Need Help

Magichastie · #1 December 22nd, 2006, 04:20 PM

I'm relativaly new to dominions (benn playing for about 2 months now), and I decided that I should try making a new nation. Since all I can draw are stickmen I made a nation of stickmen.

It works (well...sort of works), I only have 2 problems but they're big(ish).
1- The age age of my fire mage and element mage is messed up
(I put maxage 50, startage 40 and it comes out in the game as startage 44 maxage 44, so they're already old)
2- Nobody has their wepons! They all have "fist" and thats it.

If you know how to fix these problems you will be greatly apriciated. I have it attached so you can see the text.
Thanks in advance.

Endoperez · #2 December 22nd, 2006, 04:29 PM

1) Every pick of Fire magic automatically reduces maxage by 2 (for creatures of human age-range). They burn out faster or something... The startage might be automatically generated, or get a few years into it automatically from magic or something. Try setting it to lower, or using #older -4 to make them start younger.

2) Try adding the 'a' to the 'weapon'.

Magichastie · #3 December 22nd, 2006, 04:33 PM

Weeeeelllll I'm a compleate idiot... forgot the a...

Endoperez · #4 December 22nd, 2006, 04:42 PM

For the final version of the mod, it'd be nice if you moved the images to a subfolder. That way the \mods\ folder would stay clean and easily manageable. Here is a line from Zepath's Teutanion mod as an example:

#icon "./teutanion/mod_banner.tga"

Magichastie · #5 December 22nd, 2006, 05:23 PM

I don't know how to make a subfolder (first time using zip for any reason)

I'm clueless.
Unless you mean a zip in a zip. Then...

Endoperez · #6 December 22nd, 2006, 05:56 PM

Well, it goes like this:

You have the files:
mod.dm
pic1.tga
pic2.tga
pic3.tga
pic4.tga

These are in 'mods' folder, that is a subfolder of 'Dominions 3'. This means that when you go to 'Dominions 3', you see a folder called 'mods' in there. Now, create a new folder in 'mods'. Call this 'stickmen'. Move the pictures in to the 'stickmen' folder.

Another way to put it:
pictures start here:
\Dominions 3\mods

pictures go here:
\Dominions 3\mods\stickmen

After you have done this, select 'stickmen' and 'mod.dm' and make a zip out of those two.