*cough*

This is not such an easy fix. I suppose this has to do with the deactivated favor items aswell. To make newly cast minions get full health the sigil and other +minion items would need to be checked, so they all have a unique buff ID (think this got mentioned already) so they dont REPLACE another buff from another item. After that, basicly you just have to set AdjustHealth = true (this is wrong on Sigil I think, it has AdjustEnergy = false, which is doubly-wrong), and it should work. However this might be more complicated then I think, but AdjustHealth = true does work. I tested that.

No

BUMP for 1.2 BUMP

3 month is nothing we have bugs known since beta still existing. patience cosmoe, such things need years. don't forget, for each patch they have to figure out what new bugs they have to introduce.

OMG, is this for real? So, have i been getting my Hauberk of Life with its +200 minion health for nothing? Is the new priced Theurgist Cap with its +200 minion HP also affected?

And has someone here suggested a code fix to this problem, and has it still not been fixed? 

Good lord...

bumping this everyday until this gets fixed >>

I tried Ptarth's fix with a mod, but to no avail. It did not work.

I went to the countShamblers line, and right before that I added shambler:AdjustHealth(shambler:GetMaxHealth()). I might have done it wrong. Do you think you could take a stab at it?

There wasn't anything in /bindata, so I looked in dgdata and modified the file there.

Nice! Ptarth it works like a charm

Now shamblers have full health when summoned!

I've spent some more time looking into things, so I am going to post my findings here. The modding community has a lot of different levels of knowledge, but the knowledge isn't being shared. I'm trying to do my part to solve that.

Demigods is based on the same engine as Supreme Commander. That means much of the documentation on Supreme Commander is also valid for Demigods.

Back in 1.xx GPG fixed items so that they wouldn't give hp/mana when equiped. This was to solve the problem of infinite free mana by picking up an item, casting, dropping item, and repeating. The problem was that when they did this they neglected to address minions being created.

Minions are created with the CreateUnitHPR function. This function seems to be present in the demigods executable and I have not been able to change it.

The CreateUnitHPR function has the parameters of [blueprint, army, x, y, z, pitch, yaw, roll]. Blueprint is the unit, army is side(?). X, Y, & Z is the location the unit will be created at. Pitch, Yaw, & Roll describe the orientation of the unit.

In my fix I suggested 'healing' a unit as soon as it is created. This is the same way that GPG dealt with the vampire aura hp buff. ntrophy suggests changing the items so that they properly modify the hp on summoning of units. As far as I can tell, the units have a set base health, which is then modified by items, however only items that have been properly updated with the health update code.

What does this mean? I think that all items should be properly updated and that all summons should include a full heal at creation line. When GPG wrote the code they were not expecting to have to deal with both situations, I believe that doing this now will prevent any other reoccurances later on down the line. I'll probably try to make an attempt on this. If the dgmodding site was back it would be nice, but it may be gone for good.

Additionally, I personally think that a mod collection should be created that contains fixes to the game. Not balance changes, but fixes. So the missing towers bug, the sludge slinger & parasite aiming, the descriptive text updates, etc, should all be put together and host somewhere. Ideally these changes would be implimented in the base game of demigods as this progress. If someone wants to nominate their time and effort to do it, I'd be willing to help out some. The key is that this is a long term commitment, with probably no reward. Sounds fun eh?

Anyway, I hope this helps anyone who was looking into things or wondering how the lua works.

morpheas768: I'm guessing it isn't the Lua that is causing problems. It is understanding the structure of the demigod programming.

So, I looked into AdjustEnergy = true as ntropy suggested.

I found that only a few things actually have AdjustEnergy on them.

Torchbearer's Form switch to ice grants energy regen & has AdjustEnergy = true.

Demigods when they levelup have AdjustEnergy = true & AdjustHealth = true.

Demigods when they are initialized have it.

All achievement items that affect max health and max mana have AdjustEnergy and AdjustHealth = true

Occulus's minion buffs.

It would seem that the AdjustEnergy/Health = true may produce the infinite mana/health bugs that were the cause of these issues in the first place. For achievement items this isn't an issue because they can't be dropped. Adding them to droppable items may however be exploitable.

It's also used for some skills, such as Torchbearer's Inspirational Flame and item like Sigils. So it's at quite a few places. The buff for health and mana just have to be handled properly. I have suggested some code for that in the "Report Problems" sticky thread, however I'm unsure if it considers every aspect. I tested it with a few items... such as Sigils. That should fix the health/mana issues on any buff situation for dgs. The AdjustEnergy/Health just have to be set accordingly. For minions the problem seems to be twofold. Some items have or had wrong codes, I think Sigils +100 minion health was one of them. This would have to be fixed. Second, when spawning minions, the question is when the item buffs are applied. So either all the minion items need AdjustHealth or the minions have to be healed right after creation and after the items buffs were applied (if they dont adjust).