some issues brought up while making umc

[homunculus]

**** first, some questions.

1. can i show objectives when i want to?
i have a scenario that begins with a cut scene, and player side is controlled by ai for a little while.
i would like to show the objectives screen before the player gets control, but it seems that i can not.

2. is there a way to delay redraw?
so that when i place multiple images the redraw would not happen after placing each individual image.
i mean, so that the images would appear all at once.

**** and second, some issues which might be worth posting in technical support (i thought i should ask here first, maybe i have just done something wrong).

1. there is a glitch with images placed on the map and their removal.
i stored all locations on map and placed images in all locations to get a honeycomb.
when i stored all locations again and removed the images, the result was like this (please ignore the third unit appearing and disappearing, the third unit was not there in the other screenshot).

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it seems that is possible to place an image that you cannot remove later.

2. mountains combine nicely into larger mountains and ridges, but they combine differently in map editor and in the game.
also, village variations (or whatever they are called) look different in the map editor and in game.
now, when i want the cloudy impassable peaks to appear at the top of a 4 hex mountains or the larger mountain ridges, i need to do a lot of switching back and forth between map editor and game.
it looks as if the editor and the game have some coordinate offsets for determining the variations, or what?

**** and lastly, some wml reference update suggestions.
1. AiWML
reference says passive leader never attackes and never moves.
however, i certainly have seen a passive leader attacking in 1.8.

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		[ai]
			passive_leader=yes
			leader_aggression=0.5
		[/ai]

i mean, i am quite happy that i can have ai leader that does not leave the keep but still fights.
as far as i remember, passive leaders did not fight in 1.6, maybe the wml reference is outdated here.

2. DirectActionsWML
reference says reduce, but somehow shrink seems to work instead.

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		[replace_map]
			map="{~add-ons/Ruthless/maps/14_We_Trusted_You_2.map}"
#			reduce=yes
			shrink=yes
		[/replace_map]

also, when i replaced a larger map with a smaller one, the smaller map appeared as a postcard above the larger map.
i mean, the larger map was not erased from the background (actually i was happy with that for the purposes of a cutscene).

[krotop]

1. can i show objectives when i want to?
i have a scenario that begins with a cut scene, and player side is controlled by ai for a little while.
i would like to show the objectives screen before the player gets control, but it seems that i can not.

You can show objectives whenever you trigger an event. If you use the [objectives] tag in the event "turn X", it will show the player's objectives at turn X, for instance (you may get more info from InterfaceActionsWML if you aren't used to custom objectives). I don't know, however, how or if it's even possible to get rid of the 1st turn's objective pop up.

[homunculus]

1. can i show objectives when i want to?
i have a scenario that begins with a cut scene, and player side is controlled by ai for a little while.
i would like to show the objectives screen before the player gets control, but it seems that i can not.

You can show objectives whenever you trigger an event. If you use the [objectives] tag in the event "turn X", it will show the player's objectives at turn X, for instance (you may get more info from InterfaceActionsWML if you aren't used to custom objectives). I don't know, however, how or if it's even possible to get rid of the 1st turn's objective pop up.

ok, tested it again, but i don't think the question was understood.

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	[event]
		name=start
		[modify_side]
			side=1
			controller=ai
		[/modify_side]
	[/event]
	[event]
		name=side 1 turn 1
		[objectives]
			side=1
			[objective]
				condition=win
				description="Objectives are shown while player side is ai-controlled."
			[/objective]
			[objective]
				condition=lose
				description="Objectives are not shown while player side is ai-controlled."
			[/objective]
		[/objectives]
	[/event]

objectives, as far as i have managed to show them, only appear when human (player) gets control of the side, and player can start doing something.
what i have is player side (side 1) being ai-controlled for the first two turns of the scenario which is like a cut scene.
and i would like to show a real objectives screen to tease the player, rather than just having the same text in a narrator message (i know, the game will not break over it, but if it could be done, i would).

[zookeeper]

Well, does [show_objectives] work?

[homunculus]

Well, does [show_objectives] work?

[show_objectives]: (This feature was implemented in 1.7) refreshes the objectives defined by [objectives] and its [show_if] tags, and displays them. (It is also called whenever the user explicitly asks for the objectives; this matters only if the tag was overridden by a Lua script.)
* side: the side to show the objectives. If not set, all sides are used.

i think i might try some things:

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	[event]
		name=start
		[modify_side]
			side=1
			controller=ai
		[/modify_side]
	[/event]
	[event]
		name=side 1 turn 1
		[objectives]
........................................
		[/objectives]
		[show_objectives]
			side=1
		[/show_objectives]
	[/event]

the objectives did not show.

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	[event]
		name=start
#		[modify_side]
#			side=1
#			controller=ai
#		[/modify_side]
	[/event]
	[event]
		name=side 1 turn 1
		[objectives]
........................................
		[/objectives]
		[show_objectives]
			side=1
		[/show_objectives]
		[end_turn]
		[/end_turn]
	[/event]

the objectives did not show.

unless i am still doing something wrong, it seems indeed that the game must be waiting for player input for objectives to show.
unless there is some completely different way of forcing it (hmm.. what is this 'lua script', i wonder if that might be something to look into).

[monochromatic]

Try:

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	[event]
		name=start
		[modify_side]
			side=1
			controller=ai
		[/modify_side]
		[show_objectives]
			side=1
         [objective]
            # objectives here, no [objectives] tag
         [/objective]
		[/show_objectives]
	[/event]

The wiki gave me the impression that it should have been coded this way.

[zookeeper]

The wiki gave me the impression that it should have been coded this way.

No, it doesn't take any subtags. It just shows the objectives most recently set by [objectives].

Anyway, it's entirely possible that objectives can't be shown outside of the player's turn.

[boru]

I would try this:

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   [event]
      name=start
      [objectives]
         side=1
         [objective]
            condition=win
            description="Objectives are shown while player side is ai-controlled."
         [/objective]
         [objective]
            condition=lose
            description="Objectives are not shown while player side is ai-controlled."
         [/objective]
      [/objectives]
   [/event]
   [event]
      name=side 1 turn 1
      [modify_side]
         side=1
         controller=ai
      [/modify_side]
   [/event]

[homunculus]

...........
[show_objectives]
side=1
[objective]
..........

it seems to me that you have messed up the [objectives] and [show_objectives] tags.

I would try this:[...]

i am afraid it wouldn't work, it must have been one of the first things i tried.
i don't think i would test it atm, though, because atm side 1 is not controlled by ai at all, but [end_turn] is used instead, and the thing looks like:

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start: try to show objectives
side 1 turn 1: end turn

which should be equivalent to the suggestion, and the objectives are not shown.

anyway, as far as i remember, i kind of spent several hours trying to display those cursed objectives.
not that i needed it so badly, but because it felt like i was almost there.
whatever.

a more interesting question would be: is preload event known to be fishy, or should i experiment more with it?