Posts from MEGApack update.

Psatha, let me clarify about the "asker."
http://c2n.me/4b6Z0ny here's a screenshot.
Honestly, I would never have thought to call this a log (or at least a log that would be recorded by Heroes 5). Regarding the other topic, I now understand exactly what you need. I was sitting here wondering what you wanted and what other logs there are in the game and where to find them.

At the same time, I rummaged through the old files and remembered where the Windows crash logs are located.
I'll attach them in a more presentable format.
https://c2n.me/4b6Z6ET

Nevertheless, the reason for the crashes is the same as I described above.

And regarding the original topic, do the creatures themselves exist, so that they can be properly added? Mine, together with the standard ones, don't even amount to half a kilobyte.

So, will there be new/revamped/different creatures?

Because right now, with only about 500, there's not much point in having 2-3k; they just sit around doing nothing.

I apologize. COVID made some adjustments necessary. The report – I’ve added all the creatures from the first post to the creature spawn list. For now, it’s in the form of separate creature files. Everything works; I’ve tested it on different versions of the game. Monsters spawn on maps with neutral creatures, both in the vanilla game and in EWA 2.7.2, MCCS.

What’s the plan? To occupy numbers from 1001 to 2000.

What should I fill them with? I want to create something like an Anniversary NCF Pack – adding creatures from different mods to new cities, new creature designs, mods, and creatures from the VK group “New Mods for Heroes 5,” Hannik, and others.

UPD: I’ve updated the first post with links to each mod. I’ll add all the modders to the author list.

In principle, I would appreciate help – if it’s not too much trouble, modifying the creature data as NCF files. Adding them to the spawner, translating, and testing – I can handle that. It’s the adding that will take more time, I confess. I’ll go through my NCF creatures (already added) with a program and plan to release the first version. Where would be the best place to upload it? Yandex Disk?

It's better to use Yandex Disk. I really like your idea!

These are some interesting findings.

The problem was indeed in _AdvMapObjectLink. I fixed it, and now it works correctly for new creatures.

HOWEVER - the new creature, 2993, is displayed correctly, but the old ones are not.

This is because the files added to GameMechanics, or more likely in the links or somewhere else - are newer, and they are read over the already added creatures.

That is, if we add Core with new files, then we need to update all creature packs with at least a minimal edit, so that they are newer and read over the blank creatures. Because replacement files are read by date.

I will re-upload the files, and I will think about what to do with the problem of old (by date) creature pack files.

Today I added a normal new Core; yesterday, I mistakenly attached the standard one to this message.

A silly idea struck me this morning... If you set the date to, say, 11.11.2011 when creating the NCF_CORE on your computer, wouldn't you need to update the packs?)))

You need to change the date of the files in the mod; I did this once using Total Commander. There are instructions on how to do this on the internet; I only remember that you need to select all the files in the folder, so you don't have to work with each one individually, which is convenient.

Added 3 hours 12 minutes ago
and you can set any date.

Actually, only creatures created by respected comrade Lokken are missing from the current mega-pak; I've found some of them – as a last resort, you could ask him if he has the rest. I remember he sent me more than three... there was definitely a harpy and other interesting creatures!

Colleagues, I will add links to NCF creatures to this group to update the Megapak. I am attaching a poll to choose a suitable option. I also suggest that other forum members submit links to NCF creatures that I have not added here. The voting is: either update the megapack file itself or add megapack_upd.pak. Of course, one of the most important steps will be updating RamdomStacks, the file without which creatures will not spawn on the map.

What is already in the pack. UPDATE!

1. Creatures that were added in EWA. 
2. Creatures that I found for EWA, but they were never added.
3. Creatures fktifzobr@mail.ru   
4. Creatures RedHeavenHero here, here, here , here and here.
5. Creatures Chaos theory
6. Earthen lord
7. Some creatures by comrade Psatkha.
8. Some creatures from the mod for new NCFs

For now, I am only using cells 1001 to 2000 in my head for NCFs in this post, so as not to limit activity.
1001-1022 monsters of the city Oblivion.
1023-1044 monsters of the city of wizard-elementalists. I will review it, as there are duplicates with NCFs
1045-1066 monsters of the city Azyl. Pirates.
1067-1070 Mind/Magic/Light Elementals from the mod for Conflux
1071-1092 City Church
1093-1114 monsters of the city Swamp
1115-1283! - monsters from the large mod Skull of Shadows
1284-1300 - monsters from the mod Book of Magic
1301-1322 - monsters of the city Rift
1323-1363 - Antipaladin, Queen Os, ancient/shantiir titans, abbot, megadragon, garshantuah, dark champion, goblin knight, 21 creatures from WOG, 10 creatures from threes, - link to the Heroes 3 lite mod
1364-1385 - Dwarves from the RTF mod,
1386-1407 - monsters of the city Temple RTF.
1408 - .......... creatures by comrade Hannik. They are still in progress, being added, there are many of them. Respect)))
Something like that. I will be glad for help.

How can I contact Lokken?

But what about the Destroyer (demon hero) from here: 0https://postimg.cc/S2dGfLP7
And the Brute from /topic/15900/

In short, I've updated the first post. I'm also posting the list of occupied IDs with descriptions here. Thanks to vasik for FINDER. According to my calculations, there are only *159* creature IDs left free in the old range (999). That's a total of 652 creatures. Which is strange, because Randomstack has about 500))) I think I'll release the beta before the New Year.

If anyone can help with NCF_3000 and testing with EWA, I'd be grateful, because the executable simply doesn't launch with it.

UPD. If there's a problem with the old list of IDs, I can release it as a separate mod... If it even gets to that)))🤣