Utility: Spell Modding - Guide Version 0.11

[DrPraetorious]

New version.

[Jack_Trowell]

Oh, nice.

If I understand, to make a new site-searching spell for Holy sites, I should use the effect 10048 with damage 8 for holy/priest, correct ?

[DrPraetorious]

I believe so, yes.

But you might also need certain values in the #spec field - trying copying the value from an existing site searching spell and see if that makes a difference.

[Psientist]

Well, I post this mostly just for discussion sake. I decided that the Death school of magic needs some form of "Dome" spell, since it appears to be the only school without one. So, I tried mixing and matching the listed Dome effect numbers with other spells like Soul Slay and 7Year Fever and the like, all with no luck whatsoever. In my test games, I could cast the spell, and it shows as a protective spell for that province - but nothing ever triggers it. In fact, recreating the Dome of Flaming Death (listed below) but no remote attack spell I try ever triggers it either. Thoughts appreciated.

#newspell
#name "Veil of Shadows"
#descr "A magical spell trap is placed over the caster's provice. Enemy spells that attack the protected province rend the veil and expose the attacker to dark energies from the Plane of Shadows. While the Veil will not stop incoming spells, it may remove the attacker as a threat through the infliction of a death spell. The Veil fades if the caster dies."
#school 4
#researchlevel 5
#path 0 5
#pathlevel 0 3
#effect 10082
#fatiguecost 1000
#damage 60
#end

Note - effect 10082 creates a temporary dome (based upon the number of gems invested), 10084 creates one that appears to last until triggered.

[DrPraetorious]

I can't figure that one out either.

The only possible way in which your spell *might* differ from Dome of Flaming Death is in the sound and graphics fields, which I haven't quite figured out yet.

In the field that "Acid Bolt" has at 10070 (flyspr?) dome of Flaming Death has a value of -1 (or 65535, if it's unsigned.)

In the field that "Acid Bolt" has at 10130 (explspr?) dome of Flaming Death likewise has a -1.

So you could try setting the flyspr and explspr fields to -1 and see if that helps.

What about the other dome spells? Do they work? It ought to be easy to check if the effect # for Dome of Solid Air works or not.

[Psientist]

I had tried Solid Air, and the Blood Magic equivalent as well, with no luck! Too bad, I was hoping one could really come up with some interesting dome effects by matching other spells as effects.

[Psientist]

Curious - has anyone ever come across the bitmasks for "awe" or "animal awe"? "fear" is covered quite well already.