Castle Paradox

[bis_senchi]

I would like to update the ennemies formation on my maps using plotscripting.

At the beginning, I was thinking placing many formation set (some with very weak ennemies, some other a bit more strong and so on) but you can have only one ennemie formation set for a given x,y,z location

I have the beginning of the solution : when the main hero would arrive
on the map there would be a script in the autorun map,
that would check the hero level (using the command "get hero level (who)" )

The problem is what should I put next?

I was thinking of modifing ennemies stats and apperance (and why not the background in the same time) but I may be wrong

Has somoene already done this? What would be the most convenient way according to you?
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[TwinHamster]

You would probably want to use a 'Instead of Battle Script' if scaling formations are what you're after.

Your hero's level would be called up, and a random formation from a pre-made set of appropriate difficulty would be used for the fight.

Or, modifying each enemy's stats and appearances would also be a great way to do this.
(I wasn't even aware you could do this until checking the dictionary just now)

[Bob the Hamster]

[TMC]

Yes. Not to mention that the enemy modifying commands are very messy; several mistakes were made.


It's also possible to modify enemy formations, but that's probably a much harder avenue.

There's probably two easy ways of doing this: an instead of battle script which throws a different formation/formation set depending on the hero level, or by modifiying formation sets to include harder formations.
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[bis_senchi]

[ringthehat]

[Bob the Hamster]

[Spoon Weaver]

The only problem I see with the code, is basically that it refers to only 1 hero. but if thats not a problem then I guess it's fine. Here's the improvements that I think will help.

[bis_senchi]

This code will be usefull! And we us hero(0) which means that if the player came to play with a different hero placed first in the party (a futur friend)
the fight formations will be adapted and be able to fight!

Thanks a lot as always!

But guess what? I've got another problem!

I've started again to work on my YuGiOh game. You may remember that you helped me to implement the D key thanks to which the Npc could say something different from what they says with a text box.

You especially helped me with the switch. Here's the script

[ringthehat]

try this syntax instead:

[TMC]

This is what your code looks like:

[bis_senchi]

Thanks! The script works perfectly now! I just had to replace while(s) and do(s) by if(s) and then. I wonder how I went to put while in this script....

may be an old confusion from implementing new behaviour for the keys. Anyway... I'm learning how strings works by now. I tried the example given by James with slight modifications.

Here is is again

[TMC]

Hmm? Write "${S1}" in a textbox of course. But in that case it's a lot easier to use the "${H#}" tag to embed the name of hero id #.
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[bis_senchi]

Well I've tried to replace show string by a text box with ${S1} in it but when I try to compile the hss file

I've got the message "Expected script, function or flow control but found an expression with value 1. It will do nothing here.

So? Could somoene help me how to modify the script?
$1 "hello" is fine. Hello appears in the text box but the problem is for the hero's name

Good luck!
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[TMC]

In the code you posted,