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Creating a Dwarven Hero from CAH

robnkarla

Category:	Code
Level:	Intermediate
Created:	Saturday April 7, 2007 - 21:47
Updated:	Saturday June 27, 2009 - 18:34
Views:	14909
Summary:	Create your own hero off of the Dwarven Sage Create-A-Hero

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Special Powers (1)

This page will take you throw the steps to add a special power to your newly created hero. Now there are a number of tutorials to walk you through setting up your powers either from an existing unit or from created heroes, but I'll walk you through this as well.

The first thing that you want to do is figure out which powers you want to use. For this example we will be doing axe throw, leap, and earthshaker.

Axe Throw:
1) Open up the createaheropowers.inc found in \data\ini\object\createahero and look for the axethrow:

Code



//--------------------------------------------------------------------------

//    AXE THROW SPECIAL POWER Level 1

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Behavior = UnpauseSpecialPowerUpgrade ModuleTag_CreateAHeroAxeThrowEnabler_Level1

    SpecialPowerTemplate = SpecialAbilityCreateAHeroAxeThrow_Level1

    TriggeredBy = Upgrade_CreateAHeroAxeThrow_Level1

End



Behavior = SpecialPowerModule ModuleTag_CreateAHeroAxeThrowStarter_Level1

    SpecialPowerTemplate        = SpecialAbilityCreateAHeroAxeThrow_Level1

    UpdateModuleStartsAttack    = Yes

    StartsPaused            = Yes

    //InitiateSound            = EomerVoiceAttackSpear

End



Behavior = WeaponFireSpecialAbilityUpdate ModuleTag_CreateAHeroAxeThrowUpdate_Level1

    SpecialPowerTemplate    = SpecialAbilityCreateAHeroAxeThrow_Level1



    UnpackTime              = 1500

    PackTime                = 1000



    AwardXPForTriggering    = 0

    

    StartAbilityRange        = CREATE_A_HERO_AXE_THROW_DO_POWER_RANGE

    ApproachRequiresLOS        = Yes

    

    SpecialWeapon = CreateAHeroAxeThrow

    WhichSpecialWeapon = 5

End

2) Copy and paste this into the Dwarven[HeroName].ini where noted to put special powers.
3) The first change that we will be doing is to change what upgrade grants this power. Change the TriggeredBy to Upgrade_ObjectLevel# where # is the level that you would like to your hero to gain this power.

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        TriggeredBy = Upgrade_ObjectLevel1

4) The next thing that you are going to do is change the special weapon from CreateAHeroAxeThrow to [HeroName]AxeThrow where [HeroName] is the name of your hero. The weapon for this is included in the weapon.ini that you copied over earlier.

Code



        SpecialWeapon = ThorinAxeThrow

5) If you wish there are a couple other items that you can change - The StartAbililtyRange you can be hard coded or you can define a new value in gamedata.ini. If you wish to change the power refresh timer you will need to create a new specialpower value in your specialpower.ini. You can use SpecialAbilityCreateAHeroAxeThrow_Level1 as a basis.

6) Next we need to create the commandbutton. Look up the Command_CreateAHero_AxeThrow_Level1 in commandbutton.ini.

Code



CommandButton Command_CreateAHero_AxeThrow_Level1 

  Command        = SPECIAL_POWER 

  SpecialPower        = SpecialAbilityCreateAHeroAxeThrow_Level1

  Options        = NEED_TARGET_ENEMY_OBJECT // NEED_TARGET_NEUTRAL_OBJECT CONTEXTMODE_COMMAND

  TextLabel        = CONTROLBAR:CAH_AxeThrow_Level1

  ButtonImage        = HSAxeThrow

  CursorName        = Bombard

  ButtonBorderType    = ACTION 

  DescriptLabel        = CONTROLBAR:ToolTipCAH_AxeThrow_Level1

  InvalidCursorName    = GenericInvalid

  //UnitSpecificSound    = EomerVoiceModeThrow

  InPalantir        = Yes

  AutoAbility        = Yes

  PresetRange        = 200.0



    CreateAHeroUIAllowableUpgrades                =    Upgrade_CreateAHero_ClassDwarf

