WBC 3 Hero Editors, XCR Editor and Army Editor

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This is a compilation of all I found.

why cant i edit graphics? so many games enjoy much more popularity with their moddable contents. if there is going to be a WBC4 i believe its 3d while wbc3 is still in 2d. why cant they open source the game itself.

Well you can edit the sprites and remake the sprites entirely with the RLE editor, but a conversion to 3d from 2d would require a complete remake.

trust me the rle editor available doesnt work for me. there is only a rle to bmp converter but it does convert back at all. the rle files for wbc3 and previous work is encoded written in their own c language. i did appy for the nda but as far as i know i was rejected. this is bullsh*t. seriously come on, i only like 2 rts and 1 turn based strategy for my entire life. warlords battlecry series is one of them. surely they can reward a hardcore fan with a modding tool right.

Did you speak to BookOfJ on the Battlefield forums?

It is the last WBC3 Modding Community.

Thank's for posting this, mate.

is there an RLE editor for WBC3?  If so can anyone post it here?

Well there is the RLE->BMP convertor
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And BMP to RLE Convertor
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Thank you for such a quick response!  I hope you don't find this uncouth, because I love WBC3, however I am trying to get sprites out of the game and convert them into SLPs for AOK.  This helps a ton.  You're awesome.

You're welcome!

Don't know if people come here anymore but if someone reads this, could you tell me how to use the hero editor correctly? i don't want to screw up my game since i heard if your hero has skills too high then your data gets screwed.

Sylar89 wrote:

Don't know if people come here anymore but if someone reads this, could you tell me how to use the hero editor correctly? i don't want to screw up my game since i heard if your hero has skills too high then your data gets screwed.

Well you shouldn't get skills above 1000 points.

Also in 1.034 if you edit skills/stats and hack/add extra stats to a hero (for example set your hero strength 100 and leave him level 1) all your stats will be set to 0.

So, i have already hacked my Undead Necromancer's level to 94 but i'm not sure if there's a stat cap. Is it okay if i put in whatever stats as long as they are not 1000 each?

Sylar89 wrote:

So, i have already hacked my Undead Necromancer's level to 94 but i'm not sure if there's a stat cap. Is it okay if i put in whatever stats as long as they are not 1000 each?

Well yeah, but don't put too much health (constitutuion), combat (ferocity), damage (mighty blow), etc or the game might crash.

Hero spawns dead any ideas what the cause is ?

Hey there, new to the forum, and downloaded this cause I had a few different skills in mind for my heroes(though I planned to level them naturally) I wanted to ask where exactly the hero files are meant to be? I'm running the GoG version, am under the impression its all patched and everything, or at least I think so... I open the HeroData35.xcr with the editor in my My Documents\Warlords Battlecry III folder.  I wanna make sure I'm looking in the right spot, cause when I edit it, it shows the name of my hero, but has the wrong picture(basic Knight), and the stats are all INCREDIBLY randomized(142-1220116), and sometimes in the name slot it says "ÿÿ" I've no idea whats going on with all this, I just wanna give my hero a custom skill set, after fixing the numbers to base stats, and going over to the skills section and altering those how I please, I hit save and it makes no notification(though I don't think it's suppose to) but when I go into the game, my hero suddenly doesn't exist... Could someone possibly clear this up for me? And let me know if you need more info on my situation...

Also another thing to note: when I do any type alteration to the herodata35 file, and after I see it deleted removed my hero from the line up(though still shows they exist in the editor), I attempt to make another hero and I hit the customize button the game crashes on me...

The file you need to modify is not HeroData35.xcr its just HeroData.xcr. The 35 at the end denotes modded files which are incompatible with hero editors.

The GoG Download of the game comes with the mods interestingly enough, Time Magic, Goblin Magic, extra classes, everything; so in short, you saying there is no way to edit my GoG WBC3 files? I had intended to give some of my heroes time magic... but I guess that is not possible?

~Andminus

my editor seems to not be in a correct resolution. It works fine otherwise but it appears that several of the options are out of screen of the program and there is no way to scroll across that I can see. meaning I can only edit 6 of the skills and have no idea what those tick boxes are for next to intelligence and charisma.

can someone help me with a way to fix this?