Initial Python reference

[MMC]

Just a quickie...

What does the file '<CivDir>\Assets\Python\Screens\CvDanQuayle.py' actually do? And why is it called Dan Quayle (I do know who he is)?

Also, in reference to removing improvements, what about 'onPillage' or something? Is there a function like that?

[Locutus]

Wow, forgot about this thread

Not gonna bother answering questions that are more than 4 months old, I assume everyone either already found an anwer or gave up. If anyone still has any outstanding questions they want answered, just repeat them...

Originally posted by MMC
Just a quickie...

What does the file '<CivDir>\Assets\Python\Screens\CvDanQuayle.py' actually do? And why is it called Dan Quayle (I do know who he is)?

[Elustrian]

Hi,

Working on my first mod and one of the added features is a disease promotion that spreads to nearby units and eventually kills infected units - a bioterrorist element. This works fine but my playtesters are concerned that this is a very quiet event - no indications except for changing promotions which can be difficult to catch.

I added the following:

popup=PyPopup.PyPopup()
popup.setBodyString('Your Unit has been infected')
popup.launch()

which works fine except that the message appears on everyone's screen.

How would someone add messages to the events log that already are posted on individual's screens.

Thanks for your help in advance,
Cheers

[Locutus]

Two ways to do that. If you want a popup like above, simply precede it by a check if the affected player is the active player, that is the player running the script on his pc:

if gc.getGame().getActivePlayer() == gc.getPlayer(iAffectedPlayer):

Or, perhaps more elegantly and less intrusive, you could display a message in the top-left corner of the screen, like what happens when e.g. a religion spreads:

button = "[path to some icon you want to use for the arrow pointing to the unit in question]"
CyInterface().addMessage(iAffectedPlayer, False, 0, "Your Unit has been infected", "", 0, button,     \
            CyGame().getReplayMessageColor(0), affectedUnit.getX(), affectedUnit.getY(), True, True)

If you don't want to bother with arrows and icons and all that:

CyInterface().addMessage(iAffectedPlayer, False, 0, "Your Unit has been infected", "", 0, "",     \
            CyGame().getReplayMessageColor(0), 0, 0, False, False)

[Elustrian]

Nice!

Answered my question and the next step that I hadn't considered yet (the event button).

Looking forward to implementing next hacking session.

Many Thanks,
Elustrian

[Scorpi40000]

Is it possible to use onUnitMove() to charge x gold from any player every time any of his units moves one square?

[Locutus]

Yeah sure.

	def onUnitMove(self, argsList):
		'unit move'
		pPlot,pUnit = argsList
		player = gc.getPlayer(pUnit.getOwner())
		player.changeGold(-x)

[Tigga]

The API link on the first post is bad. The current one I'm using is http://civilization4.net/files/modding/PythonAPI_v160/ - is this the same as the 1.61 API?

Also, the type-list link off the Updates tab doesn't work - you have to go through the legend or get to it by clicking on a type in the API.

[PJayTycy]

Locutus, the link in the first post is still wrong.

[wotan321]

I have a WBS file that has sleeping units..... in other words when the WBS scenario starts, all the units on the map are fortified, so I don't have to visit each one and give it orders. This is a good thing if you have dozens of units.

But I have started another scenario, a WBS file, and put in the "Sleep" line with the unit, just like in the other WBS file, but when I start the scenario, I have to visit each unit.

What is the difference? What python file needs to be imported for them to be asleep?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[wotan321]

I just learned that the Sleep command in the WBS file didn't come around until the 1.61 update, so maybe my mod's globaldefines.xml file is out of date....?

[MMC]

I think you're asking in the wrong section. The WBS files are nothing to do with python. You could try creating a new thread for your problem.

[wotan321]

You are mostly correct, though I found some WBS code in some python files which is what originally inspired me to ask here. But later investigating turned up the aforementioned xml file as the solution, so you are right. Sorry about the confusion, and thanks for the very helpful advice.

[wotan321]

Well, as it turns out, the globaldefines.xml files were all up to date. The problem is that the scenario I am trying to mod has numerous changes to other files that prevent the 1.61 changes from working.

So... in a python related question..... what code could I add to my events file, so that at the beginning of the scenario, each unit is visited and set to "fortify"?

Thanks.

[Thror78]

Hoi U Pythons:

I try to make sth like a KingUnit:

In the StartYear i want to create a GreatGeneral with the name of the leader of the specific nation.
This is what i got so long:

//--- CvEventInterface.py -----------------------------------

def onGameStart(self, argsList):
if (gc.getGame().getGameTurnYear() == gc.getDefineINT("START_YEAR")):
for iPlayer in range(gc.getMAX_PLAYERS()):
pPlayer = gc.getPlayer(iPlayer)
pPlayer.addFreeUnit((UnitTypes)91)

//------------------------------------------------------------------

i know that there was somewhere a function where you can tell a unit its name but hadn't found it again.
The >addFreeUnit((UnitTypes)91)< -function works in C++ good don't know if it does with python...

Any help in here would be pretty nice

Thx Tom

[Thror78]

The code above doesn't work. Any idea how to change it.
And how i can name the unit by python?

[Locutus]

I'm not aware of the existance of any function called addFreeUnit, but just 91 without the cast should work fine. gc.getDefineINT should work for the unit name as well if you're looking for that.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by wotan321
So... in a python related question..... what code could I add to my events file, so that at the beginning of the scenario, each unit is visited and set to "fortify"?

Probably something along the lines of:

def onGameStart(self, argsList):
	if (gc.getGame().getGameTurnYear() == gc.getDefineINT("START_YEAR")):
		for iPlayer in range(gc.getMAX_PLAYERS()):
			pPlayer = gc.getPlayer(iPlayer)
			for iGroup in range(pPlayer.getNumSelectionGroups()):
				gGroup = pPlayer.getSelectionGroup(iGroup)
				gGroup.pushMission(gc.getDefineINT("MISSION_FORTIFY", 0, 0, 0, false, false, -1, gGroup.plot(), gGroup.getHeadUnit())

Disclaimer: untested, can't guarantee it'll do anything (or even that it doesn't contain typos)

[upon]

My problem is the same. I don't know how execute it!

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[Gaurav0]

Is there a version of the python api updated to patch 2.08?

[MMC]

Will this API every be updated for BtS?

[nelson1234]

I like this thread.......

[nelson1234]

i like it very much........