Report Format for LOS Thread

[Clarissimus]

Hello, I’m working on a mod and I want to customize the Line of Sight Thread so that the reporting specifies the pieces on the locations where the thread is being drawn. So instead of just saying “Player 1 drew thread from Location A1 to B2” it will say “Player 1 drew thread from Piece 1 to Piece 2” (where Piece 1 is located on A1 and Piece 2 is located on B2).

But the variables available on the Report Format only include playerName, playerSide, playerId, FromLocation, ToLocation, Range, NumberOfLocationsChecked, and AllLocationsChecked. And I don’t see anywhere in the LOS Thread setup that could allow for other properties or things to be added there.

Does anybody know of a workaround for this? Thanks.

[irishwulf]

Unfortunately I think this would be very challenging - in fact, I can’t think of a way to do it in 3.1.18 without custom classes, or without extra mouse clicks. In 3.2 this can be done with a Beanshell expression, but it is still a bit of a pain. So, if you really want this reported, I would recommend adding some ‘Report Action’ traits on your pieces, with menu entries ‘Report drew Line of Sight from’ and ‘Report drew Line of Sight to’; the first report would print something like:

Player 1 drew thread from Piece 1 ...

And the second report would print something like:

... to Piece 2

…And you’d just have to tell your players to click those to get the reports to display.

[mycenae]

If you wanted a workaround, maybe just leave thread Persistence turned on and visible to all players. Then it’s obvious where the thread is being drawn to/from. (“Picture == 1k Words”).

[zmpouf]

@irishwulf

Unfortunately I think this would be very challenging - in fact, I can’t think of a way to do it in 3.1.18 without custom classes, or without extra mouse clicks. In 3.2 this can be done with a Beanshell expression, but it is still a bit of a pain. So, if you really want this reported, I would recommend adding some ‘Report Action’ traits on your pieces, with menu entries ‘Report drew Line of Sight from’ and ‘Report drew Line of Sight to’; the first report would print something like:

Player 1 drew thread from Piece 1 ...

And the second report would print something like:

... to Piece 2

…And you’d just have to tell your players to click those to get the reports to display.

Using the example above, instead of reporting the information given from Piece 1, you could store it in a Global Property and then call it from Piece 2 using it’s report. The result will look like… Player 1 drew thread from Piece 1 to Piece 2

Andreas

[irishwulf]

@zmpouf

Using the example above, instead of reporting the information given from Piece 1, you could store it in a Global Property and then call it from Piece 2 using it’s report. The result will look like… Player 1 drew thread from Piece 1 to Piece 2

Andreas

Yes, wow, that’s much better, good call! =)

-Seth

[TRagedy]

I’m working on something that needs the same thing. Did you ever publish a mode that does the above, or know of one out there that would be a good example.