How would I create a Hero?

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#1

I want to edit/create a new hero for each of the players in a session.

Is this possible with VCMI? I know in the original game it was really difficult but I assume with VCMI it at least streamlines the process? If it is possible I’d love to know where to start.

Edit:
I have attempted to create a new hero using the documentation, but it doesn’t appear in-game under Castle, even though I’ve set the class as “knight” I’ve also attached the heroes.json file, and pictures of how the folders are structured.

#2

Hi.
Don’t see anything clearly wrong at a glance.

Try starting VCMI_Client.exe directly (instead of going through launcher) and check for any warnings in console related to your mod.

Also, try using unique paths. For example, instead of config/heroes.json use config/maethedoctor/heroes.json or anything else that definitely won’t appear in other mods.

#3

Loading it from the client let me see that it failed to load the mod.

I did also give it a unique path like you reccomended, is there any steps I might’ve missed?

#4

Scroll console window a bit - there should be other error messages above.

Or you don’t see any?
Can you upload Documents\My Games\vcmi\VCMI_Client_log.txt?

#5

Sorry my bad, it mentions that the text file was not found even though it is there?
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Here is the client log also. Sorry about the jump between upload sites, I’m a new user so I have to use the work-around sites until I get permission to upload files.

#6

Remove conten/ from filepath. Should begin with config/

#7

This unfortunately did not work, it gave me the same “file not found” error.

#8

Filepath should be "config/maethedoctor/heroes.json" if you have maethedoctor folder under config folder or "config/heroes.json" like in your first post. Game must know exact location of you heroes.json file

#9

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In mod.json I added this also,

“heroes” :
[
“config/maethedoctor/heroes.json”
]

This should be laid out right then, no?
But it still doesnt work

#10

Can you attach your mod here, even without graphics?

#11

I have to send you to a file upload site but here is the mod

#12

Here’s fixed mod
Custom Heroes.zip (9.3 KB)

#13

Thank you for the fixed inferno specialty, but VCMI_client.exe still fails to locate heroes.json, did I lay out the file path in mod.json wrong? (I did try setting it like you did for the 2 graphics in the heroes.json file, but that also failed)

#14

First I created content folder and put inside it config and data folders. Just compare your and my version.

And filepaths to .json file must beggin from config/
but
Data folder and Sprites folder are default for graphics, so filepath should look: "large" : "big.png" not "large" : "data/big.png"

#15

Okay that works now, thank you very much.

Now I’m working on the custom class, am I able to entirely skip the map object and just attach a different classes battle anims?

#16

I don’t know what exactly you mean about custom class. But check neutral-heroes mod or tok-heroes for reference.

#17

How do I access their data? They don’t show up in the mods folder.

#18

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You have to refresh repository and install them

#19

I reloaded and then installed them, but they still haven’t appeared in the mods folder, are they stored elsewhere?

Edit: They are stored in “My Games” found them!

#20

So they use their own animations and sprites, which I can’t do right now/possibly ever, is there a way to use the vanilla ones?