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Wesnoth on Liberapay
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Pentarctagon » April 5th, 2019, 2:09 pm
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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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Last post by shevegen
August 13th, 2019, 7:12 pm
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Compatibility-breaking changes between 1.12 and 1.13/1.14
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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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Last post by Ravana
May 29th, 2018, 5:43 pm
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September 3rd, 2011, 1:45 am
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[Policy] Community Guidelines — Updated July 28th 2019
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Forum Moderators Team » October 17th, 2010, 2:38 am
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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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July 28th, 2019, 6:59 pm
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What is the WML Workshop?
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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...
Can you add the following to WML...
I need help...
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Last post by Implementor37
March 17th, 2015, 5:27 pm
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WML Syntax Highlighting for various editors index
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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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Last post by Shiki
Yesterday, 8:00 pm
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WML FAQs
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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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Last post by ghype
June 13th, 2018, 1:13 pm
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How to solve WML errors
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zookeeper » January 20th, 2007, 6:35 pm
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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Last post by gavenkoa
January 22nd, 2015, 10:01 pm
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Call for Code Samples / WML Unit Tests
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iceiceice » May 15th, 2014, 8:00 pm
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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Last post by iceiceice
June 21st, 2014, 11:27 pm
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WML Reference Guide
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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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Last post by Development Team
August 6th, 2006, 7:44 am
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HARD level: ideas to design it (other than gold)
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denispir » November 30th, 2019, 11:59 am
Hello,
This thread is intended to list ideas as diverse as possible on how to design a HARD(er) difficulty, for game authors to stop relying mostly or even only on the (in)famous gold parameter ;-). I tried below to be as clear and specific as possible, since vague or obscure hints do not help as...
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Last post by Wussel
Today, 11:53 am
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Summon unit on death
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Spitoven » December 3rd, 2019, 12:10 am
Hello :D
I'm trying to make all units with a certain trait summon a specific unit when they die, like their soul is going out of their body to continue fighting. So it would be just like Plague but not depending on what weapon delivered the killing blow and with the summoned unit being on the same...
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Last post by Spitoven
Yesterday, 10:36 pm
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Questions about some Micro AIs
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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
Yesterday, 7:36 pm
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Wolf advancement not happening after scenario 1
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Helmet » December 4th, 2019, 3:40 pm
Hi, I've been working on a three scenario campaign and I have a problem.
By default, a Wolf can't advance to Lvl 2 Great Wolf, so I implemented the following code to allow Wolf advancement:
extra_defines=ENABLE_WOLF_ADVANCEMENT
I placed the code within in the main.cfg, and it works, but only on...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
December 6th, 2019, 1:17 am
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unit_worth: meaning & formula
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denispir » December 4th, 2019, 9:42 am
I just discovered , see here . It stores in WML variables unit cost, next-cost (most costly advancement), health, xp %, and an enigmatic unit_worth . What is its meaning and formula?
Thank you!
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
December 6th, 2019, 1:08 am
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[avoid] puzzlement
Replies: 12
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Spannerbag » August 26th, 2019, 11:49 am
Hi,
I'm STILL (grrr!) trying to complete the last playable scenario of my campaign but it keeps making life interesting.
Latest is some behaviour I can't understand.
I set mutliple s to prevent the ai entering certain areas yet one (at least) always fails - not sure about the others but I guess...
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Last post by Spannerbag
December 4th, 2019, 10:09 pm
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Era of Zaestryon [unpublished]
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Zaestryon » December 2nd, 2019, 10:39 pm
Hi ! First of all I'm making an Era.
All factions are remade with existing base units but adding some lower levels and giving 5 levels to great races units and 3 levels to animals (Falcons, gryphons, spiders etc.)
Bandits are no longer with dwarves but with orcs. Dwarves can recruit spiders now....
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Last post by Zaestryon
December 3rd, 2019, 10:09 pm
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macro is not found
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Anagkai » November 30th, 2019, 9:24 am
I have the problem that one of my macros isn't found when preprocessing the scenario. The macro is in the same file, above where it's called, it's spelled correctly and the number of arguments is correct. Therefore, I'm pretty sure there is a mistake inside the macro but so far I wasn't able to...
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Last post by Ravana
November 30th, 2019, 1:00 pm
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Random terrain modification
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Anagkai » November 29th, 2019, 8:45 pm
So I got a macro that should randomly make one part of the map desert. Which happens - theoretically - by giving that part's coordinates to the macro shown below.
Unfortunately the macro doesn't work - it seems the first part with foreach loop will make almost the complete map desert while the...
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Last post by Anagkai
November 30th, 2019, 9:04 am
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Unitmarkers [SP/MP modification for 1.14]
Replies: 46
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Paulomat4 » December 19th, 2013, 11:13 pm
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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Last post by josteph
November 30th, 2019, 7:42 am
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Failed to load scenario (#@%$!)
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denispir » November 7th, 2019, 1:40 pm
Why do we have as informative error messages as Failed to load scenario ? Why doesn't or cannot the parser or engine tell us about the anomaly found? Why isn't there more in the log file? (And why is our log file messed with tons of errors from other campaigns?!)
Could we study and document the...
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Last post by denispir
November 28th, 2019, 6:04 pm
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Mordor's WML Problems
Replies: 4
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landofMordor » November 10th, 2019, 7:52 pm
Hey all, first post here, about six months into my hobby writing WML campaigns.
