Lesson 1

**Bucket of Lithium** · June 21, 2009, 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by Fereveldir

and LosingMoney > 1000

The LosingMoney condition can't have a figure after it, I think it was mentioned earlier that all it does is check the balance sheet at the end of a turn to see if you are losing money, not by how much. You have two monitors with this in it, and I don't think either of them would then work properly.

Also I'm not sure if this matters but I think the event, in this case FactionTurnEnd and the first condition, in this case FactionType were meant to be put on the same line as the monitor_event part. It might not matter, but the examples given showed it as that.

**Augustus Lucifer** · June 21, 2009, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by Astaroth

Here's my script.

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Looks fine. It works in-game I assume?

Originally Posted by aduellist

BTW, has anyone played around with the SupportCostsPercentage condition?

Nope, but I don't see why it wouldn't work as specified. You will need to tailor an easily observable situation and do something like fire an event to see if it works as intended. For instance load a faction, check their expenditures in Turn 1. Recruit some units and see how much goes to it. Then do the math and use a number a bit lower than that as the condition parameter. Have it fire a historic event as the command so you know it worked.

Originally Posted by Theodotos I

Okay, I got this script in, real simple one—thought I would see if everything fired before expanding upon it. It fires, but Med2 crashes on the second endturn. I’m using the Barebones folder and I modified the .cfg file as suggested, but nothing is showing up. So, I tried aduellist’s script, exactly as posted. Crashes, second turn. Any idea what is going wrong?

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I don't see a problem with the script itself. Are you saying that the script fires and you get the money but then the next turn when you hit end turn it crashes?

Originally Posted by Fereveldir

Here's my very first try on scripting

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As Bucket of Lithium said, the event and first condition need to be on the same line as the monitor. In the economic boom monitor you need to capitalize Treasury and should only have one and before FactionIncome. In the useless monitor you should have FactionIncome instead of faction income and console_command instead of console command.

Originally Posted by Dewy

Sorry I'm studding for exams that start tomorrow and just signed on with The Last Kingdom as the expert scripter and have just copied and pasted my work done for that. This is above and beyond this lesson in some of the parts but it close enough. I have only put in 4

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Relatively. add_money is a Kingdoms command so it should be said that anyone running M2 needs to use the console_command variety. I'm not sure if that's an actual script intended to be in TLK, if it is I'd recommend you look into the possibility of locking the console as I seem to recall a command for that, as opposed to that method which could hurt a player not cheating(keep in mind it also won't stop cheating, since the player can keep adding money and spend it that turn or just out-add the subtraction). I don't frown at cheating though, but that's up to the people making the mod.

**Fev** · June 21, 2009, 07:56 AM

Ok, here's the new one.

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**Augustus Lucifer** · June 21, 2009, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by Fereveldir

Ok, here's the new one.

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Still missing a capital in the Useless... monitor, factionIncome should be FactionIncome. Also, you should add wait_monitors above end_script. After you fix that make sure it runs as intended in-game.

**Augustus Lucifer** · June 21, 2009, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by Hesus de bodemloze

Oke i tried some thing else.

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Sorry missed this one. It looks good except for the third one. The FactionNewCapital monitor only exports the faction, so it won't work with the TargetSettlementIsLocal condition. It is, to put it lightly, a useless event. It could be a wonderful event that lets you base things off what a faction's capital is, but no, it is very closed in terms of what you can use it for.

**Icedie El Guaraní** · June 21, 2009, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by Dewy

try putting in the names of the vanilla version that you replaced

What are you talking about? its all working fine now, it was as GED said, i type wait_monitor instead of wait_monitors.

the factions are not vanilla but entirely new, you should know as former member of our team.

**GrnEyedDvl** · June 21, 2009, 08:51 AM

Things are looking good and I see a bunch of you trying new things. A few points:

Whenever you are trying a new event, always check and see what it exports. If the exported parameters do not match the trigger requirements of the condition, it will not fire. This is probably the hardest part for people to grasp. I will use the example posted by Hesus to explain.

