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TOUGH Modding Questions

These are what I consider some tough modding questions, but hopefully the veterans will know.

1) Can you add a ranged weapon as a secondary effect for a melee weapon?
So far it's not working. The reason is so I could have an effect which only occurs once every two turns or even less frequently.

2) How can I create a spell which drops a long range assassin already in stealth on an enemies province?
I know the wild boar spell already drops an independent stealthy unit which needs to be found. I would like to create a similiar spell which drops an assassin owned by the caster and without the wild boar event pop_up message.

3) Has anyone tried using the RAND command?
I found RAND was one of the hidden commands... which has me very interested since it's probably used for RANDOM percentages. I've tried a few modding combinations using RAND yet no luck. Probably doesn't exist per Ich

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

Quote:

Originally Posted by NTJedi (Post 685493)

I found RAND was one of the hidden commands...

Found how? It's not in the strings table, it is not being parsed by the game.

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

Quote:

Originally Posted by lch (Post 685494)

Quote:

Originally Posted by NTJedi (Post 685493)

I found RAND was one of the hidden commands...

Found how? It's not in the strings table, it is not being parsed by the game.

Found from the list of strings you posted on 10-25-07, 02:58 PM:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...highlight=rand

Perhaps I read the thread too quickly.

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

Quote:

Originally Posted by NTJedi (Post 685496)

Found from the list of strings you posted on 10-25-07, 02:58 PM:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...highlight=rand

Ah. That was just single words from the strings table, of random text found in the game binary. Those can be used for entirely different things, like "randgod" is used as a debug message, for example.

At the moment I don't have the complete list of mod commands that are being parsed. But here is the table of complete map commands that are actually being parsed:

Code:

additem

allies

allowedplayer

bodyguards

cannotwin

clearmagic

commander

comname

computerplayer

defaultmapzoom

defence

defense

description

dom2title

dominionstr

domversion

feature

features

fort

god

imagefile

independents

killfeatures

knownfeature

lab

land

landname

mag_air

mag_astral

mag_blood

mag_death

mag_earth

mag_fire

mag_nature

mag_priest

mag_water

maptextcol

neighbor

neighbour

nohomelandnames

nonamefilter

nostart

owner

players

poptype

population

randomequip

scale_chaos

scale_cold

scale_death

scale_lazy

scale_unluck

scale_unmagic

scenario

setland

specstart

start

startspell

temple

terrain

title

units

unrest

victorycondition

victorypoints

wraparound

xp

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

Thanks Ich... this answers one of my questions.

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

So, here are all the mod commands that are being parsed by the game:

Spells

Code:

aoe

clear

copyspell

damage

descr

effect

end

explspr

fatiguecost

flightspr

name

newspell

nextspell

nreff

path

pathlevel

precision

range

researchlevel

restricted

school

selectspell

sound

spec

Items

Code:

armor

constlevel

copyspr

descr

end

mainlevel

mainpath

name

newitem

secondarylevel

secondarypath

selectitem

type

weapon

Nametypes

Code:

addname

clear

end

selectnametype

Nations

Code:

addreccom

addrecunit

autoundead

bloodnation

brief

castleprod

clearnation

clearrec

clearsites

color

deepfort

defaultfort

defcom1

defcom2

defmult1

defmult1b

defmult2

defmult2b

defunit1

defunit1b

defunit2

defunit2b

descr

domkill

domunrest

dyingdom

end

epithet

era

farmfort

flag

forestfort

hero1

hero2

hero3

hero4

hero5

hero6

horsereanim

idealcold

indepflag

labcost

manikinreanim

mountainfort

multihero1

multihero2

name

nametype

nodeathsupply

nopreach

sacrificedom

selectnation

startcom

startfort

startscout

startsite

startunitnbrs1

startunitnbrs2

startunittype1

startunittype2

summary

swampfort

templecost

templepic

tombwyrmreanim

uwfort

uwnation

wightreanim

zombiereanim

Sites

Code:

clear

com

decscale

end

gems

gold

homecom

homemon

incscale

level

loc

mon

name

newsite

path

rarity

res

selectsite

Misc

Code:

coldincome

coldsupply

deathdeath

deathincome

deathsupply

eventisrare

luckevents

misfortune

poppergold

researchscale

resourcemult

slothincome

slothresources

supplymult

turmoilevents

turmoilincome

unresthalfinc

unresthalfres

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

NT, I don't have teh DB/spell Db here now but basicly you can just look in that one and use the spelleffect numbers from a spell that matches. I've not tries a remote assassin yet but for other spells it works well. If you know what spell you want to base it on it should be pretty easy to look up and just change the damage number in the unit you want there.

But as I said I've not actually tried it.. it worked for regular summon and a combination of friendly farsummons though.

While looking through the spell DB I noticed there are acutally a few spells which I though where pretty much alike with different spelleffect numbers so you might want to look at the exact spell you want to replicate.

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

and on 1 I'd guess it's not possible certainly if you've already tried it a bit (I don't think there would be many way's you could code it so if it doesn't work it probably just doesn't work)

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aezeal (Post 685516)

I could copy the wild boar spell, but how would I make sure the owner will not be independent also how would I prevent the pop-up event message associated.
Another angle to workaround the above two problems would be how could I make the commander land within an enemy province already in stealth mode.

Re: TOUGH Modding Questions

nono not COPY the spell use the CODE that is given in the spell DB. But if the wild boar is neutral and you want a NOT neutral summon than you can;t look at his CODE since then you'll just get another indep summon I'd say. You need to use a code that gives the result you want, so use it of a spells that does what you want.
PS I've got no idea where the messages go so maybe that is unavoidable anyway.