Wishlist: The Modder's Wishlist

[DrPraetorious]

It would be nice to have custom unit or commander icons, so that we can add rules text for obscure abilities (especially one-battle-spell) that we may add.

#icon "<imagefile>" "short" "long"

i.e.
#icon "./whatever/candelabra.tga" "Sacred" "Sacred troops are extremely devoted to the god's cause. They can be blessed and require half the usual cost to maintain."

I suppose that is three arguments. For custom icons the first word of the long text block could always be used as the short description.

[Sombre]

Custom icons would be excellent.

[Maraxus]

Wow, I hardly believed, it is not possible yet, and I'm even more supprised nobody wrote it here, yet but:

It would be great, if you could create ranged weapons with a range depending on strength.
range -1 to range -3 for strength to strength/3 sound like the most intuitive option.

[Endoperez]

Maraxus said:
Wow, I hardly believed, it is not possible yet, and I'm even more supprised nobody wrote it here, yet but:

It would be great, if you could create ranged weapons with a range depending on strength.
range -1 to range -3 for strength to strength/3 sound like the most intuitive option.

If you check out Fire Bola stats from the manual, you'll notice that it's range is listed as -1. So range: -1 IS range: strength; the only problem is that -1 isn't eligible target value for modding...

Are there any str/2 or str/3 range weapons? Boulder uses one of the two, but I think that's about the only thing.

[Maraxus]

Breath weapons (fire, cold, bile) have strength /2.
Boulders have strength /3

The dom3 database uses -1 as strength, -2 as str/2 and -3 as str/3, too.

I tried it manually, the range field seams to be 31 bits + 1 bit for the signum (like most in dominions.
If you choose any number smaler 2^31 ( =2147483648 ) for the range, it get's cut down to range 100.
Sadly 2147283648 to 4294967295 (the 32nd digit being a 1 in binary) result in the weapon apearing as a melee weapon.
Can't trick the limits of modding.

[Edi]

The DB is NOT a guide to using modding commands. I just needed something to display things as they appear.