Possible MOD project

[I Must Be Crazy 2]

I am thinking about creating a Miria/Davin MOD that will allow them to advance levels while they are in your party. I also wish to add new combat taunts for them that will only be used when they have levelled up at least twice.

Here are a few issues I am concerned with:

1. New *.pro files and image files for Miria/Davin
I would need 10 of each. If I editted the party.txt file to point to my new *.pro files for their levelled-up counterparts, will the game automatically look for those new files or will it not recognize the references and behave strangely?

2. Combat taunts
Will I be able to make new combat taunts active in the game by simply editting the combatAI.txt file and adding new taunts of my own? Do I need to do something else to make the game recognize my new taunts as a possible floating text message? Is there a limit to the number of possible combat taunts for each character (that the game will choose from)?

 

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1. New *.pro files and image files for Miria/Davin
I would need 10 of each. If I editted the party.txt file to point to my new *.pro files for their levelled-up counterparts, will the game automatically look for those new files or will it not recognize the references and behave strangely?

I'm guessing the script should be assigned in the pro itself, though the game might be smart enough to do that (there's an option when creating a proto to specify the script so the game can surely do it by itself). Check how other NPCs' PROs work.

Will I be able to make new combat taunts active in the game by simply editting the combatAI.txt file and adding new taunts of my own? Do I need to do something else to make the game recognize my new taunts as a possible floating text message? Is there a limit to the number of possible combat taunts for each character (that the game will choose from)?

No one really knows, but technically it should work just fine, though of course to add taunts you'll need to edit combatai.msg too

 

[Jinxed]

Where is the party.txt file located?

 

[Demostrike]

in master.dat/data.