Modding tips and tricks

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Swan

if a make a creature with:
#copystats 1389 the monster who lose 10% of it's hp any month outside his home
#noheal
#magicbeing

will i get a monster who lose 1 hp each month outside his home but will be healed to 100% inside a lab?

It doesn't work, the monster doesnt'lose any hp

[Sombre]

I believe so, yes.

[Swan]

Is it possible to create a monster that kills undead in the province he is in like the site do?

[Sombre]

Nope.

[Swan]

I think there is a bug:
in order to obtain a monster with "dies away from home", you have to use
#selectmonster and #makemonster5 using it's name, not his number
1389-->it doesn't work
"blood lord"--> it works

[Ragnarok-X]

#newspell
#name "The Burning Trail2"
#descr "The Burning Trail2"
#school -1
#researchlevel 0
#path 0 0
#path 1 5
#pathlevel 0 3
#pathlevel 1 3
#effect 10001
#damage 2102
#nreff 8
#end


#newspell
#name "The Burning Trail"
#descr "The mage travels to the infernal planes and follows the burning trails to find and submit a flock of Nightmares. Once done, he summons a group of wights to mount some of the Mares."
#school 0
#researchlevel 7
#path 0 0
#path 1 5
#pathlevel 0 3
#pathlevel 1 3
#effect 10001
#fatiguecost 3200
#damage 2101
#nreff 4
#nextspell "The Burning Trail2"
#end





why doesnt this spell work ? it only creates the initial 4 units, but not the nextspell ones.

[Swan]

Doesn't nextspell work only for already existing spells?

[Ragnarok-X]

Weird. Apparently the spell does work as intended, summoning 12 units, 4+8. Whats funny is that the spells description only shows number of effects 4. Apparently subspells effects are calculated beforehand.

[Atreidi]

How do I script a ritual that will summon a random commander from a list?

Do I just add more #damage commands for each different commander I want to be included in the random list? Is there a specific #effect command? TNX.

[Burnsaber]

Originally Posted by Swan

Doesn't nextspell work only for already existing spells?

No. Modded nextspells work fine. You're thinking of modded #onebattlespells, they don't work without a hack.

Originally Posted by Ragnarok-X

Weird. Apparently the spell does work as intended, summoning 12 units, 4+8. Whats funny is that the spells description only shows number of effects 4. Apparently subspells effects are calculated beforehand.

No spell description shows the effects of a #nextspell, modded or otherwise. You should sneak information about the #nextspell to the description of the base spell.

Originally Posted by Atreidi

How do I script a ritual that will summon a random commander from a list?

Do I just add more #damage commands for each different commander I want to be included in the random list? Is there a specific #effect command? TNX.

You can't. The only way to mod one in is to overwrite all the summons of a vanilla spell. I did this for my "Byzantine Pythium" mod with overwriting the Grigori summoning spell of Hinnom and all of the Grigori. See my sig for a link to the mod and thus to the code example that lies within the nation .dm file.


Also, with Sombre and then me (eventually) gone from the forums, I'd like to state that IrC is a good place to catch us to ask modding questions or the new forums that sombre made.