Customizing Armor and Attack types

[Jayce]

Customizing Armor and Attack types
By Jayce, thanks to YoshiRyu and RED BARON for help and suggestions.

Hi all here comes my first tutorial, as promised.
I encountered a problem about armor and attacks customization and decided I will explain it for future mappers .

I will first speak about icons customization then about the tooltips customization.
And finally how to change the standard damage ratio that each attack types do to different armor types.

The screenshots I am posting there are from a french WE, but I think you will be able to find the match in your
langage as I will try to be the more precise I can.

1 - Icons Customization :

First of all, where do we modify things to make custom attacks and armor ?
Open your map in World Editor (WE) and go to the menu :

Advanced => Game Interface

Here you will be able to change the standard armor and attack types related icons with imported ones. See the screenshots below :

As you can see to modify things here you must select the option "Use custom interface".
To see exactly which line to modify select the other option too (maybe in english : "Show value as data"). This will allow
you to see the technical name of the variable containing the value instead of its description.




2 - Tooltips Customization :

The second thing you will be able to do in this "Game Interafce" screen is to edit the values of tooltips.
See the exemple in the screenshots below :




Don't forget I am not showing you the whole lines on the screenshots, and the data is not exactly sorted out
So don't forget some modifications, once you understood the technic.

3 - Damage output Customization :

The most important thing to do is to custom the damage each attack types will do to each armor types.
For this go to the menu :

Advanced => Game Constants

There you will find those lines, see screenshot below :



Seeing this you can't know what number is corresponding to what armor type.
Well no problem just see the table bellow which gives the exact match between standard W3 armor and attacks :



All this done you have your attack/armor customised, of course it will still need some testing and some tries before you find
the exact icons/tooltips/attacks modifications, but well the work is nearly done.

I hope this will help some of you !

Sincerely.

 

[RED BARON]

good work.. although the france may confuse some.. you made a little spelling error or two.. but doesnt realy matter.

 

[Jayce]

Thank you, if someone can do screenshots on english WE i will be glad to replace mines.
I am sorry for spelling errors, as you know english is not my mother tongue, so if you want to tell me what are the errors i will correct them.

 

[RED BARON]

Hmm okay here are those, I found (again doesn’t really matter for the tutorial)

bellow = below
i = I (when you talk about yourself)
Game interafce = Game interface (you just hit wrong key)

So don't forget some modifications, once you understood the technic.

In this sentence, understood should actually be understand.

Oh and then you miss some: , but never mind those

About English screens of those… only do that if people complain about it.

 

[PurplePoot]

I think this tutorial is a little too much like this one, but it's open to debate. Discuss.

 

[RED BARON]

Well "I personally believe" No realy I think those two should be merged if anything.. as this tutorial is only about attack/armor changes which as far as I could see not is mentioned in the one you linked to.

 

[PurplePoot]

Aye, then, that would work.

It just seemed weird having two different branches of the same thing in different tutorials... I suppose they could be kept separate if OP really wants them to.

 

[Jayce]

It is not a problem for me if you want to merge the two tutorials. I have not copyrighted it yet

 

[PurplePoot]

Kay, I'll contact JonAdrian about it.