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Here is a short list of programs:3D modelling - Blender 2.76 ( Version 2.8 lacks a working import/export plugin for the moment)Photo editing - Gimp (lastest version has dds import/export build into it)Text editing - anything works but I like Notepad++Aaaand that's most of the free stuff. Then you just want the right plugins.

Here is a short checklist/guide of what you would need to do create the charms and the charm inventory:Fist check this guide to get familiar with the parts of the GUTS window: http://torchmodders.com/wiki/doku.php?id=main_windowNow, this may seems like a lacking explanation, but GUTS as a lot of features and it's not really all that documented, so modding requires a lot of leg work from the user, with trial and error, and checking existing stuff and modify it slowly to understand what does what... So the learning curve is steep. And for the stuff I say next the best you can find would be tangencially related info.Actual things needed for your mod:- Create a new unittype, for example, CHARM. For this you need to go to the Unittype Editor in the Data editor menu. You can see how the unittype editor works in this video: https://youtu.be/65bQfH8kYHY?t=100 It's about class creation, but there is no specific unittype tutorial written yet. In your case you would want to give your unittype the inheritance of something equippable, like Trinket or Socketable.- Create a new slot, in the slot editor under inventory, in the same Data editor menu, this should have Equippable checked, and allowed unittype CHARM.- Create a new container, for example PLAYER_BAG_CHARM, and add your slot to the slot list with the number of slots you want in your bag.As far as I now there are no written tutorials for this either... but the editors are pretty simple so there is not much room for error.- Then you need to create a new UI or edit one of the already existing ones. This one is harder and more intimidating since there is a lot of stuff and properties, but once you find what you need to edit is pretty straight foward. One way of making this easier is downloading this mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232573509&searchtext=ember+bag unpacking it and just editing the gem bag (in player_inventory.layout or something like that) to use your containers and slots.Here you can see a screenshot where I marked what you would need to change to your new container for it to work (In my example I selected the weapons & armors inventory slot, in your case you should search for the gem bag inventory)Spoiler (hover to show)- Then the las part would be to create the actual items in the unit editor. Here you can find a basic tutorial for item creation but applied to a weapon: http://torchmodders.com/wiki/doku.php?id=cloning_an_item_editing_its_texture

Hello Saber, and Welcome to the forums.All the stuff you point out is totally doable and not too hard to do, the only one that I have doubts is the Fame points idea but just because I haven't really messed with skill point allocation. Certainly someone else can chime on that one.

I have already send the mod to John, here I leave a preview showing the class in action.[youtube]https://youtu.be/ZJd0gxzvtrk[/youtube]

Ok, I got this. 

One idea here, why not focus on making the class have only a. Handfull of active skills, like 5, and have the rest be passives, generic or skill modifiers. That way you cut down on the need for skills ideas, and can focus the on the feel you want for the class.

