Modifying spls based on school of other spls

[Aquadrizzt]

How would I go about having something that takes a list of spells, reads the school of the spell and then uses that to make one of several modifications to a different spell.

 

For example, if the school was abjuration, it would add a spell effect to a ABJURATION.spl (example).

[lynx]

With weidu or ingame (script, effect)? Should be the usual manual binary reading and setting with weidu, but impossible ingame.

[Aquadrizzt]

Yes it only needs to happen in Weidu. I'm not quite sure about how to actually read one file and them modify another using the stuff you read from the first file.

[lynx]

you read it in a variable and then use that. Check out if any macros included with weidu can make your job easier. Or other spell-related mods if they have some code you could reuse.

[Aquadrizzt]

Got it working now, thanks lynx.

[subtledoctor]

EDIT - ninja'd!

 

At the outset, you'd want to define the spell_list, and then read the school of each. Something like

 

FOR spell IN spell_list

COPY_EXISTING ~spell~ ~override~

READ_BYTE 0x25 school

END

 

Then, I think, you'd want to create an associative array with the spells and their school, and then do an ACTION_PHP_EACH to run through the array, and run through each spell and have an ACTION_IF block to change the other .spl, depending on the first spels's school. My "APR on Spec" mod has some example code that could be adapted:

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/36197/mod-release-apr-on-spec

 

(I think. I do have a tendency to overcomplicate things.)

 

That's all if you want a uniform effect based on school. If you want the school of each chosen spell to cause a unique effects to a distinct other .spl file, then I think you have to just go one-by-one.

[Aquadrizzt]

Yeah I figured it out eventually. The read_byte wasn't work for me for whatever reason but now it is.