Tutorial Making a regular non-hero unit a hero

[soulreaping]

Hey,

This is a quick tutorial on how to make a regular unit a hero, without making a custom hero and changing its model.

To do so, you need the NewGen pack.

If you don't have NewGen pack yet, go download it from here.

After you enter NewGen, go to the Grimoire menu and check if "enable object editor hack" is on.

If not, turn it on.

I always wanted to have a peasant hero.

So, let's get to it:

First, we go to the object editor and choose us a peasant.

Then we right-click and click New custom unit.

We click 'Ok' and we get a small window asking to enter the unit's rawcode.

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Now we need to change the lowercase 'h' to an uppercase 'h':

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Now we click 'Ok'. Notice the red-bordered areas.

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Well that's it, pretty easy and quick tutorial.

Hope I helped!

 

[Drunken_God]

maybe add some links like where to dl NewGen pack
EDIT: gj +rep

 

[cr4xzZz]

OMG that's sweet.. Didn't know that

 

[Drunken_God]

i tested it but you first have to enable the Enable Object Editor hack

 

[soulreaping]

Didn't know that, I guess it was on by default.

I'll update my post.

 

[emjlr3]

holy shit I never knew that, + rep

 

[Cohadar]

holy shit I never knew that, + rep

Perhaps maybe because it was not possible in previous version of NewGen?
Maybe even PitzerMike did not know about that

 

[Flare]

cool, but cant you just create custom hero based on normal hero, and change all his stats/visuals etc to make it seem like he is a peasant? nice work tho, never knew that NewGen could do that

 

[Quauhtli]

cool, but cant you just create custom hero based on normal hero, and change all his stats/visuals etc to make it seem like he is a peasant? nice work tho, never knew that NewGen could do that

Why all the effort when you can do that all in one click, and two presses on the keyboard

 

[PitzerMike]

Yeah, I knew that the uppercase letter made it a hero.
But I never had that use case in mind when I made the hack.

 

[Cohadar]

LoL I was right.
Well object editor hack is awesome in general.

I can finally do stuff like naming my ability Ids 'Aorb', 'Bmod', naming units 'dumy', 'omfg' and similar

 

[13lade619]

this is a great thing to share... you even surprised emljr3...

especially now that new members are frequently posting "how to turn units to heroes" threads.