Wait, do I have to credit the original author for his art work? ... I don't wanna steal someone's work if possible

The one thing is to drag someones art and drop it into your project - this is stealing if the author has not explicitly allowed you to reuse his work!

The other thing is to drag someones art and drop it into (lets say) photoshop, editing it to a significant amount and use it in your project - this is transformation and totally legal since there is no copyright on pixels them self. Just make sure that there is a personal touch to it even if the pattern stays the same. Also: as long as you do not offend the original content or make any money out of it the risk of being punished for spreading recognizable artwork is negligible (just mention these things aren't your personal creation!)

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/2014/12/22/much-photo-need-alter-avoid-copyright-infringement-hint-cheshire-cat/

Hey guys, long time silence here too! I apologize for that, even more because this forum is the most supportive and (what is the word for anti toxic?) friendlship like that I ever was part of.

Well, I took a step out of here to get more professional in creating computer games and I still have a long way ahead. This (my first) semester we have a lot of basic lessons about project planning and management, that’s why I decided to jump in.
Next to all the detailed work where the content is created it is such a huge thing having a detailed plan about the upcoming project and preparation can safe so much lifetime and burnout.
My current project is a good example of how not to do it, mainly because it is part of the learning process that the teachers want us to run into exactly these problems.
But with 30 years lifetime I can say I might be a little ahead of others in the class in detecting upcoming trouble...

Back to the topic! I will try to create some kind of „how to - tutorials“ on project planning to recap the most important facts for myself. This is theory crafting and right now I have no clue how that will work out or if I can find the time to do so! (Next Friday is the first of 3 milestones which means there is only limited time to spend here.)

All the best to you guys and hopefully till soon
Cheers
lolesch

i wanted EVENT_END to only specifically happen when the character respecs thier points

what about a passive skill that adds/enables an active skill or something like that.

but for this case i just want to utilize it for clearing the stat given to me via the UI when i level up the skill

you level up a skill that gives you a stat that you dont want to have?/remove via UI?
why dont you create a skill with a stat requirement and give that required stat via button click (maybe on a custom button)
that way the skill is always enabled but only working when toggled

i can take a screen shot of the text that says...   ...since the original text appears to be hardcoded to hide itself when maxing out.

man you need some UI experience XD
the hard coded "hide" can be easily recreated with a custom text element (dont go the screenshot way, they are so badly to adjust later on...) I can help you with that when you get stuck!

i was thinking of making a custom texture sheet with an edited version of the original to stretch out, ill see if that works.

you dont have to, just strech it within the UI editor?

ill see what i can do, getting a skill to do something as you press the level up button requires the skill to be tagged as a "passive" skill

You can link the button to a stats operator that adds a stat on mouseinput via UI. and I am pretty sure the Set_Stat effect works fine in active skills... hm.. i can remember having some equal problems... ill research for that!

id have to find a way to somehow make event end respect only skill respecs (which i still havent figured out to this day lol)

not quite sure if I get you there...

UPDATE:

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Life is changing and the next 2 weeks I'll visit a gaming school to see if that might work out for living... anyways, I once again started to work on this project and progress is good so far. The Skill system slowly evolves to something stable and while I still struggle with the Active Skills the passives are much more fun anyways
For the Active Skills I currently try to develop a system that allows to modify the skill within the game, so investing skillpoints may change the skills damage shape, damage type and so on.
that's it for the moment

Cheers

Hello @Giallo, I support your base Idea and its not that hard at all to realize...
To think ahead, you want to remove all active skills so fighting is weapon based only with the procs of passive skills, right?

I'm working on something similar but it will take more time to finish since I want to introduce several new passive skills and a therefore a much larger skills menu and such...
I can definitely help out when you get stuck but I suggest you try to step right in, starting with creating s merged skills menu and link that to the 4 classes. most of what you ask for can be done in the Unit - players - editor (e.g. removing active skills)

Hey Guys, always fun to come back to you! this layout looks amazing. I just tried modding some layouts too but i realized that I will need more time to go into that...
@Kva3imoda I managed to create an entrance to the Taverne (MAINMENUS\MAINMENU_TOWN4_RULES.TEMPLATE) but since it is just a mainmenu background i run into many problems there, e.g. i cant move. any tips?