Improved lua objectmerger

[Xonok]

I am not particularly fond of having to write out long pieces of code for each ability that I create in lua. Thus, I created a master function called ModifyObject that can make every single object data change to an ability in just 1 line. It supports formulas(exactly as much as lua supports them), changing all levels of an ability and variable amounts of parameters.

Considering how powerful it is and how little time it took to make, I'm actually wondering why no one thought of this before.

I will not post the code in this post, because first I want to find out if there's any interest for such a thing.
However, here is a teaser.

Example

require "lua\\ModifyObject"
setobjecttype("abilities")
createobject("ANcl","ABIL")
ModifyObject(current,{anam="'lulz'-f",alev="10-3-f",Ncl31="1",amcs0="Gn*2-f"})

This creates an ability based on Channel, with 'ABIL' as the rawcode.
The last line makes all those changes:
Sets the name of the ability to "lulz".
Sets the levels of the ability to 10-3=7.
Changes the Options parameter of level 1 to "visible".
Changes the cooldown of each level to level*2. (2,4,6,8,10...)

 

[WaterKnight]

Considering how powerful it is and how little time it took to make, I'm actually wondering why no one thought of this before.

I did but looks kinda ugly. And afterwards I outsourced object creation and customized it, so the length did not disturb.

Also ObjectMerger accepts that as a single-liner too:

//! external ObjectMerger w3a AHtb STUN anam "My Stun" alev 1 Htb1 1 0 acdn 1 0 amcs 1 0 amat " "

If you have so many objects, I would build functions anyway and not use the meta code.

 

[Xonok]

I'm aware that objectmerger accepts several arguments in a single line, but it's not really comparable to dynamic values for each field.
I can use pretty much any kind of code to set values, so now the only thing missing is a way to write vJASS code through lua. If I had that, I could make systems that are fully implemented through JASS. I could also easily store the object editor fields of abilities in a hashtable.

 

[WaterKnight]

Dunno how much the JNGP compile configuration allows but you can also replace the jasshelper.exe. Then you can do pretty much anything you want. Extract the .j, transform it like you see fit, pass it to the actual jasshelper.exe and repack.