Normal M&B Module System for version 1.010

[Antifiriz_khergit]

Good.

now lets mods come!

 

[SwordChest]

... :O I don't know how to mod

 

[Ruthven]

... :O I don't know how to mod

Checkums teh sig.

 

[Thymo]

Wooo! Armagan, what's the max amount of troops this thing can hold, now? Is it 1500+?

Anyone know, yet?

What exactly do you mean by max number of troops? In what? 

It's your computer that decides how many troops you can have in a battle at once without lagging.. 

 

[grailknighthero]

There is a max amount of troop_ids(module_troops) allowed in the game.

 

[Thymo]

There is a max amount of troop_ids(module_troops) allowed in the game.

Oh.. Why? And how many was there in .960? .. 

 

[bob505]

... :O I don't know how to mod

Checkums teh sig.

I already check your sig but it still is way to confusing to me.

 

[Fujiwara]

Just out of curiosity, what use do we have for bitwise functions?  Allows us to mess around with header file hex code more?

I use a lot of custom bitfields in Onin no Ran (example: you can set up quests with multiple intermediate goals, that aren't necessarily linear, without a whole bunch of global tracking variables), and I had to write bin->dec and dec->bin converters, plus code to breakout a bitfield (which was really a decimal number consisting of just 1's and 0's) into an array of 1's and 0's, and code to check the bit I wanted to look at. A huge, complicated suite of scripts. This is going cut all that down to two scripts: one to set/unset bits, and one to check if a bit is set:

('toggle_bit',
    [
        (store_script_param,':flag',1),
        (store_script_param,':bit_num',2),
        (store_script_param,':operation',3),
        (try_begin),
            (eq,':operation',set_bit),
            (val_or,':flag',':bit_num'),
        (else_try),
            (val_sub,':flag',':bit_num'),
        (try_end),
        (assign,reg0,':flag'),
        ]
    ),
('check_bit',
    [
        (store_script_param,':flag',1),
        (store_script_param,':bit_num',2),
        (store_and,':result',':flag',':bit_num'),
        (try_begin),
            (gt,':result',0),
            (assign,reg0,true),
        (else_try),
            (assign,reg0,false),
        (try_end),
        ]
    ),

 

[Elenmmare]

Porting is pretty easy. Finished the porting in around 1 hour with my mod. Still, I'm pretty good at organizing stuff.

Basically, I made a list:

Ported (Bolded=ported):
Animations
Constants
Dialogs
Factions
Game Menus
Info
Items
Map_Icons
Meshes
Mission templates
Music
Particle Systems
Parties
Party Templates
Presentations
Quests
Scene Props
Scenes
Scripts
Simple Triggers
Skills
Skins
Sounds
Strings
Tableau Materials
Triggers
Troops
Variables


And then went through whichever ones I knew I hadn't changed. Some error's and tons of opened windows later, it worked like a charm. Just remember to copy and paste in chunks, keep a calm head, and always have an organized base to regroup.

I'd thought the system had screwed with me when it changed the town's allegiances, but I had just forgotten to replace the Lord-town scripts 

 

[grailknighthero]

I use a lot of custom bitfields in Onin no Ran (example: you can set up quests with multiple intermediate goals, that aren't necessarily linear, without a whole bunch of global tracking variables), and I had to write bin->dec and dec->bin converters, plus code to breakout a bitfield (which was really a decimal number consisting of just 1's and 0's) into an array of 1's and 0's, and code to check the bit I wanted to look at. A huge, complicated suite of scripts. This is going cut all that down to two scripts: one to set/unset bits, and one to check if a bit is set:

Crazy, I never thought people would be using that kind of stuff in M&B.

There is a max amount of troop_ids(module_troops) allowed in the game.

Oh.. Why? And how many was there in .960? .. 

All games have limits.  Armagan did not know in the beginning that M&B would get this far.  The old limit used to be 512.

 

[Rongar]

Oh! It would great if all these things were documented.
Btw, current number of troops is above 600

 

[Fujiwara]

I use a lot of custom bitfields in Onin no Ran (example: you can set up quests with multiple intermediate goals, that aren't necessarily linear, without a whole bunch of global tracking variables), and I had to write bin->dec and dec->bin converters, plus code to breakout a bitfield (which was really a decimal number consisting of just 1's and 0's) into an array of 1's and 0's, and code to check the bit I wanted to look at. A huge, complicated suite of scripts. This is going cut all that down to two scripts: one to set/unset bits, and one to check if a bit is set:

Crazy, I never thought people would be using that kind of stuff in M&B.
Oh yeah...it started out as something I needed before we had check_quest_concluded, etc. The original implementation was with slots, which was horrible. I had hand roll a store_power script to get the original dec->bin converters to work before we had the store_pow opcode. Now, I only to need to store the flag value in one slot, and the power of it is pretty amazing: you can have up to 28 custom flags for any object for each integer (max integer value I've seen is 400,000,000, which is actually kinda weird, since even a signed 32-bit integer tops out at 2,147,483,647).

 

[Count Dusseldorf]

For He's a jolly good fellow!

Thanks Armagan!

 

[dstemmer]

Fuji,

that's really neat! I never thought of storing boolean values that way...I imagine your new implementation is much faster? No problem using it in nested loops?

 

[armagan]

Thank you so much for all those kind words.

There shouldn't be an upper limit on troops (or anything other than factions) in the new version.

 

[Lord Edward]

You should probably add a compatibility note with 1.011 on the first post.

It might confuse some people otherwise.

 

[Ursca]

There shouldn't be an upper limit on troops (or anything other than factions) in the new version.

Hurrah! Excellent news.

 

[italiano]

Thank you so much for all those kind words.

There shouldn't be an upper limit on troops (or anything other than factions) in the new version.

I have about 20 factions running around so I doubt anyone will run into that limit anyway.

Porting is pretty easy

I copy all of my changes and additions to a module_x_changes (where x is the name of the module file) with clear titles for each script. Come porting time I just go through and copy & paste.

 

[grailknighthero]

I'm too lazy to do that lol.

 

[fisheye]

Is there going to be a module system 1.011?