[PosChengband 3.3.4] Changing Weapon Proficiencies

[riftor_77]

I've been greping and browsing all over the code, but i can't find the array that assigns weapon proficiencies to classes. Where is this array and how do I alter the values?

Thanks.

[chris]

I've been greping and browsing all over the code, but i can't find the array that assigns weapon proficiencies to classes. Where is this array and how do I alter the values?

Thanks.

Skills are set in a text file: lib/edit/s_info.txt. This file is read by init_s_info() which is called by init_angband().

[riftor_77]

*Bangs self on head and completely forgets about Lua scripting*

Thanks. I have another question: The following weapon proficiency list contains many uncommented svals. Are these actual weapons, or something else entirely?

### RANGER ###
N:4
# Bow
W:0:0:0:4  # 0
W:0:1:0:4  # 
W:0:2:0:3  # SLING
W:0:3:0:4  # 
W:0:4:0:4  # 
W:0:5:0:4  # 
W:0:6:0:4  # 
W:0:7:0:4  # 
W:0:8:0:4  # 
W:0:9:0:4  # 
W:0:10:0:4  # 10
W:0:11:0:4  # 
W:0:12:1:4  # SHORT_BOW
W:0:13:1:4  # LONG_BOW
W:0:14:0:4  # 

etc...

Thanks.

[chris]

(There is no lua scripting in poscheng).

You can get svals from defines.h. I would not rely on all of them being commented in s_info.txt. Also, some of the comments are japanese so it is hard to know what they mean without digging in other files. As for the extra svals, I would guess that they were added in case of future weapon additions to make sure baseline skill settings are initialized. This is actually pretty considerate (though I can think of better ways to do this). After all, what maintainer who adds a cool new weapon is going to even know about the cryptic s_info.txt file? What maintainer would be pleased with having to dance through a 15,000 line pref file adding new cryptic info lines for the new type?

As an aside, if you're curious about the whacky bow svals, the old code (and I mean ancient code) used to encode the shooter's multiplier in the sval. You could recover the multiplier with sval % 10. Neat, huh?