[H5 EDITOR] Troubleshooting topic

[meows]

OBJECTIVES.

Whew i did get it working but it isn't pretty at all.

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 function Kill_Mummy1()	
	Trigger( REGION_ENTER_AND_STOP_TRIGGER, "Kill_Mummys",nil);
    MessageBox ("/Maps/SingleMissions/Ashers World one/mummyregion.txt");
SetObjectiveState("subobj1", OBJECTIVE_ACTIVE);
end;
--end;
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function Kill_Wolf1()	
	Trigger( REGION_ENTER_AND_STOP_TRIGGER, "Kill_Wolves",nil);
    MessageBox ("/Maps/SingleMissions/Ashers World one/wolfregion.txt");
SetObjectiveState("subobj2", OBJECTIVE_ACTIVE);
end;
--end;
function Kill_Water1()	
	Trigger( REGION_ENTER_AND_STOP_TRIGGER, "Kill_Water",nil);
--    MessageBox ("/Maps/SingleMissions/Ashers World one/wolfregion.txt");
SetObjectiveState("subobj3", OBJECTIVE_ACTIVE);
end;
--end;

Now is there a problem with the Objective Kind Capture Object?
or with seer huts underground?

I have a hut underground with Objective Kind Capture Object and the parameters is CREATURE_SHADOW_DRAGON and the amount to get I also tried it with the creatures number. but every time i click on the seer hut in game i get no one is home with no script error.

Oh yes I did try the Objective Capture Creature and could never finish the quest.

thanks.

[Mace the Councillor]

Does anyone know how to create abyss in the Heroes V editor? I have seen it in the game, in underground levels, and it is just a black nothingness that one cannot walk over, but I have never managed to figure out how to make it myself.

Can anybody help??

[Grumpy Old Wizard]

Does anyone know how to create abyss in the Heroes V editor? I have seen it in the game, in underground levels, and it is just a black nothingness that one cannot walk over, but I have never managed to figure out how to make it myself.

Can anybody help??

You can try digging and then placing masks over the area you dig, if that is what you are after. Play around with point lights so it looks like a bottomless pit.

GOW

[Grumpy Old Wizard]

Now is there a problem with the Objective Kind Capture Object?
or with seer huts underground?

I have a hut underground with Objective Kind Capture Object and the parameters is CREATURE_SHADOW_DRAGON and the amount to get I also tried it with the creatures number. but every time i click on the seer hut in game i get no one is home with no script error.

Oh yes I did try the Objective Capture Creature and could never finish the quest.

thanks.

Try using defeat neutral instead. Look here for a discussion and example:
viewtopic.php?t=4112&highlight=bounty

GOW

[Neckie]

I think his objective is to capture X shadow dragon so i think the Assemble Army would be better no?

[meows]

I think his objective is to capture X shadow dragon so i think the Assemble Army would be better no?

Actually it is to kill 145 Specter Dragons.

I tried the kill netural and it almost worked but gave a success at 20ish mobs.

[Grumpy Old Wizard]

I think his objective is to capture X shadow dragon so i think the Assemble Army would be better no?

Actually it is to kill 145 Specter Dragons.

I tried the kill netural and it almost worked but gave a success at 20ish mobs.

The number is the number of stacks of dragons. Are you wanting the player to kill 145 stacks of dragons or 145 total dragons?

GOW

[myythryyn]

hello

im having a problem with AddHeroCreatures.

Im trying to add deathknights to a players army.
but its really strange i use this command

AddHeroCreatures ("heroname", 89, 30);

and 30 peasants are added to the players army instead....maybe a bug or glich of some sort? im sure im using command right, and 89 is supposed to be the creature ID for deathknights...

*edit*
aha i found the problem, i wanted to create a test army to kill something, so i tried to add phoenix's, which are referred to in the editor theory example for defeat neutrals as ID 90.
so i tried to add creature ID 90 and got deathknights.
i also noticed there is no creature ID 90 in the scriptID documention.
so not only is there a typo saying that deathknights are 89, but there is a typo in the editor theory as well saying that phoenix's are ID 90

but i have another interesting glich/bug for you.
it has to do with Agreal.
i tried making him the final villain hero the player has to defeat, so i set up a defeat hero objective, with the name Agreal as the parameter.
and then i set up that objective to be instant victory.

but, whenever i activate the objective to defeat Agreal, what happens is that the next AI hero the player kills, no matter what name, which hero, which player's hero, the game gives me instant victory.
for some reason if you put Agreal as a parameter, it messes things up.
i guess ill have to choose another inferno hero.
im certain im using the objective right as well, since i have two other successful objectives like that on the same map for other hero names.

has anyone been able to use agreal in a defeat hero objective?

