Wishlist: Modding shortlist

[Maraxus]

On the Wishlist are the monster modding commands
#clearweapons
and
#cleararmor

Those can allready be done with
#weapon 0
and
#armor "Nothing"

Including this in the next modding manual could be a simpler solution than including a new command (...don't know ...)



For side modding instead of the specific #summon command
#cast [commander type] ["Spell name" | Spell id]

might be not much harder and much more useful, because it would include scrying sides like the well of all waters and allow some new ideas (teleport gates).
-commander type would be -1 for "any commander" and 0 to 8 would be a mage of the according magic path numbered as usual.
(...Again, maybe it's not possible, maybe it is, don't know...)

[Thilock_Dominus]

What about allow changing sprites of;

- Magic Item Modding
- Magic Site Modding

and

- Temple


With "Magic Item Modding" and "Magic Site Modding" a #spr "imgfile" would be nice.

With "Temple" there could be a #templespr "imgfile"

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Weapon & armor modding:

Allow to give weapons/armor the ability to boost magic.

A #magicboost path boost and #gemprod type number would be nice.


Another nice thing would be to mod "misc items".

[Endoperez]

Originally Posted by Maraxus

For side modding instead of the specific #summon command
#cast [commander type] ["Spell name" | Spell id]

might be not much harder and much more useful, because it would include scrying sides like the well of all waters and allow some new ideas (teleport gates).

I requested this earlier, but someone said that it wouldn't work. There's no "cast a spell" effect on sites. There is "enter to summon X", "enter to scry" and "enter for adventure", but those are all spesific effects independent of each other.

[Burnsaber]

Just thought of this. Would be a cool way to introduce nation in a deeper level to the game.

Mercenary Modding

#addgroup - adds new group of mercenaries
#name "name" - declares the name of the group
#leader [mon nmbr] - declares who commands the mercenaries
#troops [amount] [mon nmbr] - first number declares how many troops and the other what the monsters are
#startcost [amount] - How much money will they ask when they are available.
#end - always at the end of #addgroup

[analytic_kernel]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

Mercenary Modding
#addgroup - adds new group of mercenaries
#name "name" - declares the name of the group
#leader [mon nmbr] - declares who commands the mercenaries
#troops [amount] [mon nmbr] - first number declares how many troops and the other what the monsters are
#startcost [amount] - How much money will they ask when they are available.
#end - always at the end of #addgroup

Good idea, Burnsaber.
We would probably also want #leadername. Might also be good to specify magic paths (and maybe even magic items) for the leader.

[lch]

Originally Posted by Burnsaber

Just thought of this. Would be a cool way to introduce nation in a deeper level to the game.

Mercenary Modding

#addgroup - adds new group of mercenaries
#name "name" - declares the name of the group
#leader [mon nmbr] - declares who commands the mercenaries
#troops [amount] [mon nmbr] - first number declares how many troops and the other what the monsters are
#startcost [amount] - How much money will they ask when they are available.
#end - always at the end of #addgroup

EricM used a similar modding-inspired way to present his data on mercs, here:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showp...4&postcount=36

No, you can't use those modding commands.

And most stuff in Dom3 is hardcoded instead of being read from some table, so it's hard to make it accessible to modding. There still isn't much that you can do with spell modding, for example, because it's mostly hardcoded.

[Aezeal]

hehe I'd love this.. dom3 K needs to get rid of all existing mercs to start with.

so I'd need a command to remove them

[Aezeal]

items, yes, paths would just be under it's newmonster modding stuff

[analytic_kernel]

Originally Posted by Aezeal

items, yes, paths would just be under it's newmonster modding stuff

Well, I was actually drawing inspiration from the map editing commands, where commander paths can be customized beyond their monster chasis. I know we're talking about modding and not map editing here, but it would still be nice to have the additional customization for mercs. But, even the original list that Burnsaber gave would be a good start.

[Aezeal]

yes analytic, if you just create a new monster (you know er can do that ) with whatever stats/costumization you want you can link it to that already with his idea