SCRIPTING HELP NEEDED

[WaspUK1966]

Hope someone can help me!

In the game that I am coding, you start off as one champion (champion1). The others champions are disabled. Later on, you enable champion 4. So far so good. Both show, and you can move them around into different slots etc as you play. Further on in the game, champions 2 and 3 are enabled. This is where I hit a problem. If the previous champions (1 and 4) are still in their default slots , then all the champions appear. Which is what I want. But, if any of the previous champions happen to occupy the slot for either champion 2 or 3 at the time that they are enabled, then the newly enabled champion doesn't appear. I presume this is because its default slot is already taken up by another champion. How can I get around this?
Any help greatly appreciated as always

George

[Glew]

I've never done this kind of script so I don't really know what is going on. But maybe a cheap workaround could be to swap the enabled champions back to their slots before enabling the new party member.
Something with Party:getChampion(slot) and Party:swapChampions(slot1, slot2)
But hopefully someone more knowledgeable will turn up and share the solution.

In the meanwhile maybe this topic will be useful: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3368&p=34000&hilit ... ion#p34000

[Isaac]

Champions are numbered by whatever slot they happen to occupy at the time. party:getChampion(1) refers to whichever champion is in slot 1. If that champion is moved, they are not Champion(1) anymore.

Champions also have an ordinal number that does not change. A champion that started in slot 3 will have 3 as their ordinal number for the whole game; even when jostled around from slot to slot.

It's possible to write a function that looks through all slots for a name or ordinal, and enable the slot where you find them.

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function wakeUpChampion(self, target, bool)
	if bool == nil then
	 bool = true
	end
	for x = 1,4 do
		local champ =  party:getChampion(x)
		if champ:getOrdinal() == target then
			champ:setEnabled(bool)
		end
	end
end

This function checks all champions for a given ordinal (where they started when the game first began). It then enables them ~wherever it finds them. It also has the option to include 'false' as the last argument; which disables whatever slot they are in.

Usage: ~your script name~:wakeUpChampion(3) , or :wakeUpChampion(3, false)

This function could be altered to accept the PC's name if you like:
Change this line:

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if champ:getOrdinal() == target then

to this:

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if champ:getName() == target then

and the usage becomes: :wakeUpChampion("Sancsaron") , or :wakeUpChampion("Sancsaron", false)