For now, and to keep her more challenging than the regular soldiers but not invincible, she has a PhysicalDamageResist of 55. I tested this setting with a player who uses 100% HP ammo regardless and they can live with it most comfortably. Yes, it would be decent to hear from other players. It is possible this HP ammo only player is a rarity in their choice and it will not be a thing elsewhere.
errornull said:In the case of the scoutHordeStageGS150 example, maxAlive=150 does seems high. I haven't paid much attention to these parameters yet as I've simply adopted the similar number ranges from the vanilla setup. But I may have to examine these maxAlive numbers soon. I've got a geforce RTX 2080 in my PC and I think it starts to lag and stutter once 60 or more zombies are on screen at the same time. If you skim through the vanilla gamestages.xml file, the spawners like SleeperGSList, ScoutGSList, and BloodMoonHorde all have maxAlive that goes up to 256.
Lovely, thank you. I shall also set her to 50 (as we put her back on at 55 even with the recent update) to ensure players see the value of upgrading weapon and penetration skill from earlier levels since she can appear from the outset.
In regards to any mods that are loaded before mine, my mod deletes the contents of many entitygroups they may be using and re-populates them with my own arrangement of vanilla+enZombies and their own spawn rates. If you don't want my mod to smudge up other mods in this way, you may need to rename my mod so that it is loaded before the other mods. Since your mod loads after mine, it should be mostly okay. Let me know if you notice any strange spawning behavior or errors.
Since you have a tuned server to manage, I would prob just ditch my custom spawning behavior and just pull the core enZombie code from entityclasses.xml and merge them into your existing files. It's a bit more tedious that way, but you have more control and prevent unintended glitches. Don't forget to copy over the 'itemshands' from items.xml, and the decos from 'buffs.xml'.
That's cool. Renaming my zombies is fine. If you could, just have a link or mod named somewhere in your website or discord or whatever so that anyone who wants to mention bugs, feedback, or try my mod for themselves can reach me here.
@[email protected] if you get to the google drive site like shown below, look for the download icon that at the upper right of the page.
thanks for letting me know. the yellow test zombies was an experiment to see if any mod is using the following vanilla animal groups:
if you're looking to change the visual height size of the zombies, you'll need to go into ARCHETYPES.XML. Find the section for the zombie you want and go to the <dna> portion. There you want find the <gene> tag that corresponds to the "height". Default value is 0.5, and normal ranges are from 0 to 1. The height for my giants are at 3.0. below is the dna xml for the forest giant. in contrast, my forest goblins have a height value of -2.0.
<dna>
<gene name="height" value="3.0"/>
<gene name="weight" value="1.2"/>
<gene name="muscle" value="1.3"/>
<gene name="gluteusSize" value="1.3"/> <!-- butt size -->
<gene name="headSize" value="2.0"/>
<gene name="headWidth" value="2.0"/>
<gene name="chinSize" value="1.0"/> <!-- 0 = pointy 1 = rounded -->
<gene name="jawsSize" value="1.0"/> <!-- 0 = thin 1 = wide -->
<gene name="jawsPosition" value="0.5"/> <!-- 0 = double chin 1 = high -->
<gene name="mandibleSize" value="1.5"/> <!-- 0 = small 1 = large -->
<gene name="lipsSize" value="3.0"/>
<gene name="mouthSize" value="3.0"/>
<gene name="noseWidth" value="3.0"/>
<gene name="noseInclination" value="1.0"/> <!-- 0 = down 1 = up -->
<gene name="handsSize" value="12.0"/>
<gene name="feetSize" value="14.0"/>
<gene name="earsSize" value="0.0"/>
<gene name="foreheadPosition" value="1.0"/> <!-- 0 = high eyebrows 1 = low eyebrows -->
<gene name="eyeSize" value="0.0"/> <!-- 0 = squinty 1 = wide open -->
</dna>