Tried to mod 2 new spells without success -

So here are my ideas that hopefully someone will like and mod

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Cone of Cold - FE has fireball and lightning bolt, but to my knowedge doesn't have cone of cold. I think this would be a good fit. It should have similar range to fireball, but a smaller area of effect (as much as a cone might have relative to a fireball, and the max damage should be about 2/3 of a fireball, but if the target resists, it is slowed for 1 turn.

Disintegrate - A very high level death spell that would either cause the victim to lose half their hit point if they resist, or all of their hit points if they fail to resist. The area of effect would be a single individual, and it could only be cast once per battle, and have a very high manna cost.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

There is already a high level death spell that does very nearly what disintegrate does. It's called "Kill" and requires death archmage ability. Honestly I never try it though. It costs a lot of mana, but usually by that point in a game I already have quite a bit, so the high mana is not the issue with it. It takes 2 turns to get off the spell... To make matters worse, if the target resists (per the description anyways) there is zero effect. 

So, my suggestion to you is to just edit "Kill" to what you had in mind for disintegrate. As useless a spell as Kill is imo, I might do the same thing.

I like your idea about cone of cold too. Water magic is missing a reliable evocation spell, as the chaos spell's outcome is too unpredictable. 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Blizzard is the Fireball for water.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting seanw3, reply 2
Blizzard is the Fireball for water.
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But..but, it's just not as cool as cone of cold... :grin:

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Rhettrongun, reply 1
So, my suggestion to you is to just edit "Kill" to what you had in mind for disintegrate. As useless a spell as Kill is imo, I might do the same thing.

End of Rhettrongun's quote

I was trying to mod a spell via the toolbox on the main screen of the game. All that tool allowed me to do was to create visual effects, there was no options for range, area effect, pre-reqs, or other settings.

Edit: Nevermind, I found a link to a modding guide. I'll give that a try.

Can you tell me the name of the file I would have to edit, and the folder directory where it's located?

Thx!

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

CoreSpells.xml

 

Find Fireball and make copy of it. Change the names and values to your spell. Use your effect instead of the one there. It might take a few tries. Go ahead and post your XML here if you get stuck. I can help later today. 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top


Are there any cone shaped spells ? I think there are "circles (radius)" and "lines" but not sure what othere options there are for area effects.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

It would have to be a radius in front of the player. Firebreath is the closest we can get to a cone spell. That might actually be the right spell to copy.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting seanw3, reply 6
CoreSpells.xml

 

Find Fireball and make copy of it. Change the names and values to your spell. Use your effect instead of the one there. It might take a few tries. Go ahead and post your XML here if you get stuck. I can help later today. 
End of seanw3's quote

 

Thanks!