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.
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 }.
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 {.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can include other files from the one passed to the program with the syntax #include Filepath.
Single-line comments are supported. Anything on a line starting from an instance of // is ignored.
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.