[MOD] Demigod Hercules Mod v0.1 » Forum Post by M

Hi M_KIII,

I am pleasantly surprised to see that people are still modding this game. A friend of mine and i have recently started playing again and bein a programmer myself i was interested in modding. However i can not seem to find an active community anywhere? Nor can i find any documentation on modding DEMIGOD. So basically my questions are:

1. Do you know of any active/semi-active (modding) communities?
2. Do you know of any documentation regarding the modding of DEMIGOD?

With best regards,
Soeplepel

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Here's v0.13a of the Demigod Hercules Mod:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApKmLPWB7R8xnWiXqrxTGBcCN5Mi?e=tJW5p6

Patch notes

10/31/2020 - version 0.13a:

- added a cheap achievement item with fast teleport

- added the possibility to add Skill Damage to items, should work with the following skills, though still untested for most skills:

Demon Assassin:

- Warp Strike

- Spine Attack

- Area Warp

Torch Bearer:

- Rain of Ice

- Fireball

- Fire Nova

- Circle of Fire

- Deep Freeze

Vampire:

- Bat Swarm

Edna:

- Pounce -> tested: works

- Heal

Rook:

- HammerSlam -> tested: works

- BoulderRoll

Oculus:

- Chain Lightning

- Blast Off

- Sacrifice

- Lightning Blast

Oak:

- Shield Heal

- Penitence

- Surge of Faith

Sniper:

- Snipe

- Mark of the Betrayer

- Angelic Fury Vengeance

10/26/2020 - version 0.12:

- added Dead Eye Sniper Gloves to the regular shop for Sniper builds, currently also works with melee Heroes

note: very slow attack speed interferes with teleporting, it might be smart to pick up these gloves after increasing your attack speed

10/25/2020 - version 0.11:

- heroes can level up all the way to level 99, AI is functional even at very high levels

- towers and citadel have more hp and more hp regen, especially on the high structure hp setting

- more favor / achievement points after a game - note: this doesn't work in online matches

- the Rook now has a smaller size

- screen shake removed for giants (CameraShake)

- added an extra tab with custom achievement items, only available to human players

- light towers of the Rook now stay up 10 times longer than before

- added Architect Armor to the shop which is excellent for the Rook when going for light towers

- added Lethal Spiked Armor to the shop which is an improved version of the Armor of Vengeance

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Hi M_KIII,

I am pleasantly surprised to see that people are still modding this game. A friend of mine and i have recently started playing again and bein a programmer myself i was interested in modding. However i can not seem to find an active community anywhere? Nor can i find any documentation on modding DEMIGOD. So basically my questions are:

1. Do you know of any active/semi-active (modding) communities?
2. Do you know of any documentation regarding the modding of DEMIGOD?

With best regards,
Soeplepel

Hi Soeplepel,

Are you by any chance living in the Netherlands like me?

As for your questions:

1. I don't know of any active or semi-active modding communities.

2. I don't know of any documentation about Demigod modding, but you can download all mods out there and look at the files in the mod zip. If you have any tooling to compare files you can compare any file in the mod with the default / standard file in the dgdata.zip. I have unpacked the zip file in a my_dgdata_unpacked directory and just copy the file(s) I need into my mod directory. Note that the location of the file needs to be the same, i.e. my_dgdata_unpacked/lua/AIBrain.lua needs to be copied to the bindata\mods\<YourModName>\hook\lua\AIBrain.lue location.

Grtz,

MK_III

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Hi M_KIII,

I am pleasantly surprised to see that people are still modding this game. A friend of mine and i have recently started playing again and bein a programmer myself i was interested in modding. However i can not seem to find an active community anywhere? Nor can i find any documentation on modding DEMIGOD. So basically my questions are:

1. Do you know of any active/semi-active (modding) communities?
2. Do you know of any documentation regarding the modding of DEMIGOD?

With best regards,
Soeplepel

Hi Soeplepel,

Are you by any chance living in the Netherlands like me?

