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questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 7:11 am
by mautschi
What does "Branch" mean ? In which column a hero appear ?
And another one:
Is it possible to change the chance of appearance of a certain bonus by editing these numbers ?
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Attack Defense Initiative Movement Spotting Range
0 10 20 30 40 50
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:35 pm
by Rudankort
heroes.pzdat file is not used by the game, yet.
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:27 am
by mautschi
Thanks a lot
So the distribution of air and ground heroes is hardcoded then ?
Is an option available to change the heroes names ?
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:37 am
by Rudankort
mautschi wrote:
So the distribution of air and ground heroes is hardcoded then ?
For now, yes. This will change when we release the first allied campaign.
mautschi wrote:
Is an option available to change the heroes names ?
Hero names are in strings.pzdat file, and can be changed there.
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:39 pm
by mautschi
Thank you !

Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 1:22 pm
by mautschi
mautschi wrote:What does "Branch" mean ?
I guess:
0 = ground units
1 = air units
2 = naval units
?
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:40 am
by Rudankort
Your guess is right.

Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:00 pm
by mautschi
Rudankort wrote:Your guess is right.

Thanks again !

Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:20 am
by asuser
Hello,
does anyone know how to mark naval units with naval heroes? According to the values (class?) in the eqp file for ground and air units it should be done for the naval units (somewhere) with the "special" flag to load the images of naval heroes?
Greetings!
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:21 am
by Horst
I've added my random Captain like this in heroes.pzdat:
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#Flag Branch Class Image File
0 2 -1 CaptainIglo.png
I haven't tested it with Class, but I guess it should work too for only carriers (13), capital ships (12), destroyers/attack-boats (11), submarines (10) and river-boats (19) if you add the class code.

Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:23 pm
by asuser
Hello Horst,
thank you for the help. Funny idea with captain Ig.. (is there a copyright problem?). After updating to patch 1.20 i just wondering about the additional values for US and British heroes. That means also with version 1.20 the heroes.pzdat file is now used by the game. I will try it with my new Italian Decima MAS units (Manned Torpedo and MTM Boat - look at the latest updates in the Guille thread).
Greetings!
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:55 am
by asuser
...It works!

- NavalHero01.png (135.45 KiB) Viewed 3847 times
The values 0, 2, -1 are ok, the -1 for class define that it is used for all types of naval units.
Greetings!
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2016 11:17 pm
by Kolaris
Rudankort wrote:mautschi wrote:
So the distribution of air and ground heroes is hardcoded then ?
For now, yes. This will change when we release the first allied campaign.
Did this ever come about? heroes.pzdat seems to be only for names and portraits now, and any weights or values for the stats of heroes seems to be absent.
Re: questions about heroes.pzdat
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:48 am
by Horst
Changing random hero bonuses is unfortunately not possible with 1.25 in any pzdat file yet. I would love to do this too since ages.