[meows]

Just a query here.. but I have been getting Parameter lost errors with the new expansion usually with regions and after using a touch object where the object is a creature.
Any thoughts on trying to prevent this? I even keep the regions open and don't close them with the nil. But alass that didnt work either. So your awesome super programmers what can make HF reread the script to reactivate everything?

[meows]

any one have any luck transforming any town to TOWN_FORTRESS?
I keep getting the error global not found. Same with HasHeroSkill RUNELORE.. it errors out. but I can live with that.. I need to transform a town to a Dwarven town.
I have tried regions, and the capture trigger and neither work becasue apparently the internal name for Dwarven towns is not TOWN_DWARVEN or TOWN_FORTRESS..

I even cut the script to a real simple one.

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function fun1(oldowner, newowner, heroname, townname) 
 if GetCurrentPlayer () == PLAYER_1 then
-- if (HasHeroSkill(heroname, SKILL_RUNELORE)) then 
     TransformTown("TestTown", TOWN_FORTRESS); 
    Trigger(OBJECT_CAPTURE_TRIGGER, "TestTown", nil); 
  end; 
end; 
Trigger(OBJECT_CAPTURE_TRIGGER, "TestTown", "fun1");

Now as it is now the error is TOWN_FORTESS global is NIL..
but if I rem out the line if get current player and put the HasHeroSkill line active i get the error SKILL_RUNELORE is not a good varaiable.
I also notice in the new manual that the Dwarven town is not listed.
either under functions or script id's

[Neckie]

try HasHeroSkill(heroname, 151) (or HasHeroSkill(heroname, HERO_SKILL_RUNELORE)
and i must agree that the dwarven town is not listed in the script id manual

[ct605]

Has anyone succeeded in attaching a script to an object through the object script box and not the game script file (e.g. place a monster, hit the space bar while the monster is highlighted and go to the script tab)? I have been experimenting to see when this script activates, but I have yet to get any results -- even when I copy a functional script directly from the game menu. I have also tried combat scripts in this box but observe no effect, so I am wondering whether the box is functional or I'm messing something up.

[Neckie]

Does anyone know how to create abyss in the Heroes V editor? I have seen it in the game, in underground levels, and it is just a black nothingness that one cannot walk over, but I have never managed to figure out how to make it myself.

Can anybody help??

Those are the *Down* objects in the editor in the subterrain objects. Like walldown or innerdown or w_dno_down or W_Stalaktitdown.

Those are necessary to put down_bridge (dwarf bridge) on your maps.

[meows]

I think his objective is to capture X shadow dragon so i think the Assemble Army would be better no?

Actually it is to kill 145 Specter Dragons.

I tried the kill netural and it almost worked but gave a success at 20ish mobs.

The number is the number of stacks of dragons. Are you wanting the player to kill 145 stacks of dragons or 145 total dragons?

GOW

yes 145 dragons total. but in stacks.. tried to set multi parameters but i think i did it wrong.

[Marzhin]

Hi all,

I'm trying to make an secondary objective and can't make it to work.

The objective becomes active after visiting a special object on the map. It asks you to kill 4 neutral armies of vampires scattered through the map. Each time you kill one of them, it updates the Objective progress which says "You killed x vampires (out of 4)". When you have killed the 4 vampires, you may go back to the special object to end the quest and get your reward.

The problem is : I can't make the objective update and thus completing the quest is impossible.

Roughly, it works that way (I'm quoting it from memory, so the syntax may be wrong) :

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vampire=0;

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function newday ()
    if GetObjectiveState("cabin", PLAYER_1)=OBJECTIVE_ACTIVE then    
        update_obj();
    end;
end;

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function kill_vamp()
    vampire=vampire+1;
    if GetObjectiveState("cabin", PLAYER_1)=OBJECTIVE_ACTIVE then    
        update_obj();
    end;
end;

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function update_obj()
    if vampire==0 then
          SetObjectiveProgress("cabin", PLAYER_1, 0);
    end;
    if vampire==1 then
          SetObjectiveProgress("cabin", PLAYER_1, 1);
    end;
    if vampire==2 then
          SetObjectiveProgress("cabin", PLAYER_1, 2);
    end;
    if vampire==3 then
          SetObjectiveProgress("cabin", PLAYER_1, 3);
    end;
    if vampire==4 then
          SetObjectiveProgress("cabin", PLAYER_1, 4);
    end;
end;

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Trigger(NEW_DAY_TRIGGER, "newday");

Apart from the main script, I added a line in the combat script of the vampires :

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kill_vamp();

That's probably where I'm wrong.