As for your questions:

1. I don't know of any active or semi-active modding communities.

2. I don't know of any documentation about Demigod modding, but you can download all mods out there and look at the files in the mod zip. If you have any tooling to compare files you can compare any file in the mod with the default / standard file in the dgdata.zip. I have unpacked the zip file in a my_dgdata_unpacked directory and just copy the file(s) I need into my mod directory. Note that the location of the file needs to be the same, i.e. my_dgdata_unpacked/lua/AIBrain.lua needs to be copied to the bindata\mods\<YourModName>\hook\lua\AIBrain.lue location.

Grtz,

MK_III

Hi M_KIII,

How did you guess i'm from the netherlands

1. Thats too bad but not a surprise as the game is quite old.

2.I checked everything except the dgdata.zip... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

We actually tried to play a LAN game with mods but this does not seem to work even though we had the same mod pack. So we're missing something there

With best regards,
Soeplepel

Edit: inside dgdata their is a folder lua which contains a mods.lua file. i've given it a quick glance and it looks to be the mod manager it self. But is also contains quite a bit of documentation on modding. If this is info is new to you i hope it helps you in your future endeavours

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Hi Soeplepel,

I will check the mods.lua file inside the dgdata.zip out, thanks for the tip!

For the LAN game, first check if the mod works in Single player, for each of the players. Some old mods were designed for older versions of the game and do not work well with the most recent version of Demigod. Then check if everybody has only mod active. If you have multiple mods active at the same time, then you might run into trouble when one mod has changes in the same file as the other mod.

Good luck!

v0.14a (alpha version) of the Hercules Demigod Mod can be found here:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApKmLPWB7R8xnWlhLiEi8zcgYKqa?e=Gpn4ZF

The most recent changes are:

10/31/2020 - version 0.14a

- added the Great Mage Armor to the regular shop which has a Skill Damage aura

- added the Chaos Mage Boots to the regular shop which has Skill Damage

- added the Dragon Mage Gloves to the regular shop which has Skill Damage

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Hi M_Klll and Soeplepel.

1. I haven't recognized anyone from the old modding community being active. I developed an interest for modding myself (without having any earlier programming experience) but I don't know anyone else but you.

2. As for documentation, there's a few old forum posts that contain a lot of useful information.

This is a guide on creating items, by Exxcentric. The comments by user miriyaka are also very useful.
https://forums.demigodgame.com/376116/page/1/

See also here, about having logging enabled (though I haven't found out where to access the commandline yet...):
https://forums.demigodgame.com/399524/page/1/#2812347

On modding UI (which I haven't tried yet, so don't know how useful this is; link to example doesn't lead anywhere):
https://forums.demigodgame.com/369844/tutorial-how-to-create-a-new-window

On .dds-files (also haven't tried that):
https://forums.demigodgame.com/369682/tutorial-dds-image-files

On hooking so it's compatible with other mods (though I don't get the part about functions):
https://forums.demigodgame.com/368556/tutorial-how-to-hook

All of this I found in the old modding forums:
https://forums.demigodgame.com/forum/622/

I highly recommend looking through the files of well-made mods like BalanceMod, Uberfix, FavorMod, EnfosMod, etc. for examples. And, of course, you could check out the lua documentation in general.

I haven't had the chance to have a thorough look at your Hercules mod, but just from looking at the ability files, it's going to be incompatible with most other mods, since you take the whole file instead of just changing the part you want changed. And in the item files you can simply define the item you want to add and leave out all the other item definitions. That way, any changes that other mods make to those other items aren't overwritten by your mod.

It's awesome to see other people still interested in this. Maybe I can share a mod that I'd halted work on and get help by people who actually know how to program?

Schwiegerknecht

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Thanks Schwiegerknecht for the great feedback and interesting links!

I will do my best to improve the modularity and code quality.

If you'd like help on programming I can help you out as I'm quite an experienced programmer, though my lua programming experience is still very limited.

