Modular mounted aid calc?

[Alice]

Is there a way to make the Mounted aid calcs more modular?

Currently, there is only the option to change the base amount (19+1), and the bonus if unit is not female (5).

I think it would be great if there was a way to have it be more modular, and set different numbers for the aid calc per-class.

Because one thing I wanna do is have armors have infantry aid-5, and have all tier 1 mounts have cav aid without bonus, and then get 5 extra aid upon promotion, independant of gender.

[Jopettajah]

I’m assuming you’re talking about skillsys AidGetter? It is modular. You can reference HelperDefinitions for functions to use. For example your new mounted aid would look like this:

prAdjustAidIfMounted:
{
	rIfUnitHasAttribute(CA_MOUNTEDAID)
		rCallSequence(_prNegate _prAddBaseMountedAidBonus _prAddMoreIfPromoted)

_prNegate:
	rMinus(rCurrent)

_prAddBaseMountedAidBonus:
	rAddConst(19)

_prAddMoreIfPromoted:
	rIfUnitHasAttribute(CA_PROMOTED, rAddConst(5))
}

For armors you’ll have to run a check for class id (for each armored class you have), then do the subtraction.

[Vesly]

You’re also in luck that a tutorial on modifying mounted aid exists. It was also part of your homework on learning asm.

GBAFE Assembly for Dummies, by Dummies

Project 1: Changing Mounted Aid Alright. You’ve had a crash course in the assembly opcodes, and a basic idea of what each part of no$gba does. Next thing we’re going to do is take that knowledge and apply it by making a small hack. The idea behind this guide was to not only explain the basics of assembly hacking, but also to show how to I would tackle a problem. Whether that works for you remains to be determined, but hopefully this part will help you develop a plan of your own.

Project 1

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[Alice]

Oh, thank you! I’ll look into this to see how it works.

Could the armor one be based off of the effectiveness table? If so, how could I do that?

I’ll not mark it as solved yet, until I manage to implement this. I will reach you again if I have any issues. Thanks so much!

[Jopettajah]

@Alice

Could the armor one be based off of the effectiveness table?

Uh maybe? I feel like copypasting the same row with different ID’s is easier takes way less effort though.

[Alice]

But if I attach it to the effectiveness table, then I can edit the table in FEBuilder and the aid penalty will still apply to the new classes without me having to rebuild the ROM. Correct?

[Vesly]

You can make it read from a table (say class IDs) and edit the table in febuilder by using the original address the table was at each time you reinsert the ea for the table.

1st time:

ALIGN 4 
MyTable:
...

Febuilder’s .sym says MyTable is at 0x1234564

Later edits:

ORG 0x1234564
MyTable:
...

You can do this with whatever data, but tables are typically fixed lengths. If you’re expanding something, you can’t do this unless you added padding of free space (eg. WORD 0 a bunch of times). Otherwise you need to then repoint data.