quick Q's and A's ....

[Noobio]

a topic for quick questions and answers...

since ,it's higly non practical

-for new CoW players, to having to read
the whole 40 pages of the FAQ topic,or serach the whole CoW forum and subforums

and annoying for everybody

-to start new topics for just some simple question(s) ,
this topic is just for some quick searching...in order to

"let the new guys learn ...and the veterans remember"

maybe using some BB code for the key point of the question would further help the reading of this topic if it evolves as it should be...
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1.....is there any submod that lets you play a campaign as beastmen or nightgoblins ?

2....would the can_fire_by_rank edu attribute be any good for the handgunners ? has anybody used it ?
is there any volley shot attribute unit ?

[Noobio]

guys...any one ,that can help me making custom siege battles ???

even though i did play some ,by luck ,after pressing on quick battle...i just can't put settlements in ,by the ordinary custom-battle menu...seems as if they were disabled by default

[Kahvipannu]

Here:
"Want to seige a city in custom battles? Now you can!"
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=326294

[The Holy Pilgrim]

Yep, just follow my tutorial in the link Kahvi posted and you should be good

[Noobio]

are you sure the druid attribute (for warrior priests units) works properly ?

even though the button is still there (cause of the EDU entry) the animation is lacking ,as also the chant itself...

[The Holy Pilgrim]

The units will chant and their animations will show. At least, the Warpriests of Sigmar and Ulric do. I've seen them raise their arms in the air and go "OOOOOOOOOOOOOO" while my men fought against the Empire's foes valiantly.

[Noobio]

HP thanks for your answers...just got home and tried this out ,again... but still no animation no nothing...i know how it should look like ,but i just don't see it in my CoW game...till now i 've only used the priests in custom-battle...i don't think that should meananything though..aftreall they're always the same units...anyway..who cares, maybe they took an oath of silence..muahhaah

[Kahvipannu]

Hmm, that's strange, since I could swear that I have too seen WP to do theyr chanting animation.. It should be there Maybe a sub-mod is causing this lack of chanting..?

[Kahvipannu]

Could someone help with one thing. I want to add unit as hirable random mercenary, just like venators etc. So that player will get question in the start of turn if he would like to buy the unit and general, and after that the general emerges and that units won't be recruitable unless the hero is alive. So what files I need to modifye? It's a big question, but if someone could push me in right direction, via PM for example, I would appreciate it

[Scipio praeditus]

As far as I can tell it's all in the campaign_script and export_descr_buildings files.

Up untill now I have only been able to modify the campaign_script to have mages, and other units that spawn randomly, spawn on the first turn.
I'm no experienced scripter so I can't explain how to make it do what you want it to do, and unfortunately several searches with related search terms did not deliver any usefull results, so unless you can get one of the COW team members to explain it you´ll have to study the script file.

[Gigantus]

Could someone help with one thing. I want to add unit as hirable random mercenary, just like venators etc. So that player will get question in the start of turn if he would like to buy the unit and general, and after that the general emerges and that units won't be recruitable unless the hero is alive. So what files I need to modifye? It's a big question, but if someone could push me in right direction, via PM for example, I would appreciate it

Your yes\no event will create an event_counter which you can then use as a condition in the EDB.
You will have to spawn the character with a custom label - it is needed for a monitor that checks if he is alive (once dead\removed the event_counter gets set back to zero)

To make the whole thing random would involve some nifty use of generate_random_counter, multiple possibilities and corresponding entries in the EDB. Similar stuff could be done for actual spawning instead of recruiting, but that would fill the script up unnecessarily (processing speed).

You can use that event also in the descr_mercenaries file, but you cannot reverse it\set back to zero.

[Kahvipannu]

Your yes\no event will create an event_counter which you can then use as a condition in the EDB.
You will have to spawn the character with a custom label - it is needed for a monitor that checks if he is alive (once dead\removed the event_counter gets set back to zero)

To make the whole thing random would involve some nifty use of generate_random_counter, multiple possibilities and corresponding entries in the EDB. Similar stuff could be done for actual spawning instead of recruiting, but that would fill the script up unnecessarily (processing speed).

You can use that event also in the descr_mercenaries file, but you cannot reverse it\set back to zero.

Thank you Gigantus.

EDIT: Had a question, figured it out from your last post.

EDIT2: Might aswell ask here since your propably reading this Gigantus, or anyone I got the scripting working, but there is just one problem, characters stratmap model is brightwizards, when it should be the one I have assigned in descr_model_strat. Any ideas what might cause/how to fix this?

[Gigantus]

Thank you Gigantus.

EDIT: Had a question, figured it out from your last post.

EDIT2: Might aswell ask here since your propably reading this Gigantus, or anyone I got the scripting working, but there is just one problem, characters stratmap model is brightwizards, when it should be the one I have assigned in descr_model_strat. Any ideas what might cause/how to fix this?

There is a lot of nifty footwork in CoW with regards to character's strat models. Each named character has nine models which are determined by a 'level' trait. See the 'factionleader' trait for example.

