Interesting work.

So, I've been kicking around the idea of having items in the favor shop that allow you to change your demigod. This would allow us to add new demigods without having to replace already existing ones. (Although to be fair I only browsed the files in the .rar, I didn't look at it in game.). Any thoughts on if it would work out?

I am not so sure. I mean, it would be easy to code it in, but so many of the in-game things like the scoreboard, achievements, etc. all depend on your current Demigod. You would have to look at every facet of it, but from my initial thoughts, I don't think so.

Oh, haha. The only thing that I am missing is the ability to choose the Demigod in the character select screen >.< I'll try that today, although I remember trying it before and not getting far since the mods only loaded after you get in-game.

What I have been trying to do is hook in lua\common\HeroUtil.lua in order to get the new demigod to show up with the others, although it only hooks when you get into the lobby, and it seems to be used by the game before that point, making hooking it there quite pointless >.< Gyah, if I could only get this thingie to hook correctly!

Fixed the web server Thanks. Still cannot think of a way to get past the current issue >.<

The thing is, that is a very ugly method. If we cannot add demigods through normal mods that don't alter anything else, you run out of slots real fast, and you run into conflicting code.

While I appreciate the suggestions, that is so horribly round-about that I am not about to do that. I am just going to hope that there is a way to get the stuff to load in prior to when it runs the functions that grab the list of the Demigods. I will keep looking!

Yeah, that is what I have been battling with. What happens is that it loads the lobby screen, and then after that is done, it does the mod loading. Since the hero data has already been read by the lobby screen, it doesn't use any of the altered functions after the mod loading. I wanted to see if I could RuleInit.lua or globalinit.lua to make Lobby.lua call its Lobby:CreateAvatarPanel function again so that it would reload it or something to that sort, though I haven't figured out a way to call it =P

It sounds like you're probably out of luck, as the same limitations that apply to the SC lobby apply here.  If memory serves, globalInit isn't specific to any one state (they each use it to set up their lua environment), and RuleInit only runs in the pre-game state, which is somehow separate from the lobby and is also not affected by loaded mods.

I don't yet know what all they've changed from SC to Demigod, but there was a reason that all of the (incomplete) SC faction-add mods had to be .scd mods.  I'd guess that adding a Demigod is pretty much like adding a faction in SC.

Shameless bump.

Is anyone still working on this?