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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
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posted January 02, 2024 05:52 PM |
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darcky146 said:
Maybe anyone knows, how to increase the number of land mines spawned by the spell?
Where it should be edited?
You need to hex edit the exe at location 242234 to 242240.
I did it myself, so it produces 50% more mines now. 
Quicksand can be edited at 242224 to 242230.
and Fire Wall can be made always 3 hexes by changing 02 to 00 at location 1A0B65.
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darcky146
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 02, 2024 07:31 PM |
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phoenix4ever said:
darcky146 said:
Maybe anyone knows, how to increase the number of land mines spawned by the spell?
Where it should be edited?
You need to hex edit the exe at location 242234 to 242240.
I did it myself, so it produces 50% more mines now.
Quicksand can be edited at 242224 to 242230.
and Fire Wall can be made always 3 hexes by changing 02 to 00 at location 1A0B65.
Thanks a lot, worked like a charm!
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Serp
Known Hero
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posted January 04, 2024 12:41 AM |
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Using Plugins to mod Hota+HD mod does not work anymore, correct? Or where do I have to add the plugin in ini files or so to make it work with hota+hd ?
I used pugins few years ago when hd+hota still supported them and assumed modding hota would be dead after hd mod disabled plugins for hota, but this thread here still seems to be active and even talking about plugins here and there?
If plugins are still possible, can I also use them in the Online-Lobby from HD Mod? I only play with my frieds who would use the same plugins and I absolutely don't care about any kind of competition, so I absolutely hate that they removed official plugin support with that reasoning, its just nonsense.
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As far as I know hota even destroyed the option to play Hota+hd via gameranger, they say there is the online lobby of HD instead. So if plugins in general work, but online lobby is able to scan and prevent them, I hate the online lobby even more and curse the hota devs for not bringing back gameranger multiplayer support 
(sorry for being angry, I and many other modders don't like that hota devs hate modding, while they themself are modding )
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Winston
Known Hero
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posted January 04, 2024 01:16 AM |
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Serp said:
Using Plugins to mod Hota+HD mod does not work anymore, correct? Or where do I have to add the plugin in ini files or so to make it work with hota+hd ?
I used pugins few years ago when hd+hota still supported them and assumed modding hota would be dead after hd mod disabled plugins for hota, but this thread here still seems to be active and even talking about plugins here and there?
If plugins are still possible, can I also use them in the Online-Lobby from HD Mod? I only play with my frieds who would use the same plugins and I absolutely don't care about any kind of competition, so I absolutely hate that they removed official plugin support with that reasoning, its just nonsense.
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As far as I know hota even destroyed the option to play Hota+hd via gameranger, they say there is the online lobby of HD instead. So if plugins in general work, but online lobby is able to scan and prevent them, I hate the online lobby even more and curse the hota devs for not bringing back gameranger multiplayer support
(sorry for being angry, I and many other modders don't like that hota devs hate modding, while they themself are modding )
Correct, they added DRM to HotA many years ago to prevent modding.
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deusmisereatur
Tavern Dweller
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posted January 07, 2024 01:39 AM |
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Has anyone had luck in updating the addresses posted by Celestin on page 92 for 1.7.0 regarding reverting the changes for Necromancy? I've found the updated addresses for Logistics and Intelligence and are as below:
2. Restoring original values for secondary skills Intelligence and Logistics in HotA.dll
* replace bytes D9 15 8C EA 63 00 to DD D0 90 90 90 90 at address 0x001825EC (previously 0x0013883C)
* replace bytes D9 1D 90 EA 63 00 to DD D8 90 90 90 90 at address 0x001825F8 (previously 0x00138848)
* replace bytes D9 1D 94 EA 63 00 to DD D8 90 90 90 90 at address 0x00182604 (previously 0x00138854)
* replace bytes D9 1D 6C EA 63 00 to DD D8 90 90 90 90 at address 0x0018262E (previously 0x0013887E)
* replace bytes D9 1D 70 EA 63 00 to DD D8 90 90 90 90 at address 0x0018263A (previously 0x0013888A)
* replace bytes D9 1D 74 EA 63 00 to DD D8 90 90 90 90 at address 0x00182640 (previously 0x00138890)
EDITED: Off by a byte for one of the addresses.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 07, 2024 08:58 AM |
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@deusmisereatur
I'm interested in finding where HotA's values for Estates, Intelligence and Mysticism are stored, not to turn them back to original values, but to have my own values.
I found Advanced Intelligence, but there are too many of the other instances to find the others though or I will have to go for a major trial and error quest...
I also had another value for Mana Vortex, that does'nt work anymore...
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Juas
Hired Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 10:58 AM |
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Hello, happy new year!
I am needing a bit of help here, please.
I modded Complete some years ago, thanks to this forum.
I did TXT for a lot of stuff, and HEX edition to change the numbers of Secondary Skills. It all went right and I had a lot of fun doing it... but it felt half empty without HotA. So I wanna know how to make that Mod again, but with HotA.
This is what I did:
I extracted the .txt's (both, Complete and HotA in a different folder), i edited a HotA one to test it, put it in the "Data" folder inside "Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete" (where HotA and HD Mod are installed), and loaded it with LodEdit. Well, it worked on Complete but not on HotA, and I don't really know where to go now. Of course I searched the forums a lot of times, but I never knew how to make it work in HotA.
