Allies in encounters. Is it possible?

[Zeke]

Is it possible to have temporary allies per encounter basis?

Sometimes in the GoldBox games, you were joined by one or more allies for a single battle. Is this possible to be recreated in the toolset?

I want to create a prison riot scenario with a battle consisting of the player party and allied prisoners versus the prison guards.

[youngneil1]

[Zeke]

Thank you for the reply. This Toolset is so good and it could become great in the future. Keep the good work guys!

[Cagon]

I am trying to implement this and am a little confused. Might be that I am working with IBmini and not IB2. You mention using " using gaAddPartyMember and gaRemovePartyMember scipts on the script hooks of an encounter". However I am unable to figure out where the script hooks of an encounter are. I find the trigger scripts and the scripts in a conversation. So I add a party member by using a trigger to do a conversation to add the party member, trigger the encounter, then another conversation where I remove the party member. Just wondering if I am missing something or if there is a better way to do it.

[youngneil1]

Cannot look up for IBMini right now. For IB2 you can open encounter, click area properties, switch to properties tab and then use the IBScript hooks. With these a custom script can be made to call the ga... scripts.

[youngneil1]

Like e.g.:

~gaAddPartyMember(parm(0))

"Parm0" here is entered in area properties, right underneath the chosen script hook itself. These parms are delineated via "," (if you use more than one).

In this case you could e.g. use Drin.json to add the character named Drin.

Edit: Just checked and it should work the same for IBMini.

[Cagon]

Do you mean the BIG button labeled “Area Properties”? The one who would bite me if it was a snake? Can’t believe I did not see it.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I am able to make things work with adding and removing party members in a conversation but not through a script. I like the script idea. I can see adding or removing party members more than once. Not sure what the best way to show you is, screenshots or sharing the module. I tried uploading screenshots below.

By the way the gaRemovePartyMemeber.cs shows “//parm1 = (string) the tag of the PC (leave blank to use index instead)” but it behaves like gaAddPartyMemeber.cs “//parm1 = (string) PC filename (ex. drin.json) or PC's name (ex. Drin) if using a player from the Player Editor (case sensitive)”. I am using the PC’s name from the player editor, haven’t tried anything else. The PC’s name works.

See screenshot below. I have also tried hard coding the script with Sildor instead of parm(0)

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[slowdive]

I just took a peek at the code and it looks like PCs are being placed on the combat map before the start of combat ibscript is run. So the PCs are added to the party but will not be on the map is my guess. We'll need to move the script hook to the very beginning of the combat setup method.

[youngneil1]

Fine analysis, Jer. Makes a lot of sense to me. I will check and try to update IB2 beta accordingly.

[youngneil1]

Made an attempt to fix all issues with this - see description of IB2 beta v25 in its thread. I realize now I forgot to update the scripts' descriptions for the adjusted usage in v25, will do next time .