General XML/LUA Editing Findings

[Uresti]

well i posted about the 10th card limit few days ago...nobody read my posts!!

Also there is an hidden method called GetconvertedManaCost. So you could possibly use this :
local TargetCardConvertedManaCost = Object():GetTargetCard:GetconvertedManaCost

you can do that doing:
Object():GetFilter():SetConvertedCostMin()

Can you share the method you used to extract the Variables and functions from the exe? i tried with and Hex when game came out without susses

and the function to count it just stop at a given point as example the card Shauku Endbringer

<EFFECT>
Object():GetFilter():Clear()
Object():GetFilter():SetZone( ZONE_IN_PLAY )
Object():GetFilter():AddCardType( CARD_TYPE_CREATURE )
Object():GetFilter():NotTargetted()
if Object():GetFilter():CountStopAt( 2 ) ~= 1 then
CantAttack()
end
</EFFECT>
Just check "If there´s another creature in game" then cant attack

[Uresti]

We have a wiki here, please feel free to use it: http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/

I've had a go at making a page, is this ok? http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/List_ ... n_triggers

If so I'll start adding new sections for other things I know about so far.

That looks great. Don't forget to add a link to the top page.

Im not who can say how you do that but i think is better if you start with "General Editing" like manalink should have more order.

[Huggybaby]

I think the most logical thing to do is start by adding DotP to the "Software" category.

[Epiphany]

Oh ok, about to get some sleep but tomorrow I'll have a look at getting things more organised.

Where are you guys based by the way? Just wondering if our time zones ever match!

[Huggybaby]

I live near Atlanta, Goblin Hero lives near Russia, Bog Wraith lives in Canada.

[Epiphany]

I live near Atlanta, Goblin Hero lives near Russia, Bog Wraith lives in Canada.

Near Russia? Me too! Well East of Russia to be exact. I live in Estonia.

[Uresti]

Im from the land of Nopal and Tortillas!!

greetings from Mexico!

[Huggybaby]

Greetings. Oh, and extreme lives in Ukraine IIRC. So, we have a lot of people here from that side of the world.

[Uresti]

Uresti proudly presents..... Teferis Puzzle Box!
well no at least not now.. seriously, we need to find a way to override the 10 targets limit, teferis puzzle works great until you have more than 10 cards in hand :/ anyway here is the code if someone wants to find a trick to use instead of GetNith

<TRIGGER value="END_OF_STEP">
return ( MTG():GetStep() == STEP_DRAW and TriggerPlayer():MyTurn() ~= 0 )
</TRIGGER>
<PRE_EFFECT>
ChooseNFromHand5( TriggerPlayer(), TriggerPlayer() , "ChooseCard", CountCardsInHand( TriggerPlayer() ) )
</PRE_EFFECT>
<EFFECT>
local XInHand = CountCardsInHand( TriggerPlayer() )
for i=0,CountCardsInHand( TriggerPlayer() ) do
if (Object():GetNthTargetCard( i ) ~= nil) then
Object():GetNthTargetCard( i ):PutInLibrary( -1 )
end
end
PlayerDrawCards( TriggerPlayer(), XInHand )
</EFFECT>

[otherright]

Have you tried copying the data wad into the same folder and then running the unpack program from the command prompt? Unfortunately you will need to unpack the data_core folder if you want to be able to add new images to the game.

Yeah, I tried that as well. I've tried admin mode, running as XP (which really doesn't work anyway, but thought it was worth a try). This thing just isn't unpacking for me. Now I haven't tried unpacking from the command prompt. I did think about it, but it slowly slipped from my mind. Stressful week.

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but its Monday and I have 4 fighters with contests Thursday and I've been playing the other side of the coach coin this week getting things set up and holding their hands and telling them everything is all right, but they are still getting their as*es in there and fighting.

So, with work and coaching, its been a long week already. But I digress, I'll try it.

[figment]

First, new user to the forum. Found the forum after searching around and thought I'd post some of my findings on this game. Looks like other users have already gotten beyond what I've done. My contribution I suppose would be a plugin for Paint.NET for reading/writing TDX files which are just modified DDS files.

Anyway to quote myself from another forum:

Here is a standalone custom deck example. The readme goes into more detail though is by no means newb friendly. Included is the example of a standalone WAD file. It contains examples of Custom AI Avatar (cleverly named Example AI), Custom Deck (named Example Deck) and a Custom Card (Bad Moon from 4e).
http://rapidshare.com/files/406282257/M ... 0.rar.html
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qxk4by

Probably need both the main game and the first DLC as I have both and am not going to test without it. I dont know if steam cares about the files or not so I'd recommend running steam offline and not trying to use any custom edits online.

BSFConverter - Converts an XLS file into BSF files
http://rapidshare.com/files/406280395/B ... 0.rar.html
http://www.sendspace.com/file/g3kmsd

TDXFileType Plugin for Paint.NET - Custom TDX file converter for Paint.NET
http://rapidshare.com/files/405003581/T ... pe.7z.html
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xljjka

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As a second topic, I was trying to create a multicolored land (Underground Sea). I was able to do this and add it to a deck and it will work as either Blue or Black but it actually adds both Blue and Black at the same time doubling the mana. Also the AI does not understand how to play the cards (or its detected a hack and is playing extra dumb) and I think assumes they are only black. Anyway I suspect multicolored land would go a long way towards fixing the cannot tap land manually issue.

[Huggybaby]

Welcome to the forum, and thanks for sharing your work. There are exciting things to come, what with all the talented people here.

Please share a link to that other forum. Unlike some places, we don't have such restrictions here. We want to know about everyone working on this game because the more we can cooperate the more efficiently we can proceed.

[Uresti]

Welcome figment!
thanks for sharing your work, your WAD example intrigues me cause our DLCs only are recognized when are uncompressed.

[Epiphany]

I'm really struggling with Fevered Convulsions.

Here's my code:

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<ACTIVATED_ABILITY tag="FEVERED_CONVULSIONS_RULE_1" layer="0">
      <COST type="Mana" cost="{2}{B}{B}" />
      <TARGET_DETERMINATION>
        return TargetCreatureBad()
      </TARGET_DETERMINATION>
      <PLAYTIME>
        ChooseTarget( "ChooseCreatureToGiveMinusOneMinusOne" )
      </PLAYTIME>
      <EFFECT>
      AddPowerAndToughnessToTargetCard( -1, -1 )
      </EFFECT>
    </ACTIVATED_ABILITY>

Anyone care to tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I'm not sure why it's not working, must be something really simple.

[Uresti]

all the code is fine except you need to add -1 -1 counters

function from EFFECTS.LUA

function AddMinusOneMinusOneCounter( pObject )
pObject:AddCounters( MTG():MinusOneMinusOneCounters(), 1 )
end