usage tap lands to produce mana then sacrifice an offering... example
you have Guttersnipe in play, it has a mana cost of {2}{R}, and you have
Patron of the Akki in hand that costs {4}{R}{R}. You need to produce
{2}{R} mana first before casting Patron of the Akki, then choose
Guttersnipe as an offering.
- saves source card in storedSourceCard for ATransform
- adds support for WParsedInt in pay as "pay[[{value:WParsedInt}]]":
name=Spell Rupture
target=*|stack
auto=if cantargetcard(*|opponentstack) then transforms((,newability[pay[[{value:power:highest:creature:opponentbattlefield}]] name(pay {value} mana) donothing?fizzle])) forever
text=Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.
mana={1}{U}
type=Instant
- adds support for {x} in *some* “pay” abilities (Syncopate):
name=Syncopate
target=*|stack
auto=transforms((,newability[pay[[{x}]] name(pay {value} mana) donothing?fizzleto(exile)])) forever
text=Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
mana={X}{U}
type=Instant
- support of "name(pay {value} mana)" in pay abilities to show actual number to pay (see example above)
added
"whenever a creature enters the battlefield you may pay {1}, if you do gain one life"
conditional may pay({cost}) effect
this version is a super type ability, and can only be used in certain combos.
to nest you will need to use it in its subtype pay[[{cost}]] effect
pay keyword can have sideeffects coded as follows
pay[[{1}]] life:1?life:-1
pay one mana and gain 1 life, if you dont then you lose one life. notice no space between the abilities and the question mark.
added castcard()
a method to cast a targeted card, this contains the following subkeywords which can be used in combinations
(normal)
(restricted)
(copied)
(noevent)
castcard(restricted copied noevent) for example will cast a card that is a copy or the spell without sending a cast event only when the spell is castable.
"normal" subkeyword cast the actual spell, not a copy.
extended the use of exiledeath to everyzone, any card going from any zone to graveyard is placed in exile if it has exiledeath.
limited swipe left to open hand only when hand is closed view.
"moveto(" can now be named.
Cleaned Manacost.cpp
My observation so far when paying X in activated abilities, when X doesn't work, I press escape to get in the main menu and play another game(test again), then X activated ability will work. I really don't know where to start/look for the cause of it.
this can also be used for "equipped creature has unattach and blah" cards using
auto=teach(creature) {unattach}:blah
also corrected a long standing guiupdating issue. a long long time ago a replace was removed from GuiPlay::Update in hopes to increase performance no amount of performance increase is worth having cards not updating thier position after an event recieve happens. this means curse will finally go to the correctly choosen players battlefield, equipment will no longer just linger after its target dies, auras won't stay on battlefield after a card is exiled. ect. no preformance decrease noticed, if anyone else notices one let me know.
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.
{x:black}
{x:color}
creating a snapshot of a card instance in garbage for stored cards, the issue with previous version was it was using base model value instead of what the storedcard was actually at the time it was in battlefield. example, animal boneyard test was coming up 1 toughness short becuase the creature storedcard pointed to was sent to graveyard for the sacrifice.
changed myStored TargetChooser to use storedSourceCard instead, as this is supposed to point to the actual card and not a snapshot.
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.
[card]
name=Phyrexian Soulgorger
auto=cumulativeupcost[{S(creature|myBattlefield)}] sacrifice
text=Cumulative upkeep - Sacrifice a creature. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
mana={3}
type=Snow Artifact Creature
subtype=Construct
power=8
toughness=8
[/card]
was only charging you 1 sacrifice per upkeep.
added thisTargetComparison, this(cantargetcard(targetchooser))...its a thisdescriptor that compares if the card can be targeted by a target chooser...
- fixed some issues in zstream that prevented to use "getline" in zipped streams
- added a "pooled buffers" system to keep a cache of file descriptors. This is potentially dangerous though, but shaves several seconds of loading time on the PSP. If problems arise on other platforms I'll make it a compilation parameter
- gracefully fail when calling manacost information on a not properly initialized mana cost
this cost type sends both the event for discard and the event for cycled trigger, it no longer automatically draws a card, that is part of this cost ability instead.
standard cycling is autohand={cycle}:draw:1 controller
its trigger is
auto=@cycled(*|myhand):damage:2 target(creature)
"whenever you cycle a card deal 2 damage to a target creature."
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
- 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.
added abilities:
proliferate
ProliferateChooser:new targetchooser for cards with counter and poison counters "proliferation".