But, even stranger, when the update_obj is triggering, the console says "ERROR : objective "cabin" is inactive" but IT IS active !

So if anyone can help me clear this mess, thank you in advance because i'm running out of ideas.

[myythryyn]

if no one is able to provide a way to get your script working Marzhin i can give you an alternative.

i also tried to do the same thing and was not able to get the objective progress commands to work. in the map i made i had an objective to secure one of each mine. after they capture six in any order, the objective completes.

this is what i did. i set up a variable, then a manual objective, and activated it. Then each time the player touched a mine i used the object touch trigger to run a script that added +1 to the variable. i also put a check in the same script that checks if the variable is equal to 6.
if so, then the manual objective completes and a message is shown and whatever rewards are given.
if you want an exact script example i can give one.

now for your vampires, maybe you can put them in garrison's. this way, when the player defeats the vampire, and touches the garrison, that could be your trigger. or you could create a small region on the square that the vampires occupy so the player triggers the script when they enter that square.

or maybe someone can let us know how to get objective progress steps to work

[Marzhin]

if no one is able to provide a way to get your script working Marzhin i can give you an alternative.

i also tried to do the same thing and was not able to get the objective progress commands to work. in the map i made i had an objective to secure one of each mine. after they capture six in any order, the objective completes.

this is what i did. i set up a variable, then a manual objective, and activated it. Then each time the player touched a mine i used the object touch trigger to run a script that added +1 to the variable. i also put a check in the same script that checks if the variable is equal to 6.
if so, then the manual objective completes and a message is shown and whatever rewards are given.
if you want an exact script example i can give one.

Thanks
Actually I think my script works very much the same way. I have the variable (called "vampire" in the script), the script that adds +1 to this variable, and so on. I think I'll try using regions.

[Pitsu]

Following sample should work for 4 removable items with 4 different objective progression state. Pretty much copy-paste for Marzin. The objects (vampire stacks on adventure map) are named as vamp1, vamp2 vamp3 and vamp4.

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oldvalue =0;

function vampquest()
	while 1 do
	killed = 0;
        if GetObjectiveState("cabin", OBJECTIVE_ACTIVE) then
	for i= 1, 4 do
		if IsObjectExists("vamp"..i) == nil then
			killed = killed +1;
		end;
	end;
	print("killed : ", killed);
	if oldvalue ~= killed then
		oldvalue = killed;
		SetObjectiveProgress ("cabin", killed);
	end;
end;
sleep(5);
end;
end;

startThread(vampquest);

Edit. The startThread command may go to the script where "cabin" objective is ACTIVATED. And one can have more than 4 vamp# stacks, but when the killed amount turns higher than defined objective progress states an error will occure. You need an additional checking in the script in that case. For unremovable objects, like mines, use owner check instead of IsObjectExists.

Edit2. A slightly more economic version (should not use CPU when objective is not active), but now it is a *must* to have startThread(vampquest); triggered after the objective is *activated* not any time like in previous sample:

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oldvalue =0;

function vampquest()
	while GetObjectiveState("cabin", OBJECTIVE_ACTIVE) do
	killed = 0;
	for i= 1, 4 do
		if IsObjectExists("vamp"..i) == nil then
			killed = killed +1;
		end;
	end;
	if oldvalue ~= killed then
		oldvalue = killed;
		SetObjectiveProgress ("cabin", killed);
	end;
sleep(5);
end;
end;

[Marzhin]

I'll try it , thanks Pitsu ^^

[myythryyn]

hi, any way to stop the player from recieving enemy AI hero's artifacts after battle?

i tried selecting "untransferrable", but the player still recieves all the artifacts.

i could make a script that removes the artifacts after battle, but i think that would be annoying when they get the messsages that you found artifacts, only to have them removed right away....

so am i missing a setting that does not allow AI hero artifacts to be picked up by the player?