Modding

Hello! I can't find it, maybe someone knows. Is the glow of the eyes of Necromancer horses implemented using an effect texture? Where is it located?

You see, in Heroes 5, effects rarely use unique textures – that is, the texture for the eye glow might be used in a dozen other effects. If you recolor it, those other effects will also change.

To properly change the glow, you need to open the Necromancer's ParticlInstans (it might not be a separate file, but rather recorded directly in the effect; this is often the case with files from the original game). In this file, find the list of Textures, and in this list, you will find the paths to the effect textures. It's best to extract these textures (and their XDB files) from the original folders and put them in the folder with the effect. Then, in the effect, remove the path to the textures, leaving only the file name. This will make it use the textures that are in the same folder. After that, you can recolor the textures; these will then be unique textures, so everything will work correctly