I think most people know I have been working on adding a new player model to TL2 with a completely different skeleton that the standard player characters. It's a fan-art model of Fionna from the Adventure Time series.

I'm finally to the point of needing to add skills to the character, and I would like some feedback as a flush this out. Now that I at least halfway know what I'm doing, I could even add new animations for attacks.

This character is supposed to be really good with swords, but not so much with magic. Although if it fits the personality I'm not opposed to a couple of magic skills.

I'm thinking of having the categories of:

Dual Wielding, Two-Handed, and Sword and Shield.


Right now I'm looking at borrowing shield bash, bulwark, and sword and board from TL2 skills.

I've also been looking over skills from other games that might fit. I'm trying to avoid anything that is "paladin" like. This character isn't about dive retribution nonsense. Just a good person that goes on adventures for mad loot.

Possible Tl1 Skills
Adventurer - passive
Critical Strikes - passive
Wind Of Justice
Barter - passive
Treasure Hunter - passive
armor expertise - passive
Martial Weapons expertise - passive
Dual Wielding - passive
block and parry - passive
slash attack
stampede
devastate
pet mastery - passive

From other mods:
Tl1 - Lady Knight
Power Kick

d2 skills:
Sword Mastery - passive

Wow skills:
Shield-slam
Shield-Block
Rampage
Cleave
Colossus Smash
Raging Blow
Charge


Is there any other mods/games I should look at?
This is probably my weakest area of modding.

It's frustating.
The model I made is the only one where I managed to remove pupils.
I don'y know why it's working for this one and not for the others.

@Phanjam, @Vkoslak
Do you know how the eye pupils are working and how to remove them ?

The pupils are part of the face mesh. They are a disconnected hexagon above the surface of the eye, but below the eyelid.  You can just remove those polygons and no more pupils.

You might be able to do it by making the pupil transparent and setting the material to allow alpha transparency.  But getting rid of the mesh if probably the best way.

I was having the same issue with a pet I was working on.

I solved it a different way.

I borrowed the "PETBODY_CUSTOM.DAT" from "human pets" mod by kriss_gjeng,  renamed it to be specific to my pet.

Then in my pet DAT file, I added the new container to my pet, and added equipment.

   [EQUIPMENT]
      <STRING>LEFTHAND:SWORD_SCARLET
      <STRING>RIGHTHAND:SWORD_DEMONBLOOD
   [/EQUIPMENT]
   [INVENTORY]
      <STRING>CONTAINER:PetBody
      <STRING>CONTAINER:FIONNA_CUSTOM
      <STRING>CONTAINER:PLAYER_BAG_ARMS
      <STRING>CONTAINER:PLAYER_BAG_CONSUMABLES
      <STRING>CONTAINER:PLAYER_BAG_SPELLS
      <STRING>CONTAINER:Pointer
   [/INVENTORY]

Worked great!

New version posted. v0.9.2 Give it a whirl!

I updated it to dot net core 2.1 while I was at it.

I've been thinking of making dot net framework versions in addition to core so I can release a single exe for windows.

Url of project:  https://github.com/RobJames-Texas/TL2_ItemDatMaker

Newest downloads: https://github.com/RobJames-Texas/TL2_ItemDatMaker/releases/tag/v0.9.2

Where are the horse models you want animated?

Not saying I will get to it soon, but I may forget about it if I don't have the models as a reminder to do something.

I'm considering setting up a project board for myself :|

Fine with me.

I was looking for something else and found this today:

http://thrivegame.wikidot.com/blender-and-ogre-tutorial

This is mostly how I export to ogre format. Except the fork of the plugin isn't the one I use.

The official plugin (that I use) is here:
https://github.com/OGRECave/blender2ogre

I pulled down the sw_pets mod to check out goba to see what error you guys are getting.

goba_pet runs fine in guts.

Is there anything in your ogre log?