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.
it requires an update to your mtg rules txt...
the coding is as follows
[card]
name=Arbor Elf
mana={g}
auto=soulbond 1/3
auto=soulbond {t}:add{g}
abilities=soulbond
type=Creature
subtype=Elf Druid
power=1
toughness=1
[/card]
auto=soulbond *any ability supported by wagic*
abilities=soulbond
the above arbor elf gives itself and its soulbond creature a 1/3 bonus and the ability to tap for green mana.
{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.
adjusted the way cardsacrificed events were sent
added a ability which is a way to tell a targeted player, yourself, or opponent to do a set of abilities.
ability$! EFFECT _ EFFECT !$ WHO
the idea here is that the abilities are being added to the targeted players game...so
target(player) ability$!target(<2>*|myhand) reject!$ targetedplayer
this line tells the player to discard 2 cards...
you can also use it without targeting by using WHO words..
controller, owner, targetcontroller, opponent, targetedplayer
this ability defualts to opponent.
cards coming soon...
Curse of Oblivion moved back to unsupported.
added support for targeting a zone by targeting a player...
any time you have targeted a player, you can access items in thier zones by using
targetedpersonsZONE
targetedpersonsbattlefield for example...
added "targetedplayer" as a targetchooser and who.
added "mycurses" targetchooser.
added "targetedcurses" word variable.
counter{}
so you can get a count of a certain counter on a card
the next consist of parts using the same targetchooser method as type:
power:
toughness:
convertedcost:
followed by ---
highest:
lowest:
followed by targetchooser
blah:mybattlefield
so if i want highest converted cost of creatures i control..
convertedcost:highest:creature:mybattlefield
also added an internal ability to reuse and display flying text with a string passed to it.
moverandom(creature[green]) from(mygraveyard) to(opponentbattlefield)
example card
[card]
name=Tariel, Reckoner of Souls
auto={t}:moverandom(creature) from(opponentgraveyard) to(mybattlefield)
mana={4}{W}{B}{R}
abilities=Flying,vigilance
type=Legendary Creature
subtype=Angel
power=4
toughness=7
text=Flying, vigilance {T}: Choose a creature card at random from target opponent's graveyard. Put that card onto the battlefield under your control.
[/card]
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
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."
- Reworked the testsuite to be able to work multithreaded. This is deactivated by default everywhere except in QT_CONFIG as one testcase still refuses to pass in multithreaded mode. On my 4 cores linux desktop, the 650 tests passes now in 4 seconds (1 fails).
- Replaced usage of CardSelectorSingleton by a card selector per game observer.
- Modified the resource manager to be optionnal and per game observer instance instead of being a singleton. Two reasons here : threading AND Open Gl access. I only updated the crashing parts called from the game observer, so most of the code is still using the single instance. Beware of copy-paste concerning resources ...
- Cleaned up the game observer constructors
- Fixed several problems in action logging code while testing proliferate decks
- Cleaned up Threading implementation based on QThread
- 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
-- I added an AbilityParser.cpp file, mid term goal is to move AbilityFactory there, so that MTGAbility.cpp becomes a bit less big.
-- I tried to add the file reference in Makefiles, but only tested windows compilation so far
- Fixed bugs related to "castRestriction" variables in MTGAbility. these variables were declared in both the parent and children classes, leading to bugs and duplicate code/content
The test suite passes
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.
- 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
what this does currently is remove a counter of the type counterstring and when the ability is destroyed it puts the counter back for us.
meant for weapons used as follows.
auto=teach(creature) countertrack(0/0,1,hand)
when the creature is equipped with this weapon it will remove a hand counter from the creature, when you remove the weapon, or the weapon is destroyed or whatever...it will put a hand counter back on the creature.
added dualwielding thisdescriptor...
auto=this(dualwielding) 2/2
auto=this(dualwielding) firststrike
enabled "restriction{" on phasebased triggers @next and @each...
i will work more on countertrack to extend it to domains if it currently isnt possible to use it in this case(haven't tested it on domains)....
target=*|mybattlefield
auto={0}:equip
auto=connect
notice i declare the equip before the connect, this is becuase connect will use the equip ability of the card to handle it.
target= can be used for connecting them now as the first time equip. please remember to use teach( or autoskill= to avoid giving abilities forever to a target...this makes equipments hybrid auras.
also, moved parentchildrule init from original init to rules.txt...
in yourrules.txt
should look like this:
include mtg.txt
name=Classic
[INIT]
mode=mtg
auto=connectrule
[PLAYERS]
auto=shuffle
auto=draw:7
i did this becuase i want to reuse the parentchild associations for mtgabilities...and if parents will always kill thier children, i won't be able to use it :P
changed connect into an instant ability, i don't want this ability to be done by menu choice.
added parentchildrule which currently only handles the removel of children if a parent dies, but will be extended to handle other actions based on event receiving that deal with child and parent association.
add keyword targetable ability "connect"
connect means "the source adds the target to it's parent vector, the target adds the source to it's children vector"
this can be multitargeted, so it is possible that
"Big Bad Dragon" can live it 2 different domains.
not sure if this was even asked for, but i thought it would be cool to be able to say
"to play big bad creature you need to give it 2 homes"
or
"big bad creature can live in upto 4 homes"
this adds a level of stratigy, becuase now big bad creature can have "all creatures which share a domain with big bad creature gain +2/+2"...or "all domains that city planner live in gain 1 capacity"
but also add the possibility of faster removel from a card like
"destroy all creatures on target domain".
i thought it would be a nice add to kai rules.
connect clears a target= on a card after connecting...this is to avoid abilities transfering to the target, unless you want it to effect the target like
"tap target domain as this becomes a inhabatant"
target=domain
auto=tap
auto=connect
auto=<==this line on will not be targeting the domain
small add with big impact:
added the useage of castrestriction on triggers and activated abilities.
this can be used to create such cards as library of alexandria.
{t}:draw:1 restriction{type(*|myhand)~equalto~7}
and replace instances were we were putting false triggers on the stack from abilities which contained nested aslongas...
meaning cards like epic struggle, won't need to be triggered every turn even if you have no creatures...
for epic struggle here is an example of how to replace it
@each myupkeep restriction{type(creature|mybattlefield)~morethan~19}:wingame controller
any of the current cast and other restrictions can be used. this includes turn:1 <===and various others such as phase based checking.
syntax is
restriction{ whatever casting/other restriction you want }
a nice quality of life fix for false triggers (which don't mean theyre incorrect, just annoying when they trigger when they will do nothing)
another example would be the triggers on cards like
skullcage.
auto=@each opponent upkeep:aslongas(*|opponenthand) damage:2 opponent >4
auto=@each opponent upkeep:aslongas(*|opponenthand) damage:2 opponent <3
becomes
auto=@each opponent upkeep restriction{type(*|opponenthand)~morethan~4}:damage:2 opponent
auto=@each opponent upkeep restriction{type(*|opponenthand)~lessthan~3}:damage:2 opponent
now instead of triggering every opponent upkeep even without a resolve...it will only triggers when the restriction requirement is met.
enjoy :)
note:all test pass.
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.
