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could be that... I periodically move/clean up my workspace and I may have screwed that up... I basically have started over with everything about... 50 times maybe? Seems I get everything working almost perfectly then one final tweak breaks everything...on the one hand its very frustrating but on the other im getting a real handle on how to build everything quickly and efficiently. Anyway, last go at it I created a text file that has all the files related to a skill and the folders they should be in all neat and organized. Everything is in the proper places and working well. EXCEPT I somehow broke one of the best most simple missile skills I made...  it was the one to rule them all... it doesnt hit anything anymore.  it has piercing... and now it just passes through mobs without damage... *sigh* Im sure Ill get it eventually... 10 minutes to rebuild it and just use the particles I made.I swear GUTS is messing with me!   

So I have this weird problem... (one of many) Ive been buggering around with the animation trying to make a bunch of specialized effects for various missiles. After a few hours of tweaking and saving and tweaking and saving etc I then reload guts to check if its all working correctly... load up the layouts or the missile resource etc... and... POOF!    they are empty!!???Now if I go to the files themselves and look at them there is everything as far as I can tell.Meaning these save files exist!I can open them in a text editor etc.try and load them... and... there is nothing in the layout... I mean NOTHING. Not a hole bc a hole would be something but... NO things. 

Brilliant! One thing I read was that doing the chargebar early on is a good idea so now that I have some real nuts and bolts to tinker with I feel im making some progress. One thing is for sure, the people here are amazing! I have more than enough to get this class at least reasonably functional now  @lolesch has added me as a contributor to his huntsman class and he has done some amazing art and working on implementing his work into this is going to be a real privilege.As far as healing is concerned though I definitely dont want anything to be to powerful. So I will try and implement it really lightly. Rangers were never a viable option for alternative heals in most games that featured them. The idea of working the outlander % scale into it I think is do able. I do intend on making this class have a lot of group support elements though. A little healing can go a long way and here I find... asking the right questions does too.

This is great! thanks again TT I'll work on it. What I intend with the healing thing is that the SKILL BONUS effect will increase a hidden passive or two that will directly effect the two healing spells I intend to implement. So yeah as I see what youre saying is I can probably do this without using the SKILL BONUS effect.

I am on to unknown territory now...  I think if I get this correctly It might be easier to make a stat that calls a hidden passive that effects a hidden passive that effects the total damage of all the spells that this class has that do damage.issue is I need to make it boost healing spells too... need help guys. Basically I need to make an affix that activates when the chargebar is totally full. This affix will boost the damage of the spells in the spell tree.I also need the healing abilities of the same tree to go up as the chargebar fills up. HELLLLPPPP  I think brainmelt has taken full effect... I need to take a break for the night. work on some easy stuff for a while. e

Ok well... I think I get the basic gist of this. I have also managed to make my own (ugly as sin) chargebar and get all the graphics to work and charge up etc. I tweaked the gunk under the hood so it (should) do what I want it to. I do plan on using some of the techniques illustrated here to flesh out some pretty neat hidden aspects of my Ranger class.  One question though... I have been beating myself senseless trying to figure this one thing out.In the affix editor as an [EFFECT] there is an ability to add bonus to skill. I have looked into the effect menu of guts and although it seems like the fields are editable it also seems like there are no backup/clone/create new buttons. I will make a backup first I guess? If I can just figure out where they actually are.... seems maybe theyre hidden? Well... GUTS! You have done it again.  Similar to setting up a resource file for a skill there seems to be no way to easily locate and modify the file that tells this [EFFECT] what the frick it is supposed to do... if anyone can answer this easily I will be ass deep in my MEDIA folder rummaging around like a rabid squirrel for a few more hours till I figure out where Runic thought would be a good place to hide the function of this little gem.   Edit:This may have what im looking for!!   Edit:Grrrr not quite.... I can modify the effectlist.dat butttt I feel dirty afterwards and Im to scared to tell anyone.

Cool! I just sat down with some coffee so I'll take a look... maybe when its all done and said I compile all the knowledge I can find and make my own tutorial. A bit ambitious for me but who knows! Thanks again! Everyone here is so helpful!   

  glad to be here! I am. mhmm. 

I did havent had a chance to get into it yet but im learning about all this. Getting involved here is really inspiring me Thanks for that! 

Well I am making a "True Ranger" class and a few of your icons are absolutely perfect for some of the skills im designing. Fire Arrow for instance its brilliant! The basic outline for the class is as follows.Bow/Melee Tree: Bows use Fire and poison only as those are natural. Melee skills are focused around two weapon fighting using skills ideas Like flurry and parry but could also apply to two handed bladed weapons. (was throwing around the idea of making a passive or hidden passive for two handed-two weapon usage). Primarily I want to force the player to use a combo of ranged and melee attacks with long cooldowns and make it a AA class much like what you have outllined. This character will (if I can make it so) not be allowed to use a shield. Animal Summoning Tree: Pretty self explanatory... make some sort of pet buff tree with some short duration/high cost summons to flesh it out.Nature Magic Tree: Using some primitive healing spells, Lightning, Fog and some CC stuff like Entangle. Movment skills would be a Ranger Leap/roll/dodge thing that had a small aoe weak stun at the end and a more costly "Pass through Plants" which would have no damage but function like a teleport with cool swirling leaves and stuff. (maybe have a debuff on mobs so they loose target for 2 seconds or something). Well there it is!Thats the first time ive actually written all that out I hope maybe I can use your icons or even inspire some of you to help out on this one 

Ok with the help of the master I have successfully created my first skill!On to the more challenging aspects!Chargebar creation!Cant find and solid step process to do this anywhere. I would Ideally like to do the image and everything if possible. Have started by making a custom stat... yeah. thats it.    Fiercely scouring the web to no avail... I am not really daunted by the complications of the chargebar I think I can get a handle on it but I need a boost to get me pointed in the right direction on this one. Ive seen some pretty cool custom bars out there so I know this is a real thing <3 Thanks in advance!Edit: Ok found unituniquemenus.... Now at least I have something to work with! Wooo!  And while we are on the topic of UI is there a detailed method of creating working texturesheets? I have resorted to just copying the existing ones and then altering the images and creating new names etc... but I dont think this is a real solution as I believe this will also still alter the base files call to the image... ie now the base classes will use whatever I changed the image too... I have run into some problems with using local files as it will kick out an error saying that its an invalid value or something. like setting rollovers for tabs. even if ON works for one image it fails to work on the second one even if I make new file etc.

Just call me grave digger.... Forgive me  These Icons Are awesome! Need!!!  Sent Pm! 

Omg!  Guys im tingling all over!  Thank you immensely this is going to help massively!

Ouch!!!   that blows!  well priorities! no ones done anything else with it since? I really like the idea of making a less spammy style character that uses a combo of Combat and summons... My True Ranger idea is basically the same thing... Nature magic, summon animals, bow and melee skills.

Thanks Twinkletoes!OK the mod file is linked below....I have fiddled the target angles and some other stuff from 0-180 in the text layouts on a few files trying to root out the issue to no avail. Not sure exactly what those should be setting them to 0 seemed to work fine as well as 180... soooo.  One more question:I really want the arrow to arc to the target... but if I aim to close it just dies in the middle of its arc and then drops the aoe. Non-Steam Download