Modding Manual Thread - Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

The modding manual has been updated (now version 3.99h).

You can always find the latest Dominions 4 manuals here:
Illwinter.com

Edited by: jk.illwinter

The 3/99h version don't talk about the new command added list masterrit or coastrec.

No, Edi is away on vacation and made the manual before those where added.

Can you post a link? I can only find the 3.99f manual.

Jaffa.illwinter.com

It's where I found it.

now descriptions of how to mod fort parts yet
and i wish to have moddable parts besides fort, like temple upgrades and prov upgrades (terrain type affected) for standard useability: spying, local defence, gold/prod/grow developments
maybe upgrading mercenaries mechanics, like merc guild, where you can recruit mercs units from (for example) bands that now are in the pool for 1battle or prov defense (like with #homesic), or just as standart recruitment or surplus for def recruitment
becasuce this mechanics could be like magic sites and i see it could be done without big coding (or like #farmfort and other analog - for example #farmtavern, #bordermountainmine ets)
in fort parts i saw "roads" that upgrade not fort but prov so its strange that in other prows it couldn't be too
if there must be basis (like fort for fort parts) than that basis could be a city capital of the province or outpost that is created automaticly when prov is conqured or exists there from the begining
and what about destroying parts when raiding, attacks, events and besieging?

same no descr to #adventureruin - what there in it? (just i see it could be closemechanics to merc guild)

and could you explain how to use
#selectnation
#newnation
more clearly?
I need to make new nation using some (doesn't wan't to mod) elements of the known nation.
What must be firstand look like?

And what about
#startsite "" - there is 4 limit or 8(or 9) limit at all? (or in prov with rnd generation it could be 8+ and in home is hardcoded 4 as max?)

and please write the description to the General Modding paragraph
(5 days killed for trying to understand why my mod crashes because of using )

Edited by: guardianru

You should use EITHER #newnation OR #selectnation, not both. #selectnation requires you to pick a nation number and use it, #newnation does not.

ok, how then i can see all nation prerequisites if it is basic nation to make the copy?

I don't understand that question. If you create a new nation from scratch, you need to use create everything for it. Recruitment lists, god lists, magic sites, monsters, assign fortera and add any special properties to its dominion if you want those. There is no way to simply copy a nation like you can copy a monster. If you want to copy an existing nation, then you need to use the same monsters and sites and so forth for the copy as well and the start sites actually have to be new ones with the same name or things are liable to break.

Currently there is no list of nations in the kind of form that would let you see all their properties for that purpose. I may or may not add such a list to Dom4 DB if and when I have the time. Not for a long while, though.

By the way, it seems like the nation list in the manual doesn't quite match, idwise. I tried to give something to MA Man and it didn't, but looking around I think I found it in another nation(whose ID was 2 greater or lesser), I think.

Thanks Edirr, you understand all clear.

David88 wrote: By the way, it seems like the nation list in the manual doesn't quite match, idwise. I tried to give something to MA Man and it didn't, but looking around I think I found it in another nation(whose ID was 2 greater or lesser), I think.

MA Man should be number 37 and I believe that is correct in the manual as well.

Can we make this a sticky?

Yes, we can. It can serve as a feedback and question thread related to the manual.

What is the intended scenario for the poptype modding command #cleardef? What's the use of clearing PD when there is no way to add PD units back in? Is there a mod command missing from the manual?

No, there's nothing missing. PD modding for poptypes just has not been added. It was requested months ago.

The modding manual has been updated (4.03) and can be downloaded from Illwinter's Dominions 4 page: Illwinter.com

Great news
Thank you!

The link to the 4.03 manual still says version 4.0 and I can't find any of the new mod commands, sooo wrong manual maybe?

Scholar wrote: The link to the 4.03 manual still says version 4.0 and I can't find any of the new mod commands, sooo wrong manual maybe?

Refresh the page.

Because my post turned into an edit and nobody noticed the question 4 days ago (https://www.indiedb.com/games/dominions-4-thrones-of-ascensions/forum/thread/thread-of-many-map-making-questions ) I took the permission to post is here (It's a map making question):

Pymous wrote: Another question:
- What does "Fresh water' attribute do? Does it set up coastal provinces? (Actually I don't add this attribute near "oceans", only near rivers or lacs. Should I add it near every "water" province?)

Thank you!
Pym

Edirr answered it on the aforementioned thread :p

I'm trying to use #onlygeosrc to make a ritual that's castable in sea, deep sea, and swamps. I added together the mask values for those three terrains and used that value(32+128+256=416), as the manual says I should do, but my ritual is castable in forests and mountains. What am I doing wrong here?

I have not tested those commands myself ever, so I don't even know what specific things they invoke. You could try the terrain mask values from the map editing guide, because they are different than the site locmask table (which was assumed to also apply to spell terrain). I'll need to ask Johan about this.

My observations of the data dump of the vanilla spells concur with Admiral_Aorta's observations from a modding perspective. The map terrain mask values are the right ones.