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Wesnoth on Liberapay

Last post by shevegen « August 13th, 2019, 7:12 pm
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by Pentarctagon » April 5th, 2019, 2:09 pm » in Users’ Forum
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Greetings!

We are happy to announce that Wesnoth is now able to accept donations on Liberapay . While Wesnoth does rely on the work of dedicated volunteers, no project can function completely cost-free. Revenue from the Apple App Store and from donations goes towards maintaining our servers,...
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Compatibility-breaking changes between 1.12 and 1.13/1.14

Last post by Ravana « May 29th, 2018, 5:43 pm
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by Development Team » November 18th, 2017, 5:34 pm

The thread for changes from 1.10 to 1.12 is here .

Deprecated or removed feature:

The FOREACH macro is deprecated, use instead
The ABILITY_LEADERSHIP_LEVEL_1 ..5 macros are deprecated and are now aliases for the new more general ABILITY_LEADERSHIP macro.
The ~BRIGHTEN() (which was...

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May 29th, 2018, 5:43 pm
[Policy] Important links for new users

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by Forum Moderators Team » September 3rd, 2011, 1:45 am » in Users’ Forum

There have been numerous important forum posts and wiki articles written by users and developers. We reference these pages a lot, and decided to put them together in a convenient list.

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[Policy] Community Guidelines — Updated July 28th 2019

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by Forum Moderators Team » October 17th, 2010, 2:38 am » in Users’ Forum

Write clearly, be nice to others, and be very careful when posting anything related to politics or religion. When asking for help, remember that everyone here is a volunteer. Prefer editing your previous post over double posting. No animated avatars or graphical signatures. Don’t plagiarize other’s...

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What is the WML Workshop?

Last post by Implementor37 « March 17th, 2015, 5:27 pm
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by scott » February 18th, 2006, 8:10 pm

You are welcome to post any WML-related question here, even if they pertain to a campaign or map that you're working on.

If this is you:

How do I...
Can you help me debug...
In my campaign, I am trying to...
On my map, I want to...
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I need help...

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WML FAQs

Last post by ghype « June 13th, 2018, 1:13 pm
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by Pentarctagon » May 29th, 2017, 2:53 pm

The purpose of this thread is to provide links to particularly useful information and code examples of WML and Lua on the wiki, without cluttering up this forum with more and more stickies. As such, the wiki pages linked here should be kept working and up to date - if an unmodified piece of example...

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June 13th, 2018, 1:13 pm
WML Syntax Highlighting for various editors index

Last post by Bitron « November 6th, 2017, 2:10 am
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by Forum Moderators Team » November 15th, 2006, 10:07 am

Here you can find configuration files to enable WML syntax highlighting for various text editors :

Gedit (and other Gnome based editors): Has full WML support and partial inline lua support.
wml.lang goes in /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs .
cobalt-wml.xml goes in...

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November 6th, 2017, 2:10 am
How to solve WML errors

Last post by gavenkoa « January 22nd, 2015, 10:01 pm
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by zookeeper » January 20th, 2007, 6:35 pm
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Does you campaign produce obscure WML errors on startup and you don't know what line in your 2000 lines of WML causes it? Instead of going through everything line by line and try to spot the mistake you've made, or before posting your entire campaign on the forums in the hopes that someone wants to...
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January 22nd, 2015, 10:01 pm
Call for Code Samples / WML Unit Tests

Last post by iceiceice « June 21st, 2014, 11:27 pm
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by iceiceice » May 15th, 2014, 8:00 pm
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I'm writing to announce a development feature that I hope will help to solve two problems.

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So, if you have an idea for a test, whether or not it's based on your add-on, please consider submitting it to us. We will continue to write tests ourselves, but to get the full benefit we...
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June 21st, 2014, 11:27 pm
WML Reference Guide

Last post by Development Team « August 6th, 2006, 7:44 am

by Development Team » August 6th, 2006, 7:44 am

People often use WML attribute or tag names that are misspelled or just plain fictitious when trying to debug WML — or even tag structures that (to the trained eye) are logical to the writer but have no basis in reality. You should always look up the proper format first, and we have a dedicated...

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August 6th, 2006, 7:44 am
[move_unit] exactly one hex back

Last post by Ravana « Today, 6:25 am
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by serclino » October 11th, 2019, 5:58 pm

Hello,

how can I set up following: When player's units reached deep forest in my scenario, I want them to turn back and prevent them to go further to the trees. I already wrote this:

So again: I would like to return unit EXACTLY one hex back.

Any ideas, please? Thank you.

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Last post by Ravana
Today, 6:25 am
Native Macros Not Detected

Last post by Eckirion « Today, 1:50 am
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by Eckirion » Yesterday, 4:20 pm

So... Apparently my scenario cannot detect the macro VARIABLE_CONDITIONAL . This also happened with the time/schedule macros and music macros. It would seem that the scenario cannot detect any native macros... Any ideas as to why it cannot detect any native macros?

