[v1.7.0+] Mirrorblade Tweaks

[Zizzo]

Yep, another class tweaks addon, this time for Erenion's Mirrorblade class (hence the addon name, Mirrorblade Tweaks). Here's what we've got so far:

• Your mirror twin should look like you, after all, so we go to extra effort to copy over cosmetic stuff like sex, hair and facial features, which was incomplete before.
• More flavorful text and action prompts for the interaction chat provided by Interact with Sidekicks (you'll need the latest version of that for this).
• I was eyeing the Darkest Timeline evolution and thinking maybe Temporal Warden and hounds for the twin would be amusing — except that the Temporal Hounds tree is locked and the enclassed twin's new point gain on levelup apparently doesn't include category points. For now, I'm having the evolution give the twin one category point every 20 levels (including retroactively), which doesn't seem too extreme; if people think that's too powerful, I can back it out.

(And I don't think this one can go in ZOmnibus, because I had to adjust its weight to be higher than Mirrorblade's, which would probably make it incompatible with the other components.)

[Implementation notes:

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Hooks:
  ToME:load [to insert our modifications]

Edit 2023-09-26: Add a link to the actual addon page, which is, after all, kind of the point. We Apologize for the Omission.™

[Syovere]

Possibly a dumb question but does this addon require also using Mirrorblade itself or is the class included?

[Zizzo]

Possibly a dumb question but does this addon require also using Mirrorblade itself or is the class included?

[rereads] Oh dear, I neglected to link to the actual addon page, which includes the answer to your question. (In summary, yes, the original Mirrorblade addon is required by this addon. We Apologize for the Confusion.™)

[Zizzo]

So, yeah, turns out when you take the Darkest Timeline evolution, all the talent trees your mirror twin gets for their new class are unlocked. Which is just as well, since our modified twin-levelup method that added category points was broken anyway. Fortunately we kept a copy of the original around, which we can put back and pretend none of this ever happened.

That's going out as v1a; We Apologize for the Error.™ (Now I just need to figure out why my Temporal Warden mirror twin's temporal hounds aren't summoning…)

[Zizzo]

(Now I just need to figure out why my Temporal Warden mirror twin's temporal hounds aren't summoning…)

[sound F/X: source diving] Found it. Turns out the internal summonTemporalHound() utility method checks whether its would-be hound summoner was itself summoned by someone else, and punts if so. Not sure why. So, in v1b, we add a carefully tailored exception that allows your mirror twin (and only your mirror twin, if I've done this right…) to summon temporal hounds. I think this shouldn't change any other handling of the related talents, but let me know if you start seeing things summoning hounds that weren't before (or if your Temporal Warden suddenly stops being able to summon hounds with this addon enabled…).