format is as follows
HINT#combo hold(blah|myhand)^until(blah|mygraveyard)^until(blah|opponentshand)^restriction{type(creature|mybattlefield)~morethan~2}^cast(blah) targeting(blah|mygraveyard)^totalmananneeded({g}{g}{r}{u}{2})
the ai can be told to hold more then one card, until as many condiations as you want are met, until( is a TC and can basically be used in a fasion of saying "hold arbor elf until you have a lord of atlantas in play and a gaint growth in you hand"
once the condiations are met you can later tell it to cast(gaint growth) targeting(arbor elf[fresh]|mybattlefield)...
I also included the whole of the games restrictions system...
so you can get really really creative with this so far.
the next thing I will do is ability targeting and card favoring.
this is a method to set the order in which ai decides to play cards, you can for example tell ai to look for 2 instants, before trying to find a creature.
be sure to list all main types of the deck otherwise ai will pass on stuff
this is the current
const char* types[] = {"planeswalker","creature", "enchantment", "artifact", "sorcery", "instant"};
so be sure you include them if the decks need them.
other the above example would be coded
HINT:castpriority(instant,instant,creature,planeswalker,enchantment,artifact,sorcery)
as you can see this deck will now look for and play if possible, 2 instants before any of the other types.
this will really help with decks which rely on cards like dark ritual to produce mana to cast creature, simply by listing instant before creature. if the deck had dark rituals, in the above example, and it had them in hand, it would then cast dark ritual, dark ritual, then one of the remaining types. this is actually tested not just assumed.
taught ai when not to play a planeswalker, told ai to look for planeswalkers as a card type to play.
fixed a crash related to tokens and cardgui..tokens dont have models....
made a 1 line change to deckveiwer that makes it usable on touch devices and improves the overall look and feel of deckveiwer....
moved init() from ManaCost to a private call
changed ManaPool method init() to Empty() to better represent what it does.
renamed ManaCost::reinit to resetCosts() as reinit sounds like your are returning the ManaCost object back to initial state which is not what happens. Only the cost related members are reset, the bool isMulti is left alone
which tells the ai not to use the targetible cards as attackers, this can be card names, and CD modes.
modified the way ai handles multikicker. it will not be casting 1/1 joragas anymore :D
made WParsedInt ignore "+" signs....
added a new affinity ability...autohand=affinity(creature[vampire]|mygraveyard) ....
this is essentially affinity for creatures in your grave.
added supkeyword to clone clone addtype(zombie)....it adds the type listed to the cards types on clone...
reparse PT bonus on resolve.
reworked bushido, it should now work correctly...aside from that it now excepts word variables...fumiko is now bushido(type:creature[attacking]:battlefield/type:creature[attacking]:battlefield)
added a keyword to access acontrolsteal..the keyword is "steal"
auto=ueot steal target(creature)
reworked persist to handle undying..added the new counter handling rules intruduced by wotc in ISD
added a vector cardsAbilities to mtgcardinstance...this keeps the abilities added to the game for a card to use stored where we can easly alter or remove them.
added an automatic increase to geteff return if the ability is a putinplay ability.
finished coding support for flip and double sided cards, though viewing the "other side" is still not possible yet.
the ability follows the mtg rules.
the ability syntax is flip(card name)...a card can flip into any other card by name...even flip into itself.
added a "canPay() call for Ninja cost...to prevent it from coming up in a menu unless you're in blockers....
added 3 new restriction types that work very similar to type(
thisturn(tc)~morethan~2
lastturn(tc)~lessthan~thisturn(tc)
compare(wordvarible)~equalto~compare(wordvarible)
these are pretty self explanitory.
moved "&&" ability parsing below "this(" allowing "this(" to grant abilities now which contain &&...enclave egologist bug is fixed by this.
fixed an issue with combatspirit link for some reason the way i was doing the bool was not always working.
took care of the todo for AProtectionFrom...you can now give a protection from(blah) in a instant or ueot ability.
added altho very limited right now a "targetedplayer" tc word. i hope to increase this with time.
as always my sidekick doc already has some cards coded for this and test will follow the addition of the cards.
first somehow accidentally line 3616 mtgability.cpp removefromgame was adding an observer instead of removing it, this explains "abilities sometimes acting strangely or not being removed"...I'm surprised it didn't create memleaks or extremely visible side-effects...
