triggering an ability via script

stuart

Hello,

During a phase battle, there are times when I want the player's action to be automatically triggered via a script. i.e. rather than selecting an ability and target via button presses the choices come from another source.

Could somebody point me in the direction of what commands I should be issuing in my scripts to perform such an action? Bonus points for showing me how to end the player's phase on completion :-)

Thanks,

stuart

Ok, I think I've made some progress, but I'm now having another related problem...

So I discovered I can use combatant.Actions.CastAbility(AbilityAction) to make a combatant perform a specific action during their phase, and this seems to work just as I need!

The problem is that when the battle ends, I am now getting a stack overflow, as it seems that it gets stuck in a loop of starting and ending phase turns: StackOverflowException: The requested operation caused a stack overflow. ORKFramework.PhaseBattle.StartTurn () ORKFramework.PhaseBattle.EventEnded () ORKFramework.PhaseBattle.NextPhase () ORKFramework.PhaseBattle.StartTurn () ORKFramework.PhaseBattle.EventEnded ()...

The method am calling is triggered from a combatant's phase start event, via the Playmaker actions asset from @tanohmz. Anybody any thoughts on what I should be doing to prevent this?

gamingislove

CastAbility isn't the correct function for that.

You need to get the combatant's ability and call its Use function: AbilityShortcut ability = combatant.Abilities.Get(int index); ability.Use(Combatant user, List<Combatant> targets, bool useAction); index is the ID/index of the ability. user is the combatant using the ability. targets is a list of combatants that are targeted. Set useAction to true if the ability should be animated, i.e. use an actual action in battle.

stuart

Ohhhhh! Makes more sense.

Just tested and...great! It works correctly and the strange stack overflow is gone. Not only that but you've helped me learn a bit more about your architecture; I was struggling to understand the iShortcut interface so this helps a little.

Thanks again