Posts from NHF – new heroes for Heroes V 3.1.

If the developers hadn't removed all the standard Lua functions, we could freely move mountains, but as it is - pfft!

Maybe try this:
Hero touches the portal,
turn on the portal
make interact
has the hero's position changed?
if yes, turn off the portal
otherwise, turn on everything within a 2-cell radius of the portal
make interact
turn off the portal.

Added 1 minute ago
Is there an abbreviation for a word that defines all monoliths and portals on the surface?
Besides portals, everything is defined as MONO.

In Heroes of Might and Magic, players sometimes get upset during tournaments because they can’t tell who’s behind a portal without a preliminary battle.

This raises the question: is it possible to track mobs standing near portals/elevators?

For WGE, I want to implement a feature with mirrored protection for portals/elevators, and destroying the other side when the first side is breached, as if it were the same single guard for regular passages between zones.

Yeah!!! The mobs are identified correctly, but it’s not possible to move them correctly. Maybe it really makes sense to create a hidden guard? That is, delete the mob, attach a trigger to the portal, and when the hero touches the portal, ask if he wants to fight a certain creature in a certain quantity. How does that sound?

Added 23 minutes ago
But what about heroes???

By the way, I just tried the mod for version 60. By the middle of the game, the AI took 15 minutes per turn, and the console was filled with messages:
[Script warning!] Value was NIL when getting global with name 'NHF_Knaud_F'
(Script) ERROR: attempt to call a nil value.
I checked, and the case doesn't match.

I'll correct that. I've already had a few issues with the nhf_ and NHF_ registers :(
In general, all NHF should be replaced with all nhf in all files (or vice versa). Basically, just click "replace all" ))

Added 9 minutes later
If you don't disable the monsters at the start, then it's necessary to describe this artificial bug where Hafad's special ability doesn't work :(
But opening portals is sometimes very important, so it's frustrating that the special ability doesn't work on such an important thing.

Could you write a program that modifies a string between two tags in the map file within the game's resources? If so, users could convert any custom map into a format supported by NHF, and even assign names to portals.

I initially wanted to create something like that, but providing support for maps within my own system doesn't look very good: a program similar to a sandbox with a Lua console and a corresponding script.

The replacement always happens in the same way. Wouldn't it be possible to standardize it and adapt it to the user?
Like a kind of NHF converter.

It's possible. But, I repeat, it looks terrible (see Powder Toy) in the sense that the program isn't designed for that and it's 4MB in size. There are programmers on the forum who can create executables. If not, then, yes, we'll have to do it through Powder Toy.

Added 3 minutes ago
Besides, preliminary unpacking is required.

Added 4 minutes ago
But, in general, you can extract the map, group of portals, and rotation angles, and anything else you want.