2nd fixed a bug where triggered abilities would share a menu with activated abilities of a card when ever you had enough mana floating to pay an activated ability before the trigger resolved.
adjust the way ai calculates if it should use cards like wrath of god, though it is still open to using it at a random chance, i noticed that the method we use might not be the best.
an ability with an eff of 1 for example actually has a 10% chance of being choosen....
lets say rng rolls 3402
when you % this it simply takes the 2 last numbers making this roll 2...meaning that unless we assign no "random chance to do blah" the actual chance of ai using a stupid ability is 10%...I'm leaving that logic how it is tho I "unfactored"(?) it to make it easier to track the numbers, also added a debug trace to help see how often we hit "lottery chance" ...
fixed a minor crash from multiability trying to fetch menutext when no abilities existed in the vector anymore.
this patch introduces a new subkeyword for "may " which is syntax pay(manacost)
auto=may pay({w}) untap
this is to allow the card group that was coded using the activated ability loophole i described at the start. it works the same way as it did with the loophole only it is actually something we want to happen instead of a flaw in the engine...you float the mana same as before and when the may line is triggered it will check if payment can be made with exist mana if so then it displays the menutext for the ability, if that ability is choosen it then charges you the mana directly before activation.
this patch also include flip( ability, tho not intended originally for this version, I had previously had it finished and was polishing it right before I noticed the bugs above. since this keyword is not intended to add cards for this version, I wont go into massive details about it at this time.
- Modified the testsuite and gameobserver to be able to replay all the testcases based on the actions logged during the first pass. This allows to test the action logging and replay used during undo. It's only activated in multithreaded mode and it does not work on Momir tests.
- Modified choice logging and replay to use menuId instead of ability index, as, for some obscur reasons related to Lord, those ability indexes may change.
- Fixed bug in nextphase logging wrongly generating click actions
- Added a "stack" zone to the click ability logging to be able to replay properly interrupt
- Fixed a wonderful bug mixing card names with zone names in the actions execution engine
- Added a "combatok" action logging/execution
- Added a "clone" virtual method to MTGCardInstance and Token to be able to clone correctly the right object type. Used that in MTGGameZones::removeCard
- Modified DuelLayers to not use a global MTGPhaseGame instance anymore
- Moved the reset of currentActionCard out of the ActionLayer render function : that fixes the remaing problematic tests in the multithreaded testsuite
- Added a method in ActionLayer converting a card ability into a menu index
- Used this new method in the game observer to log correctly AI ability actions
- Added a DumpAssert method in the game observer, it can be used to dump the game and assert in order to easy crash reproduction
- Cleaned up TargetList properties access
- Added an optimisation in GuiMana to not compute update code if the rendering is not used (multi-threaded mode)
- Added a deadlock detection in the test AI vs AI multithreaded mode
- Fixed minor bugs in test AI vs AI multithreaded mode
- Added a games/second counter in the test AI vs AI rendering
- Added an "ACTION_LOGGING_TESTING" mode in the gameObserver. When this is defined, the game reloads itself in every update. I want to use that to track undo problems. Be aware that it kills performances and crashes with the testsuite if you want to activate it.
- Various cleanup/refactor of the game observer.
- Added a gameObserver == operator to compare two games
- Added player mode to the player serialization
- Added a multi-threaded mode to AI_CHANGE_TESTING. For the moment it's only useable with Qt. If you want to use it without, just defined a thread_count higher than 1.
- Refactored random generator class to use list intead of queue
- Defined a specific type for interrupt decision instead of int
fixed a crash from random deck game modes where it was trying to check against a selected deck...but there is no selected deck in random.
