And now the skill icon disappear on the Skill Menu.
I figure it out that renaming the Alchemist's tree UI and rename the Ember Lightning at Alchemist's base data fixes this.
The thing is, whenever i hover above the icon, it Crashes.

You're right, the new skill data has to be entered into the skilltree UI.  It's best to make a new SKILLTREEOVERRIDE file (by cloning and renaming the existing Alch  file for example) for this.

Here's the UI code:
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But you won't need to do this by hand! It's best to do this from the "UI" view in GUTS.  Switch to the UI tab (in the lower left of the GUTS main window) and then open up your cloned/renamed SKILLTREEOVERRIDE file.

It will be easier to make a tutorial using screenshots / I will do this later tonight (sorry for delay )

I'm sorry for this discussion is getting long 

Ha! This is definitely NOT long yet

Hey Stereox (and welcome to the family...)

I am willing to write a tutorial about Icons for the TorchmoddersWiki, including ImageSetCreation, simple Icon replacement and some advanced stuff like your Skill changes... The thing is, this will take some time so here is my quick reply:

Icon:

• Copy an ImageSet.png and replace the Icons with your own
• Save it in your Mod into the equal folder level as the original in the "Media/..." folder under a new name (likewise you give all your files a personal prefix - for example: "stx_skillicons.png" -> will make them unique and won't be replaced by other mods)
• Save it again as .dds
• copy the .IMAGESET, rename and relocate it, rename (and resize/locate if necessary) all Icons you want to use and delete all text lines you dont use (or delete the "<" and keep the lines for later replacements)
• Save it with the same new name you used for the .png and .dds

Skill:

• Clone a skill you want to modify by right clicking that skill in the SkillsEditor
• the popup window contains the new name (remember the prefix thing?), the folder you save in (should be media/skills/...) and the location of the skill you wanna clone (checkbox should be activated  )
• in the bottom right window search for the "Name", write it down (later I come back to that) and change it to "prefix_whatever", change the displayname to "whatever"
• change the "image" and "inactiveimage" links by browsing for your ImageSet
• just for knowledge - you can set a "global" skill icon or different icons for each level

Let's make it work

Player:

• in GUTS navigate to DataEditors/Units/Players and select the _Base of the class you want to give the skill to
• select the "skills" menu at the right and click on "new"
• brows four your newly created skill and set the requirements
• now save it and your class has "learned" that skill

UI:

• Click on "UI" in the Guts main window at the very bottom left
• Above click on "file" and open the Skilltreeoverride of that class located here MEDIA\UI\MENUS\SKILLTREEOVERRIDES
• expand the "skillWindow" till you find "SkillPane 1-3". In these 3 windows search for the Skill you cloned (the written down name might help you to find it) and select it
• on the right side in Guts main window make sure to select "Properties" and search under "Data" for "WIDGET NAME"
• delete the old and insert your skills "name" (the one with the prefix), no drop-down-list to choose from

done!
At least thats all I can think of. let me know if it's working or if I have to go over my steps again to check what I've missed...

for example you might need to save you progress in between and restart GUTS from time to time...

cheerio
lolesch


p.S.: using this should have no GUID conflict. else you can find "GUID to clipboard" under "Utilities" in the Mainwindow and paste it into your new skill. Its the ID of code elements and must be unique - I guess your skill uses the same as the "vanilla" skill. This happens when you copy paste code manually but not when its done like "cloning" with GUTS

UI:

• Click on "UI" in the Guts main window at the very bottom left
• Above click on "file" and open the Skilltreeoverride of that class located here MEDIA\UI\MENUS\SKILLTREEOVERRIDES
• expand the "skillWindow" till you find "SkillPane 1-3". In these 3 windows search for the Skill you cloned (the written down name might help you to find it) and select it
• on the right side in Guts main window make sure to select "Properties" and search under "Data" for "WIDGET NAME"
• delete the old and insert your skills "name" (the one with the prefix), no drop-down-list to choose from

Hey guys, here's a pic to help "zoom-in" on Lolesch's tut about the skilltreeoverride file in the UI tab of GUTS...

Spoiler (hover to show)

Hope this helps

Cant think of any right this moment, but im sure something will pop up Thanks so much for wanting to make a tut Lolesch!

Hi Stereox! Are the right number spawning in the wrong locations, or not enough of them are spawning?

Hi Stereox! Are the right number spawning in the wrong locations, or not enough of them are spawning?

both of them



I could take a screenshots of them. But then i'm quite busy atm. Maybe next week i'll be free

Hi guys, here i am again.

Apparently i'm done with skills issue.

So i create this little collection of ported item from other game.
So many property/affixes i cannot recreate because lack of knowledge.

But now it cannot run for unknown reason. Maybe because i mess the Effects.dat
But if anyone has spare time, you can look at it.

I haven't looked at your mod, but I do not think you can create new effects to be used by affixes/skills.  I remember trying this a long time ago and messing with the Effects.dat file breaks the mod.  Could be wrong, but I think that is a dead end unfortunately.