He used the FactionNewCapital event to trigger his monitor and tried to use the TargetSettlementIsLocal condition. If you look in the docudemons it says this:

Code:

Identifier: FactionNewCapital
Event: A Faction has changed its capital
Exports: faction
Class:ET_FACTION_NEW_CAPITAL

Code:

Identifier: TargetSettlementIsLocal
Trigger requirements: settlement
Parameters: None
Sample use: TargetSettlementIsLocal
Description: Does the target settlement belong to the local faction?
Battle or Strat: Either
Class: TARGET_SETTLEMENT_IS_LOCAL

Here you can see that he is checking an event that exports faction with a condition that requires settlement. This script will never run because the export and the requirement do not match. A better choice would be FactionIsLocal.

We havent talked about the Target conditions yet, but a brief explanation is in order. A Target is the recipient of the action that the current event fires true for. For example if we checked the FactionWarDeclared event by using something like this to start our monitor we would detect when a non player controlled faction declares war:

Code:

monitor_event FactionWarDeclared not FactionIsLocal

The event exports faction, target_faction, and target_religion. Faction is the faction that declared war, target_faction/religion is the name of the faction they declared war on.

**Odoaker** · June 21, 2009, 09:22 AM

Where do I ask any questions depending to these lessons? Am I rhight here?

**GrnEyedDvl** · June 21, 2009, 09:23 AM

This is the place

**Odoaker** · June 21, 2009, 09:32 AM

I have an "mod-collector-folder" within exist some mods in their folders. Is it ok, if I put my scripts into it? Because of some much work, MTW2 is not installed yet. My machine will be to slow then...
Greetings!

**GrnEyedDvl** · June 21, 2009, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by Odoaker

I have an "mod-collector-folder" within exist some mods in their folders. Is it ok, if I put my scripts into it? Because of some much work, MTW2 is not installed yet. My machine will be to slow then...
Greetings!

We will be taking screen shots for when historic_events fire. You really need a working mod folder.

**Fev** · June 21, 2009, 10:30 AM

I can't seem to bring my mod folder to work either. Barbones.bat for example doesn't work.

**GrnEyedDvl** · June 21, 2009, 10:34 AM

whats in the system log?

**Legio** · June 21, 2009, 10:48 AM

Here is mine, this is the first time I am touching a text file in M2 so it might be.....um

It's a little small but I hope it's good.

Code:

;
;campaign script
;script

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType france
 and FactionIsLocal
 and Treasury >1000
 console_command add_money england 10000
end_monitor

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd Faction Type poland
 and not FactionIsLocal
 and Treasury >100
 console_command add_money hre 2500
end_monitor

monitor-event FactionTurnStart FactionType hre
 and FactionIsLocal
 console_command add_money venice 900

end_script

**GrnEyedDvl** · June 21, 2009, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Legio Caesar

Here is mine, this is the first time I am touching a text file in M2 so it might be.....um

It's a little small but I hope it's good.

Code:

;
;campaign script
;script
 
monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType france
 and FactionIsLocal
 and Treasury >1000
 console_command add_money england 10000
end_monitor
 
monitor_event FactionTurnEnd Faction Type poland
 and not FactionIsLocal
 and Treasury >100
 console_command add_money hre 2500
end_monitor
 
monitor-event FactionTurnStart FactionType hre
 and FactionIsLocal
 console_command add_money venice 900
 
end_script

The part in red...

It should be monitor_event not monitor-event

Why are you giving money to venice on hre's turn?

**Legio** · June 21, 2009, 10:59 AM

I was thinking to make the game harder I would inject factions around another faction with cash.

**GrnEyedDvl** · June 21, 2009, 11:01 AM

Thats fine, I was just wondering. You can actually use that as a base for more complex ideas. Like HRE takes X province who happens to be at war with Venice, and they share loot.

**Legio** · June 21, 2009, 11:03 AM

Yes, what I hope to be able to do is recreate the sacking of Constantinople in 1204.....France takes it and Venice gets loads.
And thanks for being patient with me!

**GrnEyedDvl** · June 21, 2009, 11:14 AM

Just remember, baby steps. My best scripts all started with an idea and 3 lines of code. The banking script wasnt even my idea, and it turned into a monster 7400 lines of code.