relancer said:

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However I have doubts that's weapon type of artifact id = 196 is correct:

196: {'name': 'THROWING_SPEAR', 'art_type': 'WEAPONS'}

that was copied and adjusted from your artifacts list

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Sybille said:

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I would like to know how I can edit my starting heroes from the editor and how to unlock the campaign heroes. For example, if I want to play a map but I want my starting character to be Lysander instead of just any character. Thanks!

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Albyx said:

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Sybille said:

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I would like to know how I can edit my starting heroes from the editor and how to unlock the campaign heroes. For example, if I want to play a map but I want my starting character to be Lysander instead of just any character. Thanks!

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It's in Campaign -> Map Properties -> Heroes. Heroes selected there will appear in the tavern.

To have specific hero portrait choose him in army properties and select portrait you like

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Sybille said:

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Thanks for answering, but I already did both and it doesn't work for me. I do not know why. Maybe I am overlooking something.

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iliveinabox05 said:

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Sybille said:

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Thanks for answering, but I already did both and it doesn't work for me. I do not know why. Maybe I am overlooking something.

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He told you exactly how to do it.

1. Open the map in the editor.
2. Find the hero you want to change.
3. Double click the hero on the map.
4. Double click the hero in the troops window
5. Change the base class to the one the hero you want belongs to.
   - For Lysander, change the base class to Knight and gender to male
6. Click the arrows next to the portrait to switch between portraits until you find Lysander. Generally you want to click the up arrow as campaign heroes are usually near the top of the lists. You might need to uncheck custom for the name field so that you can see the names of the heroes as you switch portraits.
7. Save the map.
   - If the map you are editing is not in the maps folder in your H4 directory, move it there.

If you think you did all this and it still didn't work, try listing out what you actually did step by step. Otherwise it's impossible to help.

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iliveinabox05 said:

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Sybille said:

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Thanks for answering, but I already did both and it doesn't work for me. I do not know why. Maybe I am overlooking something.

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He told you exactly how to do it.

1. Open the map in the editor.
2. Find the hero you want to change.
3. Double click the hero on the map.
4. Double click the hero in the troops window
5. Change the base class to the one the hero you want belongs to.
   - For Lysander, change the base class to Knight and gender to male
6. Click the arrows next to the portrait to switch between portraits until you find Lysander. Generally you want to click the up arrow as campaign heroes are usually near the top of the lists. You might need to uncheck custom for the name field so that you can see the names of the heroes as you switch portraits.
7. Save the map.
   - If the map you are editing is not in the maps folder in your H4 directory, move it there.

If you think you did all this and it still didn't work, try listing out what you actually did step by step. Otherwise it's impossible to help.

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Sybille said:

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I enter to the campaign editor, I've opened the ''Revolution'' scenario for example and I find 2 heroes on the stage, one red and the other blue. I double click on red and edit the hero, open the portrait section and choose Lysander as an example. I click ''Ok'' and overwrite the scenario that is saved in the maps folder. Then, I open the game, I open the Revolution scenario, I am the red player but instead of Lysander appearing another random one. What has gone wrong?

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Sybille said:

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Yes, in the editor there is Lysander, I also marked Lysander in the map properties. But he doesn't appear in the game. How strange everything. Hahaha

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iliveinabox05 said:

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Sybille said:

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Yes, in the editor there is Lysander, I also marked Lysander in the map properties. But he doesn't appear in the game. How strange everything. Hahaha

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That just tells me that the map you are playing in game is NOT the map that you are editing

I can't remember if it's in map properties or campaign properties, but one of them has the name of the scenario. Change the name by adding something like "test" at the end of it, and save it back to your maps directory.

When you look for the scenario in game, it should have "test" in the name (or whatever you added). That will at least tell you that you're playing the correct map with your changes.

You might also upload your map file somewhere and post the link here so that we can take a look at it.

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relancer said:

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hi @Derrick

I found yet another thing, we are able to write skill Tactics-5 without perks and it will work - we'd have hero with no percs so can avoid limitations

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relancer said:

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Also I cannot bring hero-level more than 40, it's confirmed by a crash.

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relancer said:

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What's strange I was able to write Staff to shields slot when defined it as shield by mistake and it works. Probabbly we baggily can set any artifact to any slot )))

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relancer said:

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Also you need to fix artifact types, that spear is a "bow type" and that is not only one mismatch I found in your artifact list in a matter of artifact type.

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iliveinabox05 said:

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I actually think the duel map stuff is pretty cool, so I'm looking at having the advanced editor be able to generate duel maps in the style of H5, where you start with a set amount of creatures (6 weeks growth by default, based on chosen faction before starting the map), a set amount of money, there is a nearby level up object, random creature dwellings linked to chosen faction for additional troops, artifact shops, skill shops objects, and spell shops / objects.

I'll need to come up with settings that can be tweaked when generating the map, such as how many level ups the hero gets, artifacts available, starting amount of creatures, etc.

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relancer said:

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I think for this purpose you can use what I have.
About stuff I need to implement is giving spells.

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relancer said:

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Only just you need to build a proper algoritm of random generation (I have weekly growth in config, it's vanilla growth but you can edit I think)

Writing 6*growth, filtering "HashMap" by belongs_to to make single-race army (dont forget about hero-type 0-10, base skills does not matter but race matters for a morale) is not a problem in all (I also have such a plan but with bigger number than 6). My scenario of generation is wild random because it was not ready yet and I still do the code, but you can write your own scenario and use it.

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relancer said:

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Actually, you might misunderstand the misadvantage of thing you want to do.

There are a lot of "good" (enough good for editor opportunities) duel maps itself with all these objects and creatures for selection (example one of Faerie dragons and Phoniex)

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relancer said:

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Problem there is you need to click that all
To buy all the spells, to select between creatures, to buy/learn scrolls etc, click EVERY levelup, select skills on levelup and many other unneeded things.

To set up your hero in good cases you can waste time ~ same to play the battle. Especially if you want to play with a computer. With player also it almost doubles your duel time for a partie.

It's better to have army loader that will bring all of that to you with maximum few clicks, for my case to regenerate 6*6 armies I need to run python script that takes at max 30 seconds (yes not everyone has python but you converted your code to exe and the same is not a problem for me if I decide to share)! And I have ready armies heroes and whatever I want, it just depenent on algoritm of random generation you choose and write.

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relancer said:

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by the way I fixed 190 issue (yes, fixed) and script do not reparse the map every time which speeded up it a lot, and armour of life or any other combinations are valid and checked

Armour is giving correctly, the side effect that the output map cannot be reparsed (if Armour of Life was given or other) but it does not needed, only need the first time parse, that most likely will fail only if hero wears Armour of Life or other sudden combo of data that gives 010900

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