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[Coreveen]

What I mean is, is there a way to simulate a range of values?

Instead of say for example, this Moodlet dropdown being:

0:Angry
1:Angry
2:Angry
3:Angry
4:Neutral
5:Neutral
6:Neutral
7:Neutral
8:Happy
9:Happy
10:Happy

Can I make it work properly with some sort of range format such as this:

0-3:Angry
4-7:Neutral
8-10:Happy

Apologies if this has been asked or explained elsewhere, Google wasn't very helpful for me this time around.

[ParkourPenguin]

Not as far as I'm aware. I'm not even sure it makes sense.

If you set a value to "Happy", what value does it get set to? 8, 9, or 10?

Edit: you might be able to do this with custom types, but you'd have the same problem with not knowing what exact value to write given a certain category.

[Dark Byte]

if this is about displaying values and not because of a dropdown list, then you can also override the display value with lua

[Csimbi]

I think your idea is to assign multiple values to a specific value.
So, display would work easily.
But what about the other way around? Which value to pick in the range?
You need to think this through.
I'd differentiate one happy from another. E.g. very happy, moderately happy, etc.
They are surely not the same.
And then, you have your 1:1 mapping.

[Dark Byte]

alternatively, the binary type can be applied here

[AylinCE]

If you're accepting guests on the thread, here's my take:

[Coreveen]

Oh boy, so many advanced responses. I would consider myself pretty average when it comes to the software. Certainly not knowledgeable enough to know programming or the likes of lua scripts. I can usually decipher them well enough, but writing is a completely different story.

@AylinCE
Happily accepting guests. Would you be so kind as to tell me how I would create and insert such a script to the table to affect only the address's dropdown in question? I think I'm capable of learning that.

@ParkourPenguin & @Csimbi
You guys are right.. I didn't think that through. What would CE choose if I selected a word to change it to when they have multiple values in their range. Hmm. That definitely wouldn't work. I was simply hoping for a way to format ranges of values when displaying on the table itself, so in this example I could like, glance over at the table and see that character is in a Neutral Mood without having to guess, recall what mood the exact values represent, or check the stat values screen.

This however was just small task as I hoped to also employ this technique for other frankly ridiculously massive dropdown lists where ranges are dozens to hundreds per word category and total near or more than a thousand. Such as Bestiaries and Item ID lists, things of that nature.

@Dark Byte
It is indeed about displaying values, I didn't think the reverse through at all... my bad. I'm sorry, I don't think I understand about binary type, startbit and bit length. Really have no idea where to start learning about that, my capacity of learning isn't the greatest - but I can start with basics if you don't mind recommending somewhere to start.

[AylinCE]

[ParkourPenguin]

[Coreveen]

I've modified my response since my realization. I can't double post yet so I'll write it at the bottom. Skip to the 'Edit:' below to avoid the unnecessary text.

Thank you for taking the time to try and teach me this. I'm struggling with figuring out how to get either of those code samples to work for this task.

-failure of a script snip-

I've tried all 3 on their own, and after making what I thought were the intended modifications to get it working on my table, resulting in nothing happening when I clicked Execute Script, I tried combinations between the 3. Either I get an error when I execute or nothing at all happens.

If we rewind a bit to my dumb level, I click Table -> Show Cheat Table Lua Script and paste / modify the code here, Save, then click Execute Script when it's ready.

Is that correct? If not, please let me know the correct way.

As for the exceptionally poor guesswork of the actual code I'm trying to get working, I don't exactly understand what it's going to do when I click Execute script.

Assuming I do have a well written script, when I execute, should I see the word for which mood suddenly appear on my table where my Mood dropdown record shows 0:Angry still?

What happens to a previous script I executed after I make changes and re-Execute the new script?

My apologies I'm such a scatterbrain about this. I really do want to learn it though.

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Edit:

Alright, I really need to pay attention to the table better. The amount of lines on the table itself is extremely high so I didn't even notice the executions were inserting these sort of pre-coded records wayyyy down at the bottom of the table. That's a tad embarrassing. Very interesting. Thanks so much guys!

