Dev Diary #09: CS Event Engine

[Crossroads]

And here's the final detail for the original event wish list I posted at the Opening Post: loss of their Battalion HQ will have a negative effect on British morale. I mean why not, can't be much fun to duke it out at Sirte with all contact to Malta base gone, and everyone on their own!

This calls for a random() function too: not only will be the British morale hit, but it will be randomly reduced by a value between one and three. Hard!

Here's the sample:

[*] A new function: inc_morale_shift() is used to increment / decrement the morale level depending the value given. We're decrementing, hence multiplying by -1 in the code.
[*] Another new function: debug() can be used to pop up a message but only if the lua file specifies it is used in debug mode, like here.

See the Brits with their morale down by 1 in the snippet there. Lucky guys, could have been worse.

Looking at this, maybe the Libyans should receive a little boost for their morale, for their achievement, too. That would spiff up the battle just nicely!

[Crossroads]

ORIGINAL: berto

The Campaign Series Lua Event Engine is now up to 164 functions, and continues to grow in expressiveness and capability.

Always busy busy busy, our Berto! I updated the Post #3 with the current function inventary. Trigger functions first, on alphabetical order, other functions then.

[Warhorse]

This is gonna be awesome!![&o]

[Jafele]

Interesting, quite interesting.

[mheard]

Is the Event Engine contained within Middle East Version 2.00? If not, will it arrive as V2.01 or?

Many thanks...

[Oberst_Klink]

ORIGINAL: mheard

Is the Event Engine contained within Middle East Version 2.00? If not, will it arrive as V2.01 or?

Many thanks...

Martin

check your \Campaign Series Middle East\manual folder and there should be the CSEEHowTo.PDF

That explain how to modify/create the .LUA files for those events.

Klink, Oberst

[Crossroads]

Also, look for scenarios with [CS Event Engine Enabled] on their Scenario descriptions, then look at their *.lua files for samples if you wish.

Those scenarios would be, off my head:

[*] all five Bootcamp scenarios
[*] all five Teaching set scenarios
[*] all Crisis in Sirte scenarios
[*] Long Road Home
[*] Jerusalem48_csee as per CSEE How-To document Berto wrote, detailing what goes there.

[athineos]

Thanks for the info. I would like dedicate a little time in the future to learn more about .LUA files as the only programming language I was ever exposed to was COBOL back in college. I have played very little of ME so far. Most of my gaming time goes to JTCS.

[Crossroads]

ORIGINAL: athineos

Thanks for the info. I would like dedicate a little time in the future to learn more about .LUA files as the only programming language I was ever exposed to was COBOL back in college. I have played very little of ME so far. Most of my gaming time goes to JTCS.

Go ahead, give it a try, start simple, perhaps copy one snippet from a scenario file that already has Events in place, and try it out. I know COBOL too, a special favourite of mine (with emphasis on word special, it is a very unique language). Anyone familiar with Basic, for instance, or Java, or what not in fact, should be able to get into these.

Berto did a great job in abstracting most of the stuff, so typically you'd just need to understand which Event Function you want to be called, and what parameter it takes. Good luck!

[athineos]

ORIGINAL: Crossroads

ORIGINAL: athineos

Thanks for the info. I would like dedicate a little time in the future to learn more about .LUA files as the only programming language I was ever exposed to was COBOL back in college. I have played very little of ME so far. Most of my gaming time goes to JTCS.

Go ahead, give it a try, start simple, perhaps copy one snippet from a scenario file that already has Events in place, and try it out. I know COBOL too, a special favourite of mine (with emphasis on word special, it is a very unique language). Anyone familiar with Basic, for instance, or Java, or what not in fact, should be able to get into these.

Berto did a great job in abstracting most of the stuff, so typically you'd just need to understand which Event Function you want to be called, and what parameter it takes. Good luck!

You have recommended notepad++ as a text editor. Where is the best place to get that? Thanks

[Crossroads]

Here's their homepage: Notepad-plus-plus

[athineos]

Thanks Crossroads!

[Crossroads]

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