Religion Switching

**JorisofHolland** · August 28, 2009, 08:52 AM

I'm working on a script that will enable all factions (in the Americas Capmaign) to switch religion, if they ally a nation that has a different religion, they will have to choose between their ways and the way of the other.
Now, the script isn't causing much trouble but one thing is: the "offer", that will enable the choise. I tried to change one of the events and replace it with the one from the Teutonic Campaign, but it did not work. Does anyone know waht I am doing wrong/missing/whatever?

**konny** · August 29, 2009, 04:34 AM

Absolutly impossible to say without knowing the code you are trying to implement.

**JorisofHolland** · August 29, 2009, 10:01 AM

This is the script I use (just a test round):

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

And I used a strings.bin editor to copy the "Lithuania Conversion" (in historic_events.txt) text from teutonic campaign to my modfolder, and pasted it in the "america discovered" event.

**Gigantus** · August 29, 2009, 11:27 AM

Don't I wish it was that easy!

If at all you need the whole stuff from the campaign_script file of the teutonic campaign.

**JorisofHolland** · August 29, 2009, 11:48 AM

So I have to copy and change everything related to the conversion?

**Gigantus** · August 29, 2009, 12:10 PM

I am no script guru, but I would think so. A simple 'cloning' should do the trick. And the obvious historic_events file.
Get the converter to work with it in TXT format.

**JorisofHolland** · August 29, 2009, 02:11 PM

The converter works easier than the editor I used, thanks for that and the advice, of course

BTW: Does the converter automatically reconvert the files?

**Gigantus** · August 29, 2009, 08:40 PM

The 'reconversion' happens automatically: at the start of the game new string.bin files will be generated if the corresponding TXT file is 'younger'.

**JorisofHolland** · August 30, 2009, 08:43 AM

Thanks again

**Gigantus** · August 30, 2009, 08:57 AM

One is glad to be of service

**Augustus Lucifer** · September 03, 2009, 02:34 PM

The religious conversion used in the teutonic campaign is a bit more complex then that. What you have there in the above is just an event, all it will do is pop an accept/decline scroll, the resulting click on Accept or Decline hasn't been programmed to actually do anything.

This part of the script is the meat of it in terms of the actual conversion, a lot of the rest just handles timers and things which add complexity. I've color coded some of the relevant lines and left a comment line in red below it to explain what the lines are doing.

Code:

	monitor_conditions I_EventCounter lithuania_conversion_accepted = 1 
;;This counter is set when you click Accept, so the monitor looks for clicking accept and then everything within this monitor fires
		
		;Three easy steps for conversion
		
		;1 - Convert the people
		set_religion lithuania catholic 
                ;;Blue = command to change religion, Green = Faction to change it for, Orange = Religion to change it to; this command is the basic religion change, nothing else is technically needed for the religion itself to change.
		change_population_religion lithuania catholic 75 pagan
                ;;Blue = Command to convert a % of the population to the new religion, Green = Faction to affect the change on, Indigo = Religion to convert them into, Cyan = Total % out of 100 to convert, Orange = Religion to take the converted % from
                ;;So if religious distribution before was Pagan 95%, Orthodox 5%, Catholic 0%, after the above command runs it would be Pagan 20%, Orthodox 5%, Catholic 75%
		
		;2 - Destroy the pagan buildings
		destroy_buildings lithuania temple_dievas true
		;;Blue = Command to destroy all buildings across faction of specified type, Green = Faction to affect it on, Indigo = The internal name of the building level to be destroyed, Orange = Whether or not to refund the cost of the building to the faction; Same is true for all below
		destroy_buildings lithuania temple_dievas_castle true
		destroy_buildings lithuania temple_perkunas true
		destroy_buildings lithuania temple_perkunas_castle true
		destroy_buildings lithuania temple_giltine true
		destroy_buildings lithuania temple_giltine_castle true
		
		;3 - Disband the pagan units
		retire_characters Lithuania priest
		;;Blue = Command to remove all agents of the specified type, Green = Faction to affect it on, Indigo = Agent to affect it on

end_monitor

So you would need to modify all of the above to work for your event name, factions, religions, buildings, agent types, etc. If you're using the americas event a very simple example would be this:

Code:

monitor_event EventCounter EventCounterType america_discovered_accepted
    and I_EventCounter america_discovered_accepted == 1
;;Checks the accepted event counter being set to 1 by the player clicking Accept

;set religion conversion counter to be picked up next turn
set_event_counter religious_conversion 1
;reset the event counter so it doesn't keep firing
set_event_counter america_discovered_accepted 0

end_monitor

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
    and FactionType mayans
    and FactionReligion pagan
    and I_EventCounter religious_conversion == 1
;;Checks that the faction is mayans, the religious conversion has been accepted, and the current religion is Pagan

;Change religion for mayans  
  set_religion mayans catholic
;Convert 75% of the populace to new religion
  change_population_religion mayans catholic 75 pagan
end_monitor

That's just an example. The above script doesn't destroy religious buildings or retire characters, you'll have to look up which ones you want to destroy. It also only works for the mayans and only if they're currently pagan and converting to catholic. Furthermore, it doesn't define the reasons why they're getting the conversion or the conversion event, so it doesn't factor in an allied religion.

All of these things you need to define for your script, as well as other specific caveats. For instance it currently converts 75% of the population to the new religion, but if it were my script I'd make that much lower since to me the mere fact that the leader says the state religion has changed isn't going to make that high of a percentage forsake the old religion immediately.

**JorisofHolland** · September 04, 2009, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by Augustus Lucifer

The religious conversion used in the teutonic campaign is a bit more complex then that. What you have there in the above is just an event, all it will do is pop an accept/decline scroll, the resulting click on Accept or Decline hasn't been programmed to actually do anything.

