Behold, perhaps the most overengineered thing I’ve ever made.
MoveCost2EA
What is this?
MoveCost2EA is an attempt at making a more buildfile-friendly method of editing movement costs. Using it, you can define
new move cost tables as variants of previously defined ones, to avoid having to write out the full move costs every time when the only change is something slight.
Basic Format
The basic format of a MoveCosts2EA script is as follows. Define a new movegroup with MyNewMovegroup {. Set the values at different indices within the movegroup with however many lines of the format index = value, where index is the index within the table you want to set and value is the value you want to set at that index. Once you’ve defined everything you want to, end the movegroup with }.
Importing Movegroups
When defining a movegroup, you can import another movegroup and the new one will begin with all values equal to the old one, while keeping the old one intact. To do this, define the movegroup as MyNewMovegroup imports MyOtherMovegroup {.
Value Operations
You can perform a series of operations on existing values at indexes. index + value, index - value, index * value, and index / value will add, subtract, multiply, or divide, respectively, the value currently at index with value and store the result to index.
Range Operations
You can perform an operation on a range of indices and values at once. [index1,index2,index3] = value will set the values at all 3 mentioned indices to value. [index1-index5] = value will set the values at every index from index1 to index5, inclusive, to value. value can also be a range in either of the same formats, but if value is an array, the lengths of the input and value arrays must be identical. Each value in value’s array gets mapped to each value in index’s array. All operands support range operations.
Directly Referencing Other Tables
You can directly reference one or more specific values in another movegroup from within the current one. index1 = MyOtherMovegroup[index2] will set the value at index1 in the current movegroup to the value at index2 in MyOtherMovegroup. Range operations are supported. You cannot write to another movegroup from within the current one, only read from it.
Definitions
Whenever you are not within a movegroup definition, you can define aliases for values. #define name value will allow you to use name in place of instances of value. For example, #define Empty 0 means you can write Empty instead of 0 for the index in a movegroup definition. You can use existing definitions for value and it will parse until it finds a valid integer.
Includes
You can include other files from the one passed to the program with the syntax #include Filepath. The directory filepath is relative to the location of the current script.
Comments
Single-line comments are supported. Anything on a line starting from an instance of // is ignored.
Usage
The syntax for using the program is MoveCost2EA <inputFilename> [outputFilename]. If you do not supply a value for outputFilename, it will default to MoveCostsInstaller.event. The outputted installer will contain labels for every movegroup defined in your input script. MoveCost2EA --help or MoveCost2EA -h will also tell you the syntax.
Download
You can download the latest release here. Included in the download package are the executable for the program itself, an example script, and a file with definitions for every vanilla terrain type.
Let me know if you encounter any issues using this, I tested pretty extensively but I probably missed some edge case somewhere.