    CreateAHeroUIMinimumLevel                    =    1

    CreateAHeroUIPrerequisiteButtonName    = None

    CreateAHeroUICostIfSelected                  = RJ_CAH_AXETHROW_LEVEL1_COST

End

7) Copy and paste this commandbutton to the bottom of the file.
8) Rename the commandbutton, replacing CreateAHero with your hero's name and remove the _Level1. Remember to put a space/tab at the end of the commandbutton name if you wish to reference it in Worldbuilder without an error.
9) If you changed the specialpower name in step 6, change the special power to match what you changed it to.
10) Remove the last 4 lines of code relating to CreateAHero information.
11) If you wish to change the name or hotkey for the command, create a new entry in lotr.str and reference it in the TextLabel line
12) If you wish to change the tooltip for the comand, create a new entry in lotr.str and reference it in the DescriptLabel line.

13) You are finished with the commandbutton it should look something like this:

Code



CommandButton Command_Thorin_AxeThrow 

  Command        = SPECIAL_POWER 

  SpecialPower        = SpecialAbilityCreateAHeroAxeThrow_Level1

  Options        = NEED_TARGET_ENEMY_OBJECT // NEED_TARGET_NEUTRAL_OBJECT CONTEXTMODE_COMMAND

  TextLabel        = CONTROLBAR:Thorin_AxeThrow

  ButtonImage        = HSAxeThrow

  CursorName        = Bombard

  ButtonBorderType    = ACTION 

  DescriptLabel        = CONTROLBAR:ToolTipAxeThrow

  InvalidCursorName    = GenericInvalid

  InPalantir        = Yes

  AutoAbility        = Yes

  PresetRange        = 200.0

End

14) Next you will place it in your commandset. Open commandset.ini and search for the entry that you created in the previous step. Copy and paste the commandbutton name into the commandset in the 2nd slot and remove the comment.

15) Last thing to do for the power is to create the AI. You can use the CreateAHero AI as a base. You can find this in \data\ini\object\createaherocreateaheroaipowers.inc:

Code



Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate AxeThrowL1AI

    CommandButtonName = Command_CreateAHero_AxeThrow_Level1

    SpecialPowerAIType = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_ENEMY_TYPE_KILLER_RANGED

End

16) Change the CommandButtonName to the name of the button created earlier. If you are a perfectionist like me, you can also rename the tag to just AxeThrowAI:

Code



Behavior = AISpecialPowerUpdate AxeThrowAI

    CommandButtonName = Command_Thorin_AxeThrow 

    SpecialPowerAIType = AI_SPECIAL_POWER_ENEMY_TYPE_KILLER_RANGED

End

Your hero can now throw an axe!!!!!

Next Page...Special powers cont.

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Anthem - Saturday October 3, 2009 - 13:18

Well Ingwe, you'll have to do a few things to make that work. Frist you need to set the Weaponsets like this:

Code

    WeaponSet

        Conditions = None 

        Weapon = PRIMARY    [Your melee weapon]

        AutoChooseSources = PRIMARY FROM_PLAYER FROM_SCRIPT FROM_AI

    End    

    WeaponSet

        Conditions = WEAPONSET_TOGGLE_1        

        Weapon = PRIMARY    [Your bow]

        AutoChooseSources = PRIMARY FROM_PLAYER FROM_SCRIPT FROM_AI

    End

And then you have to add this:

Code



    Behavior = DoCommandUpgrade ModuleTag_CreateAHeroMakeSureArcherUsesBowInitially

        TriggeredBy                        = Upgrade_ObjectLevel1

        GetUpgradeCommandButtonName        = Command_CreateAHero_A_ToggleWeapon

        RemoveUpgradeCommandButtonName    = Command_CreateAHero_A_ToggleWeapon

    End

And then make sure that that the hero gets the upgrade "Upgrade_ObjectLevel1" at level 1. If you want to put the weapon toggle at later levels I don't know what to do at the moment, but if you really want to I'll check it out.

Grey Beard - Wednesday January 21, 2009 - 13:05

can someone not mkae somthing like this for bfme1

Ingwe - Sunday March 2, 2008 - 2:44

Oh ok. Thanks. We figured some of the stuff out as well since then, at the time we were quite stumped. We (chrisbolling2 and me) spent five hours on figuring it out. ROFL. A lot of bling had to be eliminated LoL. Got the sword to turn to a normal bow too. But as far as using switch command set from bow to sword, haven't tried it quite yet.