This part of the script is the meat of it in terms of the actual conversion, a lot of the rest just handles timers and things which add complexity. I've color coded some of the relevant lines and left a comment line in red below it to explain what the lines are doing.

Code:

    monitor_conditions I_EventCounter lithuania_conversion_accepted = 1 
;;This counter is set when you click Accept, so the monitor looks for clicking accept and then everything within this monitor fires
 
        ;Three easy steps for conversion
 
        ;1 - Convert the people
        set_religion lithuania catholic 
                ;;Blue = command to change religion, Green = Faction to change it for, Orange = Religion to change it to; this command is the basic religion change, nothing else is technically needed for the religion itself to change.
        change_population_religion lithuania catholic 75 pagan
                ;;Blue = Command to convert a % of the population to the new religion, Green = Faction to affect the change on, Indigo = Religion to convert them into, Cyan = Total % out of 100 to convert, Orange = Religion to take the converted % from
                ;;So if religious distribution before was Pagan 95%, Orthodox 5%, Catholic 0%, after the above command runs it would be Pagan 20%, Orthodox 5%, Catholic 75%
 
        ;2 - Destroy the pagan buildings
        destroy_buildings lithuania temple_dievas true
        ;;Blue = Command to destroy all buildings across faction of specified type, Green = Faction to affect it on, Indigo = The internal name of the building level to be destroyed, Orange = Whether or not to refund the cost of the building to the faction; Same is true for all below
        destroy_buildings lithuania temple_dievas_castle true
        destroy_buildings lithuania temple_perkunas true
        destroy_buildings lithuania temple_perkunas_castle true
        destroy_buildings lithuania temple_giltine true
        destroy_buildings lithuania temple_giltine_castle true
 
        ;3 - Disband the pagan units
        retire_characters Lithuania priest
        ;;Blue = Command to remove all agents of the specified type, Green = Faction to affect it on, Indigo = Agent to affect it on
 
end_monitor

So you would need to modify all of the above to work for your event name, factions, religions, buildings, agent types, etc. If you're using the americas event a very simple example would be this:

Code:

monitor_event EventCounter EventCounterType america_discovered_accepted
    and I_EventCounter america_discovered_accepted == 1
;;Checks the accepted event counter being set to 1 by the player clicking Accept
 
;set religion conversion counter to be picked up next turn
set_event_counter religious_conversion 1
;reset the event counter so it doesn't keep firing
set_event_counter america_discovered_accepted 0
 
end_monitor
 
monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
    and FactionType mayans
    and FactionReligion pagan
    and I_EventCounter religious_conversion == 1
;;Checks that the faction is mayans, the religious conversion has been accepted, and the current religion is Pagan
 
;Change religion for mayans  
  set_religion mayans catholic
;Convert 75% of the populace to new religion
  change_population_religion mayans catholic 75 pagan
end_monitor

That's just an example. The above script doesn't destroy religious buildings or retire characters, you'll have to look up which ones you want to destroy. It also only works for the mayans and only if they're currently pagan and converting to catholic. Furthermore, it doesn't define the reasons why they're getting the conversion or the conversion event, so it doesn't factor in an allied religion.

All of these things you need to define for your script, as well as other specific caveats. For instance it currently converts 75% of the population to the new religion, but if it were my script I'd make that much lower since to me the mere fact that the leader says the state religion has changed isn't going to make that high of a percentage forsake the old religion immediately.

Most of what you say I already knew, but there are some things I didn't. However, the biggest problem is (for now) the event isn't offered as it should.

**Augustus Lucifer** · September 04, 2009, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by JorisofHolland

Most of what you say I already knew, but there are some things I didn't. However, the biggest problem is (for now) the event isn't offered as it should.

If you're using the code you posted a few posts up, terminating a monitor within an if statement will break it.

**JorisofHolland** · September 04, 2009, 08:20 AM

I have this code, but still one or two problems (maybe even more)

Code:

 
 
 declare_counter americas_discovered
 declare_coutner religious_conversion
 
 monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType mayans
 
  if I_TurnNumber = 2
   and I_EventCounter americas_discovered = 0
 
   ;offer conversion to christianity
   historic_event americas_discovered true factions { mayans, }
 
   ;if AI random chance to accept
   if I_IsFactionAIControlled mayans
 
    generate_random_counter random_accept 0 2
    if I_EventCounter random_accept < 2
     set_event_counter americas_discovered_accepted 1
    end_if
 
   end_if 
 
   terminate_monitor
;
;   Counter for converting
;
monitor_event EventCounter EventCounterType america_discovered_accepted
    and I_EventCounter america_discovered_accepted == 1
;;Checks the accepted event counter being set to 1 by the player clicking Accept
;set religion conversion counter to be picked up next turn
set_event_counter religious_conversion 1
;reset the event counter so it doesn't keep firing
set_event_counter america_discovered_accepted 0
end_monitor
monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
    and FactionType mayans
    and FactionReligion pagan
    and I_EventCounter religious_conversion == 1
;;Checks that the faction is mayans, the religious conversion has been accepted, and the current religion is Pagan
;Change religion for mayans  
  set_religion mayans catholic
;Convert 75% of the populace to new religion
  change_population_religion mayans catholic 75 pagan
end_monitor

There is no "offer" in the 2d turn, in the third it just continious playing normal, as in the 4th turn.

**Augustus Lucifer** · September 04, 2009, 08:08 PM

One problem is shown in red:

Code:

 monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType mayans
 
  if I_TurnNumber = 2
   and I_EventCounter americas_discovered = 0

You declared a counter but are checking for an event counter. Try using I_CompareCounter instead. You're also missing an end_monitor on the first monitor, which is likely the real issue. The other one would probably function but if you tried to manipulate it and make it 1 or something then it would be off-base.