Ok, I took a look at the embermage charge bar to refresh my mind on how the charge bar works. And I think I have naildown what is the issue here.And that's is that I see no mention of the actual Triggerable effect.This part of code on the hum_Tenebris_base.dat:Code: [Select][EFFECT]      <STRING>NAME:TENEBRISFULL      <STRING>ACTIVATION:DYNAMIC      <STRING>DURATION:INSTANT      <STRING>TYPE:ADD TRIGGERABLE      <FLOAT>CHANCE:100[/EFFECT]points to a triggerable named TENEBRISFULL (and hopefully, to a file named TENEBRISFULL.DAT in the triggerables folder), if you follow the same structure of the Embermage, you triggerable should look like this:Code: [Select][TRIGGERABLEACTION] <STRING>NAME:TENEBRISFULL <TRANSLATE>DESCRIPTION:Enter an enlightened state, requiring no mana to cast spells and greatly increasing casting speed <STRING>GAMEEVENTTYPE:CHARACTER <STRING>EVENTCREATOR:SELF <STRING>SUBTYPE:MAXEDCHARGE <INTEGER>LEVEL:1 <FLOAT>FLOATCONDITION:0 <INTEGER>COOLDOWN:8000 <BOOL>FILTERSELF:true [TRIGGERSKILL] <STRING>SKILL:TENEBRISFULLPOWER [/TRIGGERSKILL][/TRIGGERABLEACTION]Then this triggerable is pointing to a skill that is what is cast when you get full charge, again following the embermage structure your skill should look like this:Code: [Select][SKILL] <STRING>NAME:TENEBRISFULLPOWER <TRANSLATE>BASE_DESCRIPTION:Enter an enlightened state <STRING>ACTIVATION_TYPE:NORMAL <STRING>TARGET_ALIGNMENT:EVIL <STRING>TARGET_TYPE:SELF <FLOAT>TURNRATEOVERRIDE:-1 <BOOL>HIDDEN:true <BOOL>DONT_STOP_ON_DEATH:true <BOOL>CAN_BE_SILENCED:false <INTEGER64>UNIQUE_GUID:-2447319373651713621 [LEVEL1] [EVENT_START] [AFFIXES] <STRING>TARGET:SELF <STRING>AFFIX:TENEBRISFULL <STRING>AFFIX:TENEBRISFULL_NO_DISPLAY [/AFFIXES] [/EVENT_START] [/LEVEL1][/SKILL]The affixes TENEBRISFULL and TENIBRISFULL_NO_DISPLAY you have already edited so I won't elaborate on that further, but the affix TENEBRISFULL is the one the set the stat that the charge bar UI is evaluating.I hope this is helpful, to know more about triggerable you should check: http://torchmodders.com/wiki/doku.php?id=triggerables

Have you checked these?http://torchmodders.com/wiki/doku.php?id=overview_pre-gutshttp://torchmodders.com/wiki/doku.php?id=friendly_charge_bar_class_passives

Nice Work @Phanjam I really like the glowing/reflection effect on the stat icons.

Quote from: Phanjam on 14 Apr, 2019 17:14Quote from: Anarch16sync on 05 Apr, 2019 09:03...and change the knockback resistance on tier 2 and 3 to a slow resistance, so then you have slow and inmobilice, instead of knockback and inmobilize.hey @Anarch16sync do you want to remove  knockback resistance altogether?  And what about the "enemies deal x% less damage" and the "Spectral Strike ability", I'll leave those in?Yeah, I think we should remove the knockback resistance completely. The other effects are fine as they are right now, if we took them away the skill is going to have a less benefits from tier bonus.Also I'll take a look a the new slash attack files, nice work @Phanjam

 Hi @steffire3 well, at least for mi part there is no plan for forking updates, I was explicit in that this is not supposed to merge with the previous versions because of the file deletion, it doesn't make sense to go and delete all unused files in a new version if you then just copy/paste the files over the previous version that still has the unused files.  So my idea is that @Phanjam still handles the publication of the mod to keep the same workshop page and mod id. Even then avoiding people making their personal version of the mod is impossible since anyone can unpack the mod, edit it and pack it as another version of the mod.

Quote from: TwinkleToes on 06 Apr, 2019 02:24eyyy long time no see anarchim in on anything if ya need me i actually want to finish all the alch skills in the minion/pet tree and give blighted effects to all the spells in the 1st tree, also give some juicy particles for the ones i haven't yet touched.Yo' @TwinkleToes our particle master, well you're just the guy we need then. You can work your way on the Alchemist if you want, Phanjam is working on the Destroyer, so I will continue my clean up and bug squash primarly on the Vanquisher. I think we are all set up now 

