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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 09, 2021 05:39 AM |
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Was looking into making Resistance artifacts require the skill like the other skill boosters do, and I believe I've found the culprit: the short jump at 4E496E (to 4E49AC) needs to be a long jump to 4E4A87. Annoyingly, this can't be fixed easily in-line, so the easiest solution is probably just to jump to free space from 4E4964 to free up the space for a longer jump.
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AlexSpl
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted May 09, 2021 11:22 AM |
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Edited by AlexSpl at 11:23, 09 May 2021.
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Could you give us a brief introduction on how to use those plugins?
Unpack a plugin (.dll file) from .zip to _HD3_Data\Packs\{Your plugin folder}, then add it in the launcher -
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 10, 2021 03:02 AM |
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I'm gonna need to update this guide again; knocked out a LOT in the last week and also found a few errors with what's in there... so I apologize in advance for those. Let me know in the meantime if something doesn't work as expected.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 15, 2021 03:06 PM |
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Edited by BTB at 08:30, 18 May 2021.
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Starting resources for each difficulty level:
Easy
278170 Wood
278174 Mercury
278178 Ore
27817C Sulfur
278180 Crystal
278184 Gems
278188 Gold
Normal
27818C Wood
278190 Mercury
278194 Ore
278198 Sulfur
27819C Crystal
2781A0 Gems
2781A4 Gold
Hard
2781A8 Wood
2781AC Mercury
2781B0 Ore
2781B4 Sulfur
2781B8 Crystal
2781BC Gems
2781C0 Gold
Expert
2781C4 Wood
2781C8 Mercury
2781CC Ore
2781D0 Sulfur
2781D4 Crystal
2781D8 Gems
2781DC Gold
Impossible
2781E0 Wood
2781E4 Mercury
2781E8 Ore
2781EC Sulfur
2781F0 Crystal
2781F4 Gems
2781F8 Gold
Got two more things...
One, we can branch away from the code for Catapult and Arrow Tower imitative to also grant initiative to the Ballista. Makes it act first and also grants combat initiative to heroes with Ballistcs (and a ballista).
Two, I had an idea for having the First Aid skill instead increase the health of the tent rather than its (kinda snowty) normal effect... just set it to always heal 100 HP. Another idea would be to have it increase the health of all units... say by the tier of the unit or something. both sets of code would look similar and I'm basically sitting on the finished product, just kinda looking for some input on which one sounds like the better idea.
EDIT: three, I understand this is something HotA already does, but I figured out how to make the Inferno Castle Gate take you to ANY town.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted May 18, 2021 09:18 AM |
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BTB said:
I understand this is something HotA already does, but I figured out how to make the Inferno Castle Gate take you to ANY town.
No, it does'nt.
Castle Gate is pretty much useless, when your main hero has Advanced TP, also in HotA. (Part of the reason why I don't like OP TP.)
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purerogue
Known Hero
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posted May 18, 2021 05:05 PM |
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BTB said:
Another idea would be to have it increase the health of all units... say by the tier of the unit or something
This.
How about, basic-expert can also resurrect lvl1-3 units.. ? (since their HP are so low)
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 18, 2021 06:54 PM |
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Edited by BTB at 18:55, 18 May 2021.
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Phoenix4ever said:
BTB said:
I understand this is something HotA already does, but I figured out how to make the Inferno Castle Gate take you to ANY town.
No, it does'nt.
Castle Gate is pretty much useless, when your main hero has Advanced TP, also in HotA. (Part of the reason why I don't like OP TP.)
Oh. Well...
(HD_SOD.dll) 03AD36: 75 5D -> EB 34
There you go, then.
purerogue said:
How about, basic-expert can also resurrect lvl1-3 units.. ? (since their HP are so low)
Resurrection is a bit more complicated and actually kind of unnecessary - a boost of just a few HP is effectively a 50% health boost to many T1 units, so we don't need it to be any more effective on them.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted May 18, 2021 08:18 PM |
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BTB said:
Oh. Well...
