CoreWML

[edit]WML Tags

A: abilities, about, achievement, achievement_group, add_ai_behavior, advanced_preference, advancefrom, advancement, advances, affect_adjacent, ai, allied_with, allow_end_turn, allow_extra_recruit, allow_recruit, allow_undo, and, animate, animate_unit, animation, aspect, attack (replay, weapon), attack_anim, attacks (special, stats), avoid;

B: base_unit, background_layer, berserk, binary_path, break, brush;

C: campaign, cancel_action, candidate_action, capture_village, case, chance_to_hit, change_theme, chat, checkbox, choice, choose, clear_global_variable, clear_menu_item, clear_variable, color_adjust, color_palette, color_range, command (action, replay), continue, core, credits_group, criteria;

D: damage, damage_type, death, deaths, default, defend, defends, defense, delay, deprecated_message, destination, difficulty, disable, disallow_end_turn, disallow_extra_recruit, disallow_recruit, do, do_command, drains, draw_weapon_anim;

E: editor_group, editor_music, editor_times, effect, else (action, animation), elseif, endlevel, end_turn (action, replay), enemy_of, engine, entry (credits, options), era, event, experimental_filter_ability, experimental_filter_ability_active, experimental_filter_specials, extra_anim;

F: facet, facing, fake_unit, false, feedback, female, filter (concept, event), filter_adjacent, filter_adjacent_location, filter_attack, filter_attacker, filter_base_value, filter_condition, filter_defender, filter_enemy, filter_location, filter_opponent, filter_own, filter_owner, filter_radius, filter_recall, filter_second, filter_second_attack, filter_self, filter_side, filter_student, filter_vision, filter_weapon, filter_wml, find_path, fire_event, firststrike, floating_text, fonts, for, foreach, found_item, frame;

G: game_config, get_global_variable, goal, gold, gold_carryover;

H: harm_unit, has_ally, has_attack, has_unit, has_achievement, have_location, have_unit, heal_on_hit, heal_unit, healed_anim, healing_anim, heals, hide_help, hide_unit, hides;

I: idle_anim, if (action, animation, intro), illuminates, image (intro, terrain), init_side, insert_tag, inspect, item, item_group;

J: jamming_costs, join;

K: kill, killed;

L: label, language, leader, leader_goal, leadership, leading_anim, levelin_anim, levelout_anim, lift_fog, limit, literal, load_resource, locale, lock_view, lua;

M: male, menu_item, message, micro_ai, missile_frame, modification, modifications, modify_ai, modify_side, modify_turns, modify_unit, modify_unit_type, move, move_unit, move_unit_fake, move_units_fake, movement_anim, movement costs, movetype, multiplayer, multiplayer_side, music;

N: not, note;

O: object, objective, objectives, on_undo, open_help, option, options, or;

P: part, petrifies, petrify, place_shroud, plague, poison, post_movement_anim, pre_movement_anim, primary_attack, primary_unit, print, progress_achievement, put_to_recall_list;

R: race, random_placement, recall (action, replay), recalls, recruit, recruit_anim, recruiting_anim, recruits, redraw, regenerate, remove_event, remove_item, remove_object, remove_shroud, remove_sound_source, remove_time_area, remove_trait, remove_unit_overlay, repeat, replace_map, replace_schedule, replay, replay_start, reset_fog, resistance (ability, unit), resistance_defaults, resolution, resource, return, role, rule;

S: save, scenario, screen_fade, scroll, scroll_to, scroll_to_unit, secondary_attack, secondary_unit, section, select_unit, sequence, set_achievement, set_extra_recruit, set_global_variable, set_menu_item, set_recruit, set_specials, set_variable, set_variables, sheath_weapon_anim, show_if (message, objective, set_menu_item), show_objectives, side, skirmisher, slider, slow, snapshot, sound, sound_source, source (replay, teleport), special_note, specials, split, stage, standing_anim, statistics, status, store_gold, store_items, store_locations, store_map_dimensions, store_reachable_locations, store_relative_direction, store_side, store_starting_location, store_time_of_day, store_turns, store_unit, store_unit_defense, store_unit_defense_on, store_unit_type, store_unit_type_ids, store_villages, story, swarm, sub_achievement, switch, sync_variable;

T: target, team, teleport (ability, action), teleport_anim, terrain, terrain_defaults, terrain_graphics, terrain_mask, terrain_type, test, test_condition, test_do_attack_by_id, text_input, textdomain, theme, then, tile, time, time_area, topic, toplevel, trait, transform_unit, traveler, true, tunnel;

U: unhide_unit, unit (action, scenario), unit_overlay, unit_type, unit_worth, units, unlock_view, unpetrify, unstore_unit, unsynced;

V: value, variable, variables, variant, variation, victory_anim, village, vision_costs, volume;

W: while, wml_message, wml_schema;

Z: zoom;

This page describes how the core is displayed in the "Load Core" menu, and how it works. Cores are to be defined in a file called cores.cfg in your add-ons base directory. An add-on containing only a core does not need a _main.cfg, cores are loaded prior to that by looking for cores.cfg. To publish the add-on from within wesnoth a _main.cfg is needed but it can be an empty one. _main.cfg should NOT be the same file as what is defined under [core] path or everything will be loaded twice!

The [core] Tag

(Version 1.13.0 and later only)

The following keys and tags are recognized in [core] tags:

• id: the internal core identifier used to load only core specific add-ons.
• image: the icon displayed in the core selection menu. It should be part of the main game.
• name: (translatable) name displayed in the core selection menu
• description: (translatable) text shown in the information pane when this core is selected in the core selection menu
• rank: a number that determines the order of cores in the core selection menu. Lower rank cores appear earlier, with unranked cores at the end. The default core has rank 5.
• path: the path to the core's directory or initial config file. E.g. ~add-ons/my_core/load.cfg. This config file (or the config files in that directory) should load things similar to the file data/_main.cfg in mainline.

Common Pitfalls

• Similar to [campaign] tags, [core] tags are read before the core is loaded. Thus, [binary_path]s and translations defined in the file (or directory) set by path are not yet available. You must make sure that the icon image is available while another core is in use. Either a) use a image from the default core b) write the path to the image, e.g. data/add-ons/my_core/images/icon-for-core-selection-menu.png or c) set up the binary paths to be even in use while your core is not, by setting them in _main.cfg (untested). I recommend b). In case the core contains translations, use c) to set up the [textdomain], so that the translation for the core's description and name are available.
• Only add-ons designed for this core will be available.
• Add-ons created for a custom core need to specify that they are not to be used with the default core but this one. For that, one specifies the core in the _server.pbl, see PblWML.
• The game engine will read a file called _info.cfg and determine from it for which core an add-on is designed. This file is created automatically when the add-on is downloaded. If you create a new add-on, this file doesn't exist yet. Copy it from another add-on and add the value core=my_core to it. (This is only for add-ons using a core, not the add-on which contains the core)
• A new core will contain absolutely nothing. The engine may crash in a few cases, when it looks for something which isn't there (known cases). Best to include similar things like the file data/_main.cfg in the default core does.
• One can include files from the default core with the preprocessor's inclusion directive. E.g. {data/multiplayer/scenarios/} to include MP scenarios from the default core. No need to copy everything.

See Also

• PreprocessorRef
• ReferenceWML
• PblWML