needs a living character?

[Gigantus]

Anyone got an idea why my trigger causes an error? I am testing for a character with an army before testing for the percentage. Have I forgotten something? "baggage" is the attribute of a unit in the EDU.

Trigger Verpflegung
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart
    Condition IsGeneral
    and FactionIsLocal
    and PercentageUnitAttribute baggage > 0

    Affects Verpflegung 1 chance  100

21:10:29.322 [game.script] [error] Trigger processing error in <Verpflegung> 
: PercentageUnitAttribute needs a living character with an army.

[Aikanár]

Have you tryed to substitute FactionIsLocal with CharacterIsLocal and if so to what result?

[TNZ]

Maybe this:

Trigger Verpflegung
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart
    Condition CharacterIsLocal
    and IsGeneral
    and TimeWithArmy >= 1
    and PercentageUnitAttribute baggage > 0

    Affects Verpflegung 1 chance  100

[wolf-yop]

maybe you have a general whitout army and because it need a army it crash. try whit and IsFactionLeader

[Gigantus]

It doesn't crash, just an annoying error message in my otherwise pristine log.

According to the Docudemons "IsGeneral" tests if a character has an army. I will try with "TimeWithArmy" but I have my doubts.
"CharacterIsLocal" is worth a try as well.


TimeWithArmy doesn't work, must be for agents
CharacterIsLocal works, but error message remains

[Taiji]

Maybe add:

and not EndedInSettlement

Just thinking perhaps a garrison doesn't count as an army.

[Gigantus]

It does need an army to fire in the first place, problem is, that IsGeneral is supposed to test if the character has an army.
There are no negative effects of the error if a character hasn't got an army.

My thought: this was originally only for battle (where every general has an army), hence it hasn't got a proper check.

[Taiji]

I think your thought may be right. It's potentially very useful in battle scripting, so it might be restricted to it.

Note:

Identifier: IsGeneral
Trigger requirements: character_record
Parameters: None
Sample use: IsGeneral
Description: Test to see if the character can command a land army
Battle or Strat: Either
Class: CHARACTER_IS_GENERAL
Implemented: Yes
Author: Lee

It only tests if the character is capable of command. So generals and family, no agents.

[Gigantus]

Something like "HasArmy" would be helpful here.

[wolf-yop]

Identifier: IsAdmiral
Trigger requirements: character_record
Parameters: None
Sample use: IsAdmiral
Description: Test to see if the character has an army
Battle or Strat: Either
Class: CHARACTER_IS_ADMIRAL

maybe this work.

[Gigantus]

Same as IsGeneral, just for an admiral (fleet).

[wolf-yop]

I think there is no solution, even if you have a condition HasArmy because if its not true the trigger still will check the condition PercentUnitAttribute for all generals and then you will have the error. If IsGeneral work like you wanted then you will cant give traits to generals whitout army.

Whit this PercentageUnitCategory Infantry > 0 before the PercentUnitAttribute still gives error. You will need whentotest character(whitarmy)turnstart

[Gigantus]

Guess I will have to live with those spots in my otherwise pristine log, sigh...

[Aikanár]

Hm, since TimeWithArmy works for agents and checks the character_record, why not abandon the IsGeneral condition all together and use AgentType = general ?

[TNZ]

Hm, since TimeWithArmy works for agents and checks the character_record, why not abandon the IsGeneral condition all together and use AgentType = general ?

Good idea Aikanár. That might work:

Trigger Verpflegung
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart
    Condition CharacterIsLocal
    and AgentType >= general
    and TimeWithArmy >= 1
    and PercentageUnitAttribute baggage > 0

    Affects Verpflegung 1 chance  100

[Gigantus]

I will give it a spin.

Edit: summary

AgentType = general
- tests for a captain, needs 'named character'

TimeWithArmy
- does not fire with named character

Back to square one

[Aikanár]

dang!

[Swagger]

and not AgentType = heretic

excluding 1 [crap character] automaticly makes the engine accept all others.

Trigger Verpflegung
WhenToTest CharacterTurnStart
    Condition FactionIsLocal
    and not AgentType = heretic
    and PercentageUnitAttribute baggage > 0

    Affects Verpflegung 1 chance  100

[Taiji]

Gigantus, perhaps try it with an event which exports an army. Like GeneralCaptureSettlement or something similar. Possibly it's an unlisted requirement.

I appreciate it might not be useful in the application you're trying to build but it might be nice to see it work on the strat map.

[Gigantus]

@ swagger

I will give that a try. Might take a while to come back as I am busy adding factions to that mod.