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changin spells in spellbook

[Michal]

Hallo. I have started with playing this famous game and I have an serious problem. I dont know how to change spells in spellbook of my bright wizard. In any mission i can cast only dispel magic, fireball and teleport and thats all. In managing part of Dark Omen i can only looking to spellbook at new spells but I cant changing them. Thats sucks.  Please help me, I need to cast more powerfull spells than teleport.

btw : I have original version, and I am playing this game on PC with Windows XP. Thanks.

[CidHalsey]

Simple answer - You can't.

Spells are randomly allocated to each wizard at the start of the battle. What you get, is what you get. A higher level and a certain magic item will allow you to cast more spells, thus increasing your chances of getting a particular one, but that's all.

[lordbraprus]

yeah like he said, i mean you tried to make your mage pass to next lvl ? XD it will add a new magic

[Michal]

Really?  I have spend all day by looking on internet, reading manual and finding an answer. And spells are randomly generated.... Funny  Thanks you boys. I can go to bed and i will be sleep quietly. 

[lordbraprus]

if "sarcasm" would be a warhammer atribute, iam sure michal would have 10 :S

[cuthalion]

Well,
actually Editing CTL allows to provide your mage with spells at your choice in a particular mission.
The problem is the random set of the spells isn't removed from the book. So I failed to 'disable' a spell I didn't want my mage to have on a certain mission.
And besides, I didn't test what happens if a mage casts a 'duplicated' spell (given at random + is set in ctl), it may be nothing but may cause crash.

[Darkmancer]

There actually may be a way round this.

In multiplayer at least it is possible to assign spells to a unit without giving it a magic book.  They key is that another unit on your or the enemies side must have the correct magic book(s).  For my mod BP, i used auto deploying unit with zero health.  As soon as the game started those units would die but the unit the player chose remained with the assigned spells working.

I can think of several ways this could be implemented in a single player campaign to make units have set spells on set levels, however the usual trial and error will be needed to confirm it works.

* Give the book to an  enemy unit.
* Give the book to a neutral Unit
* Give the book to an uncontrollable friendly unit
* Give the book to an autodeploying unit with 0 health

[cuthalion]

* Give the book to an uncontrollable friendly unit

Can friendly units be uncontrollable? I actually placed 'neutral' units instead of friendly ones because I didn't want them to be half-controllable like it's in RoTD I tested a bit. But neutral units suffer from Banner of Wrath, unfortunately.

Probably I should have set a certain flag in CTL script and make them uncontrollable? I am not sure if it is possible.

Anyway, I will play with your suggestions, though I suspect that ctl will allow using spells even w/o any books on the battle field. Until now I had a feeling it was so, but the only battle I tested my Night Goblins with Conflagration of Doom was when enemy had Bright Wizard in their army. I will see...

[Darkmancer]

Again this might apply only to multiplayer.

The game seems to use the ice/dark/etc magic book as a cue to load the relevant spell icons, effects,and 3d models.

The exception to this is certain fire spells, specifically any (fire) magic spell that does not require a 3d model.  These spells do not need a magic book, presumably because the effects are already loaded up for use with fire based magic items.

(burning head and conflag require 3d models)

[olly]

Yeah the mixed magic in Black prophecy was so cool!



I really liked the Spider's new Web Spell!



We should all play it again soon...