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Khans Cards with some issues
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Khans Cards with some issues
by volrathxp » 26 Sep 2014, 22:02
I'm starting to wind down on my work on Khans, but got a few cards I'm trying to really sort out to get done.
Primarily:
- Crackling Doom - having issues figuring out how to pass which creature is the greatest power to the item selection for sacrificing. I know how to get which creature has the greatest power for each opponent, just the connection of getting it to the selection.
- Ride Down - can't seem to figure out how to get which creatures were blocked by the blocking creatures.
- End Hostilities - how to get permanents attached to creatures.
- Ugin's Nexus - Pretty sure this card isn't doable, cuz of the whole skipping turn thing
Those are honestly the ones beating me around.
Primarily:
- Crackling Doom - having issues figuring out how to pass which creature is the greatest power to the item selection for sacrificing. I know how to get which creature has the greatest power for each opponent, just the connection of getting it to the selection.
- Ride Down - can't seem to figure out how to get which creatures were blocked by the blocking creatures.
- End Hostilities - how to get permanents attached to creatures.
- Ugin's Nexus - Pretty sure this card isn't doable, cuz of the whole skipping turn thing
Those are honestly the ones beating me around.
volrathxp
Re: Khans Cards with some issues
by sweetLu » 26 Sep 2014, 23:23
- Crackling Doom: Once you find out the creatures that have the greatest power, I would use a player data chest to store the pointers. Use an integer to keep track of how many creatures there are and put the creature pointers into the player data chest. Then if there are more than 1 creature, ask have the controller pick which one to destroy.
- Ride Down: Hmm I would think that you would have to keep track of every creature that blocks for each turn in the game. There is a trigger "WAS_BLOCKED_BY_A_CREATURE". You could try generating a single token manager. Then have that token manager grant every creature a triggered ability where it would add itself to a data chest if it was blocked (use an integer keep track of the number of creatures like above). Then at the end of each turn clear all of the chests and registers that had data in it. There probably is a better way but that would be my first guess.
- End Hostilities: I think I can remember someone having trouble with cards that cared about the equipment attached to creatures. I'll try to look some stuff up but this one may be buggy.
- Ugin's Nexus: You can skip extra turns. In the Programming Talk section TFM posted a thread about topic. I'd suggest checking there. I'd just keep track of when someone was going to get multiple turns in a row then use TFMs triggered ability to skip that turn.
Edit - Well I think I'm wrong about End Hostilities. You could try filtering for all auras and equipment (I think those are the only permanents that can "attach" to something). Then test if the parent of the aura or equipment is a creature. Similar to how Neo coded Pyramids (he likes to go for all the crazy cards
).
- Ride Down: Hmm I would think that you would have to keep track of every creature that blocks for each turn in the game. There is a trigger "WAS_BLOCKED_BY_A_CREATURE". You could try generating a single token manager. Then have that token manager grant every creature a triggered ability where it would add itself to a data chest if it was blocked (use an integer keep track of the number of creatures like above). Then at the end of each turn clear all of the chests and registers that had data in it. There probably is a better way but that would be my first guess.
- End Hostilities: I think I can remember someone having trouble with cards that cared about the equipment attached to creatures. I'll try to look some stuff up but this one may be buggy.
- Ugin's Nexus: You can skip extra turns. In the Programming Talk section TFM posted a thread about topic. I'd suggest checking there. I'd just keep track of when someone was going to get multiple turns in a row then use TFMs triggered ability to skip that turn.
Edit - Well I think I'm wrong about End Hostilities. You could try filtering for all auras and equipment (I think those are the only permanents that can "attach" to something). Then test if the parent of the aura or equipment is a creature. Similar to how Neo coded Pyramids (he likes to go for all the crazy cards
).Re: Khans Cards with some issues
by volrathxp » 27 Sep 2014, 01:21
Well, on Ride Down I was looking through the functions list and there *is* a "IsBlocked" function, but I can't find any cards that actually use it, so no telling how it works.sweetLu wrote:- Crackling Doom: Once you find out the creatures that have the greatest power, I would use a player data chest to store the pointers. Use an integer to keep track of how many creatures there are and put the creature pointers into the player data chest. Then if there are more than 1 creature, ask have the controller pick which one to destroy.
- Ride Down: Hmm I would think that you would have to keep track of every creature that blocks for each turn in the game. There is a trigger "WAS_BLOCKED_BY_A_CREATURE". You could try generating a single token manager. Then have that token manager grant every creature a triggered ability where it would add itself to a data chest if it was blocked (use an integer keep track of the number of creatures like above). Then at the end of each turn clear all of the chests and registers that had data in it. There probably is a better way but that would be my first guess.
- End Hostilities: I think I can remember someone having trouble with cards that cared about the equipment attached to creatures. I'll try to look some stuff up but this one may be buggy.
- Ugin's Nexus: You can skip extra turns. In the Programming Talk section TFM posted a thread about topic. I'd suggest checking there. I'd just keep track of when someone was going to get multiple turns in a row then use TFMs triggered ability to skip that turn.
Edit - Well I think I'm wrong about End Hostilities. You could try filtering for all auras and equipment (I think those are the only permanents that can "attach" to something). Then test if the parent of the aura or equipment is a creature. Similar to how Neo coded Pyramids (he likes to go for all the crazy cards
End Hostilities makes some sense, I'll see what I can come up with there. Probably do destroying all the auras/equipment first and then destroy the creatures.
Crackling Doom - Can you give an example for me to kind of poke through? I'm trying to wrap my head around that, and not really getting it.
Ugin - I'll check that thread out and see what comes of it.
Thanks!!!
volrathxp
Re: Khans Cards with some issues
by sweetLu » 27 Sep 2014, 03:58
Uhh you might be able to try something like this for Crackling Doom. Keep in mind I haven't coded in a long time and I just threw this together. Also, I'm by no means a programmer so this is bound to not make sense. I used TFMs player data chest functions so I would suggest you look that up. Of course, this isn't tested.
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local max_power = {}
for i = 0, (MTG():GetNumberOfPlayers()-1) do
local player = MTG():GetNthPlayer(i)
if player ~= nil then
filter:Clear()
filter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_CREATURE )
filter:Add( FE_CONTROLLER, OP_IS, player)
local num_creatures = filter:EvaluateObjects()
for j=0,(num_creatures-1) do
current_power = filter:GetNthEvaluatedObject(j):GetCurrentCharacteristics():Power_Get()
if current_power > max_power[i] then
max_power[i] = current_power
end
end
end
end
for i = 0, (MTG():GetNumberOfPlayers()-1) do
local player = MTG():GetNthPlayer(i)
if player ~= nil then
filter:Clear()
filter:Add( FE_POWER, OP_IS, max_power[i] )
filter:Add( FE_TYPE, OP_IS, CARD_TYPE_CREATURE )
filter:Add( FE_CONTROLLER, OP_IS, player)
local num_creatures = filter:EvaluateObjects()
SLU_MyPlayerDC(player):Set_Int(0, num_creatures)
for j=0,(num_creatures-1) do
SLU_MyPlayerDC(player):Set_CardPtr(j, filter:GetNthEvaluatedObject(j))
end
end
end
Re: Khans Cards with some issues
by NeoAnderson » 27 Sep 2014, 06:22
Ok guys i am going forward to finish all the Khans set, i still have to code many cards...if you want i already coded one of the cards you have mentioned above:
- End Hostilities - Neo Ver Tested | Open
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