force_diplomacy but the more I look at it, the more it looks like it activates/deactivates the ability to access these options in the diplomacy screen.

Scanning through the CampaignUI I found this DeclareWarInstant, which might be what you are looking for, I don't know what it accepts though.

[Friar Chris]

Where exactly can one find all of the lua? In one of the pack files? I see the events lua and have noted a few entries with interest but can't get at the controlling script itself...

[harshman_chris]

Where exactly can one find all of the lua? In one of the pack files? I see the events lua and have noted a few entries with interest but can't get at the controlling script itself...

There are the lua files in the main.patch pack, as well as the scripting.lua in the data/campaigns/main which is the one that handles stuff for the grand campaign.

[Friar Chris]

Ah I see, thankyou; is it possible to access unit behaviour scripting then? As I see in events, for example, UnitUsingWall, but alas I fear it may be hardcoded?

[Friar Chris]

So, scripting for unit behaviour not available then...?