A new pretender. The King in Yellow

[Iffriel]

Robert W Chambers once wrote a book that really resounded well with me, about a group of people at the turn of the last century, people connected by a play that existed in their version of the world entitled The King In Yellow. Now, I'm trying to bring that very king to life, the mad king in tattered yellow robes slipping his greesey tendrils into your dreams and wrenching them out to be his grim toys.

I've made two sprites for this god, writen his description and as far as I can tell written him a DM file with no conflicts but I just can't seem to get him to work.

So I'm uploading what I've done here in the hopes that you might be able to help me get this enigmatic character ingame and working. Here's hoping.

#modname "The Carcosian Spirit"
#description "Dom3 Unit Maker, by ParadoxHarbinger"
#newmonster 2999
#spr1 "C:\Program Files\dominions3\mods\the King in Yellow copy tga.tga"
#spr2 "C:\Program Files\dominions3\mods\the King in Yellow - attacking tga.tga"
#name "Carcosian Spirit"
#descr "A spirit from dim Carcosa, the black city built long before those who now inhabit it arived and took shelter there, a city at the edge of the lake of Harli, twin suns setting beneith it's waters and where black starst shine in the sky. He is a festering insipid spirit, his yellow tattered robs and palid mask hang beneith a sickly golden crown. Creeping into your dreams he whispers of great things and promises he will not keep, and you will wear his yellow sign and become his servant, forgetting all he has offered you."
#hp 42
#size 2
#ressize 2
#prot 16
#mor 40
#mr 20
#enc 3
#str 14
#att 12
#def 9
#prec 17
#mapmove 3
#ap 10
#gcost 0
#rcost 0
#weapon 85 -- Tentacle
#weapon 481 -- Touch of Madness
#expertleader
#superiormagicleader
#okundeadleader
#startdom 3
#pathcost 19
#itemslots 28678 -- two hands, three misc
#magicskill 1 2
#magicskill 2 2
#magicskill 4 2
#magicskill 5 2
#custommagic 6144 100
#custommagic 6912 50
#amphibian
#ethereal
#magicbeing
#neednoteat
#assassin
#illusion
#stealthy 2
#heal
#reinvigoration 2
#fear 15
#incunrest 10
#end

The game always spits out the error - myloadmalloc: can't open ./mods/C:\Program Files\dominion3\mods\the King in Yellow copy tgs.tga

this is whenever I try to start a new game with him or use the create a pretender function, I've not got very good coding knowledge but I've tried all i can and am now at a loose end, I hope you'll be able to help

thanks

Iffy.

[Thanatus del Dragos]

Maybe the guy has way too many abilities.

[llamabeast]

Change these lines:

#spr1 "C:\Program Files\dominions3\mods\the King in Yellow copy tga.tga"
#spr2 "C:\Program Files\dominions3\mods\the King in Yellow - attacking tga.tga"

To these:

#spr1 "the King in Yellow copy tga.tga"
#spr2 "the King in Yellow - attacking tga.tga"

[brxbrx]

why reinvigoration?

and who in their right mind would use their pretender as an assassin? That just seems foolhardy.

Maybe a high level summon would make more sense?

[Soyweiser]

Fear 15 on a assassin?

Ps: Wrong subforum.

[llamabeast]

Also pretenders do not normally have random magic paths. So yes, I'd suggest a high level summon might work better. But, I like the creativity.

[Iffriel]

The assassin atribute fits into one of the stories in which the King himself stalks an man through Paris in the twilight, eventualy killing him not through direct action but through the man's own fear of his persuier.
It's more to be in keeping of his character then somthing to be actualy used.

[Iffriel]

Well, He's showing up in game now, though he's not able to enter combat, the game now throws up a new error - pointless unitfx

I've also made some amendments to his atributes that's less over powered

#modname "The Carcosian Spirit"
#description "Dom3 Unit Maker, by ParadoxHarbinger"
#newmonster 2999
#spr1 "the King in Yellow copy tga.tga"
#spr2 "the King in Yellow - attacking tga.tga" 
#name "Carcosian Spirit"
#descr "A spirit from dim Carcosa, the black city built long before 

those who now inhabit it arived and took shelter there, a city at the 

edge of the lake of Harli, twin suns setting beneith it's waters and 

where black stars shine in the sky. He is a festering insipid spirit, 

his yellow tattered robs and palid mask hang beneith a sickly golden 

crown. Creeping into your dreams he whispers of great things and 

promises he will not keep, and you will wear his yellow sign and 

become his servant, forgetting all he has offered you."
#hp 42
#size 2
#ressize 2
#prot 16
#mor 40
#mr 20
#enc 3
#str 14
#att 12
#def 9
#prec 17
#mapmove 3
#ap 10
#gcost 0
#rcost 0
#weapon 85 -- Tentacle
#weapon 369 -- Curse
#weapon 395 -- Shadow Brand
#expertleader
#superiormagicleader
#okundeadleader
#startdom 3
#pathcost 47
#itemslots 28678 -- two hands, three misc
#magicskill 4 2
#magicskill 5 2
#amphibian
#ethereal
#magicbeing
#neednoteat
#assassin
#illusion
#stealthy 2
#heal
#reinvigoration 2
#fear 15
#incunrest 10
#end

[brxbrx]

i still think it'd make more sense as a level nine conjuration summon

[Iffriel]

Originally Posted by brxbrx

i still think it'd make more sense as a level nine conjuration summon

I'm afraid I don't know the code for that, or what he would summon, I'm very new to the game. Any thoughts on this pointless unitfx thing?


BY THE WAY If anyway wants me to send them the sprites I made for him tell me and I'll put them up on a site to download