Depending on the level that a character has it will get the model. See descr_character for these models:

faction venice
dictionary 15
strat_model Empire_general_strat3 ; level 0
strat_model Empire_general_strat3
strat_model Marius
strat_model Pirazzo
strat_model Rikko
strat_model Bright_Wizard ; level 5
strat_model Roderigo
strat_model Leopoldo
strat_model Empire_general
strat_model warpriest
strat_model Ragnar
battle_model Empire_general
battle_equip gladius, chainmail shirt helmet and rectangular shield

The entry in descr_model_strat only determines the texture for that model.

The trait for this level:

Trait ICE_mage
Characters family
AntiTraits Factionleader, Factionheir

Level ICE_mage
Description ICE_mage_desc
EffectsDescription none_desc
GainMessage none_desc
LoseMessage none_desc
Epithet ICE_mage_epithet_desc
Threshold 16

Effect Piety 10
Effect Loyalty 10
Effect HitPoints 5
Effect Chivalry 5
Effect Command -10
Effect Authority -10
Effect Level 5

[Kahvipannu]

Thanks, that got me started. I think I figured it out now, fingers crossed...
+1

[Noobio]

guys...do you know if the AI is using hero abilities too ? but being 100% certain about it...

EDIT: just found out that it doesn't...

[Noobio]

any submod that gives faction-specific colours for the chaos factions ??? i'm talking about the ordinary units ,like marauders that now have a greenish colour for all of 4 chaos cults...

thanks

[The Holy Pilgrim]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=425210

[Elitewolf]

Does anyone know how to make krell appear? He does not appear when I capture the brass keep, and I want my awesome dead chaos warrior! D: Took some work getting an army there...

[Noobio]

guys what's the name of the track in the chaos battle-autoresolve/fight screen ? (that really EPIC one)

a you-tube link would be nice too

[Scipio praeditus]

Does anyone know how to make krell appear? He does not appear when I capture the brass keep, and I want my awesome dead chaos warrior! D: Took some work getting an army there...

The following is what I understand of the script regarding Krell (blue text is my comments);

        set_event_counter krell_capitan 0
set_event_counter krell_hungary 0

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;monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
;console_command auto_win attacker
;       siege_settlement Mannfred Von_Carstein, Med, attack
;terminate_monitor
;end_monitor

The lines above have been deactivated by placing semicolons (;) before them.

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
and I_TurnNumber > 0 This is the turn from which the script starts checking if the requirements have been met.
and RandomPercent < 20 This is the percentage chance that the unit is spawned.
and I_EventCounter krell_capitan = 0
historic_event KRELL_RECRUITMENT false factions { hungary, }
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionIsLocal
and I_EventCounter krell_capitan = 1
and not I_WorldwideAncillaryExists krell_axe
historic_event KRELL_RECRUITMENT_END false factions { hungary, }
set_event_counter krell_capitan 0
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionIsLocal
and I_SettlementOwner Med = hungary This is the requirement to own Brass Keep (named Med in the game system apparently).
and not I_WorldwideAncillaryExists krell_axe
and I_EventCounter krell_capitan = 0
spawn_army
faction hungary
character Krell, named character, age 29, x 59, y 103, direction S, label Krell_general, battle_model Krell, portrait Krell, hero_ability Damnation_Ability
traits Krell 1
unit        Vampire skeleton khorne warrior            exp 9 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton mount chaos                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton chaos                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton chaos warrior                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton chaos warrior halberd                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton chaos axe                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
end
historic_event KRELL_RECRUITMENT_PLAYER false factions { hungary, } event/Krell.bik
set_event_counter krell_capitan 1
set_event_counter krell_hungary 1
console_command give_ancillary Krell_general krell_axe
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

The lines below are for AI controlled Silvania.

monitor_event FactionTurnStart FactionType hungary
and I_IsFactionAIControlled hungary
and I_EventCounter krell_capitan = 0
and I_SettlementOwner Drakenhof = hungary
and not I_WorldwideAncillaryExists krell_axe
and RandomPercent = 5
spawn_army
faction hungary
character Krell, named character, age 29, x 107, y 53, direction S, label Krell_general, battle_model Krell, portrait Krell, hero_ability Damnation_Ability
traits Krell 1
unit        Vampire skeleton khorne warrior            exp 9 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton mount chaos                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton chaos                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton chaos warrior                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton chaos warrior halberd                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
unit        Vampire skeleton chaos axe                exp 3 armour 0 weapon_lvl 0
end
set_event_counter krell_capitan 1
set_event_counter krell_hungary 1
console_command give_ancillary Krell_general krell_axe
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

It looks like you're going to have to wait a while for him to spawn, < 20% is a rather large chance, but if you want him to spawn immediately you'll have to change the percentage chance to 100 (and replace the < with an =).

The 'campaign_script' file is in 'mods\Call_of_Warhammer\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign'.