Dice roll on card draw

General Discussion
1

Feeling stupid that I can’t get this to work…

How do I trigger an automatic dice roll when a card is drawn from a deck?

Thanks!

2

Make sure the map the card is going to has a trigger.

In map properties, apply a command to “Key command to apply to all units ending movement on this map”. Include something like CardRoll

On the cards, include a Trigger Action trait that will trigger on CardRoll and have it execute a command like RollTheDice.

Also include a Global Hotkey to trigger on RollTheDice and have it trigger the command you use to roll that dice.

Make sure the dice component has “Report Totals” checked.

3

Mwuhahahah. I now have all the tools I need to take over the world.

Muchas Gracias, Dr. Nostromo!

4

One more question:

I want to have a game piece access a dynamic property of another piece based on the fact that they share the same board.

For example Piece A has a score of 5 (dynamic property). Piece B is placed on the same board and therefore also has a score of 5. If Piece A’s score changes so does B’s. If B moves to a different board it no longer has the score that was dictated by A.

Am I making sense?

5

There is no way a piece could refer to other piece attributes/values/traits. You would need to use a Global Property instead through which you would pass the score to piece B. And the score should be calculated using somewhat vague and undocumented feature called Calculated Property.

6

Thank you Grouchysmurf. That is the way I’m going but I seem to be stuck in syntax in the calculated property.
I’ve named 4 boards “board1”, “board2”, etc.
I’ve created global properties named “board1shield”, etc.
I’ve set those global properties successfully with a card using the SET GLOBAL PROPERTY function using the name: $CurrentBoard$shield

Why doesn’t $CurrentBoard$shield work for the Calculated property? What syntax can I use to effectively do something like: $CurrentBoard$shield ?

I’ve spent many hours trying to get around this without success. Help would be appreciated.

7

After many hours of pulling my hair out…I finally figured a work around using a calculated property and nested “IF” statements.

There should be a more straightforward way, however.

8

Try {$CurrentBoard$+“shield”} – curly braces tell Vassal to perform “calculation”/“evaluation” of what’s inside them. $CurrentBoard$shield may be to tricky for Vassal internal logic.

My, so far, most fancy expression used in Calculated Property trait is “GetProperty(GetProperty(“name”))” – indirect addressing, beat this!

9

You should not mix $…$ constructs with {}.

The correct Beanshell expression is {CurrentBoard+“shield”} or {GetProperty(CurrentBoard)+“shield”}

10

Thank you. Will be giving this a try soon!