On Identifiers

[kreso]

0x8014202D STATE_OUT_OF_ACTION
Feeblemind & Charmed & Helpless & Stunned & Sleeping & Blind & Confused & Panic

 

 

Does this state return true if a creature has either of these effects on themselves or it returns true only if they all affect the creature?

[K4thos]

either of these effects

[lynx]

yeah, the description is a bit confusing, since it could be read as binary AND (and it's actually a bitfield, so OR).

[kreso]

Thanks!

[kreso]

How do these "shortcut" states work? Should I append states.ids with their value?

Example:

STATE_CONFUSED works

STATE_OUT_OF_ACTION - not present in states.ids, error reporting when compiling the script.

[lynx]

yes.

[kreso]

Thanks again,it's working now!

[kreso]

This won't be neccecary. Apperantly, SCS already uses APPEND:

APPEND ~STATE.IDS~ ~0x8010202D STATE_DISABLED~

UNLESS ~0x8010202D STATE_DISABLED~ /// includes Helpless, Stunned, Panic, Sleeping, Charmed, Feebleminded, Confused

This should work great I think...

IESDP has no info on DISABLED state however.

[kreso]

One more question - does CHARM effect change Allegiance? I.e. is ENEMY turned into ALLY and viceversa if charmed?

[lynx]

these composite states are just shortcuts for cleaner code.

 

charm changes the ea, but there are special values for it — it won't just switch 255 to 2:

http://gemrb.org/iesdp/files/ids/bg2/ea.htm (5 and 6, domination and charm)

[Ardanis]

 

IESDP has no info on DISABLED state however.

 

Because it's a custom value. You look at the basic states you want to be checked and add values together. Say, you want to detect if target's movement rate has been affected by a spell:

 

0x00008000 STATE_HASTED

0x00010000 STATE_SLOWED

Which translates to:

OR(2)
StateCheck(Myself,STATE_HASTED)
StateCheck(Myself,STATE_SLOWED)

But you can't be bothered with that double OR(), so you go to state.ids, add together both states' values and give it a custom name:

0x00018000 KRESO_STATE_SPEED_CHANGE

And now you can simplify your script to:

StateCheck(Myself,KRESO_STATE_SPEED_CHANGE)

Which will work fine even if somebody already added the 0x00018000 value under different name.

 

 

One more question - does CHARM effect change Allegiance? I.e. is ENEMY turned into ALLY and viceversa if charmed?

 

 

Use GOODCUTOFF / EVILCUTOFF if you want to match both ALLY / ENEMY and corresponding charm.

[kreso]

Aha, so these custom states are nothing but several states' value sumed up. Great. This means I can make my own (with whatever I want) and APPEND it to .ids table! Fantastic, thanks.

 

 

 

 

One more question - does CHARM effect change Allegiance? I.e. is ENEMY turned into ALLY and viceversa if charmed?

 

 

Use GOODCUTOFF / EVILCUTOFF if you want to match both ALLY / ENEMY and corresponding charm.

 

I'm not sure I understand.

Here's an example:

 

StateCheck(LastSeenBy(Myself),STATE_CHARMED)

Allegiance(LastSeenBy(Myself),ENEMY)

THEN

RESPONSE #100

SetGlobalTimer("castspell","LOCALS",ONE_ROUND)

Spell(LastSeenBy(Myself),CLERIC_REMOVE_CURSE) // SPPR307.SPL (Break Enchantment)

 

From your post above

Allegiance(LastSeenBy(Myself),ENEMY) should be changed?

[Ardanis]

Use

StateCheck(LastSeenBy(Myself),STATE_CHARMED)

Allegiance(LastSeenBy(Myself),EVILCUTOFF)

THEN

RESPONSE #100

SetGlobalTimer("castspell","LOCALS",ONE_ROUND)

Spell(LastSeenBy(Myself),CLERIC_REMOVE_CURSE) // SPPR307.SPL (Break Enchantment)

 

Note that NearestEnemyOf() automatically return the script owner's relative enemy (EVILCUTOFF for allied, GOODCUTOFF for hostile).

[kreso]

Ardanis, have a beer.... Awesome...

 

 

 

 

[kreso]

I ran into an issue with this; and I wonder if it can be fixed. Now, the above works fine in combat and is very cute when you see it.

The problem is in what happens when a member of your party gets charmed (red-circled). Clerics will cast Break Enchantment on him, curing him of charm which is a *very* stupid thing to do. Is it possible to exclude casting this (or anything else like Heal) on charmed party members?