A little modding help please
 

Hi guys, I'm creating a nation which will hopefully amuse some of you when released.

It's been years since I've tried my hand at modding, and I'm a bit stuck. I wish to be able to give a new pretender the "Crown of Command" and "Golden Sword" as equipment.

I can get him the sword with no problems, but for some reason the crown just doesn't work. Anybody have an idea why?

Re: A little modding help please
 

More specifics are needed. What commands do you use, what errors do you get? Generally, what do you do and what happens? In detail.

Re: A little modding help please
 

You might get more/better responses if you post this in the modding subforum. edit: whoops, I see Edi moved it.

Does the unit in question have a head?

Try posting the snippet of mod code so we can look.

Re: A little modding help please
 

Remember that you can refer to armor by name, but not by number. If it's not that, one thing that often causes mysterious bugs is capitalization. #armor "Crown" should work, while #Armor "Crown" will not.

Re: A little modding help please
 

#newmonster 2770
#name "Adventurer King"
#copyspr 46
#restrictedgod 79
#ap 25
#mapmove 3
#hp 11
#size 3
#str 10
#enc 5
#att 10
#def 10
#prot 0
#prec 10
#mr 10
#mor 11
#rcost 1
#gcost 60
#pathcost 50
#startdom 1
#descr "This adventurer rose to kingship having found magic arms of an earlier age, and has demanded that the priests of his land worship him as a god."
#armor "Crown of Command"
#armor "Leather Hauberk"
#weapon "Golden Sword"
#weapon "Hoof"
#pathcost 50G
#mounted
#end

Re: A little modding help please
 

There is no armor called "Crown of Command", the item just gives you the armor "Crown". If you want him to come equipped with that magical item, it unfortunately can't be done.

Re: A little modding help please
 

What you can do is create an armor called "crown of command", and then bump up his leadership stats.

Re: A little modding help please
 

Oh bummer.

The sword works fine, but the crown won't? I guess I'll have to fake it then.

How is the equipment of Bogus and his buddies done?

Re: A little modding help please
 

To be clear - you'd get the weapon "Golden Sword" - but not a magic item "Golden Sword" that you could e.g. remove and give to some other unit.

In the case of the Crown of Command, you can easily add armor "Crown" and bump the leadership; the only thing that wouldn't do is give the Awe in combination with Scepter of Command/Axes of Rulership (pretty edge-case.)

Bogus is a special case, hard coded into the game. The only other way to give actual magic items (vs. the weapons, armor, and effects that the magic items grant) is to use map commands.

Re: A little modding help please
 

Right.

I have a few problems still. By my math #noitem 31750 should leave out the head (so he'll always have the crown), and give him three misc slots. It doesn't though, and I wonder if the #mounted is messing me up. What I get is just two misc slots.

Also I need to find the correct "Hoof" for the mount's kick, as it is not working right yet. Oh, and I suppose I need to #resize 2 as it's mounted human instead of a siz 3 creature.

Thanks for the help fellas :)