Modding Questions

void · #1 January 30th, 2004, 08:06 AM

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Originally posted by Bowlingballhead:
That is why I am asking if the modding engine accepts any commands that were not included in the instructions, or if for the moment this is the complete limit of what we have to work with.

all cmds that the engine would accept listed in the instruction.
had splited the exe file to shards, and found that there is nothing more.

*But there are something not listed in sunray-be' sites.xls

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[ January 30, 2004, 06:13: Message edited by: void ]

LordArioch · #2 January 30th, 2004, 08:21 AM

Actually I had an issue where I believe #clear left a shield on my troops, leading to some confusion when I gave them another shield and they had two. But I think it is intended to clear all items and special attributes, so between that and name/sprite replacement the only thing you can't do is add more heroes...you can edit the old ones completely, I think.

Teraswaerto · #3 January 30th, 2004, 04:34 PM

#clear doesn't work, but if you add new equipment it replaces the old one. Also the hero will keep the name it had, so it will be "hero name" the "unit name", I.E. "Rhianne the what-ever-you-named-your-unit" if the Ulmish hero 381 is edited.

[ January 30, 2004, 14:35: Message edited by: Teraswaerto ]

Bowlingballhead · #4 January 31st, 2004, 05:43 AM

Okay, new question! How do I dig out the game's unit icons to edit? Obviously, people are doing so. It would make my life much easier to edit rather than make them all up from scratch, and I didn't see any files that were obviously images in the game directory. Maybe I just didn't know what I was looking for.

Teraswaerto · #5 January 31st, 2004, 08:43 AM

Taking a screenshot of the unit & pasting that to a graphics program is the only way really.

Potatoman · #6 January 31st, 2004, 08:58 AM

Taking a screenshot from the game is the easiest way to "rip" existing sprites from the game. The hard part is sizing them correctly inside whichever graphics editing program you use to edit the sprites.

Argitoth · #7 January 31st, 2004, 04:03 PM

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Originally posted by Teraswaerto:
Taking a screenshot of the unit & pasting that to a graphics program is the only way really.

Would the screenshot be taken zoomed up during battle or just a screen shot in the unit recruit? or having 1152x768 full screen and THEN taking the screenshot?