Wishlist: Modding shortlist

[Edi]

Yep. Heat and cold with value, armor assignment by number, the already suggested #heroX <nbr> "Name" would be great. There are some other things that would make nation modding and moving them around different eras a lot easier, but that would mainly apply to the existing nations and modifying the current source code so that brief, summary and desription were tied to nation number.

I'll draw up a preliminary list at the end of June. This week will be spent finishing up 3.17 DB and then restoring an upgraded Better Independents mod, perhaps also restoring the Faerun map. The next week I'll be on vacation and offline.

[quantum_mechani]

Thanks for compiling the list Edi. A couple things that seem to be missing:

Magic site:

#adventure <number> As in city of the damned.

Poptype:

#selectpoptype <nmbr>
#clear
#addreccom <name or number>
#addrecunit <name or number>
#terrain <mask>
#rarityera1 <value>
#rarityera2 <value>
#rarityera3 <value>

Monster modding:

#drainpower As in coldpower but with magic scale

Also, the #battlesummon suggestion seems fairly low priority given it can be done with #onebattlespell.

[Edi]

You're welcome. I threw that list together late yesterday evening, so it's not complete yet. For example, poptype modding is missing so far, but your suggestions for that look good.

[Endoperez]

Great! How would you like the suggestions organized?


Weapon modding:

Range: -1 is range: strength, so that's very easy. If other ranges are -2 and -3, they're just as simple to add.

#copyweapon would be useful. You could copy a special effect like Steal Strength and add another special effect to it without giving Shades a big boost.




Showing the mod's title instead of a banner if there's no banner.

Spell modding:
* More spell id numbers
* More spell descriptions available (they cut out at 1000, spells at 1023, or at least something pretty similar).
* #newspell <nr> in addition to #newspell. This would let us properly use modded #onebattlespells. Alternatively, having #onebattlespell work with the NAMES of the modded spells would also work if that's easier to implement.

[Edi]

So fr I've managed to sort out suggestions from the ones made. I like having itemized lists so it is easy to see what's what. I actualy worked largely off the list you posted earlier as well as the DB entries for various properties of things.

So far the things in the list are mostly suggestions on opening up things that have already been done in the game instead of writing completely new stuff from scratch. More complicated things will obviously require more thought.

I'm going to be pretty useless for spell modding discussions, as that's an aspect I'm not familiar with.

[Endoperez]

I'm not good with spell-modding either, but here's something to get that started. Feel free to edit/leave out things as you feel necessary.


SPELL MODDING

• Increasing the range of available spell IDs and spell descriptions.
• #newspell <nbr> This would be a modification of the existing #newspell command and would allow the modmaker to use spesific spell IDs to create complex spell effects that work even when several mods adding new spells are used together.
• #event <nr> This command does not exist currently. The spell would cause the indicated event to happen in target province. Alternatively:
• #message "text" This command does not exist currently. The spell would create a message with the spesified text in the target province.

Spell-related:

• #onebattlespell <nr> | "name" Currently, #onebattlespell does not find modded spells referenced to by name, unlike #nextspell. Because spell IDs of modded spells vary with the number of enabled mods, multiple mods using #onebattlespell won't work as intended.

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Unrelated but interesting find of the day:
#nextspell "name" works on modded spells! I thought it was like #onebattlspell and would throw an exception, but no, it works perfectly! This means that modded summon spells can summon as many units and commanders as spell IDs allow without causing any problems with other mods.

[MaxWilson]

Don't know if this is a code bug or a documentation bug, but it would be nice if

#flightspr <effect no.>

worked for spells and/or we could figure out how to write it in order to MAKE it work. I've only been able to turn off flightsprites for spells with that command, never to enable or change them.

-Max