Modder's Guide

Psientist · #1 January 14th, 2007, 12:53 PM

I guess the number of views but lack of responses to my last question means:

1) Such a thing isn't possible.
2) Such a thing may be possible, but nobody knows. Probably a hack.
3) It is possible, but undocumented, and kind of complex, so the development team isn't motivated to explain it.

Gandalf Parker · #2 January 14th, 2007, 03:33 PM

I have no idea of the answer. I dont really do mods.
But have you seen yesterdays entry to the progress file?

Quote:

13th january
* Darkness did not work properly regarding demons.
* Modding: new commands: #domsummon, #domsummon2, #domsummon20.
* Modding: new commands: #summon1, #summon5, #makemonster1-5.
* Modding: #copy renamed to #copyspell in manual as well.

http://ulm.illwinter.com/dom3/dom3progress.html

Does that mean that Johan has fixed that for the next patch?

Psientist · #3 January 14th, 2007, 05:01 PM

Looks like that might cover some of the unique Pretender abilities I asked about (but not assigning spell attributes to monsters or items). I'll play with it when the 3.05 patch comes out.

Thanks for the heads-up...

Psientist · #4 January 27th, 2007, 02:37 PM

Does anybody have a link to the allunitsview map, or Edi's spreadsheet? The search function on this forum is pretty capricious, and I haven't found them.

Edi · #5 January 27th, 2007, 03:31 PM

You can get the Unit DB for Dom2 from Arryn's site or Sunray's site but the DB for Dom3 is still a work in progress and is not yet available.

Most of the numbers will be the same, it starts breaking down after #1060.

Edi

Psientist · #6 January 29th, 2007, 02:25 PM

Next question! Is there a comprehensive list of item numbers?

Second, when modding monsters, it is possible to "copystats" from an existing monster, then change stats/attributes from that base to create a new monster. Is such a thing possible with weapons or armor?

I don't think so (my experiments resulted in crashification), but it would be a very nice modding feature...

DrPraetorious · #7 January 29th, 2007, 03:52 PM

There isn't a copy command for items AFAIK.

Do you want a comprehensive list of armor, or weapons, or of forgeables? All three are *probably* in the strings dump, but it's a lot harder to verify those - and anything with a three letter name will generally be missing. I could try extracting them myself rather than depending on Strings to do it.

Edi · #8 January 29th, 2007, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Psientist said:
Next question! Is there a comprehensive list of item numbers?

Second, when modding monsters, it is possible to "copystats" from an existing monster, then change stats/attributes from that base to create a new monster. Is such a thing possible with weapons or armor?

I don't think so (my experiments resulted in crashification), but it would be a very nice modding feature...

There will be by the time I'm done, but that is going to take a long while yet. The DB will come out without the items, but they will be next on the list after that.

Edi

Ballbarian · #9 January 27th, 2007, 03:37 PM

all units map:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...b=5&o=&fpart=1

dom2 units database by Edi:
http://www.strife.com/dominions-2/files.htm#docs

Turin · #10 January 27th, 2007, 09:36 PM

That allunitsview map is a bit outdatet since it only goes to 1712 and therefore doesn�t include any lanka units. Here is a new one attached.