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I have seen several people on t3a who have had trouble adding a new hero for bfme2 & rotwk so I figured that I would make a tutorial. This tutorial will take you through the basics of adding a new hero. If you wish to do more advanced things, such as add custom abilities, palantir images, ect, refer to another tutorial.

First, the files we will be editing in this tutorial are-

glorfindel.ini
lotr.str
commandset.ini
yourhero.ini
playertemplate.ini
skirmishaidata.ini
gamedata.ini

So in this tutorial we will be basing the creation of our new hero on Fingolfin to the elves.

First, find glorfindel's ini file which will be in data\INI\object\goodfaction\units\elven

open it up, and copy the file. paste it, then rename it to 'Fingolfin'

now open up fingolfin.ini.

first off, the most important thing to do is change the object name to ElvenFingolfin or something of that sort. Or else when you go to play the game the game will read the file as a duplicate of glorfindel.ini.

As you study the ini file, you will notice a large portion of it is taken up by AnimationStates. This is what gives the model its appropriate appearance in game. You can probably find a useful tutorial on making or adding animations.

If you have a custom model for your hero, assuming that it has been referenced and the asset.dat has been created, just change the model in the defaultmodelconditionstate to whatever your model is named.

now, as you scroll down you will notice design perimiters. This has things like build cost, build times, commandsets, ect. You can change the build costs and build times by changing these lines of code-

              

Code

BuildCost = GLORFINDEL_BUILDCOST     BuildTime = GLORFINDEL_BUILDTIME

just change the build cost and build time to what you wish it to be.

Creating a custom commandset is completely optional, but is suggested as it will add more customization to your mod. If you wish to add a new commandset for your hero, go on to the next page.