You are a God! You are master and ruler of a loyal nation. You have unimaginable powers at your disposal. You have claimed this world as yours. But there are others who stand in your way. You must defeat and destroy these pretenders. Only then can you ascend to godhood and become the new Pantokrator. When you start the game you decide what kind of god you are and how your DOMINION affects your lands and followers. It is an expression of your divine might and the faith of your followers. If your dominion dies, so do you. Your dominion also inspires your sacred warriors and gives them powers derived from your dominion. In order to win and become the one true god you have to defeat your enemies one of three different ways: conquer their lands, extinguish their dominion or claim the Thrones of Ascension. Release version and manual is available now. Manual can be downloaded from Illwinter's web page.
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Modding Dom4 for newbies - first steps | Post Reply | |
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Sep 29 2013 Anchor | ||
Hello Introduction FAQ -Is modding a legal stuff? -Is it dangerous? -I mean, is it dangerous FOR MY PC? Mods that only require to copy some files in a certain place, usually in a folder called \mod or \mods are likely to be pretty safe. Those games are prepared to be modded. The game scans the folder, reads them and apply the changes. Easy and neat. Other Mods may require other different operations to be followed in order for everything to work. Fortunately, this is not the case. So it's time to ... Getting started When you take a quick look, you can imagine that you will need to put -the least- some effort on it. The truth is that the effort will be proportional to your modding intentions. So many pages show that there is lots of stuff to mod the game…that’s very good for people who likes to mod a lot of things, but if you plan in just small changes, then you may find all that overwhelming at first. That's why I'm describing first steps, hoping this can be of some use. But sooner or later you will be happy of having near the MM. FIRST STEP. To know where the vanilla files are. A) like in “Appdata”. The Mods folder, Savegames and Map Editor folders are in a special folder that Windows makes use. The game key file is also here.
in the explorer bar to quick find Dominions4 ‘appdata’ folder. C:\Users\NameUser\AppData\Roaming\Dominions4\ Note that this is a hidden folder and ‘Users’ and ‘NameUser’ may change...don't blame on me, I didn't do that. B) Game Data folder, game Maps folder, and the executable file (dominions4.exe) C:\...\Desura\Common\dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions You might want to create a shortcut to these folders. I’ll refer to them as A) and B) respectively from now on. C:\... \Desura\Common\dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions\Dominions4.exe -–1280x1024 --renaming --scoregraphs --nocredits -ddddd -ddddd (one dash, five d) run a debug mode, that will display a “debug Mod” screen when a mod is enabled. It also creates a log.txt file in B) with a lot of information about last turn in the game. The utility of the data is not for a newbie, anyway it may help when trying mods. SECOND STEP. How to install an already created mod. If you plan to use already created mods, just download the mod and put the files in the \mods folder in A). THIRD STEP. How to install a map. Download a map, and put it in \maps folder in B). The game also offers a random map generator, with many custom options. You can play with them, and get the results saved in \maps in A). It consists of two files with same MapName. You can also edit that map with the game editor. FORTH STEP. How to make a mod. To make dominions engine understand and accept the changes that you want to introduce, you’ll have to write a file with extension .dm in a code language that uses #commands. So you have to open ModTest.dm with notepad and start coding…. Let’s create the first mod for a custom rule: limit gold and resources 75% -- (2 dashes) are ignored -- it’s used as additional information Now, save it as ModTest.dm (if you have not done that yet) and then copy that file in the \mods folder, in A) The Last Step for this post, is a pretender chassis, a Dark Cyclops, that I’ve created with some further explanation, to be used as a newbie example rather than a playable mod. You can have a look at it here Dl.dropboxusercontent.com Yes, The Dark Cyclops is pretty unfinished, it's still WIP. I'm not totally sure wich nation/s I want to add, or if I'll add a fully new nation, made of dark creatures for him to lead. But now, it's your time. This is the very beggining. Get more mods, check again the manual, learn how to introduce #icon and sprites, dig, ask and let us know Some places to go for next steps: Edited by: Solosol |
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Sep 30 2013 Anchor | ||
Did the units' IDs in Dom3 remained in Dom4? I ask because i want to download a mod called Worthy heroes which adds and modifies heroes of every nation |
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Sep 30 2013 Anchor | ||
Not all of them. The authors of Worthy Heroes are working on it to make him up to dom4 IIRC. |
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Sep 30 2013 Anchor | ||
The unit ID heroes seem to be same. However I would recommend not to use the dom3 version. New heroes gave been added to the base game which makes the dom3 version diasable them. I'm working on updating worthy heroes to dom4, but it will take a few weeks. Also the dom3 heroes will have bugged abilities because the modding commands have changed. |
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Oct 6 2013 Anchor | ||
Just wanted to say thank you for this info, yes it may be basic but it's exactly what I needed somewhere to start. Many Thanks |
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Oct 6 2013 Anchor | ||
I've been wondering where to go to find some really bare bones information on how to start from scratch with a Dominions mod and this is just great! Sticky? |
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Oct 6 2013 Anchor | ||
Awesome; thanks! And yes, please sticky it! |
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Oct 8 2013 Anchor | ||
Glad it helps! Edited by: Solosol |
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Oct 9 2013 Anchor | ||
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Oct 16 2013 Anchor | ||
Anyone know the command for reanimation bonus? |
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Oct 17 2013 Anchor | ||
If it's not in the modding manual, it doesn't exist. |
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Oct 17 2013 Anchor | ||
However, using #copystats on a unit that already has reanimation bonus should work. You will get all the other traits that unit has as well though. |
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Nov 28 2013 Anchor | ||
I tried typing in p;pdata% into the explorer and even searched the entire computer directory but could not find anything. Any help with this? |
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Nov 28 2013 Anchor | ||
It's very probably hidden if you haven't used it before. You can get to it quite easily inside the game (Game Tools, then under Other at the bottom, Open User Data Directory), and then unhide it from there. |
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