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[NTJedi]

Endoperez said:
The spell modding commands are somewhat weird.

Some of the mapedit commands also have weird results. The #fort command rarely gives the desired fort. The mapedit command which allows a nation to already start with a spell only works for the first turn. There's others as well.
I wish I had the time to be one of the beta testers so I could have caught this for them.

[UninspiredName]

I half-suspect they don't actually read the bug reports...

[UninspiredName]

UPDATE: Ritual spells work fine. The game just has something against combat summons, I guess...

[Endoperez]

I read all bug reports that are posted in the bug thread. I try to read all posts.

I solved why I didn't get my ritual spell working: I used #eff instead of #effect...

The command for summoning a creature might be wrong. It's 3 - an uneven number! If #effect list of effects is a bitmap, it can only have various powers of 2. 2^1, 2^2, 2^3 etc.

[Endoperez]

Here is a new, working spell:

#newspell
#name "Summon Slingers"
#descr "This spell summons a heroic Slinger"
#school 0
#researchlevel 1
#path 0 6
#pathlevel 0 1
#effect 10021
#nreff 1
#fatiguecost 100
#damage 50
#end



EDIT: because this does work, #effect numbers CAN be uneven.

[Endoperez]

Another spell that works! Furthermore... this summons units in battles! It seems #effect 3 and 10003 don't work, but #effect 21 works just fine in battles (unless on of the summoned critters was a commander).

It's not perfect, but it is VERY interesting: this summon spell still has range 30+, and fires bolts of flame... the Hoburgs (as units) are summoned where the flames strike the ground.


#newspell
#name "Summon Hoburgs"
#descr "This spell summons Hoburg Militia to fight for the caster."
#school 0
#researchlevel 0
#path 0 6
#pathlevel 0 1
#effect 21
#nreff 10
#fatiguecost 100
#damage 483
#end

[UninspiredName]

I didn't mean you, but the developers. I'm not sure they read the wishlist and bug reports.

At any rate, I'll keep looking for some working effect numbers. Very cool find, though.