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Question.

Hi,

Just starting out modding LH, and I'm trying to add a new faction with new racial/blood. What files do I need to include in my mod folder to get the new racial to work? Also, are there any guides or tutorials out there on how to add a new racial, add new traits etc? Thanks.

I've taken a look at both DSraider's "Additional Faction Traits and Races" and Attackdrone's "Fervor" Mods (which are both great by the way), but there's so many files I can't really make heads or tails of it, so any advice would be great. Thanks.

All the Best,

No prob.  I've asked similar questions to yours in the past so I happened to know there was some info there.  Let us know if you got get that stuff working.

Not really possible with trained units.  I think a Spell (as already mentioned) is about the only thing that has a random effect. 

You need:

1. The new blood ability. Look in CoreAbilities for examples.

3. A New Race. Look in CoreRacetypes for examples.  I suggest using an existing modeltype as this will be much easier. Modeltypes are what determine what clothes and hair your units can have and what their armor looks like.

2. A new Faction. Use the faction editor ans select your new race.

4. New starting units for that race that have that blood ability. Look in CoreUnits for examples.

5. Go back and edit your faction to give it the starting units.

sorry if this has been already asked/answered somewhere else and i missed it but i m looking for the following:

i d love a mod that increases the number of soldiers in a unit ONLY IN LOOKS:

what i mean is that a regular unit with 3 soldiers would still be 3 soldier for the purpose of attack/defense/hitpoints etc. but look as if it had 6 soldiers. 4 soldiers would look as if they were 8, 5 = 10 and 6 = 12.

And no, getting drunk to see everything twice isnt an option

reason being that i m no fan of the small scale battles but i also understand that simply changing it so that units come with 6 soldiers by default would overthrow balance completely.

is this possible (perhaps is there already a SMALL mod that doest it - i m not interested in complete overhauls at the moment ) or is the graphical representation always tied to the stats of the unit ?

thanks in advance !

How do you edit an existing item?  For example, if I wanted to add 3 maximum lightning damage to the Blessed Hammer, reduce Physical Attack by 1, and an OnHit effect of 8 Lightning Damage against units with an IsUndead unitstat, how would I change the code so that the +10 Physical Attack vs. Undead no longer applies?  I know how to add elemental damage and defendable elemental damage OnHit to a weapon (because Heavenfall has already provided an example), but how do I remove the old +10 Physical Attack bonus against Undead?

EDIT: Actually the first one doesn't work properly, as it does extra damage to non-undead units.

Would this work for the MeleeAppliesSpell?

<GameModifier>

  <ModType>Unit</ModType>
  <Attribute>DefendableDamage</Attribute>
  <AttackStat>UnitStat_Attack_Lightning</AttackStat>
  <Calculate InternalName="Calc" ValueOwner="TargetUnit">
  <Expression><![CDATA[[UnitStat_BG_IsUndead]]></Expression>
    <Calculate InternalName="Calc2" ValueOwner="CastingUnit">
    <Expression><![CDATA[[UnitStat_BG_IsUndead]]></Expression>
    <Calculate InternalName="Calc3" ValueOwner="TargetUnit">
    <Expression><![CDATA[[Calc2]] > [CDATA[Calc]]]></Expression>
    <Calculate InternalName="Value">
    <Expression><![CDATA[[Calc3] * 8]></Expression>
    </Calculate>

</GameModifier>

It sometimes seems to do more than 8 Damage though, with no known resistances or weaknesses to Lightning.

Would this work?

<GameModifier>

  <ModType>Unit</ModType>
  <Attribute>DefendableDamage</Attribute>
  <AttackStat>UnitStat_Attack_Lightning</AttackStat>
    <Calculate InternalName="Calc" ValueOwner="TargetUnit">
    <Expression><![CDATA[[UnitStat_BG_IsUndead]]></Expression>
    <Calculate InternalName="Value">
    <Expression><8></Expression>
    </Calculate>
  <vsHigher>1</vsHigher> 

</GameModifier>

Or is the <vsHigher> only for use when you don't do any calculations?

In fact vshigher and vslower should not be used in effect modifiers at all. The code isn't there in the background to do the proper checks. > and < are not accepted operators in a calculation except in AIPRIORITY.

The good news is you don't actually need to do a comparison when you are using calculations in spelldefs. In other words,

<GameModifier>

  <ModType>Unit</ModType>
  <Attribute>DefendableDamage</Attribute>
  <AttackStat>UnitStat_Attack_Lightning</AttackStat>
  <Calculate InternalName="Calc" ValueOwner="TargetUnit">
  <Expression><![CDATA[[UnitStat_BG_IsUndead]]></Expression>
    <Calculate InternalName="Value">
    <Expression><![CDATA[[Calc] * 8]]></Expression>
    </Calculate>
</GameModifier>

Note that since you are using Defendabledamage, assuming target has no lightning resistance, your actual damage will range from 4-8.

There's no good way to do that.

Yes, but you can't link it to lightning resistance because lightning resistance can be positive or negative.

1) deals a normal attack, it is therefore subject to defense, randomization of damage, and resistance modifications

2) Haven't tried to do this, maybe you can play around with the calculations. I don't know.

Thanks very much for all your help Heavenfall!  After lots of trial and error I've worked out how to give the bonus damage if the enemy is Undead and the attacker is not (by editing the Sov file to give him the Undead unitstat -  I also had to delete the Blessed Hammer definition from your Library files).  I would also assume now that when you just put a TargetUnit UnitStat you are actually either testing if the UnitStat is positive, or testing that the unit stat is equal to itself, or is equal to 1 (one of those possibilities I think).

Anyway, this is my full code for doing 10 damage to Undead with a regular attack with the Blessed Hammer as long as the user is not Undead.  And it affects Banshees as long as at least 1 of the 3 fire damage for the weapon hits the banshee (even though it would avoid all the Physical Attack).

It should also allow people to make a number of conditions for whatever you are trying to do.  Since only one 0 has to be in there for the whole expression to be 0, you can easily make as many conditions as you like that all have to be true to affect the GameModifier Attribute.

Btw: do you think it needs to cost more than 120?

After plopping this into my quest editor, you will find that your mod types for your treasure should be

<GameModifier>
    <ModType>Resource</ModType>
    <Attribute>RefinedCrystal</Attribute>
    <Value>10000</Value>
</GameModifier>

I do recommend that you try out my editor when creating quests. It might save you some time and avoid these little errors. (The editor will pretty much let you create any quest you like)