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[Super Hippo]

Hi,

since I dislike spell book powers which summon anything (especially anything absolutely overpowered), I thought of starting to replace Balrog and Army of the Dead with something else and found that there is a command to give 100 CP. I put it in the spell book, I can buy it, it appears on the left side of the screen, but the CP limit is not affected by that at all.

Am I missing something or is there another way to increase the CP limit with a spell book power?

 

Codes:

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specialpower.ini

Added the last two lines but it doesn't matter if they are commented out or not. FuelTheFires has both, Scavenger only the ReloadTime. Shouldn't matter anyway though. Interesting is that Scavenger uses the Enum of CallTheHorde. I also tried using it for this one without success. I don't even know where the code is which describes what the spell book powers actually do...

SpecialPower SpellBookPlus100CommandPoints
	Enum			= SPECIAL_SPELL_BOOK_PLUS_100_COMMAND_POINTS
    	RequiredScience		= SCIENCE_Plus100CommandPoints
	;ReloadTime		= 0
	;PublicTimer		= No
End

commandbutton.ini

Only thing I added is the NONPRESSABLE thing which makes the button nonpressable… doesn't matter if I can click it though. Nothing happens anyway. The image is actually the Scavenger image which has this name for some reason.

CommandButton Command_SpellBookPlus100CommandPoints
	Command = SPELL_BOOK
    SpecialPower		= SpellBookPlus100CommandPoints
	TextLabel			= CONTROLBAR:PlusCommandPoints
    ButtonImage			= SBEvil_Plus100CommandPoints
	Options				= NONPRESSABLE
	DescriptLabel		= CONTROLBAR:ToolTipPlusCommandPoints
End


CommandButton Command_PurchaseSpellPlus100CommandPoints
 Command    = PURCHASE_SCIENCE
 ButtonBorderType = UPGRADE ; Identifier for the User as to what kind of button this is
    ButtonImage   = SBEvil_Plus100CommandPoints ; DJR 6/29/4 using same image as spellbook for now
    Science    = SCIENCE_Plus100CommandPoints
    TextLabel   = CONTROLBAR:PlusCommandPoints
 DescriptLabel  = CONTROLBAR:ToolTipPlusCommandPoints
End

commandset.ini

Replaced Balrog with the new commands.

CommandSet MordorSpellBookCommandSet
	1 = Command_SpellBookTaint
	2 = Command_SpellBookEyeofSauron
	3 = Command_SpellBookIndustry
	4 = Command_SpellBookScavenger
	5 = Command_SpellBookDevastation
	6 = Command_SpellBookDarkness
	7 = Command_SpellBookCalltheHorde
	8 = Command_SpellBookPlus100CommandPoints ;Command_SpellBookBalrogAlly
End

CommandSet MordorSpellStoreCommandSet
	1 = Command_PurchaseSpellTaint
	2 = Command_PurchaseSpellEyeofSauron
	3 = Command_PurchaseSpellIndustry
	4 = Command_PurchaseSpellScavenger
	5 = Command_PurchaseSpellDevastation
	6 = Command_PurchaseSpellDarkness
	7 = Command_PurchaseSpellCalltheHorde
	8 = Command_PurchaseSpellPlus100CommandPoints ;Command_PurchaseSpellBalrogAlly
End

science.ini

Changed the cost to 1 for testing. Copied the PrerequisiteSciences line from Balrog.

Science SCIENCE_Plus100CommandPoints
  PrerequisiteSciences = SCIENCE_EVIL SCIENCE_Darkness OR SCIENCE_ISENGARD SCIENCE_FreezingRain OR SCIENCE_ISENGARD SCIENCE_FueltheFires OR SCIENCE_MORDOR SCIENCE_Darkness OR SCIENCE_MORDOR SCIENCE_CalltheHorde 
  SciencePurchasePointCost = 20
  SciencePurchasePointCostMP = 1 ;20
  IsGrantable = Yes
;  DisplayName = 
;  Description = 
End

 

 

Despite the fact that nothing is working so far, I would like to have a permanent (passive) buff to the CP limit which could be either +X CP or +X % CP. If not %, the amount should be different for good and evil. When a player is defeated and you gain CP for that, this buff should apply to this new limit again.

[Echo]

I tried to use this power also, but so far to no avail. There's a chance that this power is not working or buggy and that's why EA decided to cut it from the release (among many other things). There's also a chance that it is possible to somehow make this power work, but in that case EA has removed the important pieces of code from the ini files. The only thing I can find in game.dat regarding this power is the special power enum. Maybe there is somehow a leftover module like "CommandPointUpgrade" or something, but I could not find any module like that. 

 

I assume it was conflicting with the command point behavior that happens when players get defeated, and therefore EA just took it out entirely..

[Slava Shadrinov]

So, you can summon invisible object with spellbook who adds you a command points.
Something like Sauron eye or Crebain but without visible textures)

You need to add this: CommandPointBonus = 800 (you can change 800 to 100 or any other) in design parameters, for example get Balrog codes:
 

; ***DESIGN parameters ***

DisplayName      = OBJECT:Balrog

;//DisplayMeleeDamage = BALROG_DAMAGE_DISPLAY

 

Side = Neutral

EditorSorting = UNIT

ThreatLevel = BALROG_THREAT_LEVEL

ThingClass = CHARACTER_UNIT

CrusherLevel   = 4  ;What can I crush?: 1 = infantry, 2 = trees, 3 = vehicles

CrushWeapon = BalrogCrush  

CommandPointBonus = 800

TransportSlotCount = TRANSPORTSLOTCOUNT_MONSTER

Sorry dont see this is bfme1 topic but you can try this, i think it shoud work

Edited by Slava Shadrinov, 20 February 2019 - 05:55 PM.

[Miraak5]

I have a list of all existing behaviors in the game and i found something called "CommandPointsUpgrade"

i didn't know what parameters it accepted because it was unused in the game so i dit some testing and luckily found something that didn't crashed the game (but didn't have time to check in if it worked)

Behavior = CommandPointsUpgrade ModuleTag_CommandPointsBonus
   TriggeredBy = Upgrade_YourUpgrade
   CommandPoints = 100
End

i would suggest you to create a code in system.ini that would give the upgrade

Behavior = PlayerUpgradeSpecialPower	SpellBookCommandPoints_ModuleTag
	SpecialPowerTemplate		= SpellBookPlus100CommandPoints
	UpgradeName 				= Upgrade_YourUpgrade
	UpdateModuleStartsAttack	= No
	AffectAllies				= No ; Should not try to affect ally units
	AvailableAtStart			= No
End

and so then you put the first code (CommandPointsUpgrade) in an object, like the citadel or you might try the castle floor object if you dont want to loose the bonus when the citadel is destroyed
and if this code still work in the game then when you buy the spell you should get a CP bonus

[Echo]

^ I think you guys did not pay attention that this is the BFME 1 Modding Forum and magic like that did not exist back then...

[Miraak5]

i knew that "CommandPointBonus = 800" was the bfme2 classic system but was pretty sure CommandPointsUpgrade could have worked in bfme1 too bad

anyway the cut plus100commandpoints power will never work as long as you do not find a working code for it in system.ini :(

[Super Hippo]

Thank you for your replies!

I just tried to create an invisible object which gives CP. I did all the stuff for commandbuttons, commandsets and system, but I should have checked first that the "CommandPointBonus" line gives a startup error…

Man, I guess I can't make anything working  

[Echo]

BFME 1 just doesn't allow people to make things work. It's not you.