Wishlist: Modding shortlist

[Psientist]

SOrry if this is the wrong thread...

- A bug report: if you "#copyspr" the Jade Mask (which is restricted to one nation), any item you copy it to also becomes restricted (even if it has no such restrictions in the mod)

And few requests, or votes for existing mod requests in future patches -
- the ability to create sprites for #newitems
- #onebattlespell for #newitems or #newweapons
- #ritualspell for #newitems

[pyg]

So I've tried to implement overwriting national spells without success perhaps due to not knowing enough about modding. Anyway I tried #selectspell 109 followed by #clear followed by the content of the new spell to #end. I get a name2spell crash every time. Any tips?

Also it doesn't seem possible to force a spell number on creating newspells. #newspell, unlike every other new mod object command, does not take a numerical unit id argument. Just #selectspell 999 followed by the spell to #end doesn't show up in research. This is OK as I can just count off 136 #newspells before overwriting national ones if I can ever get that to work. Why? Am I missing something?

Currently one cannot play Mytheology/Antilarium + CPCS + Holy War even after removing the Antilarium GoR spells which seems like a reasonable desire... well, I really want to anyway.

Apologies for hijacking the thread somewhat.

[lch]

Originally Posted by pyg

So I've tried to implement overwriting national spells without success perhaps due to not knowing enough about modding. Anyway I tried #selectspell 109 followed by #clear followed by the content of the new spell to #end. I get a name2spell crash every time. Any tips?

You have to select them by name, not number. Which is a problem, because there may be more than one spell by the same name. Spells are being references by name, not number, everywhere, in the unit and item data as well. On the other hand, in your specific case, they should probably have the same restrictions, so if you chose to overwrite one of them, you'll probably want to overwrite all of them, and you should be able to do that if you change their names while doing so.

Originally Posted by pyg

Also it doesn't seem possible to force a spell number on creating newspells.

Correct.

[pyg]

Originally Posted by lch

You have to select them by name, not number. Which is a problem, because there may be more than one spell by the same name. Spells are being references by name, not number, everywhere, in the unit and item data as well. On the other hand, in your specific case, they should probably have the same restrictions, so if you chose to overwrite one of them, you'll probably want to overwrite all of them, and you should be able to do that if you change their names while doing so.

So that nice list of national spell numbers doesn't really help me as I need a nice list of national spell names right?

[lch]

Originally Posted by Psientist

- A bug report: if you "#copyspr" the Jade Mask (which is restricted to one nation), any item you copy it to also becomes restricted (even if it has no such restrictions in the mod)

I was wondering where the restriction kicks in, because there's nothing in the item data. Thanks for reporting that it's done by sprite ID. How funky! Some other things are tied in a strange way. For example, the Forbidden Light effect that raises Astral and Fire magic by 2 also draws in Horror assassinations.