Plaguewraith

NT

Thank you for the link!

Ok, I'll will look into Crazytown. First it is maybe good just to look what is done there and understand how it works.

Oh well, the first look into excentrics post was quite irritating. Will take some time.

Unfortunately I have no skills in some modern language.

But I will try to get some understanding and I think it's the best way just to start toying around for fun and besides try to get some informations how to use lua.

I've seen some of the commands that can be used in Excentrics post and some in Crazytown, but where do I get the names of the items and skills I do not now if I want to change existing skills or items that tdo not exist already in a mod?

I ask, because this could be a first step to do something with the things I've seen so far.

You want this.  Get it and give it a shot.  VERY helpful.

A standalone lua interpreter won't really help you for modding Demigod.  It's useful for Supreme Commander 2, because that game's error log is broken and doesn't report syntax errors, but Demigod has a fully-functional log that will always list the absolute line number of any errors.

That said, if you want to play around with some basic lua code structures using the standalone interpreter before dealing with actual game code, that would give you much quicker feedback on any errors.

Keep the old mods?  I don't really know what you mean.

If you're just starting out with modding, I'd recommend creating your own mod (copy an existing mod, delete all of the files except mod_info.lua, and change the name, UID, author, etc info), and first learning how to hook files and merge blueprints by looking at other mods, rather than directly modifying other mods' files.  It'll help separate in your mind exactly what you've done, and it'll make any errors produced in the log more obvious because only your code will be running.

I'd also strongly recommend running only your mod while you're debugging it, unless you're taking advantage of e.g. UberFix extension features.  It's much, much easier to debug when you know only your code and the original code are being used, and it makes the line numbers reported by the log much easier to calculate (subtract the length of the original file from the line number reported to get the line number of your hooked file that the error occurred at).

Started playing around with Crazytown:

I added the following into HOak_Abilities.lua:

--Removing buff immunity from Shield III and Shield IV
Buffs.HOAKShield03.Affects = {
                Invincible = { Bool = true },
                DebuffImmune = { Bool = false },
                }
Buffs.HOAKShield04.Affects = {
                Invincible = { Bool = true },
                DebuffImmune = { Bool = false },
                }
--Removing debuff ability on shield I and Shield II
Buffs.HOAKShield01.OnBuffAffect = function(self, unit, instigator)
                Buff.RemoveBuffsByDebuff(unit, false)
Buffs.HOAKShield02.OnBuffAffect = function(self, unit, instigator)
                Buff.RemoveBuffsByDebuff(unit, false)

I assumed that from the command line:

Buffs.HOAKRally.Duration = 10

First sucess, the game started! ^^ But then... I could still invest skill points but all skill description exept morale where gone and the bar to select the skills for ussage (number 1-4) was blank (no skill icon in it). So, I could guess the "skill identification" (don't know if that's sound right) was screwed?

Regarding the way the Rally duration was changed, I thought the MOD command lines work like an overwrite but it didn't seem that easy.

Hi Miriyaka!

Thanks for the link.

Sure I can understand that and I don't expect it. I was just trying that stuff because I was curious and was amused by the effect it had. So I posted it here, of course, to get it commended. But feel free to just ignore it if you're not in the mood. Use your free time for the things you loke to do.