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[Metalman]

Hi all, new member. I know there's a few questions regarding health change but they didn't help, hence I created an account to ask this question. I do apologise if its my stupidity that is the problem.... How do you edit an already modded game? I want to change the health for heroes like Aragorn in the Arcade Edition of ROTWK Tried for 2 days with all online suggestions, nothing but frustration lol. It changes in the file on Notepad+ and FinalBig but not in the game. The advice on 3rd age regarding the Preconverted gamedata file is a little confusing for a noob like me.

Make a new shortcut to the game, which has as path:
              

Code "C:\path\to\bfme\bfme.exe" -mod "x"

 

Where of course you replace 'bfme.exe' with the name of the game (e.g. 'lotrbfme.exe') and 'x' with the folder you made. Example:
              

Code "C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Battle for Middle-earth\lotrbfme.exe" -mod "D:\Bart\mods\supermod\"

 

Don't understand why you make the 1st Code just to replace it with the 2nd one. Nor know is its Target or Start in. Also I dont see the 'x' folder that ya supposed to make in the 2nd Code. That's whats confusing me. Though I'm know guessing the Start in path is Start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king"

 

My shortcut to the Arcade Edition is;

Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king\lotrbfme2ep1.exe" -mod "C:\Users\metal\OneDrive\Documents\ArcadeEdition"   

Start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Lord of the Rings, The Rise of the Witch-king"

 

Here's what I've tried with Notepad+, Finalbig wont open the _gamedata.inc (file format unknown)
_gamedata.inc
#define M_ARAGORN_HEALTH                    2400

Changed the number to 8000 nothing, also tried changing the M_ARAGORN_HEALTH to M_8000 nothing changed in game either. same with 8000 without the M_
aragorn.ini
Body = RespawnBody ModuleTag_RespawnBody
        CheerRadius             = M_EMOTION_CHEER_RADIUS
        MaxHealth                 = M_ARAGORN_HEALTH    ;BALANCE Aragorn Health
  

Changed this also to 8000 and M_8000. Nothing happens in game. Aragorn is still level 10 max health 3200

I changed the attribute points to 99 and max health attribute 20 on Create a Hero (Avatar) with Notepad+ and that worked fine. Once I somehow got him to 12000 health then did something now hes back to 8060 health. But no luck on Aragorn.

If anyone has changed health on heroes in the Arcade Edition? Please help man.. I though it was cause the Arcade Edition is already modded. Maybe I'm just to stupid to work it out? When edited in Notepad+ I'm saving as _gamedata.inc  and aragorn.inc.

 

Do I move all files from the PreConverted folder to the Arcade Edition folder?. Cause I'm pretty sure I tried that too.
Cant thank you all enough for any help given.

[Metalman]

Not sure how to delete this post, I figured it out.. I just had to edit the aragorn.ini file in the Arcade Edition folder..