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As far as I know, these commands apply not to the selected unit but to the unit that's currently under the mouse. These are different things - the selected unit is the one you've clicked on, but you can still then move the mouse over a different unit and set its hitpoints, I believe.

Ah, I think get why the weird code with "fungal plague(FungalZombie)" works. It's because the ID of the special wasn't what I expected from all the prior examples, but is instead this weird value with the parentheses. I would recommend using special (for 1.14) or special_id (for 1.15) rather than a ...

It seems like filter_second acts like a mirror and reverses primary and secondary units. This is quite some misinterpretation… but I guess you've gotten it figured out by now, right? [filter_second_attack] special="fungal plague(FungalZombie)" [/filter_second_attack] Third attempt. This one worked ...

In my scenario-in-progress, the player has to capture a particular village deep in enemy territory and hold it for three turns. At some point, if the player has not yet captured the village, there won't be enough time to complete the objective before time runs out. In your opinion, is it acceptable...

(I'm not sure whether that's only required for the host, or whether it's required for everyone playing, Just to clear this up: terrain needs to be accessible to everyone playing the game. Otherwise how would the remote computers know how to draw those custom terrains, or what gameplay properties th...

There is no way for the game to automatically build a table of contents of every file that the scenario requires. It's because WML doesn't know what Lua is - to the WML parser, your Lua code tags are nothing but a blob of text. Even the << >> tags have nothing to do with Lua - they just tell the WML...

Given that no unit will ever want to walk through it The AI will know that walking on the hex will kill an AI unit? I was thinking the AI would be oblivious. That changes everything. The AI would be oblivious. I think octalot meant from a world-building standpoint – since the pool is deadly, no-one...

I guess your other option would be to add a dummy ability instead of a heal ability and manually apply the healing in a turn refresh event (using the [heal_unit] ActionWML tag). That would allow you to get the exact behaviour you want but would be more work on your part.

[filter_self] formula = self.variables.potions > 0 [/filter_self] Formulas operate on a completely different view of the unit. It's similar to the WML view of a unit but not quite the same, and this is one of the places where it differs. In a formula, units have two types of variables — formula var...

I forgot about that! Yeah, that sounds helpful. The field resting= ("yes" or "no") is stored in my sample save file, so it should be accessible under that name. Specifically, you should be able to write $unit.resting| , but a resting= field doesn't seem to be part of the standard unit filter, so yo...

There is a variable that determines whether the unit has moved, since the game needs to track this for rest healing. Since that's what it's used for, the variable is called unit.resting in Lua. Chances are it's named the same in a WML stored unit, but I'm not certain of that.

Wow, #ifdef works great. Thanks. I didn't know some text editors can easily add and subtract remarks/comments. Thanks for the tip. I use TextWrangler for Mac. I'll see if it has that feature... It does, but it only places semi-colons, not #. Evidently there is no way to change it to # in the prefer...

Parts of the code I don't understand, so this is probably a ridiculous question. Do you think maybe an if/then tag could examine the variable unit.movement_used to see if the unit moved? The difficulty seems to be learning whether or not the unit moved, not modifying the movement. + + + Okay, I add...

I just discovered the test_scenario.cfg actually has some interesting lua and how to implement it! With a small change to the test_scenario example, you can also implement the dialog's layout in WML like I mentioned in my previous post. Basically you just need to replace the giant Lua definition of...

I just realized that this proposed solution would probably let the frog attack twice if it was managed just right. If that's a problem, then either you're going to need a more complicated way to let it move again after attacking, or else you're going to need a complicated way to restrict its attack...