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MoritzBradtke said:

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orna and murazil use the celestial model of HVII but they are male not female celestials

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Too bad we dont know how to swap HVI's models into HVII

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MagiCollector said:

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Would it be possible to mod in an "animate dead" spell for every necropolis hero? (or just add it to the game?)
I mean, wouldn't it be a matter of copy-pasting the Cure spell, make it Prime or Dark Magic and remove the undead restriction?
Or is it more complicated than that?

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lordgraa said:

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Everything is possible in Heroes VII editor advanced mode!



I have created Animate Dead scroll item but you can do the same with any spell.



The icon is from H5 (modified in Photoshop).



You can see that the spell is listed under "Dark magic". You can "heal" or resurrect you own undead creatures OR damage enemy living creatures (bit OP but nice).



Poor dead undead Archlich Revive him, shall we?



Back in black, baby!



Evil kitten! You will suffer now...



...goodbye kitty

So... is that what you were looking for?

PS: Sorry for Czech language on some screens - I was lazy to switch the language in game

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lordgraa said:

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You can do both - scroll and/or spell.

All the "modding" is done by copying the original and pasting it as a new item which can be eddited.

Then you have 2 possibilities:

hard-patch (you will overwrite the original files of the game and so the item/spell will be available on every map you play and you have to update it every time the game updates with new official patch).

soft-patch (you will create custom map with custom packages = your mods, but the item/spell will be available only on that map).

I will upload the Animate Dead mod somewhere so you can download it, open it in editor and play with all the values (as of now the spell is too strong so for example you can "lock" the damaging aspect of the spell by master level requirement - so it can be used only when you have Dark Magic on master or higher level).

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lordgraa said:

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Here is the promised map: [url=http://www.worldofheroes.cz/images/woh_images/homam7/LG_mods/AnimateDead.rar]Animate Dead (umap)[/url]

Just extract the map to: C:>Users>YOURname>Documents>My Games>Might & Magic Heroes>VII MMH7Game>EditorWorkspace

Run the editor and switch it to unreal mode (advanced mode). Once there, click on Content Browser icon (see pic below) and scroll down till you see AnimateDead folder where you will find the modified spell.



Now, I created simple script that will learn your hero this new spell at the start of this map. But you can let the script to give the spell to whoever you choose and whenever you choose: after boss fight, after collecting specific item, after visiting specific building and so on.

I am nut much into modifying the core game files (aka hard-patching) so I made it into this map. But you can ofcourse replace Heal spell with this or just export this package so others can use it.

Here is the spell icon shall you need it again (it is already in the package but who knows what can happen).



Have fun with animating your undead friends

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lordgraa said:

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Everything is possible in Heroes VII editor advanced mode!

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MagiCollector said:

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I hate to be a bother, but is it also possible to hard-patch a custom hero into the game's original roster?
Because i was thinking of creating a custom hero with the Animate Dead spell you created, and to use that hero whenever i want to play a more "necromancey" necromancer
However, would this be doable or can i use custom heroes only in scenarios? Again, my objective would be to permanently add a custom hero to the main game's roster.

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lordgraa said:

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MagiCollector said:

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I hate to be a bother, but is it also possible to hard-patch a custom hero into the game's original roster?
Because i was thinking of creating a custom hero with the Animate Dead spell you created, and to use that hero whenever i want to play a more "necromancey" necromancer
However, would this be doable or can i use custom heroes only in scenarios? Again, my objective would be to permanently add a custom hero to the main game's roster.

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Hard-patching custom hero into vanilla game is possible but you will have to "sacrifice" one already made hero (you cannot create brand new hero, just replace existing one). Or maybe I am just overlooking it and someone else will tell you how to do it.

Thats why I like soft-patching more because you can add "unlimited" custom items (but only in your map/package). And you dont need to care about new patches.

So, I have created "Dark Moander" and he now knows the spell Animate Dead from the very beginning of the map. No need for scripts.

You can easily "take" this custom hero and replace the original one Moander. In every map you will have your darker necromancer with unique spell. But you will aslo have to replace heal spell with Animate Dead so you will loose 2 things.

If you are interested in hard-patching those just ask 3LiON who already did the creature scale mod (which is hard-patch) because I am skilled only in custom/soft patches/modes

And here is the updated map with hero: [url=http://www.worldofheroes.cz/images/woh_images/homam7/LG_mods/AnimateDead_2.rar]AnimateDead_2 (umap)[/url]

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lordgraa said:

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I cannot save the package because every time I try the editor just crashes (stop responding).

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3lion said:

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lordgraa said:

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I cannot save the package because every time I try the editor just crashes (stop responding).

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It means that the package references tree is wrong. Either you forgot some parameter to refer to an other, or you made something wrong. If there are only objects that refers to the modified object, then it's okay. But if the modified object is refers to any other object, then you need to modify those objects as well.

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lordgraa said:

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This is what I do:

Select all spells icons > Copy them to new package > Save the package = error/crash.

Can you help me find the mistake I am doing here?

Copying icons

Saving icons

I want to replace the original file H7SpellIcons.upk later with the modified one (remove the "_b") so it will be available (new icon for Heal spell) in game not only in one map.

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