Quote from: Phanjam on 05 Apr, 2019 06:39I was looking at the list for a long time and i think i can do some of the Destro skill re-works.Did you have specific things to change already per-skill @Anarch16sync ?  Maybe I can start some of them already...Well, for Slash attack the first thing would be to change the mana cost graph from normal to spammable_to_normal. Then I would like to propouse a change to the tier 1 bonus to have a better interacction with the tier 2 and 3. Instead of the bleed DoT, change it to a trigger on death effect. For example, 5 seconds trigger to cast a blood splash on death that 100% blind foes for 2 sec or something like that. And last ajust the % for Tier 2 to 50% HP and tier 3 to 25% HP. The tier 2 ajustment is to have it be more useful and see it trigger more, with 7% right now it mostly doesn't matter that you do 2x damage since most enemies would die anyway at that HP%. And the Tier 3 is to make the investment reward be worthwhile, since you would be getting it around level 94 when the game is mostly a one-shot fest.For shadow armor I was planning on bringing it more it's original state in TL1, so give it a dynamic effect: %block chance bonus if you have a shield equipped and a %dodge chance bonus when you don't have a shield equipped, and change the knockback resistance on tier 2 and 3 to a slow resistance, so then you have slow and inmobilice, instead of knockback and inmobilize.And for the auras just lower the reversed mana cost, as they are right know if you use an aura you pretty much can't use any other skill more than once.What do you think of this ideas?

Well, you can help in any part that you want  , personally I'm priorizing the clean up of the mod files, is not fancy and boring grunt work with no real impact on the mod users, but keeping everything under the hood clean and organiced makes it easier to come back to work on the mod or find bugs. That's why when I got bored of that I would do some of the other stuff like icons or animations.What do you thing of the icon edits?

Hi Guys, so while @Phanjam took a rest from modding I took upon myself to keep working on the TL1CP, I didn't touch any balance or skill mechanics for now but instead concentrated on bugfix, compatibility and clean up of the mod, and some art.In Discord @Phanjam said that wanted to help me with the clean up, so I decided to post the new files here and a detailed change list of what I had done with the mod and what my final plans were.Changes:-Unified the animation files for the 3 classes, now there is one .mesh and one .animation file shared by the 3 classes. I did this to fix an animation bug on multiplayer where some animation wouldn't dysplay right for someone else. After doing it all I think the actual issue was a lot of unused definitions and some bad ones on the original animation files.-Deleted a lot of unused files (left over skills, affixes, etc.)-Rename some files for compatibility, basically files that were edited versions of vanilla files now have a new name to avoid overwriting vanilla files that may be used in game or in another mod.-Added a new dual welding animation for the ricochet skill for the vanquisher. Added a hide weapons line on Hamstring and added dual swords in the particles.- Edited all the skill icons, porting all the TL1 icons for their corresponding skills and adding new ones to the new skills that give a more uniform look in the icons skills. This now are on 3 new imagesets with uniques names. Also included the editable .xfc file for gimp so it's easier to make future edits to skill icons. You can see the difference HereAnd so, here are the files for the base of TL1CP update 4, this are not intented to be merged with previous version. The old version should be backed up and then use this as a new base for future versions.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n4nBMwee6iIfyJ9r9Jqu_eGEMopExwZP/view?usp=sharingGeneral Plans:- Finish the clean up of files. This means check for unused files or unedited copies of vanilla files and delete them. Check for edited versions of vanilla files and then rename and correct all their uses. I used winmerge for this, making a comparative search between the TL2 media folder and the TL1CP media folder.- Finish all the stuff I said I was going to do at some point (armorsets, Faces, Hairstyles,, etc)  - Make new animations for some skills, we have a bunch of skill using generic animations like special_absorb or the vanquisher using Howl for the stance skills and the like. And some new select screen animations.Specific plans:- Balance the Destroyer. It seems the destroyer has mana issues, with skills consuming to much mana for a class that is not really "Focus" oriented since its more of the warrior archetype.Some ideas I had planned for this: Rebalance slash attack, shadow armor and both auras. I will give more details about my ideas for this later.- Add some more particles to skills: the Destroyer's ancestral reach need a particle that fires when its cast that gives some idea of it's range. (like a hand or ghost that advance and expands in the damage shape cone even if nothing is in range). The alchemist emberphase also needs some extra particle that marks the damage area when you teleport (just a green circle on the floor or something like that.) Also there seems to be a broken particle effect on the vanquisher's shock trap that I haven't looked into.