MenuAbility:new internal ability to create custom menus of abilities which can be activated in sequence one after another.
multikicker, syntax kicker=multi{b}
works with variable word "kicked", the amount of times it was kicked.
target=<number>tc,target=<upto:>tc,target=<anyamount>tc,target(<number>tc),target(<upto:>tc),target(<anynumber>tc);
multitarget is now supported with the exception of "devided any way you choose" which can not be supported becuase we allow detoggling of targeted cards with a "second" click....so you can not click the same card 2 times to add it to the targets list twice for example.
this is minor, as the bulk of multitarget is not "devided"
removed 's' parsing for multitarget, added a limit of 1000 to "unlimited" for easier handling; we currently can't handle activation of an ability on a 1000 cards very well on any platform(infact i don't suggest it)
Countershroud(counterstring), this MTGAbility allows you to denote that a card can not have counters of the type "counterstring" put on it.
"any" is for no counters allowed at all. this is a replacement effect. cards state that they can still be the targets of counter effects, however on resolve nothing is placed on them instead.
@counteradded(counterstring) from(target):,@counterremoved(counterstring) from(target):: these are triggers for cards which state "whenever you add a counter of "counterstring" to "target"; added counterEvents struct;
other changes:
added support for ai handling of multitargeted spells.
changed a few of delete( into SAFE_DELETE(, safed up a couple areas where they did not seem safe to me;
added better handling of menus presented to ai, it will try to select the best based on eff returns.
added varible lastactioncontroller for ai use, it keeps it truely from ever tripping over itself and brings ai more inline with MTG rules.
converted TC into a protected member.
added "abilitybelongsto" string to tc, and set "owner" of the tc. a tc should never belong to "no one" it should always have a owner.
abilitybelongs to string is solely for easier debugging, i found it was a pain to never know what ability created a tc while i coded multitarget. the owner of the tc is the only one that should be using it, if an ability needs to declare the opponent as the owner (choose discard which is currently unsupported for example) this will allow us to better handle that situation by setting the tc owner in the ability which called it.
rewrote the logic of "checkonly" in ai choose targets, the only time it is "checkonly" is when it is trying to see if it had a target for a spell before it cast it, i now set this in the actual function call instead, the old method was far to error prone.
wrote logic for ai checking of menu objects presented to it,
ai will now make better choices when a menu is presented to it based on what it already knows. this changes it from it's old method of "just click the first option".
taught ai how to use multi-mana producers such as birds and duel lands by adding a method for it to find it's mana for a payment. it can effectively use cards like birds of paradise and sol ring(without locking up). It's primary method of pMana searching was maintain for performance(no need to deep search if we have it in pMana).
added a vector to actionlayer to store mana abilities for pMana. this provides us with a dramatic improvement when mana lords are present by reducing the amount of objects that need checking when ai checks pMana.
with 80 mana objects and a ton of lords one instance i checked went from 8000ish checks down to 80<===big difference.
added "tapped" green coloring(sorry i missed that!)...added red coloring to current actionLayers current action card (usually the source).
changed "type(" restrictions second amount from atoi into wparsedint for more flexiable coding.
add "&" parsing to CD targetchooser, removed "iscolorandcolor" variables and functions becuase they were a hack the real fix was this.
cretaure[dragon&black&blue] a creature that is a dragon, and black and also blue.
changed some of the ai computeactions and
removed unneeded gaurds in ai chooseblockers, they did more harm then good.
- "Manapool empties at the end of each step" becomes an ability, and was moved into the external rules file. "removemana(*) to remove all, removemana(*{G}) to remove all green, removemana(*{G}{B}{R}) to remove all green black red, removemana({G}{G}{B}{U}) (no "*") to remove a specific value.
- Added a possibility to make abilities non interruptible. With little work, this could be added to the parser if needed. Please use with care, let's discuss what is an acceptable usage of this now functionality, if needed.
Also deleted "extraCostsIsCopy" from ManaCost - unused variable.
Overall, drops ManaCost from 148 bytes to 120 (which in turn reduces CardPrimitive's memory footprint by the same amount, since it encapsulates a ManaCost).
first as requested, kicker will now act like the other cost, offering a menu choice, heres the catch tho,
it was also thought up that we should maintain the "pay automatically" method of it as it feels more natural to some(even tho as per MTG rules its supposed to be a choice).
so here is what i did that i hope satisfies everyone, i added a new menu option under advanced tab..."kicker payment" with 2 setting, by defualt "always pay" but also an option to "always offer choice"...
2nd, minor tweaks to player avatar, every tme i saw it i was like "i need to do something about that", the avatar getting completely sucked into the corner just looked bad imo, so i about doubled the "inactive" size, so it looks a little more uniform with the opponents avatar. also move the library and grave icons just a thin hair to the left so they don't grossly overlap the players avatar as much when active, and increased the dark box theyre contained in my just a few pixels.
