Looking for a good moding teacher

[wizardjian]

like the title says i want to learn how to mod xD
i would like to learn how to add mobs, items, little icons on the sides and such xD
if anyone is up to the task of teching me modding plz reply

Oh also i had a terrible time with the bloody graphics the last time i atempted it.
I turned a rabbit into a camel, that takes a lot of skill to do...

[Jontis_00]

like the title says i want to learn how to mod xD
i would like to learn how to add mobs, items, little icons on the sides and such xD
if anyone is up to the task of teching me modding plz reply

Oh also i had a terrible time with the bloody graphics the last time i atempted it.
I turned a rabbit into a camel, that takes a lot of skill to do...

Have you been playing around with the files yet? Cause I suggest starting of by doing that.

If you need help add me on Skype: Jontis_00

[Nemeca]

and if jontis wont help you i will <3 jontis xnemeca99x is my skype

[YetiChow]

I'll offer my help, although I think that the two modding powerhouses who beat me to it will be much more help than I can That said, if I can help with anything then feel free to ask or PM me - I have a working understanding of most areas of the game, and I'm good at explaining things to newcomers/self-taught modders.

[wizardjian]

thanks everyone xDD time to destory towns xD

[Snarrf]

They did a good job making the game easy to mod. My almost 14 year old sons figured it out from just showing them it was possible with a text editor. That being said it is easier to ruin the balance of the game than anything else. Amazing how easy the dungeons are when your attack is 4 times the damage of any monster out there (yes that was one of their "mods"). Mods are all about a good idea. Figure out simple some good way to make the game better and change something.

[wizardjian]

well seems like lacking a brain does have its bad side... well time to find a new one, that shouldnt be too hard.

[YetiChow]

My first proper mod was to reduce the amount of water on the desert map, and that grew into adding wheat and a food source which could use the bakery (the now semi-famous Oasis Mod ). This is actually a simple change, but it explained most of the major mechanics so simply that most of my mods are based at least partially on this first mod. I find this is the best way to figure things out - finding a solution to a problem makes you think much more about what you're doing than just reading a tutorial or spamming/nerfing a statistic.

Just because you'll love this idea, why not try making a mod which turns your townies into zombies? You'd need to find the zombie graphics and use them to replace the generic townie graphics, and perhaps alter the stats to be more zombie-like. You could also have some of them be ghosts by using the <alt_graphics> tag, and have your heroes become vampires/skeletons. Of course, you'd have to find new skins for the monsters in the dungeon as well - perhaps nosey knights and zealous slayers (the knight skin, the barbarian skin, townie skins etc)?

This will give you an excellent grasp of the graphics, without having to fiddle around with your own new graphics. You could then try making your map more suitable for a master necromancer - add in vast swathes of barren dirt, lower the number of trees and animals, make raw meat a better food source (what self respecting zombie bothers cooking their meat when they can have it fresh?), give bone walls a roof etc. This may seem like a big and complicated mod, but if you do things one step at a time and check the explanations above the functional script, you should have no problems (plus, we're happy to help if you do have any issues of course).

[Tono4ham]

Yeh once you get the hang of what things do its fairly easy. I'm making custom colours for roads atm so that I can do semi-detailed pixel art. Its all just looking at other peoples mods and seeing how things work.