Legends of Urak New Quests Progress

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I have been trying so long to create a custom quest for Legends of Urak but could never get anything to work. Flash forward a few decades and that is still the case! Although I have made some progress so I thought I would chronicle that here in hopes somebody may also be interested. Maybe orzie will see this and come to my rescue [Laugh out Loud]! Seriously though Orzie probably has the most answers about this subject. I know Boaster will give valuable advice where he can. Anyone else wants to help please be my guest. Here is what I have so far:

• Got a leader to show up on the Legends Quest screen as a selectable journey
• Created a map with crudely customized encounters
• The Quest Text Description at least shows up
• The Legends of Urak quest opens without crashing

Here is what I DONT have:

• The Legends Quest just says "Select Water" rather than "Embark on the Water Quest"
• None of the intro and description .wav files play audio when I choose the Water Quest and when I start the Quest
• The Champion Menu has no text and is blank
• The special Rules and quest Adventures do NOT appear and do NOT update
• I have little control of what army/artifacts spawn with my Leader, right now I seem to spawn with the Death Quest army/artifacts
• There is no Next Turn Faith Dial present until I lose my first encounter and load Last Save. Where now Earth and Air have armies along with marauders
• The Lose and Win .smk does NOT play when losing or winning.

Other than that, I have a barely functioning Legends of Urak Quest which basically plays like a Custom Game except I am selecting it from the Legends of Urak menu.

First step I created a small map in the Map Editor. Then I renamed the file to have the .LGD extension rather than the .SMP extension. I tried to create a small quest with like five encounters before the final battle.
I will go into more detail later as I have not touched this in months due to the frustrating nature of editing code to check with trial and error but these are the files I modified and/or created:

gs\

dungeons_ext.gs

dungtext.gs

LEADER5.GS 115

LEVLMODS5.gs

questool.gs

quest.gs

fire.gs

water.gs

SCENARIO5.gs

TEXTDICT5.gs

unittype.gs

gs5_global.gs

textdict.gs - 1254

ARTFTOOL5.gs
gs\dungeons\water




As you can see this is a huge work in progress. I would be super happy just to get the .wav and .smk files to play as these have always been unique to LoU quests. I have tried with custom .wav and .smk files and just copying and renaming existing files to no avail. I will update later the changes I made to each gs file and the new ones I made to let any of this be possible. 

[Boaster]

Orzie would be the one to give all the valuable advice he can. He did, at one point, release a Legends of Urak guide on how to create things. Search around the forum, and you might find it. Otherwise, he may need to re-post.

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I think he took it down; I have not had any luck finding it here or on his website. In my very first post he did mention he planned to release the guide of the Legends of Urak Quests but only AFTER he releases his Life Quest.
If you talk to him or if you see this orzie then maybe, he can be convinced to take donations in exchange for whatever he is willing to share. Kind of like how the GSM is available for those who would like to learn. 

Until then it is trial and error, and though it feels like I am doing surgery with rocks as my only tools I am just happy to have some progress finally made. I will update soon just spread out. Took a few hours to play and enjoy the game for first time in months. 

[Boaster]

Feb 14, 2023 13:04:20 GMT -6 eyesodilated said:

I think he took it down; I have not had any luck finding it here or on his website. In my very first post he did mention he planned to release the guide of the Legends of Urak Quests but only AFTER he releases his Life Quest.
If you talk to him or if you see this orzie then maybe, he can be convinced to take donations in exchange for whatever he is willing to share. Kind of like how the GSM is available for those who would like to learn. 

Until then it is trial and error, and though it feels like I am doing surgery with rocks as my only tools I am just happy to have some progress finally made. I will update soon just spread out. Took a few hours to play and enjoy the game for first time in months. 

This is kind of how things started for me way back in 05 or 06 with modding. Just built up my knowledge over time, times and half a time... or something like that

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Feb 14, 2023 16:08:53 GMT -6 Boaster said:

Feb 14, 2023 13:04:20 GMT -6 eyesodilated said:

I think he took it down; I have not had any luck finding it here or on his website. In my very first post he did mention he planned to release the guide of the Legends of Urak Quests but only AFTER he releases his Life Quest.
If you talk to him or if you see this orzie then maybe, he can be convinced to take donations in exchange for whatever he is willing to share. Kind of like how the GSM is available for those who would like to learn. 

Until then it is trial and error, and though it feels like I am doing surgery with rocks as my only tools I am just happy to have some progress finally made. I will update soon just spread out. Took a few hours to play and enjoy the game for first time in months. 

This is kind of how things started for me way back in 05 or 06 with modding. Just built up my knowledge over time, times and half a time... or something like that

Yes, I need to be more careful and deliberate with my coding. For some reason it does not like when I try to add my champion's data in the LEADERS or SCENARIO. Probably because I am messing up a delicate table or array by haphazardly adding my quest. I think I will scale back to a 1 encounter quest see if I can make it work- Thanks for the advice!

[eyesodilated]

Also found orzie 's post Life Quest here that is basically a guide. I had some of the files needed but didn't know EXACTLY why it was needed. But he left enough clues to have a chance creating a functioning quest.
Thanks for the advice