Non-Human Champions? Possible?

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Like a Young Dragon, for example or maybe a "Spider God"  anyways, those are down the road...  will try to keep it a lil simple atm while I mess around.

Not sure where to start atm though.  My main concern is the fact that champions equip stuff, I am goin to guess that might be a issue.  But to start I was thinking of making a Bone Ogre champion Now since they don't have an equip set up like normal champions would it just bug out due to armor or 1h/shield type equipment being equiped on them?  If so then might not be worth the trouble of even figuring it out. 

Anyways really have no clue to even start messing with a custom champion.  Any pointers where to starts?  Been looking over some of the champion info but not sure if its possible.. 

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Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Generally any unittype that has this <SkeletonPath>Gfx\HKB\Units\K_Male_Skeleton_01.hkb</SkeletonPath> can be turned into a champion safely with a few modifications. Other than that, you'll run into a lot of problems with equipment, graphics and animations. Stormworld solved this by making a lot of stuff half-human, like the Centaurs and the Drota.

There is another option though, which is to not turn the bone ogre into a "real" champion but still give it traits when it levels up (like the Sion).

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Brings up a question I've been wondering.  Can one make champions to get randomly populated into the game world?  I've got Stormworld in use as well, and would love to make some champions using it's new races and abilities.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes, the stormworld champions are examples of that. They all go into a shared pool from which the game randomly selects champions when it decides to place one on the map.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

ok as i figured, there would be some issues making an actual champion out of an ogre or such.

didnt think about the giving them traits on level up... that could work...  will have to look into that.  how would i go about adding that?  obviously i would copy and paste said ogre, essentially making a new mob with unique ID..  but what would have to be added/altered to gain level up traits?

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

There's a special tag that you can find on sions.