Can you describe me a simple step by step on how extract, edit & load TXT changes to HotA...?
And I am wondering if the HEX editing for Secondary Skills is done in the "h3hota HD.exe", or where?
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Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 11:35 AM |
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Not possible. All .txt files are encrypted and stored in hota.dat. Unless someone will write app for unpack/pack these internal files, hota remains unmoddable.
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 07, 2024 11:52 AM |
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avatar said:
Not possible. All .txt files are encrypted and stored in hota.dat. Unless someone will write app for unpack/pack these internal files, hota remains unmoddable.
Nonsense, of course HotA can be modded, why do you think this thread exists?
txt files needs to be added to HotA_Ing.lod and HotA.lod.
Hex editing should be done to the exe file you use to launch the game, some of the specific HotA stuff can be edited in HotA.dat and HotA.dll
Be aware that every time HotA comes out with a new update hex editing needs to be done again and txt files needs to be imported again.
I think HotA might release a smaller new update soon, so it might be worth waiting 'till that's out.
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Juas
Hired Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 12:08 PM |
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Edited by Juas at 12:10, 07 Jan 2024.
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phoenix4ever said:
avatar said:
(...) txt files needs to be added to HotA_Ing.lod and HotA.lod. (...)
Thank you, and how do I add them to those lod's?
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phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 07, 2024 12:10 PM |
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I use the program MMArchive to add them to the lods.
I downloaded it for free a long time ago, I suppose that's still possible. 
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Juas
Hired Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 01:24 PM |
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Edited by Juas at 13:41, 07 Jan 2024.
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phoenix4ever said:
I use the program MMArchive (...)
Ok, great
That's the one I use to extract the TXTs as well.
I'm gonna try it and come back with the result. Thank you, man.
EDIT:
Ok, i oppened MMArchive, I see there is an option "associate with lod"... but does nothing by itself, nor when I open those lods you said. I expected it to make me choose the txt I wanted to associate.
It says "A call to an OS function failed".
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Karyoplasma
Hired Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 04:18 PM |
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phoenix4ever said:
avatar said:
Not possible. All .txt files are encrypted and stored in hota.dat. Unless someone will write app for unpack/pack these internal files, hota remains unmoddable.
Nonsense, of course HotA can be modded, why do you think this thread exists?
txt files needs to be added to HotA_Ing.lod and HotA.lod.
Hex editing should be done to the exe file you use to launch the game, some of the specific HotA stuff can be edited in HotA.dat and HotA.dll
Be aware that every time HotA comes out with a new update hex editing needs to be done again and txt files needs to be imported again.
I think HotA might release a smaller new update soon, so it might be worth waiting 'till that's out.
HotA hero info (secondaries, masteries) are in HotA.dat (same folder as the exe). I posted the offsets earlier.
Some changes that have been done:
HotA now introduced Interference as an actual trait instead of a general replacement of Resistance. You can give your hero both Resistance and Interference. Resistance is trait 1A, Interference is 1C.
There are new Race indicators in the new HotA version. Formerly, race went from 00 to 0D, now there also is:
11 (Cassiopeia has this, so I guess Nymph)
12 (the Nix specialist campaign hero has this)
13 (Halfling I guess)
14 (some Dark Elf)
15 (Gremlin)
Progress on my hero editor right now looks like this: https://ibb.co/j8Yj4Cs
It's somewhat ready for release, but still there are some things that annoy me...
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gnollking
Supreme Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 05:34 PM |
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Karyoplasma said:
There are new Race indicators in the new HotA version. Formerly, race went from 00 to 0D, now there also is:
11 (Cassiopeia has this, so I guess Nymph)
12 (the Nix specialist campaign hero has this)
13 (Halfling I guess)
14 (some Dark Elf)
15 (Gremlin)
Still waiting to have these as quests in seer's huts & gates...
- Be specific race.
- Be specific sex.
- Have a specific secondary skill.
Would all be great quests to have and add so many possibilities to custom maps.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 07, 2024 06:04 PM |
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@Juas After editing and saving the txt file (you might wanna save the original somewhere, just in case) you use the function add to add it to the appropriate lod.
Is there any point to race or sex, I mean do these specifics actually do anything in game?
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gnollking
Supreme Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 06:53 PM |
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Phoenix4ever said:
Is there any point to race or sex, I mean do these specifics actually do anything in game?
Nope. They're just waiting for a purpose.
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Juas
Hired Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 07:18 PM |
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Edited by Juas at 19:23, 07 Jan 2024.
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Phoenix4ever, Karyoplasma:
Ok, it worked! thank you very much, guys
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Karyoplasma
Hired Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 08:46 PM |
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Edit: whoops, I replied to a post from page 7 of this thread lol.
Ignore this.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted January 07, 2024 09:48 PM |
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Karyoplasma said:
Edit: whoops, I replied to a post from page 7 of this thread lol.
Ignore this.
 Well you contributed with something.
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Riccardo201284
Hired Hero
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posted January 07, 2024 11:44 PM |
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does anyone know how to enable the 8th creature in all towns?
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