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Adding stuff to top/middle of .BCS files


subtledoctor

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I have an invisicreature .BCS script that looks like:

IF
  True(A)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
  [ACTION 1]
  Continue()
END

IF
  True(B)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
  [ACTION 2]
  Continue()
END

IF
  True()
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
  DesrtoySelf()
END

Now, say I come along later and I want to add more conditions to the script.  My new condition is in a .BAF file like:

IF
  True(C)
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
  [ACTION 3]
  Continue()
END

Seems like the way to fold this into the existing script is:

COMPILE ~mymod/scripts/nuscript.baf~
EXTEND_TOP ~override/script.bcs~ ~override/nuscript.bcs~

My only issue is, this needlessly pollutes the override folder with nuscript.bcs, which has no purpose other than to be prepended to script.bcs.  I would prefer to DECOMPILE_AND_PATCH and simply inject the text... but there is no APPEND_TOP command for adding text to the beginning of a file.

Is there a better way to do this?

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You can insert the .baf text as a inlined action... like so in the weidu-readme:

BEGIN ~MyMod Component 1~

<<<<<<<< .../mymod-inlined/myfile.baf
IF
  True()
THEN
  RESPONSE #100
    Kill("Anomen")
END
>>>>>>>>

COMPILE ~.../mymod-inlined/myfile.baf~

Easy.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola
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    COPY - ~mymod/scripts/nuscript.baf~ override
        SET length = SOURCE_SIZE
        READ_ASCII 0 nuscript (length)
    COPY_EXISTING ~script.bcs~ override
        DECOMPILE_AND_PATCH BEGIN
            INSERT_BYTES 0 length
            WRITE_ASCIIE 0 ~%nuscript%~ (length)
            EVALUATE_BUFFER // if you have any variables in nuscript.baf
        END
    BUT_ONLY

 

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A single call of

EXTEND_TOP ~script.bcs~ ~mymod/scripts/nuscript.baf~ EVAL

should be enough.

EXTEND_[TOP|BOTTOM] automatically fetches the game script from BIFF or override (and even creates a new SCRIPT.BCS if it doesn't exist yet), compiles the .BAF and extends the game script. EVAL can be omitted if you don't need to evaluate variables in the .BAF.

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