I'm also very pleased to see it shows both the value and the word as I'd still like to know how close or far in the range I am from a threshold for certain data. Was going to ask how to accomplish this, but it looks like it already works like that.

Now I understand why there is a record creating function. I'll work out the syntax and other language code the best I can as I diversify the data displays around the table and in future tables.

Please forgive the slowness.

@AylinCE
Your code in particular after my realization, I can't seem to get working as a Lua Executable script. It just doesn't seem to do anything, even when I modify the correct information in.

I am really not sure how I'd activate through a trainer or ASM. Most of the stuff I've done outside of simple memory searching and editing with hotkeys directly from the table, are extremely basic AOB Injections. Sometimes even just there to trigger displaying a value of the address it's assembled around.

It looks like it'd be fun to learn this right, though!

@ParkourPenguin
Both your code samples worked exactly as I'd hoped for! I especially appreciate the simplicity of the shorter one while you also included a more advanced one that achieves the same goal. This answers and asks many questions. Again, thank you very much!

Edit 2:
Turns out the working scripts don't seem to stick after saving the table, closing both it and the game and then re-opening both and attaching.

Edit 3:
Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing.

--local memrec = AddressList.createMemoryRecord()
local memrec = AddressList.getMemoryRecordByDescription('Mood')
memrec.OnGetDisplayValue = happiness.OnGetDisplayValue

Throws an undefined Lua error:

Error:[string "local DisplayLookup = {
..."]:40: attempt to index a nil value (local 'memrec')

Is it that I have multiple entities with a Mood stat listed?

Back to the drawing board...

[ParkourPenguin]

[Coreveen]

@ParkourPenguin

Thanks again for helping make more sense of this.

So I'm still trying to get the other code working, for now I'll reserve playing with the new code once I've got this figured out and working.

-snip obsolete text-

Now I'm trying to add upon it by using it on another record at the same time and it is throwing errors.

-snip obsolete text-

Edit:
Alright it seems that it just doesn't like my methodology for testing script changes. So how I've been running new tests is simply copy/pasting the addresses that were affected by the script, and deleting the original records so they 'lost' their display value on the table. Then I'd try to click execute again and it would throw an error.

Renaming the records without actually changing them (double click + enter) seems to reset them to have them detected again by a script execution. How bizarre. This realization also lets me revert back to my organized child branching ways, which I like.

Edit 2:
Alright, I moved on to your new code to play around with. I opened the CE Tutorial, attached a new instance of CE to it and executed the code. It threw an error:

[ParkourPenguin]

[Coreveen]

@ParkourPenguin
I did read the code, but didn't necessarily understand it on the first pass. I had my suspicions but wasn't entirely sure on the purpose or the intended effect upon execution - so I ask questions to confirm and clarify. Apologies if that's on the annoying side.

Okay, so generating entire tables from a Lua script doesn't sound like a normal thing or even a recommended thing. I was kind of hoping for an answer like that.

Does print show the information only in that same window as caught exceptions or is there some other place it prints that I'm unaware of?

Is special formatting possible from Lua like adding color or hotkeys to the records and such?

As for learning a new programming language.. well.. The only real programming experience I have is making some server plugins for (Minecraft) Bukkit. I more or less was able to decipher and emulate already existing things I'd seen demonstrated through decompiling or open source where I could see the actual effects taking place on the game server, but to call that actually learning Java programming instead of understanding a handful of knowledge for that specific game server's API would be a joke. Writing code for it from scratch was basically out of the question as I never really took the time to learn the entire language from the basics.

That said, I did spend around 5 or 6 hours yesterday studying various YouTube videos learning about the assembly language and how it gets used with CE.

A lot of common examples I've seen used in CE auto assembler scripts over the years I didn't understand how they really worked at all, but now I'm getting pretty comfortable in my understanding of the basic fundamentals so far. Though I'm sure it will be one of those things I'll always be learning more about as I go. I'm very interested in learning Lua but I'm frankly extremely intimidated and overwhelmed by the prospect.

Sorry about the lengthiness of the posts.

[ParkourPenguin]

Yes, most properties of memory records are exposed to Lua. If you look in celua.txt: