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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 19, 2021 02:48 PM |
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deathstare said:
Is there any way that Ballista can be used in siege battles without disappearing?
Is it not supposed to appear on either side? I'm pretty sure that attacker rolls in with theirs.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted August 19, 2021 11:46 PM |
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BTB do you know if it is possible to exclude a certain spell from a tome?
For example if I allow both Fly and Dimension Door, can I make only Fly available through Tome of Air?
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deathstare
Adventuring Hero
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posted August 20, 2021 11:31 AM |
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BTB said:
deathstare said:
Is there any way that Ballista can be used in siege battles without disappearing?
Is it not supposed to appear on either side? I'm pretty sure that attacker rolls in with theirs.
Ballista disappears when defending the castle, but I want to know how not disappear.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 20, 2021 08:05 PM |
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Edited by BTB at 20:07, 20 Aug 2021.
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Phoenix4ever said:
BTB do you know if it is possible to exclude a certain spell from a tome?
For example if I allow both Fly and Dimension Door, can I make only Fly available through Tome of Air?
Never looked into those since I just trashed the tomes outright. I can tell you that the code to temporarily add/remove spells from artifacts is a mess, though, and I had zero luck in finding any individual settings - just how to disable the effects wholesale.
deathstare said:
BTB said:
deathstare said:
Is there any way that Ballista can be used in siege battles without disappearing?
Is it not supposed to appear on either side? I'm pretty sure that attacker rolls in with theirs.
Ballista disappears when defending the castle, but I want to know how not disappear.
Not sure there. You're really better off just buffing the Arrow Tower damage if this is a concern since they are effectively the same thing.
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted August 20, 2021 11:48 PM |
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Okay, thanks.
I always thought it was stupid that Air Magic has both Fly and DD. I moved DD to Fire Magic at 1 cast per turn, for better balance. Though I would consider having DD in both Fire and Air, but then only Tome of Fire would contain DD and Tome of Air Fly. But that might be hard to implement...
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 21, 2021 12:10 AM |
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You want some graphics for DD as a Water spell like it is in the mainline series?
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SirWestmire
Tavern Dweller
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posted August 21, 2021 05:02 AM |
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Moving my question to this thread, (thanks for pointing me here @BTB)
Unfortunately I am still stuck on trying to figure out how to edit mysticism and scouting skill numbers.
Per the guide:
Mysticism 23E9C8
Scouting 23E9D8
Everything I have tried so far editing these groups does not appear to have effect on the game. For clarity, my test is to load up a random game with Thant (mysticism), or Broghild (scouting) and test to see if I see a change.
Say I wanted to set
scouting to +2 / +4 / +6
mysticism to +10 / +20 / +30
How would I do this? Are these skills percentages?
I tried this for mysticism and still no dice.
01 00 00 00 00 00 20 41 00 00 A0 41 00 00 F0 41
I can understand getting the values wrong, but I don't understand why I don't see any change at all.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 21, 2021 05:36 AM |
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Quote:
The unofficial "Horn of the Abyss" patch is based on the structure of HD+ and so will also work... sort of. HotA externally patches a lot of things covered by this guide with a .dll file and so will undo many changes that you make to them.
--- THIS GUIDE MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEE ABOUT EDITING HOTA ---
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Phoenix4ever
Legendary Hero
Heroes is love, Heroes is life
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posted August 21, 2021 08:15 AM |
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BTB said:
You want some graphics for DD as a Water spell like it is in the mainline series?
No thanks, Water already has plenty of adventure spells, it was Fire that was lacking. I guess original developers wanted Fire Magic to suck (besides Berserk) and Earth and Air Magic to dominate everything. It does'nt seem like they cared much about balance in the magic schools.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 21, 2021 07:01 PM |
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Made a small update to correct the ballista initiative code; I was intercepting it at the wrong point and it was breaking everything. It should work properly now.
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SirWestmire
Tavern Dweller
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posted August 21, 2021 07:02 PM |
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BTB said:
Quote:
The unofficial "Horn of the Abyss" patch is based on the structure of HD+ and so will also work... sort of. HotA externally patches a lot of things covered by this guide with a .dll file and so will undo many changes that you make to them.
--- THIS GUIDE MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO GUARANTEE ABOUT EDITING HOTA ---
Well I don't like egg on my face but there it is.
What's really embarrassing though is that I can't get it to work on the base game either. I even tried completely uninstalling hota and starting with a clean hd+ install, editing Heroes3.exe.
Scouting 0023E9D8 Native string:
05 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 08 00 00 00
I've tried this to get (+2/+4/+6)
05 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 11 00 00 00
I've also tried these to see if I can see any change at all.
05 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 15 00 00 00 20 00 00 00
05 00 00 00 00 00 00 3F 00 00 80 3F 00 00 00 40
Nothing I put seems to do anything. Any insight or guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 21, 2021 07:13 PM |
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The static changes should work. If they're not, something from HotA is probably lingering around.
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SirWestmire
Tavern Dweller
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posted August 21, 2021 11:23 PM |
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Sigh, I was editing the wrong file. I didn't realize that I needed to edit Heroes3.exe within the _HD3_Data folder, not the one in the base folder. Thanks for the help!
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 23, 2021 11:04 PM |
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All right, probably done editing this for awhile, or until I need to look into something else. Everything I know is in there at the moment and it's mostly clean up until the bottom, where it's still messy.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 27, 2021 06:07 PM |
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Finally figured out how to change which tiers are affected by horde buildings (or even add new ones, in theory). Turns out the piece of the puzzle I was missing was a second table after the building dependencies table (starting at 23FCA0) that tells each faction which buildings get replaced by which horde buildings.
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DarkAtom
Adventuring Hero
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posted August 28, 2021 08:50 PM |
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Edited by DarkAtom at 22:07, 28 Aug 2021.
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Wow, this thing improved by a lot since I last visited it. Nice building with ID=17 after "Hall of Valhalla" btw 
What I would add is a sort of preface which explains basic programming terminology, such as Little Endian, instead of having to repeatedly explain it in every section using terminology such as "the second DWORD byte is used as a "tens" column, so to speak". After all, you have assembly code in the guide, which I doubt will be understood by those who don't understand the basics.
You could write something like: "The Estates skill is encoded as a DWORD in little endian format". People who don't understand what little endian means can then use F3 and search for its definition in the preface.
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"If you get scared of doing what's right you might as well lay down and die" - Wulfstan, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 28, 2021 11:01 PM |
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DarkAtom said:
Wow, this thing improved by a lot since I last visited it. Nice building with ID=17 after "Hall of Valhalla" btw
What I would add is a sort of preface which explains basic programming terminology, such as Little Endian, instead of having to repeatedly explain it in every section using terminology such as "the second DWORD byte is used as a "tens" column, so to speak". After all, you have assembly code in the guide, which I doubt will be understood by those who don't understand the basics.
You could write something like: "The Estates skill is encoded as a DWORD in little endian format". People who don't understand what little endian means can then use F3 and search for its definition in the preface.
I've thought about how much to actually say in the preface and my thought was that I'd scare people off if I talked about anything more than the bare basics needed to read the guide. If anything, I'd put a glossary at the end than any more explanation up front.
My idea is that if you start reading it from start to finish, you learn as you go rather than being infodumped (and likely turned off) from the get-go.
But that's just my thought, anyway. You could be right.
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DarkAtom
Adventuring Hero
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posted August 29, 2021 12:02 AM |
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Edited by DarkAtom at 00:03, 29 Aug 2021.
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You are probably right, making the beginning long and boring is not a good idea. Now that I think about it, I would place these definitions at the end (together with the IDs reference) and only mention in the beginning: "If you encounter any techy word that you don't understand, search it's explanation at the end of the document".
However, this may confuse the reader that the guide is very technical and hard to read, even though it's really not, so it might not be the best idea after all anyway.
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"If you get scared of doing what's right you might as well lay down and die" - Wulfstan, Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
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Saruman5000
Tavern Dweller
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posted August 29, 2021 06:02 AM |
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"If a creature's combined attack is less than their target's defense, they deal 2.5% less damage, down to 70% (when defense is 12 greater than attack)."
"Defense can decrease the amount of sustained damage by up to 30% (12 points of defense)."
Is there any way to change attack reduction cap?
For example from 30% to 50%.
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BTB
Famous Hero
Moist & Creamy
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posted August 31, 2021 08:51 PM |
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Haven't looked into the damage formula specifically yet, but did do something close to it.
It's always bothered me that Bless rivals Bloodlust in terms of effectiveness, and it bothered me even more when I ran the numbers and found that Bless almost always comes out on top, even if Bloodlust is buffed (and not counting Bless's extra damage at higher levels).
In the mainline series, Bless is an accuracy boost, not a damage boost. Accuracy doesn't exist in the heroes series, so it instead eliminates the closest equivalent rather than merely reducing it, which is what I sought to do.
Now, instead of units always dealing maximum damage, Bless will reduce the range by 1/8, 1/4, or 1/2 depending on expertise. For specialists, I simply double the effect - meaning only a Bless specialist at expert level can achieve the old effect.
The thing I'm still on the fence about is the minimum threshold I've set of +1 to the minimum damage per attacking unit. This is a pretty crucial thing that keeps Bless useful against lower-level units whereas Bloodlust is generally more effective on higher-level ones. It's effectively the difference between the minimum base damage for 100 Pikemen being raised to either 112 or 200.
(For the guide, I'll be leaving it in as an option that can be NOP'ed as desired).
The change is also completely inline and also includes Curse in a shared code block.
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