Modding Dictionary

[Edratman2]

The way I do it is to download the mods and read the DM files.

[Edi]

I suggest doing as Edratman does. Easiest way to tackle that problem. Would be a waste of effort to try to maintain some kind of library because there is no real way of indexing it unless you want to go to a lot of trouble to do it and for no really useful purpose either.

Creating a new unit from scratch is really fast if you've done it a few times. Spells, more involved and difficult, which is why existing mods are the ones you should look to first.

[Edratman2]

Sombre, I forgot to mention that I think your war wagon is an immensely clever construct.

One question. Why did you use #firstshape 2466 for #2468? I would have thought that the sequence would have used #2467 as the first shape for #2468.

[lch]

Edratman2 said:
One question. Why did you use #firstshape 2466 for #2468? I would have thought that the sequence would have used #2467 as the first shape for #2468.

#firstshape is the state that you get after the turn is finished. The war wagon then gets two fresh horses. Otherwise you'd have to wait another turn and maybe even have a battle so that the war wagon gets back to its original strength.

[Edratman2]

Ich, that makes sense. I've not previousy encountered a double shape shift, so my thinking was that #firstshape referred to the shape the unit came from (which is true on single shape shifts). Sombre is using it as the unit # it returns to. Now that I think about it, it is probably similar to the hydra shape shift program.

Damn clever.

I'm probably going to use multiple shifts on something. Of course, I don't have a clue on what it will be. Yet.

[chrispedersen]

I figure this is how to script a hydra of 9 heads.. losing heads...

[Edi]

Yes, it is. It is also how the elementals are done, consecutive secondshapes, only the elementals do not have a firstshape.