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Heroes of Might and Magic seriesHOMM 3: Changing background pictures?(51 posts)(51 posts)
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Posted August 21, 2023
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Plok_HR: I think the flaming sword animation confuses it.

I've made a workaround, place this to <HoMM 3 path>\_HD3_Data\Packs, then add it to your plugin list in the HD launcher.

https://we.tl/t-Huqi3zdBLy (link expires in 7 days)

What I can't yet get running is the animation itself (the HD mod either ignores or is confused by the CREDITS.SMK file), but other assets seem to work right.
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gabeblkbeard: Good work haha I don't have the free time to test it right now though, but I'll get around to it

Since the HD mod seems to do more than simply change textures I suppose it's possible they actually removed the playback of CREDITS.SMK at all (probably because it was useless in SoD), in which case I don't think an animated background would even be possible anymore. But at least it should be possible to have a static background of the Archangel
Problem with HD mod is due to bad position of CREDITS.smk. If you use custom bright background, you will see that there is small square on left edge of the viewport. This is CREDITS.smk that comes with complete in H3bitmap.lod. It is placeholder in same color of right up corner of complete background. If you delete this file the game automatically load backup from H3ab_ahd.vid which is burning arrow. You can delete that file too but after that Credits button on main menu stop working. HD mod crash with original RoE animation but not with AB arrow animation. The reason is that animation is offseted to circa center of the screen in HD mod compared to original unmodded game and if the animation is bigger and dont fit to viewport than game crash. I dont know how to fix it, probably it will be possible only with editing executable file (anchoring the credits image is due to my research hardcoded in .exe file) and that can be done only by author of the mod.
Posted October 26, 2023
I'd like to have it changed as well, a way to change freely from vanilla, AB, SoD and Complete. It can be easily changed in Heroes V, such a pity that it's such a pain to do it in 3.

Anyway to do it with the HD mod for the moment?
Posted January 23, 2024
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CRW: OK all, just to complete the amazing work done by Thiev (thanks man!): I created another patch which replaces map selection menu, multiplayer image and the loading screen. All but the loading screen are taken directly from RoE.

As for the loading image, NWC changed the loading bar position between RoE and AB (and all later releases). What follows, I downloaded a H3 wallpaper and added a proper bar space into the appropriate area. Since that wallpaper was a jpeg (as opposed to bmp images used by H3), there is some visible compression on the image. I also added some sharpening to reduce the blur.

If anyone has a proper bmp image of archangel fighting the devil, I can easily add the bar to it.

The patch can be downloaded here.
The instructions are exactly the same: extract into data folder and run "replace menu img.bat" from archangelm folder. You might have to use admin rights to do that.

Similarly, these tools were used to extract images and create a patcher.
Hey do you still have OG backgrounds file? I was able to download it a month ago but it's not available from any link here anymore. Please if you or anyone can share OG backgrounds I'd be grateful! I reinstalled Windows and lost that .bat script for OG backgrounds.
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gabeblkbeard: All right, here's the link to the mod:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PhmA9eOok3VcnIJ4q6-Hrs4CZEEmcWVG/view?usp=sharing

Make sure to check the readme on how to install it and other info
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Plok_HR: Works perfectly if running the game as normal, but the HD mod crashes on launch with it...
Hey my Croatian friend! Do you still have maybe those scripts for OG main menus somewhere lying around? I'd really be willing to pay for those, Main menu from HOMM 3 Complete hurts my eyes and it's really bad!
Post edited January 23, 2024 by Skyteh
Posted January 23, 2024
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Skyteh: Hey my Croatian friend! Do you still have maybe those scripts for OG main menus somewhere lying around? I'd really be willing to pay for those, Main menu from HOMM 3 Complete hurts my eyes and it's really bad!
Here you go: https://we.tl/t-Gylgo7qoOe
Posted February 01, 2024
Well, recently i made it work for HD mode as well. Unfortunately i can't post links, don't know how to share it
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Posted May 17, 2024
Greetings, someone still has a link to the mod for the original RoE backgrounds?

Thanks!
Post edited May 17, 2024 by Caern
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