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Everything is possible... the biggest hassle is importing into the game; that's a real pain. Plus, I still don't understand if there's some kind of polygon limit (or something similar). No matter how much I simplified the "dwarf" (within reason), "artifacts" – holes – would appear. Maybe you just need to use as few polygons as possible, but then it becomes a challenge to make it look good without making it too small.
Hello everyone, dear colleagues! Has anyone of you ever made a mod with different music in Heroes 5? Not just replacing the original music folder, but a mod (.pak or .h5u)?
yeah, there are many such mods; two mechanics — either a banal replacement of tracks, or adding a folder with new tracks and modifying game files to connect them to the game
as far as I remember, mod 5.5 for example adds new tracks for territories and battles
and in my RTF, new tracks do not replace the standard ones
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files responsible for music are located in data.pak in the folder \Sounds\_(Music)
in the TableRaceMusic.xdb file, it is written how many tracks a faction will have
here is an example — the music list for the human city, this is the benchmarkhumans
TOWN_HEAVEN- this thing doesn't seem to work, it's recorded in the citycitytavernrecruitmentidk if it works- battle track 1- battle track 2- siege- victory- defeat- retreat- waiting
for instance, dwarves don't have recruitment and tavern tracks, Inferno has 3 battle themes, etc.
now about the tracks — as you can see in the file, paths to game files are recorded, not to the music itself — it is within these that the paths to the music are written; here is an example, file AI-Themes/Haven.xdbHaven.xdb
..\Music\AI-Themes\AITheme-Haven.ogg - this is the path to the track, mp3 format can also be used
5000
2000
1000
10000
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about map music
it is tied to the texture
for example, let's take grass
folder \MapObjects\_(AdvMapTile)\Grass\Grass.xdbGrass.xdb
11
TT_GRASS
0.188235
0.478431
0.113725
\texture\Terrain\Grass\Grass_icon.bmp< /IconFile>
- nature sounds
- music
false
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the files responsible for the music are located in data.pak in the \Sounds\_(Music) folder
the TableRaceMusic.xdb file indicates how many tracks a faction will have
Where is the manual?
Where is the manual?
transparent texture
Is there a way to create a transparent texture? I mean, not completely transparent, of course.
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there's a problem here; transparency is handled very poorly in Heroes. Because of this, for example, in the NVS mod, the seventh-level ghosts aren't transparent, but rather glow. Predictably and understandably, only the material mode works correctly, which displays either full transparency or full opacity (I hope I've explained it clearly). Semi-transparent textures usually glitch.
You might rightly point out that ghosts are semi-transparent, and everything is fine, but in this case, the model is well-made. Usually, when you can see the body of the same creature through, say, a hand,
the game glitches and completely removes the hand, as if we only see the body – this is fixed by using different degrees of transparency for such details. I worked on this in 2018, and I never want to do it again.
