Is going to be updated or can be used as it is?

Thanks for the quick response. So this was the only one that Claymore didn't provide any art for. If you ever felt like changing the art, I don't think anyone would mind. But that decision depends on you, of course.

Regardless have a good day/night. Also thanks for the honesty.

No, sadly I have to come clean that since this was one of the first mods I released, the tome art is AI generated.

Hey, Kaige. I was just curious how did you make the art for the Tome of Illusion art itself? I know that the skill icons are just base game things but did you go through more of an extensive process to edit base game assets for the tome image itself?

Do I need an update? Or can I use it as is?

Hi. arcane trikster buged in non-human forms. Attach bones on chest - is reason this problem. If you remove attach bones, there will be fps dros, which can be solved by removing the tag "humonoid" from "unit type"

@MrDeath Thanks for making me aware. Should be fixed now

Seems like the Arcane Trickster model have various glitches in racial forms, like too big torso, or a missing one

lovely, thanks

Blur crash should be fixed now

Blur crashes on cast in combat, not sure why

Picking tome of illusion as my starting tome currently makes it to wear the game will crash when i try and load up a realm

Anyone else crashing when casting blur in combat?

Needs update for FPS issue.

Currently have an issue where the tome isn't showing up for me in both the tome library or the faction creation menu. I've tried unsubbing/resubbing, not sure if maybe there's just a conflict with my current mods?

Is there a way to fix up the lighting in the faction creation menu? would also love to see a subsequent illusion tome if time permitted!

Battlefield Theatrics isn't in the current version of the mod. If you have Battlefield Theatrics still, then you're using the old version from before the Tiger patch

Battlefield theatrics doesnt mention the requirement for the buff it gives to allies

Oh damn, I didn't think this would get updated. Thanks!

Just updated it for the Tiger Patch

does not work with multiplayer, please fix

Is this still working?

320 kb is not much real estate on a hard drive, but that is not the point. with 76 mods (see my post below ) the game slowed down and was overloaded. although this mod is a relative space hog it adds a vital tome to the game hence I still use it

My brother, he left that comment 6 months ago

@joel.west You're that worried about a hundred kilobytes? Or did you misunderstand orders of magnitude and you meant to say gigabytes? Which is not true, by the way, because the mod definitely does not add gigabytes to save files. For the record a gigabyte is six orders of magnitude larger than a kilobyte... Or, to put it another way, you added more than a hundred kilobytes of data to Steam's servers just by making your comment there (most of which is taken up by your account's profile pic and various forms of metadata involved in forming the time stamp and links).

Great mod! I love the concept of an Illusion based tome

I noticed today that after the golem game update my game save file is 4x bigger than it would be with 76 added mods compared to the 24 basic mods I 'must have' to play the game

your mod did not add all of that but to a two player small map save file it adds 320 kb. that may not sound like much but prior to the golem update this is almost 1.5x the 220 kb entire save file size for a two player small map game

please post if you can figure out how to fix this. until then I am tempted to turn off this mod (along with other save file space hogs). this is shame since I enjoyed using this tome

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I found two mods that add tomes that do NOT increase the save file size. perhaps they have a method or two you can use

Tome of Spiders (id=2973595407)
Tomes of Radiance (id=2980547647)

Yup. Thanks for the update.

@Videogamer40000 Confirmed that, for me at least, the latest version fixes this

I would like to make a note for when you get to updating this mod. The Arcane Tricksters become bald and lose their hoods and masks if you are playing Reaver culture.

Universal Camo, as an ability, is pretty pointless against the AI I've found. It can react to and attack your units when they have that ability. Is there anything else that would fit in here?

Okay, I think it was because I had the Illusion tagged as an Astral unit. I removed that tag yesterday, and went to clear a bunch of Crystal Forests after your message and I didn't see any illusions spawn. Thanks for the help, hopefully that fixes it in future games

kaige // A bronze wonder in the shape of a blue tree, named Mirrorland.(korean named "거울지대"

Not really, I'm not an artist kind of guy.

I wonder if you intend for custom spell art for tomes? Just curious.

@Juz Updated Battlefield Theatrics so it no longer works on allies with Despair or on enemies with Rally

@asto1qasw1 What kind of wonder was it? That will help me test

I keep thinking I've stomped these bugs. I'll look into it again, thanks

We found a fatal bug: if an illusion appears as a soldier of wonder, the wonder is broken (technically, if you do a manual/automatic battle, it will force a victory but not dominate, and the soldier will be the remaining judge, leaving the wonder).

That's a good point for sure. I'll probably have to go and make a custom status effect for the spell that stacks so there isn't clear incentive to cast the spell multiple times

Battlefield Theatrics feels too strong. I can see you tried to balance it with Rally on Enemies and Despair on Allied units to eventually return the affected units to their original morale. And this kind of works but has some big problems.

Despair can be dispelled by Rally, I'm playing with Rallying supports so essentially when I use this spell and rally most of my guys in the next turn I am getting the full 15 morale instantly instead of having to wait with no despair.

Despair and Rally don't stack so If I cast this three times the morale change is as follows

Turn 1
Allies
+15

Enemies
-15

Turn 2
Allies
+15 -5 +15 =25

Enemies
-15 +5 +15 = -25

Turn 3
Allies
+15 -5 +15 -5 +15 =35

Enemies
-15 +5 +15 +5 -15 = -35

And so on, with this being a battlefield-wide spell it is just insane value, I got a much superior army to route very easily with this spell by killing like 2-3 units and using this spell 3 times.

Thank you. I have been trying to list the issues I have run into when playing.

You've been very helpful btw @Videogamer40000 , I appreciate it

@Videogamer40000 That is something I need to immediately look at, thank you

I noticed that there is a small chance that the illusion unit can spawn in your army at the start of the game if you have something that allows you to start with a magic origin unit. It might be a good idea to make it not count as one or take some other countermeasure to stop this from happening.

I have no idea what could be causing a conflict, but I do run a lot of mods, so it isn't out of the question that there is one. Thanks for the response and the tip.

If it helps, the illusions in those stacks can still be killed by using strategic spells which do damage, like lightning torrent

It should have been solved when I added the "Don'tUseThisUnit" tag to the Illusion, which stops it from spawning in neutral stacks. If a mod changed the logic behind that tag, it would cause it to appear again, not sure why someone would do that. I'll do a little investigation to see if I can get the illusions to appear in my game; fwiw, I haven't had them appear in my games since I made the update a while ago

I encountered what seems to be the old issue of an unkillable illusion in a neutral stack, which caused me to fail a quest. Was this ever confirmed to be an incompatibility with other mods?

Yeah, I tried it out. I think you are right. Seem very fine. Overall the tome is very well made! Thx!