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December 11th, 2003, 10:05 PM
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Re: Making mods for Dominions II. [Basic editing/modding discussion.]
Not to try and micromanage but maybe the LoTR MODders could mention if they have only a particular interest. It could be a really big project. The TGA map image? The images of the characters? the stats for the characters (the #commands in the monster edit pdf)? Certain races?
WHo is going to make the flaming eye on the tower immobile god of the enemy? The mounted "heroes" of the enemy?
[ December 11, 2003, 20:12: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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December 12th, 2003, 09:05 AM
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Re: Making mods for Dominions II. [Basic editing/modding discussion.]
I can give my help to modders preparing per scritp or something similar ... but as long as I know the only files that are readable are the maps one ... and I think it's quite easy from anyone with a little programming background to prepare something that work with that ...
anyway, someoene know where (which files) all the other informations (stas for the units/magic/pretender) coded in the original games are stored ? and in which format ? ... or is a sort of 'state secret' that developers don't want common folks knows ? it would be nice to just runn some script to get all this stats out and put in a nice table!
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December 12th, 2003, 09:34 AM
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Re: Making mods for Dominions II. [Basic editing/modding discussion.]
I'm making a modding tool too!
It does not actually help you make mods, just balance them. I think I mentioned it before... a battle sim. 1-on-1 melee only, but it will be very useful, and give units melee power rankings.
If it makes it simpler for me, I may add a GUI the spits out a text file of the unit. In Java, of course.
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December 12th, 2003, 09:46 AM
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Re: Making mods for Dominions II. [Basic editing/modding discussion.]
You can use the current mounted wraiths to represent the Ringwraiths, and Etimmu as the Witch King.
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December 12th, 2003, 10:39 AM
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Re: Making mods for Dominions II. [Basic editing/modding discussion.]
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a battle sim. 1-on-1 melee only, but it will be very useful, and give units melee power rankings.
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great! but form which file(s) you get the informations ????
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December 12th, 2003, 05:37 PM
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Re: Making mods for Dominions II. [Basic editing/modding discussion.]
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great! but form which file(s) you get the informations ????
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Of course the official docs arent out yet. But if you download the mods already available you will see alot of the answers. Its still just tga and text with a new extension for the mod text files.
If you look at the Dom1 docs on monster editing you will see a ton of command options that will work in mod files.
And of course the AllView game will give you the units to look at and allow you to screen-capture the images you might want to edit.
Links for the above answers:
http://www.illwinter.com/dom2/mods.html
http://www.illwinter.com/dom/documentation.html
http://www.freewebs.com/sunray_dom2/
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December 12th, 2003, 06:13 PM
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Re: Making mods for Dominions II. [Basic editing/modding discussion.]
thank again gandalf ... good materials to work and think on ... I have understand also that my question (is there a place in a core file where alla the units stats are coded and a way to put them out) probably has to stay without an answer ... I can quite easly understand whiy ... I was hoping in something similar to Civ2 files (good text files with all the needed infomrations) or the mods files ...
good play and work to all modders!
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