thestormdragon

Sorry late answer to this, not to many H3 modders on the Nexus. There is one way actually to do this that I know of. If you have ever heard of the VCMI mod for H3 with it and any town mod made for it you can change some aspects of the hero in the hero configuration file for that hero. There are also portrait bmp files usually in the mod that are simple hero icon pictures too. They are easy to change with GIMP just keep the same size and format as the original and you are good to go. I recently did some changes to a hero for one of the VCMI town mods I downloaded, changing the bio and name of the hero in the configuration file for it. I think you can change other stats too like hero abilities too in this file. There is a learning curve here though. You need to understand something of VCMIs configuration files and their structure. They have a good wiki that helps with this. I also seem to recall that it is possible to adjust some of the hero's abilities for a random hero type or a generic hero type (castle, rampart, ect.) in the H3 editor, but its been awhile and I could be mixing this up with the H5 editor. One thing I do know for sure is any custom hero created has to be associated with a town either an existing one in H3 or a modded one. Doing one for existing H3 towns is much harder and requires a few H3 modding tools. I would recommend VCMI and changing a hero in one of the town mods instead, much easier. Also unlike existing H3 editor it is much easier to add to the VCMI map editor a new hero or customized existing one. You might be able to do some of this in ERA for Wake of the Gods (WOG) too, but I am not familiar with how to do this. Good luck.

One thing that has stood out as a bad annoyance is the fact that if you want to filter a search to only show mods in English you have to click off the translations attribute for each search page you open up each time instead of just being able to set in site preferences not to show translations only once and be done with it. If you try limiting by language to mods only in English then mods in English and another language are also blocked making this an in-accurate way to filter by language. Only clicking off the translations filter attribute seems to leave these mod pages still showing up. You already have a button that allows only translations to show. Why not have a button or option that works in site preferences and search filters like the other one that only allow for English mod pages and those in both English and another language on the same mod page. So multiple translations of the same mod in another language (solely in that language) can be filtered out just once instead of half a dozen times. Also an option to block just images on a mod page and not the page itself or its downloads would be nice too. Sometimes one might want to look at a page listed under adult content but not see images on it that border on the pornographic and very offensive. This is supposed to be a mod site not a porno site Some images posted go way beyond good taste even for adults who are open minded.

This is an update to my earlier post. It happened again. This time it was on the mod main page. I was copying/downloading images for a record of what the mod contains - my habit- to an older version of Microsoft Word I own - the 2003 version and had just finished getting the last image I wanted when the same glitch I described above happened again. This is the first time its happened like this. I wasn't doing anything at the point the glitch occurred but looking at the screen. I use Firefox and a downloader integrated with Firefox, but not its own downloader. I wasn't using my downloader this time. Don't need it for images - they are handled differently. Also I can definitely confirm that it isn't a local problem with my computer. I have been downloading files for years from the Nexus for various games and never had a problem like this before the Jan 6 update and have been using the same programs for years for processing downloads. I do use McAfee but again used it for years and downloaded from the Nexus without a problem until the Jan 6 update. So no its not McAfee. Also many users on this site probably use McAfee and some kind of downloader program too. Firefox also is very common. Also I am not in incognito mode on Firefox or using a VPN. So no to that as well. I wish the answer was it was my bug then I could fix it easily - but sadly it is not. Would using an adblocker cause this bug?. I know advertising is a necessary evil, but with being spammed everywhere with ads these days I do sometimes use an adblocker integrated into Firefox for security reasons and stability on web pages. Too high a risk from not so nice web users out there using click bait scams and viruses today. I believe the web should be a safe place to browse as it was mostly in its beginning. If I notice anymore weird behavior from this bug I will try to note it in the post. Bug troubleshooting can be a real pain. I have many years of experience myself in this realm. On other thing of note I usually have a good many mod pages open at once in my browser and typically download a good number of files over a number of hours. I like to multitask when picking various mods and I'm downloading mods I like for a newly modded game that uses lots of mods - so big project. I try to be more efficient this way in getting the files I need. I do not know if others work like I do when it comes to acquiring the mods they want or they just download a few files or one or two mods and have very few tabs open on their browser to the site. I might be the exception to the rule there and it could be a volume issue with having a lot of multiple tabs open to the site and downloading a lot of files over a number of hours that causes the error to occur. Just a thought. Outside of this glitch most everything else works normally so if it turns out it is me, then I can live with it. Thanks for your reply.

I'm still trying to figure out if the information page for premium subscription popping up randomly and redirecting off the downloading speed page is a bug or not, I think it is. One time I was watching the counter for the download countdown to the file downloading and this happened. I think its supposed to be connected to your premium subscription ad banner if you clicked on that, but I didn't and it pops up like regular spam off and on when I am in the middle of downloading a file redirecting me away from the files link page or even the file listing page sometimes. I noticed this has been happening ever since the Jan update of your system.

I noticed something like this too. Especially when downloading a lot of files over several hours. Sometimes a file shows up after downloading as downloaded and the download date as normal. Other times no indicator that the file was downloaded or when shows up after downloading the file. This seems to happen at random, and more often with smaller files, but not always. Later - a day or more later the file does usually show up as downloaded and the date. I generally download manually instead of through vortex. I've definitely notice this since the update earlier in Jan., but I think it was occurring before that. Related to this subject of download history - is there a feature that lets you just view your past downloaded mods and see if there are updates for them? If not such a feature sure would be nice for everyone to have access to.

I've looked for new nif exporters for blender 2.8 as well and haven't found any so preferring 2.8 I do my modeling in it and export the model as an object (OBJ format) which can then be opened in blender 2.49 and exported as a nif. This is the only way I know of doing this until someone creates a new blender 2.8 nif exporter that works. Also I think on most versions of nifskope both OBJ and 3DS formats can be exported. I think the 3DS format might export cleaner. I think blender 2.8 opens both types of formats.

I didn't think about adblockers causing this thanks.

I don't know if this has been posted or even brought up before. I don't have a problem with the speed limit for free downloads, but I saw in one place on the Nexus it was 1MB per second and in another place 2MB per second for a free account download. I see in actuality it is 1MB per second cap. I think on download files pages for mods where the flag at the top shows 2MB per second needs to be corrected to show 1MB per second download speed cap for free users or raise the speed to actually 2MB per second cap if that is what is really intended, If an admin sees this post can it be passed on to those that can fix this error? The incorrect message shows at the top of all download pages under the files tab for mods where the files are listed to download. (I have seen this at least for Morrowind mods).