from the looks of the spelllist it seems you would need at least two more prereqOR promotions?
Like for Melf's meteors:
Evocation/Alteration/Earth
Hmm, I think I will have to add a PrereqOr
It doesn't seem you plan diversifying the spells for different civs? PrereqORs combined with PrereqAnd promotions gives great flexibility about that, it's what I use in the WH mod. but it's true that's just my concern
Spells will be the same for all civs; but some leader traits will make spells more powerful.
How do you implement the level, will this be tied to the unitlevel? Or a nine promotionsystem?
For the first draft of the spell system, I will not implement the level, just to a multi-tiered promotion system (ie Evocation I, Evocation II) When the first draft of the spell system is completed, I'll return to it and have it be based on unit level per D&D rules.(You can not cast a 2nd level spell until the unit is level 4, with a new spell level being gained every 2 levels. Thus 9th level spells are available at level 18)
Edit: in any case please do me the favor of commenting your spellsystem well! If you make those bloody targetsystem work with the AI I couldn't resist stealing it
I'll try to comment my code as well as possible, and group all the spell casting functions together.
I'm particularly concerned about magic missles. They might be difficult to implement with nice fitting effects unless you find a way to move such an effect from the caster to the targettile during the castingaction and give also a proper rotation to the nif(maybe a temporary create unit - like FHH fireball - move unit, delete unit respectively attack with unit explode after combat might do the job but I'm not sure if that can be done, currently in FFH what makes the spllunitconcept kind of crappy is that the player has to move and attack with them. If that action is performed by the game after he selected a tile it would be fine). Two effecttags alone just will be good for spelleffects like Pillar of Fire and similar stuff.
For magic missiles...If I have my targetting system in place, I can spawn the missile unit on the caster's plot, and then move that unit to the targetted plot and let it do its kamakazee attack with explosion.
All that will be needed is the targetting system, the rest is easy.
What about damagetypes? - fire, lightning, acid etc.
For damage types, I have asked Vehem to work on implementing that code. No idea on the status of it. Unfortunately for me, I still have not been able to figure out how the battle system works
That prevents me from adding the damage types myself.
what about multiple add/remove promotion tags? i find that in WH when ive wanted to make some spells i havent had enough slots in the remove promotion tags.
I have not had a need yet for multiple add/remove promotion tags. If and when I find that I need them, I will add them.
). I believe some modmodders are trying to improve it. It might be worthwhile to wait for that.
