Modding Tutorial - Adding an Ability to Apply after a Unit's Attack

[Sir Whiskers]

Originally Posted by MattCaspermeyer

P.S. One thing I'd like to do is to be able to allow units other than Priests to be upgraded via the DLG_CHESSPIECE.UI. I'm not sure how to do this, but I thought it would be neat to allow Beholders to be upgraded to Evil Beholders, etc. when you get the Paladin Inquisition skill. It seems like there has to be a way to get it to work with units other than just Priests, but maybe this is a limitation...

There is a mod for KB:TL called "army shop" or some such. It includes a mod (training camp) that allows you to upgrade troops, including the example you gave of Beholders to Evil Beholders. The choices in the mod seem somehwat arbitrary, e.g., I believe you could upgrade Inquisitors to Archmages.

Not sure if you can still find the mod on these boards. If not, let me know and I'll try to upload it to this thread.

Note: the mod I mentioned requires KBMaster mod.

[MattCaspermeyer]

Yah - I know about that mod (and I'm pretty sure I have it), it would just be nice to use the UI on the unit info card to do it, though, since it works so well. Plus, I kind of wanted to make the Inquisition skill apply to units other than just Priests / Inquisitors, but work with similar pairs (i.e. Robbers -> Marauders, Barbarians -> Berserkers, Bear -> Ancient Bears, etc.).

It must be hard-coded, though, since the developers basically used the "army shop" style to perform the upgrades (especially with CW), but it seems like it is a simple logic switch to say let this unit be upgraded to another. Oh well, thought I'd mention it...

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Originally Posted by Sir Whiskers

There is a mod for KB:TL called "army shop" or some such. It includes a mod (training camp) that allows you to upgrade troops, including the example you gave of Beholders to Evil Beholders. The choices in the mod seem somehwat arbitrary, e.g., I believe you could upgrade Inquisitors to Archmages.

Not sure if you can still find the mod on these boards. If not, let me know and I'll try to upload it to this thread.

Note: the mod I mentioned requires KBMaster mod.