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Today, 1:50 am
Activate dependencies

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « Today, 12:34 am
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by LordAwsomeness » October 20th, 2019, 8:13 pm

So I am trying to use macros and stuff from a separate add-on but the game keeps saying I am missing the macros. I have placed the
{~add-ons/LA_MP_Pack/utils/paths.cfg}
in the main.cfg of the new add-on I am trying to make under the #ifdef MULTIPLAYER yet it still does not recognize that I have...

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Today, 12:34 am
"Unknown unit type" error for add-on units

Last post by Forge « Yesterday, 3:08 am
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by Forge » October 20th, 2019, 11:55 pm

If anyone remembers the Gambit's Empire Builder mod, I'm in the process of updating, modifying, and refining it because I personally enjoy playing it. (Even if most other people don't like it.) I'm having an issue with summoning add-on units for various parts of the games (buying them from...

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Yesterday, 3:08 am
Issues with giving xp in a [fire_event]

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « Yesterday, 12:04 am
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by LordAwsomeness » October 16th, 2019, 2:44 pm

So im attempting to create scenario where anytime players kill an enemy unit, all of the teammates receive bonus xp. The idea behind it is that players level up and essentially receive skill points to spend on abilities. I felt there was a balance issue with turn order having the first player...

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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
Yesterday, 12:04 am
need help creating custom [status]

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « October 20th, 2019, 11:56 pm
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by LordAwsomeness » October 13th, 2019, 12:35 am

so I am curious if there is a way to create my own custom status effect. I want to create several that have different functions. For example, I would like to create a status effect called frost or frozen that is similar to petrifies. I am hoping that I can change the colors around a bit to make it...

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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
October 20th, 2019, 11:56 pm
Is it possible to get opponent's level in weapon specials?

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « October 20th, 2019, 11:54 pm
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by wuxiangjinxing » October 10th, 2019, 11:33 pm

I'm thinking of making a weapon special that does more damage to higher-level enemies. But I cannot figure out an easy way to do it. Certainly I can use an event to give the unit damage modifier when attacking while removing the modifier after the attack finishes. But the code looks ugly. Is there...

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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
October 20th, 2019, 11:54 pm
Better method for this skill?

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « October 20th, 2019, 11:44 pm
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by wuxiangjinxing » October 10th, 2019, 1:22 am

Although this skill does work, I believe there shall be better methods for the same sake. Anyone can give me some help? Thanks a lot.

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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
October 20th, 2019, 11:44 pm
How to use the built in AI Scenarios

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « October 20th, 2019, 11:37 pm
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by LordAwsomeness » October 20th, 2019, 3:56 pm

Hey! So I am working on learning the AI behaviors and trying to learn how to adapt the AI I want to use. I recently stumbled upon the AI scenarios and was wondering how to activate them so I can use them. Is there a way to do this? If so, how?

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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
October 20th, 2019, 11:37 pm
Questions about a Micro AI: Wolves

Last post by mattsc « October 16th, 2019, 7:02 pm
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by nenau » October 7th, 2019, 6:28 pm

Hello,

I am using the Wolves MAI in one of my campaigns. This AI manages several groups of bandits (I don't use multi pack, the different bandits bands are just different sides). They're chasing traders (who use goto MAI), and the player has to protect the traders.

I join a replay and the wml.

I...

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Last post by mattsc
October 16th, 2019, 7:02 pm
Count units on a side?

Last post by Ravana « October 16th, 2019, 3:37 pm
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by LordAwsomeness » October 16th, 2019, 3:03 am

is there a way to count the units on a side? specifically units that have a static effect such as poisoned or slowed?

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Last post by Ravana
October 16th, 2019, 3:37 pm
Issues with [object] duration=turn_end

Last post by LordAwsomeness « October 13th, 2019, 5:18 pm
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by LordAwsomeness » October 13th, 2019, 5:09 pm

having a little issue with my coding here. Im sure the coding is working as intended but I need a solution. so essentially I have created a macro that allows a player to cast a spell on themselves or an ally. for the player who casts it on themself, the effect continues until the beginning of their...

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Last post by LordAwsomeness
October 13th, 2019, 5:18 pm
Divide variable help

Last post by LordAwsomeness « October 12th, 2019, 11:37 pm
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by LordAwsomeness » October 12th, 2019, 6:57 pm

So essentially im trying to use variables to give gold from a chest to all of the players in a team. so say there is 25 gold in the chest but it needs to be distributed to 4 players, I want to give the 6 gold to each player and then the remainder gold (the last 1 gold) to the player who stepped on...