3rd, something else thats really bothered me to no end was that the title text of simple menus which display the cards name which owns the box was using small face font, which on pc was *barely* ok...but on psp(smaller devices) looks like white smears and dots. i changed it to share the font and size used inside the menubox itself, the end result is a lot nicer look...and alot easier to read on psp. now if only we can convince wololo that "spades" is alot like a lava lamp, cool at first, but *extremely* dated. the menu box should have a much slicker look, maybe rounded corners instead and lose the street light poles?
minor fix for phaseaction, becuase of the nature of this ability finding a happy safe medium without losing function is tough. hopefully this corrects it for good.
dropped cast methods menutext returns to lower case, for uniformity.
I've marked all the ones I found with the following TODO comment:
TODO: C6246: <blah blah>
a few in particular are the ones related to "oneShot" and "_target". These are local variables that are declared that
mask either a method parameter or a member variable.
converted {t} into a extra cost. almost all original code to handle it outside remains intact, i plan on slowly migrating to just using the cost...but even just what i changed was a massive headache...anyways as a cost you wont ever have an random bugs where cards don't tap when the ability had {t} in its cost.
while i was at it, i added {q} untap cost.
recoded altercost, its finally not using a dirty clean up.
this fixes the bug with it not effecting ai also and the bug where it was ineffective when combined with affinity creatures...
removed a aspect of the wolf class...
soft coded support for aspect of the wolf...using word variable subkeyword "halfup" and "halfdown"
it can go anywhere a parsable word vairable is stringing...i preffer the front of it...
these are Wparsedint subkeywords, not keywords you can use with standard abilities...
its meant to return half the varible rounds up, or down...
fixed player not losing with cantlifelose when they have 10 or more poison...the player should die.
reworked taplandformana, i send the main card as a target now, check against the cost if its affordable...anyways, i discussed this bool function a while back with devs and wololo saw the same issues i saw in it...he then removed it from being used as an if statement...i changed it back to an if statement with the new checks...we are either going to go back to a void, or go all the way bool, but not inbetween.
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added a function to return the action element id by mtgcardinstance.
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refactored all 5 combat triggers to be handled in a single class, this change helps reduce the "bits and pieces" of trigger restrictions which some did support while others didnt, it also allows for easier editing and debugging if future code needs to be added to it.
refactored the parsing for the combat triggers also, so that a combat trigger can be built from a single object if it only contains "or"...amongst other reasons.
the new syntax is auto=@combat(blocking,attacking,turnlimited,once) source(TC) from(TC):effect...all the same words are still used, except they are now all included inside the combat(-----) this includes restrictions for the triggers. if a card still needs multiple triggers from some reason...it is still 100% allowed to have as many as you want, with whatever you want inside them...check updated primitive for examples.
the required sections are auto=@combat(atleast one trigger) source(TC):effect.
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moved the limitsperturn "limit:" from genericactivatedability up to its parent class activatedability, did this for the following reason
first rules correction, the previous method tracked uses on resolve, which is incorrect, it should count as the ability is fired and placed on the stack.
second, it keeps all the actiavted ability restrictions in the same place, this is the location we are checking summoning sickness, actived restrictions such as "myturnonly" ect. makes sense to handle it in the parent.
third, it allow any and all future activated abilities easy access to "limit:" if needed, it would only require adding a limit string to pass on construction to the child classes instead of recoding the same exact checks as genericactivated.
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reworked "name(" so that it no longer is required to be used inside a "&&" ability, also it no longer will create a MTGAbility object with a false return. that was just dirty of me :/
enabled "name(" to replace the menutext of alternative cost.
"other={cost} name(holy cow)"
will display "holy cow" instead of "pay alternative cost", this change is nice because we ended up using "other" cost for WAY more then originally planned...now we can label it exactly what it should say when you click it.
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added a subtype keyword for powertoughnessmodifier so that you can basically switch on non-static variables for it...lifetotal/lifetotal nonstatic...PT can now except all word variables as i added reparsing of the ints, had to maintain old methods as ai needs them to decide what to do with them.
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removed the following extremely redundant classes
both ABecomes classes---atransformer has become far superior to it, i kept the "becomes(" parsing tho, and it will act exactly as it use to, except now it has access to most of the subkeywords of transforms...it also now allows word variables. and excepts "forever" as a tag. added "newcolor" subkeyword to transforms to create the "becomes(" adding a color without removing colors effect. "becomes(" now returns a constructor for ATransformer that emulates becomes( exactly as it worked before.
both forevertransformer classes, the only difference between the 2 was one subkeyword, and "forever" did not return a "destroy()"...i recreated this in less then 4 lines and a bool. that was sloppy of me :( i guess we learn and improve.