(side effect of this is that i can not bypass this, the stat still need to be run through without causing choas so i set it to deckname "" and id 0...we *might* need to find a different id...though it didn't seem to effect deck 0 as the name does not match)
- Decorelated the testsuite AI timer from the game timer to be able to have reproduceable results with AI tests.
- Created a random generator wrapper class
- Used two seperate instances of this random generator for AI and for the game
- Added methods to load randoms into AI from a testcase
- Fixed a probleme with undo and premade decks introduced in r4035
- Added basic test to test AI proliferate code
- Cleaned up goblin_artillery test
- Added AI tests into the testsuite test list
- Fixed looping bug into the multi target AI code
- Modified undo to stop at "next phase" action
- Added "muligan" and "force library shuffling" to the list of logged action
- Fixed random logging
- Fixed double logging of actions
- Merged all the "next game" functions into a single one
- Created a PlayerType type instead of using int
- Moved the player loading code into the GameObserver and out of GameStateDuel to avoid having player references in both and simplify the initialization and termination. Tweeked a bit the humanplayer class to be able to do that.
- Added a "load" menu available in testsuite mode, I use that to load problematique game. To use it, just copy-paste a game from the traces into Res/test/game/timetwister.txt. Game in traces starts by "rvalues:..." and ends by "[end]"
- Added some untested and commented out code in GuiCombat to use the mouse/touch to setup the damage on the blockers
- Broke the network game ... hoh well, I'll repair it when everything else works !!
- various code cleanup and compilation fixes on Linux
First version where I managed to finish a normal game while undoing several actions until the end. There are still some problems in direct damage spells and interruption management. I added several assert in the code to catch them.
- Added an undo menu using this code (beware, it's still very very alpha).
- Removed various warning
- Cleaned up avatar loading
- Added full random lists load/save including the deck shuffling (not sure if I could not replace that with seed load/save)
- Moved momir and Co rules configuration out of GameStateDuel
- Create a GameType type to avoid mixing int everywhere
Included in a new modrules.xml tags.
<cardgui>
<background> Stores information concerning the colors </ background>
<renderbig> Stores information to draw the card </ renderbig>
<rendertinycrop> Stores information to draw the card </ rendertinycrop>
</ cardgui>
Change the variables array for vectors
also corrected an issue with the changed logic of ALife eff return. you have to take into account that "{cost}:life:200" <---is not targeted so there is no player targeting involved with such code, making the eff return always 0 in cases where you don't have {cost}:target(player) life:200...i might need to review the eff returns to check that there are not other cases similar to this, :P my original code there was messy but took that into account. so careful with refactors in this area.
to see how this function was intended to work, try the following lines on any card
auto={t(creature|opponentbattlefield)}:life:233
auto={s(creature|mybattlefield)}:damage:4 target(player)
- removed every references to the gameobserver singleton. This object can now be instantiated several times as it's needed for minmax. To be able to do that, I mostly added a reference to a gameobserver from any targetable object (cards, players, spells) and abilities.
- removed incorrect casts of MTGCardInstance into Spell objects.
- AI Test system now allows you to put decks in ai/bakaA and ai/bakaB instead of ai/baka. This allows to let AIPlayerBaka and AIPlayerBakaB play with specific decks
- Test suite speed improvement. Improved the card name cache. Test suite now runs in 850 seconds instead of 950 on my machine.
- minor code cleanup
- In order to clarify getEfficiency, started creating "getEfficiency" functions specific to each type of ability (see example with Damager). This won't reduce the file size but should make things bit clearer
- Minor cleanup of getEfficiency
- bug fixes in getEfficiency
- Minor fixes in AI code
- Attempt at preventing the AI from interrupting itself while it's selecting targets. I don't know why this happens, and my fix didn't work. I believe it shouldn't be possible to interrupt when there is an active targetChooser, please let me know if this is an incorrect assumption.
-- This is a copy/paste and shouldn't have any impact on the logic. I just moved some functions from AIPlayer to AIPlayerBaka
- Added back the possibility to select a different Resource folder with file Res.txt
- Fix a crash when a token id does not exist
