Name: Era II + WoG 3.58f [converted to mod]
Version: 2.461
Size: 84.6 MB
Download: Direct link
Alt. download: N/A.
Intro: Read
Requires: SoD/Complete, NOT WoG

Credits: Bes, Darkloke, Jim Vogan, Sav, solitaire345, Valery (Salamandre), ZVS, HC community and others.

Features:
Mod System.
Easily installed and uninstalled mods with advanced compatibility and extensibility, plugins and patches, mod manager and plugin manager with GUI (by SyDr).
Portability.
Game and mods are fully portable. No traditional installation process, registry problems or CD requirements (optional).
Advanced editor.
Integrated patch by GrayFace with mod support, custom plugins for editor, etc.
Supplied mods.
Yona (new battle hint, new creature abilities).
Fast Battle Animation (speeds-up sounds, pre-battle music, battle animation).
Secondary Skills Scrolling (no hidden skills, view up to 28 skills).
Lots of patches (see manual for details).
Custom buttons, objects packs, colored texts, improved multiplayer, dozens of tweaks, etc.

Goals.
Ability to use third-party plugins and patches.
Fix game and ERM scripting language bugs, make the development and debugging cycle for mods easier, make it easier to keep scripts compatibile with each other.
Extension of the ERM language with new commands and events.
Use of colored text in game dialogs.
Simplified mod installation.
Unification and standardization of game engine development.

Latest changes.

Version 2.4 August, 31.
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[+] GrayFace's patch for editor was updated. Passability editing dialog now understands mod system.
[+] Fixed battle hint and log for modified by ERM damage from towers, moat and magic.
[+] Added fix for handling of negative offsets in fonts. Author - Sav.
[+] Added ERM scripts preprocessing. A sequence of three and more exclamation characters is treated as a comment and cut from source code at loading. Old WoG maps will not show error dialog at start.
[+] Added fixes for fire elemental and hell baron by Bes.
[+] Added "all war machines in blacksmith.dll.off" plugin by baratorch. It allows to buy all machines of war in blacksmith.
[+] Fixed WoG campaign error.
[+] Updated ERM UN:V command. WoG version is 400 now, ERM version is Era version * 1000.
[+] MMArchive was updated by Chinese programmer to support *.pac extension.
[+] File "era.h" was updated and now supports MSVC 9. Author - Sav.
[+] Added text tables editor by GrayFace.
[+] Commanders and emissaries are displayed in editor.
[*] Mod list generation mechanism was changed to a fully portable variant. Game loads mod list from file "Mods\list.txt" now. The lower the mod is in the list, the higher its priority is. Duplicates and blanks are ignored, as well as not existent items. Mods which are not mentioned in the list are considered disabled.
[*] Mod manager, plugin manager and Era Start Menu were updated.
[*] Jim Vogan's scripts were updated, some of them received options in WoG menu.
[*] Emerald tower can be visited only once, as it was in original 3.58f.
[*] InstallMod was updated to satisfy the requirements.
[-] Fixed a critical bug in era.dll. If any mod folder had attributes, it was not added to mod list at game start.
[-] Fixed OnBattleMouseHint event. If player has detailed statistics off in battle options, damage arguments are set to -1.
[-] Fixed and improved logging.
[-] Fixed problem with Yona and "0 (0)" battle hint.
[-] Fixed Era 1.81..Era 2.4 code used to modify memory blocks.
[-] Fixed bug in text scanner. No more hangs because of colored strings if the form of "{~...}...{~".
[-] Fixed bug in secondary skills boost. Credits: Valery.

Version 2.3 June, 10.
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[+] Added support for negative z, e, y variables to all Era commands.
[+] Added DL-Dialogs editor by GrayFace. It's tool #16 in Era Start Menu.
[+] Added fixed snow objects for adventure map.
[+] Added updated lakes by Darkloke.
[+] Added support for "no secondary skills limit" patch to "battle academy" and "school of wizardry" scripts.
    Author: majaczek.
[*] Era Start Menu now displays current page number in title.
[*] If duplicates are found in zeobjts files, map editor reports error instead of crashing.
[*] Plugin "all war machines in blacksmith.dll.off" is considered deprecated and was removed.
[-] Fixed avwattak.def which caused rare crashes.

this is great bers,thaks.now a noob question:how do i install the previos wog mods?those packed in a .wog

Darty, thanks. You cannot install wog-archiives anymore. Their contents is to be converted into mods.

and...how do yo do that? :">

Mod is a folder with the same structure as game/wog 3.58f had. Resources are packed into snd/vid/pac archives using MMArchive.

Great job, but is it possible to use HiRez with this mod? If so, could you explain how to install HiRez on Era II?
Thanks in advance.

The same way as it's done on other version. HD 3.X can launch any executable file, afair. Still did not tested it.

Updated to 2.3.

Updated to 2.4.

I've made a small mod which notifies the number of retaliations a stack still has (red=none) and the number of spells remaining (eg:archangel, faerie dragon)
But I think it would display better with Yona. First I wanted to be mouse hovering related, but if the cursor is sword (attack action), it does not display. So I let it as right-click, if anyone has a better idea, improve it.

Display Retaliations



Right-click: retaliations
Ctrl+left-click: number of spells remaining

It should display even for attack cursor, strange. It was displayed when I wrote first script with half of Yona functionality in ERM. Of courser it would be nice to see on hover.

don't know why, works with all cursors except sword, tried both Yona and without, same. This was first:

!!MM0 will be triggered on the hex left/right/top/etc to target stack when sword cursor appears. Era added new trigger, better suitable for this case (77014 perhaps, look at era history log in Help).

Hmm, I have no idea how to use that function, from what I see it is either 77012 or 77013, but both are triggered when I press attack, not when hover mouse.

Would be something close to this? Not working...

That's because you have statistics turned off in battle options, so damage is not displayed on hover at all otherwise
!?FU77013;
!!IF:L^Hi^; would work.
Am I right?

Ah, forgot. If FU77013 triggers, then store the result in SN:W var and display in !?MM. MM will occur right after.