Buffing monsters

[bumbulator]

Yeah, I was thinking of using single-use crystals, too.

Okay, so I think I'll download Master Quest. If I want to tweak the monsters, how can I do that?

[bumbulator]

My first LoG2 game used the options of Ironman, and Single Use Crystals; that was quite an intense challenge for me.

For LoG2, it is —mostly— possible to upgrade the default monsters that are placed on the maps. This won't affect those that are dynamically created via scripts. It requires console access, and running a carefully formatted one line script.

It would entail iterating through every level, and altering every monster object via script.

If there is a guide or something that I can use for this, that would be amazing.

[Isaac]

Okay, so I think I'll download Master Quest. If I want to tweak the monsters, how can I do that?

You can alter any monster definitions in the monsters.lua file, in the mod's scripts folder, and add/copy/paste/edit entries from the asset pack that are not in the mod's monsters.lua file.

*Each game has its own asset pack.
LoG1: http://www.grimrock.net/modding/asset-pack/
LoG2: http://www.grimrock.net/modding/grimrock-2-asset-pack/

If there is a guide or something that I can use for this, that would be amazing.

There is no guide per se... but there is an updated scripting reference that lists what the many values mean, or at least what data is expected for them.

https://github.com/JKos/log2doc/wiki/

[bumbulator]

Woah, cool. But you said there was a console script or something that I could run on each map but you haven't said how.

[7Soul]

Here's an example you can paste into the console to increase all existing monster's hp by 20% (be sure there's a space after each line)

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local success 
for m=1,Dungeon.getMaxLevels() do 
	for ent in Dungeon.getMap(m):allEntities() do 
		if ent.monster then 
			local health = ent.monster:getMaxHealth() 
			ent.monster:setMaxHealth(health * 1.2) 
			ent.monster:setHealth(health * 1.2) 
			success = true 
		end 
	end 
end 
if success then print("Complete!") end

[Isaac]

The console is disabled by default, so it must first be enabled to use it.

You must edit the game's .cfg file for this; usually found in \Documents\Almost Human\Legend of Grimrock , and similar for LoG2.

In grimrock.cfg, change : console = false to console = true.

Afterwards, in the game, you should be able to open the console during play. This allows for executing script commands during the game.

*This enables basically any kind of cheat too.

**Notice that in 7soul's code (as mentioned), that every line has a space behind it if another line follows it. Without this, the script won't run in the console as a single line—the lack of spaces would cause errors.

[bumbulator]

Few questions:

1.) The code that 7Soul posted, would I have to paste that in each map or just once per playthrough?
2.) Is there one for enemy damage?
3.) Master Quest does not have a mod_asset folder in the default download but it does in the source folder. Where would I put the mod_asset folder? In the Dungeon folder in My Documents?

[Isaac]

The code intends to update every map.

As for the Master Quest mod... to change it, you would load the source version, make your changes, then export it as a new mod, and play that one.

2.) Is there one for enemy damage?

See the afore-linked wiki.

https://github.com/JKos/log2doc/wiki/Co ... ncomponent

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ent.monster:setAttackPower(ent.monster:setAttackPower() * 1.2)

[bumbulator]

"As for the Master Quest mod... to change it, you would load the source version, make your changes, then export it as a new mod, and play that one."



How do I do this?

[bumbulator]

By the way, for some reason, I am unable to edit Master Quest's monster.lua file.