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Hello everyone, I'm just starting to get interested in modding, and I have a question: how can I change the models of creatures (for example, recolor archangels, etc.)?

E12D5365-39C0-49B1-ABBD-D720809AFF2C - this file is located in the bin/effects folder. Sometimes, you can simply change the PerParticleFog value to true so that the effect reads the color from the texture. However, in most cases, the color is fixed within the effect file itself, and you'll have to recolor it using a hex editor. The color is represented as separate RGB parameters repeated many times. Schematically, it looks like this: imagine a hand with 5 fingers. Each finger is a texture for a specific element of the effect, and each finger is colored with a single, fixed color. There's a nuance: when the effect author colors it, they usually select a color from a color spectrum. However, sometimes the color components for all colors on all five fingers are the same because the author didn't select a color from the spectrum but simply chose the same color from a simplified palette! You can see an example of recoloring on my page - the creature Namtarr

 

Oh, and where exactly can I find the RGB parameters here? Did I open everything correctly?

 

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Also, I have another question: how do I attach a part added by an effect to the model so that it doesn't show through with the faction's color? The author of xHeroes Replacer did this somehow, but he hasn't been here for a long time.

I remember someone telling me about a year ago that it needs to be done through the skeleton, but I don't remember the exact details.

Oh, and I'll ask right away: how do you "attach" a part added by an effect to the model? So that it doesn't show through with the team color. The author of xHero replacer did something like that, but he hasn't been here in a long time. 

I was told about a year ago, as far as I remember, that it needs to be done through the skeleton, but I don't recall exactly. 

Regarding the second question, I don't remember... unfortunately...

As for the first one, you need to find three-byte combinations that are located one after another and are very close to each other... personally, the triplets B3 3E 5F... 58 immediately catch my eye... you need to use the pipette tool to manually enter the color settings, but first, you need to convert these hexadecimal values to decimal... using the engineering calculator in Windows or a real calculator! In the pipette, enter the decimal values of the RGB components - Red, Green, and Blue! And in the binary file of the effect, you need to look from the end of the file, not from the beginning!

P.S. Here is a very good editor - Free Hex Editor Neo!

The "transparency" is disabled through the material - if the model looks bad and shines through with the player's color, then in the material you need to specify AM_TRANSPARENT - this will stop the model from shining through, but sometimes it starts to glitch, which is why some models have to be left as they are.

A new day — a new question. Which file contains the camera parameters for the hero view screen? 

If you want to change the camera globally for all heroes of one class, look for cameras in the \Cameras\Interface\HeroScreen folder.

If you want to give a hero an individual camera, it needs to be specified in their file — that's the <HeroIndividualCamera/> line, which goes right after CharacterAdventure.

Good afternoon. Does anyone know if Remix has a test map with all buildings constructed in his videos for Heroes of Might and Magic? Or something similar. Basically, I need a test map.

I think the remix was simply created in the map editor. For example, I also have a map with 8 fully built Fortress cities for the red faction and one fully built Haven city for the blue faction.

Could you please share it? I don't want to go into the editor.

I finally remembered about the map, here it is – I don't remember why I named it that.