0x17 — battle_character_entry

Battle/acquisition character-entry command. It resolves a character id, builds a 0x14-byte record from an optional character selector plus three entry words, and inserts it into the same global buffer used by Command_16.

proven— handler traced, and exercised by at least one shipped script.

At a glance

Opcode	`0x17` (23)
Handler	`CRadiScript::Command_17`
Signature	`CRadiScript::Command_17(int,SCR_DATA*,unsigned int,unsigned int)`
Translation unit	`r_script_run0.cpp`
Address	— debug build; click for all 3
Handler size	`0x258` (600 bytes)
Engine name	`battle_character_entry`
Family	Script control, flags and values
Command size	`4 + extra_words * 4` bytes

Handler behaviour

Encoding

The command header is one 32-bit word, as described in §3 Instruction encoding:

 31            24 23            16 15             8 7              0
+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
|  flags         |  argument byte |  extra words   |  0x17          |
+----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+

Bits 8–15 give the number of 32-bit operand words that follow. Bits 16–23 are handed to the handler as a bitfield; on character commands bit 0 normally says whether a character selector word is present. Bit 31 is the keep-going bit.

Operand fields

13 documented fields. input fields are read from the command's operand words; derived fields are computed from other fields rather than stored separately.

Field	Role	Meaning
`character`	input	The packed 32-bit character selector word. Its low half is the character id and byte 2 is a secondary class/variant input; see `character_number` and `character_variant`.
`character_number`	derived	Low 16 bits of the character selector: the character/actor id.
`character_type`	derived	Byte 2 of the character selector, where the handler treats it as a type selector rather than a variant.
`entry_byte3`	derived	Byte 2 of `entry_word1`; record +0x0E.
`entry_half0`	derived	Low half of `entry_word0`; record +0x08.
`entry_half1`	derived	High half of `entry_word0`; record +0x0A, read back as a signed value.
`entry_half2`	derived	Low half of `entry_word1`; record +0x0C.
`entry_word0`	input	First payload word of the battle order (RADI_BTL_ORDER): its low half lands at record +0x08 and its high half at +0x0A, which the battle character reads back as a signed value.
`entry_word1`	input	Second payload word: low half to record +0x0C, byte 2 to +0x0E, byte 3 to +0x0F.
`entry_word2_high`	input	The upper three bytes of the third payload word, which have no reader specific enough to name yet.
`leader`	input	Whether this character leads its team. It is bits 4-7 of record +0x10, which `CBtlCharacter::ChangeLeader` extracts and tests for non-zero.
`team`	input	Which side this character fights on. It is the low nibble of record +0x10, which `CBtlCharacter::ChangeTeamID` reads with `& 0x0F`. Shipped battles use 0 and 1.
`yield`	derived	Pause the script here for one game frame; the next command runs on the following update. Lines without it keep running immediately.

Engine calls

Engine functions this handler was observed calling:

CRadiScript::GetCharacterID(unsigned int&,unsigned int&,unsigned int*,SCR_DATA*,unsigned int)
memset

Bit masks

Masks the handler applies to its argument byte or operand words:

0x0001