Imperial Era Campaign: Alfhelm the Wise

[l'ultimo cruco]

I figured out the boatsman-switch thing, it basically had to do with confused unit types. The fix will be in the next version, as will the fix for the wildfire thing.

Ehm, sorry, but now (BfW 1.3.14, Alfhelm 0.3.2) Alfhelm doesn't swich back to Marauder Lord after "Fizziling Torch".
I looked through the wml which should change him back but to Marauder lord (last bit of code in Fizzling torch), but couldn't find the problem.
It is not much of a problem for the rest of Part II, but gets a big one for Part III.

[turin]

That's... odd. I looked at the code and can't see any real explanation. I'll play through the campaign to that point and see if it happens for me.

[l'ultimo cruco]

That's... odd. I looked at the code and can't see any real explanation. I'll play through the campaign to that point and see if it happens for me.

It's odd indeed. A save game is attached; hope this helps...

[turin]

Try deleting the lines

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			[variable]
				equals="no"
				name="alfisfire"
			[/variable]

(from savefile if you want to continue w/ that save, or from the scenario file if you don't mine replaying it)

I haven't tested it, but I strongly suspect those are the problem-causing lines.

[l'ultimo cruco]

Try deleting the lines

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			[variable]
				equals="no"
				name="alfisfire"
			[/variable]

Deleted it from the fizzling torch.cfg and replayed starting with "The Siege Begins".
Same result:
Fizzling Torch: Alfhelm/Lord becomes a Alfhelm/Sea Wolf
Betrayal: Alfhelm is still a Sea Wolf

Thanks all the same

[turin]

Well, I'm out of ideas. Until I get that bug worked out, you can always edit your save file manually and change his type from "Marauder Sea Wolf" to "Alfhelm Lord".

[l'ultimo cruco]

Well, I'm out of ideas. Until I get that bug worked out, you can always edit your save file manually and change his type from "Marauder Sea Wolf" to "Alfhelm Lord".

Ok, I hacked the save file. As soon as I'll have played through the rest of the campaign (PART III), I'll give you some more feed back.

[turin]

(The above bug has been fixed, fyi.)

Alfhelm the Wise 0.4

I have fog-ified this campaign. Basically, every scenario has fog-of-war on it. Pretty much all the dialogue had to be rewritten for this to happen, by the way.

This is a dev-version only release; it's just too much work to try to keep the WML up to date for both.

[tillea]

Hi,

I tried Alfhelm with Wesnoth 1.5.6 which worked nicely through several scenarios
but finally I stumbled upon a problem. When you press "End turn" after loading the
attached savegame you get the following output on the console:

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Invalid WML found: Usage of 'advanceto' is deprecated; support for this will be removed in 1.5.6. (use 'advances_to' instead) (100)
20081222 15:30:46 error engine: unit of type  not found!
20081222 15:30:46 error general: Error while playing the game: game_error: Unknown unit type '' while generating traits

Kind regards

Andreas.

[turin]

Gah... I really dislike how much maintenance I've had to put into this scenario.

[Civhai]

I only finished the first part, but everything worked so far. Great campaign! I really like the imperial era.

However, I looked at the WML (to find out if it makes sense to send units away...^^) However, I found this:

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    [event]
        name=sighted
        [filter]
            #whenever 1 (Alf) sees 2 (Harn) or 2 sees 1
            side=2
        [/filter]
        #player 2 now joins player 1
        [store_unit]
            [filter]
                side=2
            [/filter]
            variable=switchside
        [/store_unit]
        {FOREACH switchside X}
        [set_variable]
            name=switchside[$X].side
            value=1
        [/set_variable]
        [set_variable]
            name=switchside[$X].canrecruit
            value=0
        [/set_variable]
        [set_variable]
            name=switchside[$X].experience
            add=10
        [/set_variable]
        [unstore_unit]
            variable=switchside[$X]
        [/unstore_unit]
        {NEXT X}
        [clear_variable]
            name=switchside
        [/clear_variable]
        [redraw]
        [/redraw]
        #the dialogue
        # ......
        #.......

        #the villages should switch too - any way to do this?
    [/event]

I looked through the macros recently and then I found this:

TRANSFER_VILLAGE_OWNERSHIP FROM_SIDE TO_SIDE
# Transfers ownership of all villages of one side to another side. Useful
# when you're for example moving all units of some side to another, and want
# to transfer the village ownership as well.

Should be just what you want. By the way, I think the side changing of the units could be done with a macro too:
{MODIFY_UNIT side=2 canrecruit 0}
{MODIFY_UNIT side=2 side 1}
But I don't know if that makes sense, because then, the experience adding still has to be done otherways, so it doesn't really get shorter.

[turin]

Thanks! I've fixed this in my local copy and it'll be in the next version of AtW I release.

[ramses66]

Is Alfhelm supposed to not level up? (There seem to be two warrior types, Alfhelm is the one that doesn't seem to have an upgrade tree.)
I'm assuming this is the intended behaviour, related to the story.

Also, in the first scenario WML errors (*) kept popping up on the screen during the enemy's turn about how he couldn't recruit scouts. Annoying since they kept obscuring the screen so I could barely see when he attacked my troops.


* " <Invalid WML found> On difficulty level EASY trying to recruit scouts but no unit of that type (usage=) is available." etc

[turin]

Is Alfhelm supposed to not level up? (There seem to be two warrior types, Alfhelm is the one that doesn't seem to have an upgrade tree.)
I'm assuming this is the intended behaviour, related to the story.

Hm... he's supposed to be able to level up, he just has a different tree and gfx than the standard Warrior... I'll look into this. I have no idea why it would be like that.

Also, in the first scenario WML errors (*) kept popping up on the screen during the enemy's turn about how he couldn't recruit scouts. Annoying since they kept obscuring the screen so I could barely see when he attacked my troops.

* " <Invalid WML found> On difficulty level EASY trying to recruit scouts but no unit of that type (usage=) is available." etc

OK, I think I know what's causing this. Easy enough to fix.

[ramses66]

I'll just manually level him up then for now.

Also, several attack animations seem to be missing, the png files being linked to don't exist in the Imperial Era images folder. One example is the image "units/human-marauders/warrior-attack.png" Alfhelm himself should be using (twice) according to Alfhelm_Warrior.cfg. Looks like he should be using "warrior-sword-1.png" and "warrior-sword-2.png" instead?