(HD_SOD.dll) 03AD36: 75 5D -> EB 34
There you go, then.
Thanks and sorry if that came of a bit harsh.
So from the Castle Gate you will be able to travel to any town you own? That certainly is an Inferno buff.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 18, 2021 08:30 PM |
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Edited by BTB at 21:31, 18 May 2021.
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No offense taken, m'dude o/
And yes, it will let Castle Gates teleport you to any town you own.
EDIT: does anyone care to know how to code a plugin-less Witch Hut Refusal patch?
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 18, 2021 11:04 PM |
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0E5593 is where the minimum spell cost (1) is set; set this to 0 and it will respect spell costs of 0 in SPTraits.txt (handy for View Air/Earth).
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted May 18, 2021 11:26 PM |
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How are you able to figure out all this so fast?, soon you will have cracked the code of the entire game.
Next start working on HotA. 
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 18, 2021 11:43 PM |
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Disassemblers are REALLY helpful.
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AlexSpl
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted May 19, 2021 01:37 AM |
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EDIT: does anyone care to know how to code a plugin-less Witch Hut Refusal patch?
There is no easy way to do so, but a plugin is technically a patch, so you may find addresses you need by looking at its code (link). Then you have to find enough space in the code to write your own commands.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 19, 2021 03:23 AM |
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AlexSpl said:
Quote:
EDIT: does anyone care to know how to code a plugin-less Witch Hut Refusal patch?
There is no easy way to do so, but a plugin is technically a patch, so you may find addresses you need by looking at its code (link). Then you have to find enough space in the code to write your own commands.
Sorry if I was unclear... I did code it myself, pretty easily. Was just asking if anyone wanted to know how.
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AlexSpl
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted May 19, 2021 04:54 PM |
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Well, in the case of Witch's Hut, you indeed don't need much code. But I'm interested in your implementation, particularly in that how you handle user's choice (pressing OK, Cancel buttons).
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 19, 2021 08:17 PM |
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AlexSpl said:
Well, in the case of Witch's Hut, you indeed don't need much code. But I'm interested in your implementation, particularly in that how you handle user's choice (pressing OK, Cancel buttons).
0A7E64: 01 > 02 ; add cancel button
0A7E85:
E9 EF A2 FF FF jmp 4A2179 (free space from Fountain of Fortune object)
0A2179:
8B 0D D0 92 69 00 mov ecx,[006992D0]
81 79 38 05 78 00 00 cmp [ecx+38],00007805
0F 85 03 5D 00 00 jne 004A7E8F
6A 01 push 01
56 push esi
8B CB mov ecx,ebx
E9 F4 5C 00 00 jmp 004A7E8A
I did some playing around and it looks like any time the player makes a choice - at least a yes/no one - the answer always goes to the same address. So those first two lines show up a lot in the code to check for responses.
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AlexSpl
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted May 19, 2021 11:11 PM |
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If you need free space (I assume you optimized the code of Fountain of Fortune), it's better to create your own code section. Then you will be able to jump there without creating free space in the original code.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 19, 2021 11:14 PM |
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I got rid of the randomization on the Fountain of Fortune and set it to always +1 Luck.
Having my own free space would be nice, but there's plenty of code-hungry things I've been all too happy to get rid of (Eagle Eye, Armor of the Damned, the Aurora Borealis effect... etc.)
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AlexSpl
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted May 19, 2021 11:22 PM |
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You can optimize the original code, there is plenty of code you can rewrite leaving the space for your own code, of course. But it's a lot of work. Creating your own code section is simpler than that. You even can do it manually by adding actual free space in the original executable and editing the header of the executable, but there are programs which allow you to automatize this process.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted May 19, 2021 11:31 PM |
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AlexSpl said:
You can optimize the original code, there is plenty of code you can rewrite leaving the space for your own code, of course. But it's a lot of work. Creating your own code section is simpler than that. You even can do it manually by adding actual free space in the original executable and editing the header of the executable, but there are programs which allow you to automatize this process.
Is adding free space to the original executable something that would work in an .ips patch?
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