The majority of my coding issues have been pretty easy to find here on the forums (EarthCake, thank you for having all of my same problems right before I did, lol), but a couple issues have persisted and I can't find...
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Last post by landofMordor
November 16th, 2019, 11:09 pm
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Location-Based Recruit Lists?
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weewah » November 12th, 2019, 1:24 am
Is there a way to make location-based recruit lists?
I'm aware that, if I wanted to make a leader able to recruit different units at different keeps, I could simply use move events to change the recruit list whenever the leader moves onto a keep.
But what if I wanted to make a leader able to...
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Last post by Tad_Carlucci
November 14th, 2019, 2:10 pm
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WML Error Messages...
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denispir » November 14th, 2019, 12:46 pm
I stepped by chance on this thread about WML Error Messages and what they mean . I would say it is extremely needed and useful. An updated version should definitely be a sticky post here, in my view...
(However, my latest issue with Failed to load scenario , which seems to be the new formulation...
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Last post by denispir
November 14th, 2019, 12:46 pm
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problem with filter_side
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vghetto » November 14th, 2019, 10:49 am
Hello,
I'm having an issue with store_side and filter_side. I want to store only the sides that have a specific team_name, but it seems to be storing all sides regardless of the filter.
Full code is
Please help, thanks.
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Last post by vghetto
November 14th, 2019, 11:48 am
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Unexplained Sudden Defeat when Moving a Unit
Replies: 9
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Shield » November 10th, 2019, 5:21 am
I am trying to code a scenario for a campaign-in-progress (will create a topic for it once it's complete enough, and this topic can be moved if necessary), but have already run into a mysterious problem.
I move any of my units, then suddenly You Have Been Defeated! pops up and every unit...
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Last post by lhybrideur
November 13th, 2019, 1:00 pm
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spawns.lua + Random map = Lua errors
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vghetto » November 2nd, 2019, 7:34 pm
Hello,
This is my first post and off the bat I'm new to WML and Lua.
I managed to create a single player randomly generated map, by ripping off code from Random_Scenario.cfg, and integrating it with spawns.lua from The_Hammer_of_Thursagan campaign.
What it does is after a village is captured, an...
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Last post by vghetto
November 12th, 2019, 2:38 am
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Place Fog
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serclino » November 5th, 2019, 8:38 am
Hi, how can i place fog on the map to specific location (in the middle of scenario)? I didn't find any equivalent for .
Thank you.
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Last post by serclino
November 7th, 2019, 11:49 am
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debug prints -- simple & practical
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denispir » November 2nd, 2019, 4:22 pm
Hello,
Experienced game authors certainly have their own tools for debug prints, maybe better than that. Anyway: I have found a way to implement for WML the wonderful little procedure note that I use in debugging... when the programming language allows implementing it: it must be a dynamic...
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Last post by lhybrideur
November 5th, 2019, 3:40 pm
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Weapon special code not working as intended
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Nyanyanyan » November 2nd, 2019, 1:37 pm
I tried making a weapon special for an assasssin type unit that doubles it's attack damage when it starts the turn undetected, but it doesn't seem to do anything.
This is the code I use:
I tried converting it into an ability and that seems to work more or less:
But of course I'd rather have it...
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Last post by Nyanyanyan
November 4th, 2019, 12:12 pm
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purpose of [move_unit_fake]
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denispir » November 3rd, 2019, 11:51 am
I don't understand the actual purpose of . I think I understand that it is intended to be used in conjonction with and , but why? Is it only to spare processor power, since actually moving a unit must be costly? Or are there cases where we can, or should , only move a unit fakely ?
More generally,...
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Last post by Iris
November 4th, 2019, 10:46 am
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Attempting to Use Old Water Types for UMC; Trouble with TerrainWML
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Shield » November 3rd, 2019, 11:22 pm
A hopeful hello to anyone reading this-- I am attempting to make a Resource Pack add-on that allows a UMC developer to use water -type hexes from previous iterations of Wesnoth in their work via the map editor, for whatever reason they might want to (not wanting their scenario to lag so much,...
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Last post by beetlenaut
November 4th, 2019, 1:29 am
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Inserting predefined leader and units into side def
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denispir » October 31st, 2019, 1:44 pm
Hello,
As a sort of structured programming, I would like to predefine units apart (and much more, see below). This allows keeping a clean code structure and logic, instead of having it polluted by tons of lengthy definitions that should belong elsewhere, namely in corresponding modules. However,...
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Last post by Celtic_Minstrel
November 3rd, 2019, 11:50 pm
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Revolution-Random Crash in Fifth Scenario
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CleebMeister » August 9th, 2017, 1:26 am
I'm making a campaign and it works fine up until the fifth scenario. On any given turn, generally around turns 4-8, the entire game will crash while the AI are up. I ran it in terminal and got this crash report.
wesnoth:...
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Last post by Konrad2
November 3rd, 2019, 6:55 pm
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[preload] [prestart] [start] events
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denispir » November 1st, 2019, 2:26 pm
Hello,
I am a bit confused about events, like many probably ;-). I would like someone knowledgeable to clearly explain why each exists, what actually happens, how all is done in fact. Here is my present best guess, as I wrote inside a scenario intended to explain WML usage in practice (also to...
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Last post by denispir
November 3rd, 2019, 3:47 pm
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