1+2. You can use 'CreateUnit' or Event: CreateBuiliding for these.

See the file Slic2Func in Apolyton's modification section for the required variables.

3. The way I do it is with 'if' statments.
If you have a scenario and you need 7 cities, than everytime youo take a city, make 'citysTaken = citysTaken + 1". Then evveryturn check if 'citysTaken' == 7 and if it does they win.

4. Kormer explained that.

5. Create the unit in units.txt. Then too make it replalced when he dies, i would check the alexander code and borrow some of that, because that happens there.

6. Check
IfWonderBuilt(is that a function??) and if it is allow the unit to be built.(Maybe??)

7. Messages at start?
scenario.slc

code:

---

HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'Your_Function' pre 
{
	Message (g.player, 'YourMessage');
	DisableTrigger('Your_Function');
}

---

code:

---

messagebox 'YourMessage' {
	Show();
	Title(ID_TITLE);
	Text(ID_TEXT
	Button(ID_EXIT) 
		{
			Kill();
		}
}

---

scen_str.txt

code:

---

ID_TITLE "Your title here"
ID_TEXT  "  You message heree"

---

and in scenario.slc you must #include "msg.slc"

quote: Originally posted by Chris B on 01-28-2001 08:51 AM sure does, but how do you include message.slc?

code:

---

#include "message.slc"

---

if city[0] == 'The city youu want'{
return CONTINUE;
else
return STOP;
}

Very simple actually. I'm surprised to see none of the other SLICers know this, I explained it several times already. Not that I mind explaining it again (only good for my postcount ), but still...

To do any of these things, you should use the mod_* functions. So to make a unit civ-specific, use this:

code:

---

int_f mod_CanCityBuildUnit(city_t theCity, int_t theUnit) {
city_t	tmpCity;
int_t	tmpUnit;
	tmpUnit = theUnit;
	tmpCity = theCity;
	if (tmpUnit == UnitDB(UNIT_SAMURAI)) {	// if samurai
		if (PlayerCivilization(tmpCity.owner) == CivilizationIndex("JAPANESE")) {
			return 1;		// japanese can build it
		} else {
			return 0;		// other civs can't
		}
	} elseif (tmpUnit == UnitDB(UNIT_MARINE)) {	// if marine
		if (PlayerCivilization(tmpCity.owner) == CivilizationIndex("AMERICANS")) {
			return 1;		// americans can build it
		} elseif (PlayerCivilization(tmpCity.owner) == CivilizationIndex("ENGLISH")) {
			return 1;		// english can build it
		} else {
			return 0;		// other civs can't
		}
	// } elseif (... -> etc. until all civ specific units have been treated
	} else {				// if other unit
		return 1;			// everyone can always build it
	}
}

---

Here's another example for making buildings wonder enabled:

code:

---

int_f mod_CanCityBuildBuilding(city_t theCity, int_t theBuilding) {
city_t	tmpCity;
int_t	tmpBuilding;
	tmpBuilding = theBuilding;
	tmpCity = theCity;
	if (tmpBuilding == BuildingDB(IMPROVE_BROKERAGE)) {	// if brokerage
		if (PlayerHasWonder(tmpCity.owner, WonderDB(WONDER_LONDON_EXCHANGE)) {
			return 1;	// civ with London Exchange can build it
		} else {
			return 0;	// other civs can't
		}
	// } elseif (... -> etc. until all wonder enabled buildings have been treated
	} else {				// if other building
		return 1;			// everyone can always build it
	}
}

---

You can do similar things for specific cities and many other conditions. Simply replace the if-conditions with whatever you need. If you have cities in variables, ala the Alexander the Great scenario, you can simply check if current city is city in variable: 'if (LondonCity == tmpCity) {' or 'if (LondonLoc == tmpCity.location) {'. If you don't have the cities in variables, use more generic techniques, like 'if (player[0].capital == tmpCity) {' (once you set player[0] to tmpCity.owner) or 'if (CityIsNamed(tmpCity, "Amsterdam")) {'. Though in this case you should keep in mind that people might rename cities or relocate the capital.

For wonders you can use mod_CanCityBuildWonder and for advances mod_CanPlayerHaveAdvance (where the city argument is replaced by a player argument). Check out the various Activision scenarios for more examples.

Victory conditions (3) can get pretty complicated, but heardie gave a nice and simple example. Have a look at the existing scenarios for more examples and try a few things yourself. If there are specific things that you can't get done, post those here. But victory conditions in general is not specific enough, the possibilities are endless.

Setting alliances (4): Kormer explained that, but you can also do it without SLIC if you prefer that. Replace the diplomacy files by a version that makes the AI really, really like and trust you when you give him your map or gold or whatever. Then give him your map or some gold a couple of times and ask for any treaty you want. After you set everything you needed to set (possibly by repeating this process a couple of times while using a different version of the diplo files every time), replace the diplomacy files with the original ones again.

Generals (5): like others said, check out the Alexander and other scenarios for that. Search all SLIC files for the text 'general' and you should find all general related code (keep in mind though that the existing code still has some unresolved bugs that Harlan and his team (including yours truly) are working on).

herez what i put in scenario.slc:
// Scenario script for The Communists Have Come

#include "message.slc"

HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'Show()' pre
{
Message (g.player, 'Intro');
DisableTrigger('ID_EXIT');
}

this is good to know. I've been adding more wonders that give buildings and I really dont want to AI to keep building those buildings. Its a waste of prod and support costs. I'd also like for the human player buildings that are redundant due to wonders, to be in another color in the build list or even in the built buildings under the city. Is this possible? Can the AI be told to sell a building? I didnt see that listed under the functions, or maybe I just missed it.

I'm still annoyed my previous SLIC attempts dont work on my new machine, but do work on my old one...grrrrrrrrrrrr I've tried every change I could think of but got screwy results every time.

In file scenario.slc:

code:

---

// Scenario script for The Communists Have Come
#include "message.slc"
HandleEvent(BeginTurn) 'ShowMessage' pre {
	Message(g.player, 'Intro');
	DisableTrigger('ShowMessage');
}

---

In file message.slc:

code:

---

// Scenario messages for The Communists Have Come
Messagebox 'Intro' {
	Show();
	Text(ID_EXIT);
}

---

In file msg_str.txt:

code:

---

EXIT		"Put message here"

---

What this does is show the message "Put message here" to the first player in the first turn and after that this code is never executed again (not sure if the first player is human or barbarian but replacing g.player with 1 will always send the message to player 1, i.e. normally the human player). Is this what you wanted or am I misinterpreting your intentions?

What goes wrong in your current set up is that the file message.slc doesn't even exist. The idea is that you not only put that line in scenario.slc but also actually create the file and put all messagecode in there. Alternatively you could just put all SLIC code (HandleEvent and Messagebox) in 1 file (scenario.slc), nothing wrong with that either. All files in CtP2 are regular text files (txt), Word documents (doc) aren't used by the game.