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Hi,

I've done some refactoring. Here's v0.18a of the Hercules Demigod Mod:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApKmLPWB7R8xnWsP6GwoWhXoFBCF?e=Ga1mY1

Recent changes

11/02/2020 - version 0.18a

- cleaned up all <Hero>_AIBlueprint.lua files

11/02/2020 - version 0.17a

- cleaned up Giant_Character.lua and Giant_R_Character.lua files so they are modular

- cleaned up Rook_Character.lua file so it is modular

11/01/2020 - version 0.16a

- cleaned up *_Items.lua files so they are modular

11/01/2020 - version 0.15a

- changed Dead Eye Sniper Gloves to deal a flat 2000 extra damage, but this only works for ranged attacks, increased the price

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Schwiegerknecht, Thats some great info. As for programming experience i'm in a similar boat as M_KIII having 10+ years programming experience (mostly java) and about 2 whole weeks of Lua experience.

At the moment i'm working on a mod which enables a player to reset their skills (incase you miss clicked or something) which seemed like a simple get into it mod but its been quite a struggle so hopefully the links you've provided are going to help me with that.

Second on the agenda is a money sharing system, often my teammate and i want to buy a citadel item but can only afford it if we would pool our money together. This seems like a fun one to do but may throw off the money distribution balance in the game.

Anyway we're kinda highjacking this particular mod's thread maybe we could setup a general info thread or something

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See also here, about having logging enabled (though I haven't found out where to access the commandline yet...):

You can create a shortcut to demigod.exe, when you look at the properties of the shortcut there is a target input field which will contain the path to the .exe file. After that path you can put things like /skipintro /size 1920 1080 /showlog

For example: "C:\Progam Files (x86)\Games\Demigod\bin/Demigod.exe" /skipintro /size 1920 1080 /showlog

Hope this helps!

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@M_KIII: I'm not sure how aware you are of this, but most of your new achievement items seems ridiculously overpowered to me Or are some of them just for testing purposes/crazy games? Nice work, in any case.

@Soeplepel: Being able to reset skills is an interesting idea, since there's only so many skill points for so many abilities. I'm not sure I've read anything about something like that, though. If you want to pursue it I think it might be a good idea to limit the reset to only the last allotted skill point. I would think it's frustrating if the opponent suddenly changes all of their skills mid-game.

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Anyway we're kinda highjacking this particular mod's thread maybe we could setup a general info thread or something

That's true. I'll make one EDIT: Done.

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You can create a shortcut to demigod.exe, when you look at the properties of the shortcut there is a target input field which will contain the path to the .exe file. After that path you can put things like /skipintro /size 1920 1080 /showlog

Ooh, didn't know that. Awesome, thanks.

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@Schwiegerknecht: Some balancing is still needed, that's true.

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New version v0.20a of the Hercules Demigod mod:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApKmLPWB7R8xnWw6ynLixW4Ce4xh?e=5Zh5CQ

Recent changes

11/06/2020 - version 0.20a

- cleaned up Stronghold*_unit.bp files

11/03/2020 - version 0.19a

- cleaned up game.lua file

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@Schwiegerknecht: Some balancing is still needed, that's true.

Depends on what you're going for with your mod, I suppose. Considering how you've increased tower HP you might also want a possibility to boost power levels so games don't take ages (unless you want epic games). So for that purpose stronger items could be well suited. But then you'll have to be mindful of players' HP, so they don't die too easily.
Do you have something in mind for how the mod should look in the end / what your goals are?

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@Schwiegerknecht I started the mod just for fun. The first goal is to improve the code. After that the goal would be to add more diverse items and item properties for longer games, like the skill damage.

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Here's v0.22a of the Hercules mod:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApKmLPWB7R8xnXZDVy726V-xWX_6?e=p8iszs

Recent changes

11/16/2020 - version 0.22a

- cleaned up HEMA01_Abilities.lua file

11/13/2020 - version 0.21a

- cleaned up HDemon_Abilities.lua file

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