Posts from Heroes V - Modders' Library

Dear all,

A few months ago I adopted an abandoned Heroes V modding wiki - heroes5.fandom.com. The main goal is to collect and streamline various modding tutorials. Besides the many articles - some found and reworked, others migrated from forums I do plan some framework tutorials that explain how to extend certain game engine capacity so new material can be added in the game.

There are two framework tutorials at the moment:
- New Creature Framework (NCF) - explains how to expand creature count from 180 to 1000.
- New Hero Class Framework (NHCF) - explains how to expand hero class count from 8 to 73. 
- Index.bin - Thorough description of the file and what it is used for.
- Heroes V Editor - Describes the functionality of the editor and main modes of operation.
- Resize models - how to resize in-game models with the capability offered by the Map Editor.
- New Dwelling Framework (NDF) - expands adventure map dwellings from 4 to 8. New dwelling models are made from town dwelling building models.
- How to create new hero ?

Note: Psatka I do used your Vopar for exemplary purpose in the guide as your formatting is impeccable. Let me know if you mind that, I will bring it down.

I do make this thread for three reasons:

1. Advertise the page, tutorials are meant to be used. I enjoy enabling the community to create more content.
2. Collect feedback on existing guides as not all of them are reworked and there may be mistakes or simply I don't have the knowledge to do it properly.
3. Get ideas from community what else may be good to upload there.

Let me know if you have any ideas or feedback.

@dredknight, you do not even have to ask me because I always agree with you! Since with your hard working thereby you do not letting die the HoMM5's modding!

Good stuff. 

I am glad that you are doing this. Thank you so much for your work!

Dear everybody, after recent collaboration with  }{0TT@6bI4 and know-how gathered from Esto100nec1 works, NCF is fully reversed and can be rebuilt from scratch.
- NCF guide is updated with all the current knowledge.
- NHCF guide has also been updated properly + template package is updated
- index.bin and Heroes V editor documentation has been added

Has anyone tried combining several mods? I want to, but I'm afraid of ruining what I've already done. I've already patched the .Exe with new classes, then patched it with new artifacts, and now I'm eyeing new creatures =)

But I'm afraid that everything will break (I already had an unsuccessful experience with the NAF mod; all versions stopped launching everywhere, luckily I had a copy on Google Drive, so I had to delete everything, clean it up, and then download it again from Google).

Feel free to apply the patches! Just copy the H5_Game.exe file. If it doesn't work, you can revert to the previous version.

Dear everybody, after recent collaboration with }{0TT@6bI4 and know-how gathered from Esto100nec1, NCF is fully reversed and can be rebuilt from scratch.
- NCF guide is updated with all the current knowledge.
- NHCF guide has also been updated properly + template package is updated
- index.bin and Heroes V editor documentation has been added

Ru
Большое спасибо за ваш труд!
Я попробовал и всё получилось.
Как хорошо что вы с нами =)
En
Thank you so much for your hard work!
I tried it and it worked.
It's good to have you with us =)

Dear all,

There is a new article added called "Resize models". It explains how to change existing game model size without using external model editors such as Photoshop or Blender. Many thanks to Waterfall_13 and  }{0TT@6bI4!

Well done, good job!

Dear all,

New Dwelling Framework has been added to the modders fandom page. It expands the dwelling framework and also works for random map generation. Any feedback on the guide is appreciated.

Quote translated:
"As far as I know, we can extract animations, skeletons, and geometry in various formats so that they can be modified.However, I don't think we can load them back into the game yet."
Did I miss something, or is the information inaccurate/outdated? I thought that only the skeleton and geometry could be extracted, and there was no way to extract animations yet? And conversely, can everything listed above be imported back into the game? *Dreams of being able to extract animations* 😅

Where did you see that? Can you provide a link?

2 dredknight - It was here, but now the page looks different (about 30-50% less text). https://heroes5.fandom.com/wiki/Modding_Animations Maybe Google Translate was showing an earlier version of the page? 😕 I translated it by entering the page address into the translator and opening the resulting link.

I thought it was only possible to extract the skeleton and geometry, but is there no way to extract the animations yet? And can everything listed above be ported back into the game? *Dreams of being able to extract animations* 😅

Everything can be added to the game. Everything can also be extracted, but with a caveat regarding animations. Some animations are extracted incorrectly for me.