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Last post by LordAwsomeness
October 12th, 2019, 11:37 pm
cant figure out [set_specials]

Last post by LordAwsomeness « October 12th, 2019, 4:22 pm
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by LordAwsomeness » October 11th, 2019, 11:01 pm

Hi I am trying to find a way to give an attack a weapon special but it doesn't seem to be working. here is the code:

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October 12th, 2019, 4:22 pm
[Solved] Scenario end with victory turn 1

Last post by Vilebeggar « October 11th, 2019, 4:22 pm
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by Vilebeggar » October 11th, 2019, 12:06 pm

So i want to make a scenario with no opposed sides, all the sides are allies and i want to be able to play multiple turns without ending the scenario. However i always get a victory screen no matter what i do. Also i don't want to include hidden opposing sides because i want the units on the map to...

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October 11th, 2019, 4:22 pm
"upkeep=free" problem

Last post by lhybrideur « October 10th, 2019, 3:00 pm
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by serclino » September 26th, 2019, 10:12 am
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Hi, I'm developing my first campaign and I would like to set some of my units to zero upkeep cost. I don't want to use {TRAIT_LOYAL}, because it will cost me one slot of unit's attributes.

So instead of that I tried upkeep=free . It works fine until the unit levels up. Then it starts pay his/her...
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October 10th, 2019, 3:00 pm
Remove object bug

Last post by LordAwsomeness « October 8th, 2019, 2:51 am
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by LordAwsomeness » October 6th, 2019, 5:04 pm

Hey I dont know if this is a bug or if it was intended to work like this but when I try to remove an object by the name such as a created item then it does not remove the object. However it is weird because when I use the not syntax as a filter it recognizes the names of the weapons that I dont...

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October 8th, 2019, 2:51 am
Submerge ability not working as expected

Last post by Spannerbag « October 6th, 2019, 7:34 pm
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by Spannerbag » September 25th, 2019, 3:13 pm

Hi everyone,
I'm stuck... again ...

I've hit a bit of interface weirdness and would like to check I'm not doing something stupid.

In my scenario there are several water villages owned by an enemy side.
Originally these were guarded by hidden (ABILITY_SUBMERGE) units in deep water, but this (I...

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October 6th, 2019, 7:34 pm
Change control over side to AI and back mid turn

Last post by mattsc « October 6th, 2019, 2:12 am
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by Nyanyanyan » October 4th, 2019, 4:38 pm

For a mod I'd like to change the control over a player's side to the ai for the movement of some units and then back to the player.

The first thing I thought of was simply switch the control of the side to controller=ai at the beginning of the turn and then give it over to the player once the AI...

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Last post by mattsc
October 6th, 2019, 2:12 am
Headache with [tunnel]

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « October 3rd, 2019, 4:17 am
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by WhiteWolf » September 26th, 2019, 12:23 pm

Hello,

I'm having a bit of trouble making some tunnels appear. The idea is to store some locations, then select the sources and targets randomly. Currently, I'm just testing for 1 random tunnel, because that doesn't work already. Here is the code:

Sorry for the terrible indentation, there's some...

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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
October 3rd, 2019, 4:17 am
AI behaviour query

Last post by Spannerbag « September 24th, 2019, 10:06 pm
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by Spannerbag » September 23rd, 2019, 1:51 am

Hi,
Apologies if this isn't the right forum to post an ai-related query...

I'm slowly creeping towards finishing my campaign, but I have a query regarding some frustrating ai behaviour whilst testing/balancing the last playable scenario. This scenario spawns random enemy units. At this stage of...

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September 24th, 2019, 10:06 pm
how to work with array and random numbers

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « September 23rd, 2019, 12:57 pm
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by ultimatux » September 22nd, 2019, 6:03 am

Basically, what I would need would be an example code to guide me with this, since although I understand programming, I am still a newbie in wml, I would like to create an array indexing different types of troops to then be able to add them as an enemy leader, troops to recruit, etc ... it should...

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September 23rd, 2019, 12:57 pm
change unit statistics at the beginning of a scenario

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « September 23rd, 2019, 12:52 pm
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by ultimatux » September 20th, 2019, 3:06 am

I am beginning to develop my first test campaign, although I know programming, I get lost sometimes in the examples by the theme of the different versions of Wesnoth ...

Bluntly, I need to change some statistics of my initial units, including the leader. step fragment of my code, thank you very...

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September 23rd, 2019, 12:52 pm
[solved]modified Plague questions

Last post by Celtic_Minstrel « September 23rd, 2019, 12:46 pm
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by Rodil » September 9th, 2019, 12:37 am

Hi, I'm working on making a special kind of plague. I'm having a hard time trouble shooting vairous aspects of it because it works sometimes but not others and I can't find any predictable pattern of when it works and when it doesn't.

I'm having a couple problems with it:

1) It is a basic unit...

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September 23rd, 2019, 12:46 pm
Unitmarkers [SP/MP modification for 1.14]

Last post by josteph « September 9th, 2019, 5:35 am
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by Paulomat4 » December 19th, 2013, 11:13 pm
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Some time ago, for my UMC Campaign, I created a Unitmarker system, which lets you label your units, to make it easier to keep track of important ones, that you don't want to lose. (because of a special trait combination, or an item that was given to it for example)
Then I saw, that Admant14...
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September 9th, 2019, 5:35 am

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