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Thank you! I'll read up!

I've been rethinking my design concept because of something Phanjam asked me, and I had a few questions: 1.) I know skills can require certain weapons for skill use, but can skills block or "fill" a weapon slot, so that the weapon slot cannot be used? An example would be I decide I want Skill 1 - as a result, I'm no longer able to use weapons that require two hands. 2.) Can skills require that you have at least one rank in another skill before it becomes usable? In other words, Skill 2 requires that you have at least one rank in Skill 1. 3.) Can skills restrict the use of other skills? For example, I take Skill 1 --- which means I can never take Skill 2 now. I'm just wondering what's possible. Thanks much for your time!

Thank you for explaining that - that makes much more sense to me now. And you are right - it was the Y-U-No animation I was talking about - been playing the animations today and realized my mistake. Given this information, I probably will not need outside assistance afterall. (Sorry about that - I'm still very intimidated by anything dealing with animation.) Question: Will changing the keys change it for all base character types?

Thank you very much for posting this - I know I'm going to need this information very soon!

I'm wondering if anyone here who specializes in animation might be willing to help me out. I want to be able to use the emote animation "Despair" (where the character leans forward menacingly) for an AOE cooldown skill I'm working on called "Missile Salvo." I've read that the emote animations do not have the key frames required to trigger events in the code, so they won't work with skills. I've also read that its possible to add the key frames, though that's something that's beyond me at this point. So, if what I'm looking for is actually possible, and if anyone has the desire and expertise, I'd love to have your help with this. Thank you!

Added shell casings to the Wrist Bolters! The screenshot doesn't do it justice, but you get the idea. Fire the Wrist Bolters, and the shells expel from the character model's forearms. Eventually, if I can retexture the body properly, I'll added little slots to the texture representing the ejector slots. I've set it up so that each Tier produces more shell casings, as each Tier bonus also increases the number of shots fired per second. I'm still working on scaling back the muzzleflash effects, but I'm really close to being happy with how this looks!

I'm curious - what projects are members currently working on? I don't think I can be of much use yet, but I would like to know where all of your interests lay. I'll start first. I'm new to modding, so right now I want to focus on expanding my understanding of GUTS and coding by completing a "Mechanical Man" character class. The concept's conceit is that all the skills are built-in weaponry for ranged and melee - like wrist guns or retractable arm blades/drills etc. The third tree covers augmentations, representing ways the mechanical man alters himself - like redirecting his batteries to give weapons an electrical charge, or altering his exhaust system to give off a blast of poisonous smoke fumes, or rocket boots for quick escapes similar to Rune Vault, etc. So far I've got a re-textured face for the character, and a handful of working skills with particle effects that have yet to be fine tuned for balance. My hope is that completing a class with 3 full skill trees will give me enough knowledge to be of use to the community - and I'm looking forward to sharing the mod once its complete. So... I guess that's where I'm at. I'm really curious to know what you are working on!

This is too advanced for me, but I want to say I LOVE the idea of a perk system! This is a really interesting concept!

Thanks so much Phanjam! All I can say is that I have too much time on my hands and I'm very driven to complete my project. I want to thank Lolesh for directing me here - I've already learned quite a bit from surfing the Torchmodders boards!

Thanks!! It's exciting to see the stuff actually work!I'm building the abilities as skills, at least for now. I'm just starting to get comfortable with coding and how GUTS behaves, so I'm trying to keep it simple until I have a better grasp of everything. My plan is to do the skills as built-in weaponry. The trees will be Ranged, Melee, and Augmentation - the third skill tree offering utility type abilities, representing modifications the mechanical man performs on himself. The skills revolve around dealing fire and electrical damage. Right now, Melee is the tree that has me worried, because I want to do some things I'm not sure are possible - like "Internal Armblade Strike" - I'm hoping to add a sword laid across the character model's arm for the duration of the attack. (I'm hoping I can do that as a Unit Theme, since I've read they can attach to bones, but I haven't even tried melee skills yet - for now, I'm just focusing on the missiles since I've mostly figured out how they work.)If anyone is interested, here's a link to a video of the skills in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbfcnUbtvOE&feature=youtu.be Bladed Disc Launcher still needs some work on the particle fx - same with the shoulder laser - but it's coming along pretty well, considering I have no background in coding or modding games! 

Since I'm new here (and excited to show off my first mods!) I thought I'd post a few screenshots of my current project. I'm building a Mechanical Man character concept, the idea being that skills are based around innate/built-in weaponry and mechanical augmentations. I just got the "Shoulder Mounted Laser" up and running (mostly) tonight. And one more: Here's another of the "Wrist Bolters" skill - the idea being that a Mechanical construct has guns built into its wrists. The screenshot isn't great, but you get the idea. I used Magmaspear as a template, so each hand fires projectiles and gets a muzzleflash particle animation. I'm planning to add shell casings that pop out of the arms to finish it off. I've toned down the particle effects on that skill quite a bit since taking that screenshot. They are a little more reasonable, now. I'm sorry that the screenshots are so large - I'm not sure what the code is to make them smaller! Thanks for looking, though!

I wondered if there was a way to do it with code after looking at the wardrobes file, where it says something about "add eyes" and "remove eyes."It's good to have a definitive answer about this. Thanks a ton!

It was getting on my nerves that my mechanical man blinks at me while I'm testing things. I've re-textured the face a gold color with little screws in it to make it look like a face mask, and he blinks at me, and I knew I had to some day find a way to make that stop.

Thanks for getting me started! It will take me a while to get serious about learning animation and mesh making, but its nice to know how it works when I finally get to that point. Right now, I'm still acquainting myself with GUTS and the way code works in TL2, but as my project progresses, I have a feeling I won't be able to stop myself from delving into animation and mesh making. Or at the least, getting my feet wet.   By the way, I just got done checking out the work you've posted - what you do is absolutely amazing! The Faceless are great - not to mention the terminator knight or the deployable cannon on the predator! Just. Wow. I would be honored to have a model from you - though I don't think I'm worthy of it yet! All I have to show so far are two working custom missile skills ("Internal Mounted Wrist Bolters" and "Bladed Disc Launcher"), three passives, and a half finished shoulder mounted laser cannon skill. (I've got all the particles and layouts done, now I just have to put them together.) I've got a long way to go to fill out all the skill trees, but its getting easier, and slightly faster, as I'm learning more.

I was wondering...Is there a way to remove the eye blinking animation on a character without opening up an animation editor? Secondly, is there a way to remove the pupil that appears over the eye textures of character models, and how might that be accomplished? So, having asked that, I recognize it kind of makes me sound like a psycho killer; here's my explanation. I'm working on creating a clockwork man character class - and robots don't need to blink, or necessarily have pupils. Thanks for indulging me - I'm fairly new to modding, and I haven't been able to find information regarding eyes and eye blinking elsewhere online.