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Now for the units providing Eowyn with a cover.

The following piece of code should be inserted somewhere among the other behavior code of the units providing cover, meaning the Rohirrim (riders) and the Peasants (if you have reintroduced them to your mod, as we did with S.E.E.).

The files' names (and Object names) are:

'data\ini\object\goodfaction\units\men\rohanrohirrim.ini' (Object RohanRohirrim)
'data\ini\object\neutral\neutralunits.ini' (Object RohanPeasant1)

If you do this for RohanPeasant1, all the other Peasant variants will benefit from this too, because they are Childobjects of RohanPeasant1.

This is the Code:

              

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;----------------- Start Disguise Aura --------------     Behavior = AttributeModifierAuraUpdate ModuleTag_EowynDisguiseAura         StartsActive    = No ;If no, requires upgrade to turn on.         BonusName        = EowynDisguiseModifier_SEE         TriggeredBy        = Upgrade_EowynConditionDisguised_SEE         RefreshDelay    = 1000         Range            = 100         AntiCategory    = BUFF         ObjectFilter    = NONE +RohanEowyn ALLIES     End         Behavior = UnpauseSpecialPowerUpgrade ModuleTag_UnpauseEowynDisguiseAura         SpecialPowerTemplate = SpecialAbilityFakeLeadership         TriggeredBy = Upgrade_EowynConditionDisguised_SEE     End     Behavior = SpecialPowerModule ModuleTag_EowynDisguiseAuraUpdate         SpecialPowerTemplate = SpecialAbilityFakeLeadership         UpdateModuleStartsAttack = No         StartsPaused = Yes     End

Looking a bit more closely, you see that this Aura, much like a leadership aura, only affects eowyn. And it provides her with an Attributemodifier that you will have to define in 'attributemodifiers.ini', which would look like this:

              

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ModifierList EowynDisguiseModifier_SEE     Category = SPELL     Duration = 3000            // Duration is forever when set to 0     ModelCondition = USER_1 End

As you can see, all the aura of the rohirrim does is give Eowyn the ModelCondition USER_1 while she is around, and then only if the PLAYER Upgrade 'Upgrade_EowynConditionDisguised_SEE' has been acquired. How that is done you will see on page 4.


Note 1: The 'Duration' of the Modifier needs to be higher than the Refreshdelay of the AuraUpdate, otherwise the disguise will stutter on and off. The duration also signifies about how long the disguise will keep on working even if she leaves the aura of the rohirrim. A maximum of 3 seconds in this case.

Note 2: Totally unimportant for our purposes here, but you might implement different Updates for Rohirrim and Peasants that only work when Eowyn is mounted (for the rohirrim) or on foot (for the peasants). But we don't need to go into that right now...


The Upgrades

The next thing you should do, if you haven't already, is to define the upgrades that have been used in the code so far. You do this inside the file 'upgrade.ini'. There is a lot of similiar code in there. Our upgrades need only the smallest amount of detail, as you cannot buy them, they have no builttimes, etc. So it would like this:

              

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;------------------ Eowyn's disguise triggers Upgrade Upgrade_EowynConditionDisguised_SEE     Type                = PLAYER End Upgrade Upgrade_EowynConditionStealthed_SEE     Type                = OBJECT End Upgrade Upgrade_EowynConditionNotStealthed_SEE     Type                = OBJECT End

The acquisition of the first Upgrade (a PLAYER upgrade, and therefor global) is the trigger without which the covering auras of the Peasants and Riders wouldn't work.

The other two OBJECT-upgrades are needed for Eowyns personal InvisibilityUpdate and are for that reason on the OBJECT-Level. The Aura of the Rohirrim (triggered if she is disguised) provide Eowyn with the ModelCondition USER_1 when she is in range. The presence (and removal) of USER_1 in turn provides Eowyn with the needed upgrade that activates her actual InvisibilityUpdate (or deactivates it). This works via the files 'scriptevents.xml' and 'scripts.lua'.

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