Handling Customized Techs
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I need to have some customized techs in a mod, that are available to all players. Is there a way of doing this? Do I need to rename a hard-coded tech and use that as a trigger to add a production rule?
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Yea I don't think you need to rename a hardcoded one. It's been a few years since I did it but basically copied the two that Veq did for Global 40 explained in POS2.
I made a pile of them for "Global 40 House Rules".
I don't remember exactly what i did but here's xml. Search techname and pick one in the second group to follow. First group is the hardwired but last two custom I think.
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@beelee I am seeing this code.
<attachment name="triggerAttachment_MobileArtillery" attachTo="Germans" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player"> <option name="trigger" value="conditionAttachmentMobileArtillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionGermans:buyMobile_Artillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionRussians:buyRussian_Mobile_Artillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionJapanese:buyJapanese_Mobile_Artillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionAmericans:buyMobile_Artillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionBritish:buyMobile_Artillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionUK_Pacific:buyMobile_Artillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionItalians:buyMobile_Artillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionANZAC:buyMobile_Artillery"/> <option name="productionRule" value="productionFrench:buyMobile_Artillery"/> <option name="when" value="before:germansPurchase"/> <option name="uses" value="1"/> </attachment>It looks to me that adding the trigger adds Mobile_Artillery to everyone, not just the player who developed it.
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yea if I remember right these techs were for all players. To do a specific player only, you need to trigger it.
Again, I don't remember exactly the code but I'm pretty sure it can be done. I will try and find it later tonight.
You want a custom tech only available to certain players not all ? Is that what you are after ?
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Ahh yea looking at the above you can just elimnate the players you don't want to produce it. I didn't look at the condition yet -
@beelee I want to use the same tech list for everyone, without having to create a separate trigger for every tech & player.
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Oh well the above should work then.
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"Improved_Mech_Inf" is a custom one. You can follow it in the Global 40 mod Veq did. -
@rogercooper said in Handling Customized Techs:
I want to use the same tech list for everyone, without having to create a separate trigger for every tech & player.
You cannot use the same tech list for all players like you can with production.
In <technology> all tech used should be listed in <technologies> sub section. In <playerTech> sub section are the <category> and <tech>. Each player is assigned a <playerTech> so players cannot share the <category><tech> information. <category><tech> can be left empty and triggers used to fill/add to later.
If custom tech are being used each player will need a <techAttachment>. These may also be left empty. Because these are under the <attachment> section "foreach" can be used to assign each player the same <techAttachment>.
<playerAttachment> <shareTechnology> can be used to share researched tech. Each player would require a <playerAttachment> with each subsequent player listed under <shareTechnology>. A player may have only one <playerAttachment> as creating more will overwrite each other.Hope this gives you food for thought.
Cheers...
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@wc_sumpton Thank for the help from you and beelee. I think that I won't use technology tables at all. Instead I will use triggers to grant technologies (production rules) with "foreach" loops.
The tech system in TripleA suffers from hard-coding, but it would be difficult to fix the program without breaking the existing mods
