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well I can't get it to work. To have something like that that will continually check if its to be applied (stat>0) do I have to use a looping layout?EDIT: Basically, does anyone have any idea what the best way to have a unit stay stunned as long as some stat is greater than zero? Triggerables? A passive skill?A passive skill that has a looping aura type layout that loops every 0.1 seconds?

hmm I haven't really tested this yet but I think I might have a way that works... have a stat called "status resistance" that goes from 0 to 100, then a hidden stat "status resist multiplier" thats always set to equal 1, minus "status resistance"/100. AKA an affix of add stat, using "status resistance" and a multiplier of (-0.01), with the default value of "status resist mult" being 1. So now I have a derived stat that I can used to multiply by things to get a new magnitude, so 47 status resistance should decrease the magnitude of statuses by 47%, and our "status resistance multiplier" stat will be equal to 0.53, perfect. But I still have the problem that most effects/affixes seem to use the stats to affect the chance of success, and I'm trying to really reduce chance based stuff in general because its not great for balance/consistency/predictability. So instead of using the "stun" or "silence" effects directly, we're going to add a triggerable or a passive skill to the base monster and player files, that ensures that the unit is STUNNED and SILENCED or whatever (100% chance, like 0.01 duration or something? or no duration?) with a statwatcher that checks a new set of custom stats, counter_stun, counter_silence, counter_charm, etc. They all default to zero, and decrease by say 1 or 10 a second or something (if 10 I could probably use INTS, otherwise might need to use floats...). The passive skill/triggerable of all units STUNS as long as this counter stat is greater than zero. So now, say I wanna give my monster a skill that stuns the player for 1.5 seconds, instead of using the stun effect directly, we use ADD STAT  to ad 1.5 or 15 or whatever scale we want to use to the "counter_stun" stat of their target (I guess use TRANSFER? Will this work?) . Ideally, sincethe target has that passive skill, they should be stunned while their stat "conuter_stun" is greater than zero and remain so until it ticks down to zero. We can then use the STAT SOURCE TYPE of the target, and use the STAT "status resistance multiplier" to multiply the 1.5 added to the counter (FALSE on StatModifierIsBonus) so if they have 47% status resistance, (status resistance multiplier is 0.53,  thus 0.53*1.5 =  0.795) they should be stunned for 0.795 seconds. IF this works, which idk I need to throw all that pasta into GUTS, the downside is that tooltips aren't going to be automatically generated. I.e. normally its going to generate "100% chance to stun target for 2 seconds", but now since the skill is just using ADD STAT all that tooltip stuff will have to be written specifically for that skill. IDK if this is gonna work, but I hope so because its making me think about implementing a poise system for interrupts/stuns a la dark souls instead of the chance based things. Is there any parts of this that wont work/aka I'm assuming the engine works a certain way that it actually doesn't?

Wondering if it's at all possible to have a stat alter an effect (such as stun, silence, or something more general like a "x% slow") by duration instead of percent chance?I know the "hardcoded" effects such as stun,silence,and charm have corresponding effects like "Stun Resistance" which seem to be a chance to negate the effect entirely? And for affixes, you can have a stat modify the affix,  though again this seems pretty set to affecting the "magnitude" rather than duration as far as I understand it.More specifically in my case, I was hoping to have a general stat called something like Resilience or Status Resistance that reduce the duration of negative effects. I am starting to think this is not possible but was hoping someone might have some ideas to achieve something like that.

Yeah,I'm thinking i'm going to have to just spawn premade humanoid models. As even if I found a way to do it through the UI, I don't think there's a system to make "overlays" or w.e. to make the final unit have like, a purple hue or something. Thanks guys.

I was testing around with a new class idea and I was wondering if anyone had looked into skills that create illusions/mirror images/clones etc. of the player character? I mean functionally this is just a summon with a duration ofc, but mainly I'm interested in have the summon be generated with an appearance identical to the player/caster, like the illusion skills in Dota or GW2. I can't really see a straightforward way of implementing a "summon" like that with GUTS and just wondered if anyone had looked into it or had any ideas for such a skill.

IT DOES! Thank you so much this is exactly what I needed!

Im working on my own personal balance mod that basically touches every monster, eventually items, stat graphs, and some spawn classes. But I'd really like if it "built off" of unearthed arcana because I can't possibly fathom why anyone wouldn't be using that gem. In modding skyrim I could just add it as a dependency but there's no such feature or ability to compare conflicting records for TL2. I could just mod directly in the unpacked Unearthed Arcana mod, but if I ever finish I'd probably want to release it and I don't think it would be kosher to just have UA packaged inside. Do you guys have an tips/tricks/ideas for comparing mod files/conflicting records/mod compatibility?

HIII necromancy: Does any have a backup of these images or an alternative? Also Hi again

I'm having no luck at all - its just a big mess in-game. I'll attach if you feel up to looking through it, but no worries either way. I'm just discouraged from banging my head against this lol

damn you're brilliant. I didn't even see the allowed unit types bit. This makes sense I'll give it a go and let you know how it works.

you're insane! This looks like it was so much work!!

I belive its the mainmenumod.layout - it contains a lot, but much of it is not visible by default - you have to turn on the visiblity of character creation menus after opening it in guts. The place where you would select the pet just refers to the 'pet_select.layout' file, which is located in PIECES, but there's basically nothing in that file to edit other than a button, so I'm guessing the functionality is hardcoded

Anyone have any idea if making the choices for -starting pets- dependent on class is possible? I'd assume this would be a UI situation, but I haven't had luck in figuring anything out yet and am unsure if there's much hope it is doable at all.*EDIT* alternatively, if there's a way to simply remove starting pet selection entirely, and make the gaining of pets happen after character creation?

Oh and @Vkoslak on the not of Ponya being more restrictive - I was putzing around with this idea:  to make newgame+ more interesting/increase replayability, you could unlock new classes/character types, with the little ponya being the last 'unlock' that is sort of a 'challenge mode'. He'd only be able to equip pistols and 1H melee weapons, would have some fun/quirky/unique skill sets, but overall would be more challenging to play with and beating the game with him would be an achievement in its own right.

Thank you! You were right, as usual