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i removed the parsing of card casting restriction from the first pass when cards load, instead of making it a cardprimitive object, i now simply pass the string through the card and build the restrictions when theyre actually needed and checked.
this change allowed for alot of clean up, removing enum and dependancy on cardprimitive, and combining both allowedAltCast and allowedtocast functions checks through a new function "parseCastRestrictions"...this change keeps all the cast resrictions in a single place, which makes it easier to debug or add if needed, and while i was at it, i enabled it so cards can now contain as many restrictions as you want *of the available ones*
added "turn:" as a restriction to make it so "fourth turn" could actually be ANY turn you list, this allowed me to remove a dirty line of code which was checking if a card was o converted cost but had a suspend...lotus bloom...which can not be cast normally..for cards like this now you can use restriction=turn:200 or otherrestriction=turn:200....
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added Phyrexian Mana...svntax {p(r)} ....this will always be payable with 2 life, but if you have a red mana for this example, it will charge you the red mana instead...you can have any combination of P mana you want in any of the games manacost.
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reworked a bit of the ai logic i added, it now has true interrupting and can now correctly target for fizzles, Ai will go into full out counterspell wars with you now...
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added a ingame reward system with fancy flying text animations, they reward the player with actual credits, but are extremely hard to trigger off, theyre not meant to be something you see every 5 secs, but something that when you see them trigger you go "damn that was cool"
the triggers and effects are as follows
first the combo system:
you have to chain cast 5 or more card, without tapping or being interupted, tiny bonus for this..chain is broken as soon as you or your opponent tap something.
next combo level is
Abundant Resources - chain 10 or more spells same condition
then
killer - chain 15 or more same condition
this will include a flying text render once a chain is successfully started (5+ cast)
this bonus can be triggered multiple times in a match
the next bonus is
+ //creatures entering play consecutively will allow you a chance
+ //to gain a bonus for maintaining force sizes, it will trigger every 10th
+ //creature which enters play consecutively.
this is restarted every time a noncreature enters play.
the levels are as follows,
Deadly Force Bonus! -10 creatures enter play consecutively
Extreme Infantry Bonus! - 10 creatures enter play consecutively and you maintain a force size of 20+
Malignant Conqueror Bonus! -10 creatures enter play consecutively and you maintain a force size of 40+
this can only be triggered once per level per match.
next bonus is given for having alot of a specific type come into play under your control during a match, this bonus only triggers once per match.
the levels are:
Toy Collector!
Beast Tamer!
Vampire King!
Lord of Swarms!
Master of Elements!
Zombie Apocalypse!
Sword And Shield!
Medic!
The Promenade!
Heavenly Host!
Teeth And Scales!
its pretty easy to figure out what each requires to trigger, teeth and scales for example is dragons, wurms, drakes, and snakes.
the final bonus is deal 100 damage from a single source in a single damage event, this one triggers only once per match.
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fixed the following bugs::::
regenerate was not working for non-creature regeneration ie:welding jar
ai would sometime get stuck in a infinate loop tho extremely rarely while deciding what to do, the cause
if (clickstream.empty())
computeActions();
is NOT enough...ai should NEVER be computing actions (finding a card or ability to play) when it is NOT the active player..meaning, it does not have priority.
g->currentlyActing() is the player that has priority.
if (clickstream.empty() && g->currentlyActing() == this)...loop fixed :)
dynamicability had a couple weird results, from sources which dont have an amount to return, i now check this and if non, the amount is 0.
transformer will no longer add the same types a card already has..
removed an unneeded
if (!activated) ....oris bug seems to be corrected with this change.
wrapped limitsperturn checks in a conditional to skip it if there is no limit string.
added safer method to get the target of the combat trigger. the previous could potentially cause a crash if you interrupted the ability while the combat trigger was on the stack, it would do a call to "getnextopponent" and return a null pointer. i now send the opponent with the event.
fixed a crash that would happen when a card did not have a type= line. having a type or subtype line is now optional. and highly recommended to avoid using "type=nothing"
moved a function call in buyback isreactingtoclick so that it checks if its in the hand before parsing the restrictions for it.
removed allowedtocast function calls from the alternative payment types, they are only supposed to check allowedtocast if it is something like "buyback" and kicker...not "you may pay this instead"....
corrected an issue with type: variable where it would add the amount depending on the activeplayer. to correct i added a method to call TargetZoneChooser::targetsZone( with a mSource...so that you can set the source card for the scan.
note: all test pass.
