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interaction-trigger does not work in the arena AFAIK, probably for the same reason most tick-based repeating loops don't.

I'm testing it in adventure mode though. Should the commands that I posted work, or are they completely wrong?

Also, how would I go about launching scripts every time a new region is loaded? I'm writing a script that should log the beliefs of any historical figures the player meets, but I have no idea how to automate the launching of the script. I'm not sure if "region" is the right term, but I need to the script to run whenever a new historical figure might be loaded.

Yes it should be, there is still a problem with interaction-trigger that I am not understanding. Asked expwnent (the author of interaction-trigger) but he is busy at the moment so I don't expect an answer any time soon. As far as I know, the examples I posted *should* work just fine. That is to say, they work if I take out the interaction-trigger part and just run them via command line. For instance,

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wrapper -unitSource 0 -unitTarget 1 -script [ special/projectile -unit_source !SOURCE -unit_target !TARGET -item AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_BOLTS -mat STEEL -number 1 ] -radius 3,3,0 -maxtargets 5Works just fine in the arena (after spawning at least two units). But

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modtools/interaction-trigger -onAttackStr "shoots a bolt of steel" -command [ wrapper -unitSource \\ATTACKER_ID -unitTarget \\DEFENDER_ID -script [ special/projectile -unit_source !SOURCE -unit_target !TARGET -item AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_BOLTS -mat STEEL -number 1 ] -radius 3,3,0 -maxtargets 5 ]Doesn't trigger.

Oh, right, sorry. Thought it was only the "special-x" ones that weren't working, but thank you for the info. If you figure it out, let me know - I'll be needing triggers not only for my spells, but also for the script that I'm working on.

Awesome job with the help section! A huge "thank you" is in place for this, as it will make life a lot easier for noobs like me.

Quote from: StagnantSoul on September 28, 2014, 02:35:54 pm

Umm... Theres something regarding what class is effected, I think something like [GENERAL_CLASS_POISON] If you put that to something else, they may not be affected. I'm not 100% sure though.

Yeah, but that makes all dwarves immune to poisons and all syndromes thats not what I want. I want to specifically remove the fact that things are raised for no apparent reason in evil biomes. Rain making dwarves husks is fine.

Use Ctrl-H in something like Notepad++ to change it to something else in all raws. Pretty sure that would brick necromancy, werecreatures and vampires too though.

I'm pretty sure you can't change how long reactions take (except for possibly using DFHack, I have no idea about this though, it's just a theory), but I suppose you could split the reactions up into a bunch of reactions.

For example, you should be able to create reactions that do something like the following:
Bar -> Started complex metal-shaping
Started complex metal-shaping -> Half-finished complex metal-shaping
Half-finished complex metal-shaping -> Finished product

Might not be what you're looking for, but that's what I can come up with at the time being.

Hmm, don't have time to look into it now, but I assume since you didn't mention it, DFHack isn't spitting out any errors? If that is the case it is most likely something wrong on my end, I will look at it soon.

Once every time I run DF, it seems to throw an error saying "Too few actors". I really just can't get it to work, I've tried everything that seems reasonable to me.

I forget but I might have set it up so it only prints the message once per run of DF, which makes it really awkward to test.

Yeah, this seems to be the case.

I just don't get why it doesn't work though... I've tried making it only possible to cast it on myself, I've tried casting on others, I have 12 different lines attempting to do very similar things. I've even gotten an example from the author of the script, but I can't even get that to work.

Does anyone have a working spell that uses create-item.lua? If anyone does, it would be greatly appreciated if you could share the onLoad.init, the interaction and the creature files with me. I'm starting to feel like giving up. :c

Good thing VERBAL_SPEECH points to a text file and takes lines from it at random.

Try out, say, Fortbent, where there are a few creatures (ebubbles) that have hundreds of lines in their verbal_speech files for their interactions.

Not sure if this was aimed at me, but I have no idea how to use VERBAL_SPEECH (or apparently anything else, for that matter) in scripts O_o



Edit: I remember reading something about activating the triggers somewhere (Something like "enable interaction-trigger"). Does this still have to be done? If yes, what exactly do I need to type?

You can also invoke devel/print-args (e.g. "devel/print-args test") in onLoad.init to display a message if/when onLoad.init is run.
Also, have you verified that the file was saved as "onLoad.init" and not "onLoad.init.txt"?

Thank you guys.


devel/print-args seems to be working, and nothing happens when I copy-paste the lua code into DFHack, so I guess I've got a bunch of syntax errors in every single line, seeing as none of them work :c You guys wouldn't happen to know what "too few actors" means? Every now and then, the following generates that message:
[CDI:VERB:conjure a bound dagger:conjures a bound dagger:NA]modtools/interaction-trigger -onAttackStr "conjure a bound dagger" -command [ item/create -unit \\ATTACKER_ID -item WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_DAGGER_BOUND -mat SOUL_BOUND -inventory -dur 86400 ]
I've also tried
[CDI:VERB:summons a steel sword:summons a steel sword:summons a steel sword]modtools/interaction-trigger -onAttackStr "summons a steel sword" -command [ item/create -unit \\ATTACKER_ID -item WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_SWORD -mat STEEL -inventory ]which is code given to me by roses, but I can't get that to work either. :s