Dyara

I wonder if anyone has ever found a use for user defined tokens. Well, at least there´s one use. (In BG2:ToB?) you can use tokens to print the value of a variable:

IF
    True()
THEN
    RESPONSE #100
        SetTokenGlobal("DEBUGTEST","LOCALS","DEBUGTEST")
        DisplayString(Myself,"DEBUGTEST: <DEBUGTEST>")
        Continue()
END

IF
    True()
THEN
    RESPONSE #100
        IncrementGlobal("DEBUGTEST","LOCALS",1)
END

This script will display

DEBUGTEST: 0
DEBUGTEST: 1
DEBUGTEST: 2
...

in the message window. So instead of using a lot of CLUAConsole:GetGlobal(...) you can write a script that displays all your GLOBALs.

335 SetTokenGlobal(S:GLOBAL*,S:Area*,S:Token*)

also allows you to use the value of a variable in dialogue string.

edit: Looking at SimDing0´s scripting guide I´ve seen that it´s allready mentioned there. So it´s nothing really new but maybe there are a few who didn´t know.

I tried to write a dialogue with weights. The dialogue is assigned to a creature that says 'Test1' or 'Test2'. But if the global Test2 is set to 1 it should say 'Test3'. I thought that using a weight for state T3 I don´t have to change the state triggers T1 and T2:

BEGIN ~Test~

IF ~Global("TEST1","GLOBAL",0)~ THEN BEGIN T1
   SAY ~Test1~
   IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END

IF ~!Global("TEST1","GLOBAL",0)~ THEN BEGIN T2
   SAY ~Test2~
   IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END

IF WEIGHT #0 ~Global("TEST2","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN BEGIN T3
   SAY ~Test3~
   IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END

Unfortunately it seems not to work regardless of the weight (I´ve tried -999, -1, 0, 1 and many more).

Looking at the dlg file with InfExplorer, decompiling it with WeiDU again (or playing the dialogue with BG2) there are no weights:

BEGIN ~TEST~

IF ~Global("TEST1","GLOBAL",0)~ THEN BEGIN 0 // from:
  SAY #78411 /* ~Test1~ */
  IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END

IF ~!Global("TEST1","GLOBAL",0)~ THEN BEGIN 1 // from:
  SAY #78412 /* ~Test2~ */
  IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END

IF ~Global("TEST2","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN BEGIN 2 // from:
  SAY #78413 /* ~Test3~ */
  IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END

Of course I could write the dialogue without weights but using weights would make it much more simple.

Is it a bug in WeiDU,have I misunderstood the usage of weights or is there something wrong in my d file?

Is it possible to check (inside a door script) if someone (unsuccessful) tries to bash a door? It´s allways unsuccessful because my door is locked.

I know you can check a failed picklock or a failed knock spell, but what about bashing a door?

Another question: Is is possible to check if someone only clicks on a door (to open it)? I tried Clicked(O:Object*) but it seems not to work.

Searching in the WeiDU documentation I found


Version 76:
        * Also look in GAME/CDx/Data/ instead of just GAME/Data for BIFFs.

Does this mean that WeiDU doesn´t read the baldur.ini to find the CDn subfolders?

To explain: I (and perhaps many others) have more than one BG2 installation on the same harddrive and all these installations share the same CDn subfolders (just to save disk space).

I´ve written a small command-line tool that validates all the actions and triggers in WeiDU *.d files. It can also write the names of variables or timers into a text file to find misspelled names or the using of wrong namespaces (GLOBAL instead of LOCALS and vice versa).

It´s here available for download.

There´s a large readme included. I hope it´s comprehensible, if not feel free to ask.