Modding FAQ

International board Help & Bugs
#67

Is it possible to create new faction without town? Like Neutral faction? What should I wright in the “town” column in faction.json file?

#68

Just now it’s not possible to create faction without town.
I suggested to do “special”:true value to faction to skip its selection in start-up.
But right now only “neutral” faction can do without town.

#69

It should be possible - if “town” entry is not present then it will act as neutral faction. If not - then I would consider this as a bug.

#70

I checked - great, this now works (didn’t worked in 0.93, so I didn’t recheck it).

For example, this is content of faction.json. No other files is needed now for section “factions” in json.

{
    "specialsUSArmy": {
        "name": "US Army",
        "creatureBackground": {
            "120px": "USArmy/120px.bmp",
            "130px": "USArmy/130px.bmp"
        },
        "nativeTerrain": "sand",
        "commander": "specialsUSMarine",
        "alignment": "good"

    }
}

Now we can create factions without town - only with creatures and heroes in it!

#71

I want to create new heroes with some artefacts (for example, hero with ballista or some artifact on start).

How can I do this?
In WIKI there is no section for artefacts or war machines:
wiki.vcmi.eu/index.php?title=Hero_Format

#72

How can I modify original Hero? I want replace Xeron’s skills and change speciality to upgrades Devils to Arch Devils(Mobile Upg. Forsaken Palace) and still get his bonuses to this Creatures…

#73

I wanted to ask about composite artefacts.
Must i again write all bonuses from components of it?
Or i must only write new bonus that will come from it?

I’m asking because we have no editor and i cannot place new arts in it yet to test them.

#74

All bonuses from parts will be propagated to combined artifact automatically by engine.

#75

Hi, I’m adding some creatures to VCMI but when i start game, console show a lot of warnings: identifier creaturename is not in camelCase!. How I can remove this errors?

#76

Check if first letter of Your creature is small, and if not change it to small one.

#77

Good:

"creatureName" : 
{
	// translatable names
	"name" :
	{
		"singular" : "Creature",
		"plural" : "Creatures"
	},
	"level" : 0,

Bad:

"CreatureName" : 
{
	// translatable names
	"name" :
	{
		"singular" : "Creature",
		"plural" : "Creatures"
	},
	"level" : 0,

[/code]

#78

It’s work thanks, I’ve got one question, is there any maximum total added creatures? Because I’ve got them a lot, but today vcmi give me some error. And when i disable one creture, error disapear.

#79

How about possibility that this creature is buggy?

#80

No, i disable one of your creature dowloaded from this site.

#81

So what exactly is the error?

#82

Disaster happened
Reason 0xc0000005 - EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at… after this there are some numbers but always them are random.

#83

When exactly does this show?

#84

When game run (you know first videos).

#85

I don’t see how Launcher mods could cause issues like that. Please make detailed report here with the list of installed mods, console log and everything else you know.

#86

Firstly, say what creature mod are you talking about?