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ashkenazy
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 31, 2007 08:31 AM |
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Pleas help - how to change stats of creatures in Homm2 or Homm3?
I really believe that there is some way to make fair competition between the heroes, like the necromancer's creatures may not be strong as the warlocks
I think that level 7 creatures decide the battle therefore in HoMM3 archangel beats most of other heroes' creatures
If there is mod for editing the stats of creatures, please help me
any suggestions please feel free to post
if any similar topic being posted, please forgive me because i am a newbie (please direct me to the topic)
thank you very much
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yasmiel
Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
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posted January 31, 2007 08:47 PM |
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Edited by yasmiel at 20:48, 31 Jan 2007.
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RIGHT_CLICK_HERE_THEN_SAVE_AS
After you save the text file put it into your data folder in heroes 3 folder. After that, edit it using whatever you want (notepad, excel, calc), untill you are satisfied with the creature stats...
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Ecoris
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted January 31, 2007 09:01 PM |
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Edited by Ecoris at 21:03, 31 Jan 2007.
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By God2:
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It is actually quite simple. Just be sure to have a backup of your data files. Also be aware that at some point I had to replace all files in my HOMM3 directory to reset the stats. Just moving in new data files was not enough by some reason.
Go here: http://www.archangelcastle.com/download/logh3index.php
Download the following files:
ModHomm3 -> Used for extracting data from the data files.
TextEdit -> Program that allows for easy editing of TXT files.
Lodedit -> Program used for integrating your modified files into the game.
Be aware of one thing though: It seems that the changes to creatures, and probably other changes that were made (if any)in SOD are not stored in the data files, but probably in the game executive.
The file you will be extracting TXT files from will be H3ab_bmp.lod, but the creatures text file you get from it will not reflect the balance changes made to Angels, Lizardmen, Cerberi, and Serpent Flies. Remember to fix those to current stats before you integrate any changes, or else you will revert them to how they were before SOD.
To integrate files into the game, place the file you want to integrate in the same folder as Replace.bat and Lodedit.exe, then "edit" Replace.bat, and write "lodedt @(name of file you wish to integrate).
Then run replace.bat. This will take about 1 second.
Examples would be: lodedt @CRTRAITS.TXT, or lodedt @BUILDING.TXT
Edit: Forget about TextEdit, you can use any text editor. Copying the .txt files into Excel helps a lot.
You will not need ModHomm3 if you already have the .txt files and only need to integrate them.
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God2
Adventuring Hero
Your benevolent deity
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posted February 01, 2007 03:14 PM |
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Edited by God2 at 15:20, 01 Feb 2007.
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Ah, splendid! Thanks for saving me the hassle of looking up all the info and links again, Ecoris. 
Oh, and Textedit actually puts all the info in nicely arranged excel-like bars, so if you don't have Excel, Textedit is a far better alternative than notepad/wordpad
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