Modding Sovereign Creation Screen?

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I fully realize that this is a stretch, but does anyone have enough experience with Desktop X to give me a few pointers with modding the Sovereign creation screen? I'm trying to mod the spellbook selection section to add a scroll bar to the side and to add more spellbooks. 

Unfortunately, even after reading the provided documentation, I'm hopelessly lost as to what I need to do to the CreateSovereignWnd.dxpack and CreateSovereignSpinnerEntryWnd.

If someone out there is actually able to help me with this or direct me to a resource or couple examples, I will name my first-born child after you.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I know that adding two professions to the Sovereign creation screen already automatically adds a scrollbar.  The outpost upgrade screen also adds a scrollbar automatically as well. Have you tried just adding new magic paths and seeing if the scrollbar is already there?

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Either there already is a scroll bar, or you can't do it. The scroll bar requires code from the .exe to work, and we don't have access to that.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks for the help, guys.

Quoting attackdrone, reply 1
Have you tried just adding new magic paths and seeing if the scrollbar is already there?
End of attackdrone's quote

Well, I haven't been able to figure out how to add fully new magic paths, but I did try to disable the death magic restriction for kingdoms, and that didn't appear to change what was available on the creation screen. So, unless I'm not seeing something, maybe I just can't go that route.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I've been working on something similar, but instead of being Sovereign specific, it might be easier to be Race Specific

You might want to take a look at a few mods that come to mind

Heroic Pursuits; Plethora of skills tied into all of the Traits areas
http://fallenenchantress.nexusmods.com/mods/1338//?

Children of the Storm; has some paths that only appear for the race being played (Drota, etc)
http://fallenenchantress.nexusmods.com/mods/1850//?

Necromancy Revamped; Also adds new skills in the Mage tree and I think overwrites some of the Summons
http://fallenenchantress.nexusmods.com/mods/58//?