Ridder Geel (Staff) - Sunday February 10, 2008 - 3:43

Ingwe,
you have to use the code for the bling hiding:
HideSubObjects =
instead of doing:
Showsubobjects =

I figured that out myself when i was fooling around with the wizard CAH.

If you have noticed there is the 'shining' thing around your hero,
thats because its a dwarf:
you need to remove this part of the coding above the design parameters:

Code



    ;Draw module just for the HeroSelection

    Draw = W3DScriptedModelDraw Icon

        ModelConditionState = NONE

            Model                    = Icon02

        End

    End

about your person shooting with a sword you should look in the CreateAHeroWeaponUpgrades.inc
at these 2 weapon things:
Belthronding Weapon upgrade.
MithlondBow Bow Weapon upgrade.

Im not sure how the toggle weapon thing for the archer CAH works so i can't help alot there...

Oh, and BTW, robnkarla the tutorial is great except for the points i adressed up there.
But without your tutorial i wouldn't have the fun heroes I made, so thanks for the great tutorial!

chrisbolling2 - Friday January 11, 2008 - 15:19

Having the same problem as Ingwe, started a topic in the forums. Tutorial seems a little incomplete to me.

Ingwe - Friday December 14, 2007 - 2:05

I applied this method with an Elven Archer custom hero. All the sounds are right. She has the same powers as Elrond does just because I didn't feel like messing with all that yet. She has a cool upgraded arrow that looks like a Silverthorne arrow (added my own weapon in weapon.ini). And (most) everything works great! Great tutorial. However, there are two problems when I applied this. For one thing, she shoots arrows...with a sword. For another thing, she has tons of bling. She has some kind of tan cape and a shield on the back along with a red hood. I want just a plain hero. I didn't add any bling to the file or anything but the bling is still there! I've searched for things to help on this problem but don't find anything on it. I usually don't like to put up posts asking for help because I like to figure this out myself; alas, I can't for the life of me figure it out. Help. :o

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I applied this method with an Elven Archer custom hero. All the sounds are right. She has the same powers as Elrond does just because I didn't feel like messing with all that yet. She has a cool upgraded arrow that looks like a Silverthorne arrow (added my own weapon in weapon.ini). And (most) everything works great! Great tutorial. However, there are two problems when I applied this. For one thing, she shoots arrows...with a sword. For another thing, she has tons of bling. She has some kind of tan cape and a shield on the back along with a red hood. I want just a plain hero. I didn't add any bling to the file or anything but the bling is still there! I've searched for things to help on this problem but don't find anything on it. I usually don't like to put up posts asking for help because I like to figure this out myself; alas, I can't for the life of me figure it out. Help. :o

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I applied this method with an Elven Archer custom hero. All the sounds are right. She has the same powers as Elrond does just because I didn't feel like messing with all that yet. She has a cool upgraded arrow that looks like a Silverthorne arrow (added my own weapon in weapon.ini). And (most) everything works great! Great tutorial. However, there are two problems when I applied this. For one thing, she shoots arrows...with a sword. For another thing, she has tons of bling. She has some kind of tan cape and a shield on the back along with a red hood. I want just a plain hero. I didn't add any bling to the file or anything but the bling is still there! I've searched for things to help on this problem but don't find anything on it. I usually don't like to put up posts asking for help because I like to figure this out myself; alas, I can't for the life of me figure it out. Help. :o

Bart (Administrator) - Monday June 25, 2007 - 7:34

check out data\ini\mappedimages\

{IP}Sauron - Monday June 25, 2007 - 4:44

@aragon94: the reason why some commandbuttons is on the same pic is becuz there's a ini file which cut out small reas of the image and name it :P

aragon94 - Monday June 4, 2007 - 4:27

Ok, I found the portraits... But they are with the CommandButton images in the same pic!! Does anyone know how to make the portrait then??

aragon94 - Monday June 4, 2007 - 4:24

By the way, where is the art folder where you put the portrait into? I only find apt, not art.

I always wondered where the CommandButton images and the hero portraits are...

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