Adding a race

[Silvercloud]

Good morning, in my beta-test i ran into an issue with my created race, so I would like some insight in what is going wrong..

I'm trying to add a race that has some of the monk abilities prebuilt... specifically the monk AC bonus where wisdom is added to their AC... i have created a char and as far as I can see it should work. Character has monk ac bonus and the 9 natural armor as in the file... however it looks as if the wisdom bonus is not applied (e.g. he has AC 23 (from 9 natural armor and 18 dex... but his 20 wisdom does nothing). Any ideas what might be causing this and what i can do to fix it (do you have to be a monk for example for it to work)?

Attached my modded files... in racialtypes it is in line 100...

[xwarren]

I wouldn't be surprised if monk's AC was hard-coded only to monk class. I know that AC bonuses from Dragon Disciple and Pale Master are (I tested it once).

[Silvercloud]

well theres the ninja class thats in the PRC... it also adds the same bonus.... and adding that feat also doesnt work... and i know why... it is because the script that adds the composite bonus only adds it if you are that class....  its run from prc_inc_function... so i guess if i add a case referring to the racial constant i could also trigger a script that adds the composite bonus... hmmmm

[DM Heatstroke]

I wouldn't be surprised if monk's AC was hard-coded only to monk class.

Correct.  It's hard coded to the Monk class.

[Silvercloud]

Yep, but you can apparently script it... as has been done for the ninja class... my only issue is I don't really understand in what file I should run my script, but my code would be something like this:

if((GetRacialType(oPC)==100 ) &&
    (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_MONK, oPC)< 1) &&
     (GetLevelByClass(CLASS_TYPE_NINJA, oPC)< 1))
{
SetCompositeBonus(oSkin, "MonkACBonus", GetAbilityModifier(ABILITY_WISDOM, oPC), ITEM_PROPERTY_AC_BONUS);
}

Do you guys know where I should execute this code so it will work properly (e.g. in which PRC file)

[xwarren]

Nymph race has similar ability. It's hooked in race_skin.nss script:

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    if(GetHasFeat(FEAT_UNEARTHLY_GRACE))
    {
        int nGrace = GetAbilityModifier(ABILITY_CHARISMA, oPC);
        SetCompositeBonus(oSkin, "UnearthlyGraceAC", nGrace, ITEM_PROPERTY_AC_BONUS);
        SetCompositeBonus(oSkin, "UnearthlyGraceSave", nGrace, ITEM_PROPERTY_SAVING_THROW_BONUS, SAVING_THROW_ALL);
    }


[Silvercloud]

Yep thats got it done, thanks xwarren...