Link for testing the mod :


Link for the Big Version (you need Variant Pets mod to make it work) :


Link for the Dark Portal (you need Variant Pets mod to make it work) :



If Viz (or anybody else) does'nt have the time to address this, it is a project that coud interest me to work on.
There are pets everywhere on the Steam workshop, we really need a compilation.

Phase 3 of the project seems much more complicated though.
I'm not sure I would have the necessary skills.

Hi @Korzeam

I've sort of some Pet that will be included into Variant Pet Collection (Variant Pet Collection Phase 1).
If anything is not included please add & tell me what is missing.

But before that can you help to fix a Pet that can not use Spell?

- Big Bad Voodoo: Gao / Torchlight II Essentials Pet
- Flying Books PETS: Gao / Torchlight II Essentials Pet
- Treasure Goblin PET: Gao / Torchlight II Essentials Pet
- Baneling PET: Gao / Torchlight II Essentials Pet
- Eye of The Beholder: Gao / Torchlight II Essentials Pet
- Lich: MPC Mamba / SynergiesMOD Pet
- Protofish : Galandrix Pet

It is not the main problem, but it would be better if Pet can also use Spell.

Update File:

- Add Creepers Minecraft.
- Add Hobsprite

It's okay, I understand your situation. But if you want to start making it you can tell here. I would love to hear it.

Didn't Doudley mention both here and on the Steam discussions somewhere that he admired the work of a certain modder (forgive me as the name eludes me) who already created the framework for adding pets without conflict? Otherwise I'm sure Mamba figured out something equally for his pet mod pack on Steam.

What I really want to know is if there is a way to take a pre-existing animation and weight painted set like the Alpaca or Hawk and just add in Blender meshes of custom made Cute Crocodile, Tall Giraffe, Woolly Mammoth, Saber Tooth Tiger, Fluffy Penguin, Pirate Parrot, Giant Mouse, Giant Bunny, Giant Kitten, Fluffy Chicken, and other such critters?

I've been messing with a way to do this kind of thing.

What I have been doing is I make a proxy skeleton for my "critter" in my blender file, and use drivers and modifiers to animate it from the torchlight skeleton that has the animation I want on it.  I typically make a "bone.follow" that copies the transforms exactly, and then make a child bone off of it to act as the IK target. Then I can adjust the position of the target more precisely and it keeps the delta between frames.  Then I have the critter skeleton copy the position of the proxy deformation bones.  I will end up with a lot more bones on the proxy that you don't want in the final output.

Then I just "bake" the animation to an NLA track and export it.

This is the kind of thing I'm going to put in my wiki.

Didn't Doudley mention both here and on the Steam discussions somewhere that he admired the work of a certain modder (forgive me as the name eludes me) who already created the framework for adding pets without conflict?

I think you are refering to lyravega, who is mentioned on this Steam thread :

Hi @Korzeam

- Should the pet stats be harmonized? Or do we have to respect the differences just by ensuring that it is balanced?
This concerns these stats: SPEED, ATTACK SPEED, HP, DMG, REACH, ARMOR VALUES

I think we should appreciate the difference on every Pet. I think if we generalize all the Pet's status is not quite right.

For example, you imagine Pet Owl and Pet Dragon have the same power, it may not seem to matter at first glance but if we think about it it feels weird too if Owl & Dragon has the same power. Because of its size alone is different Dragon has a larger size, certainly people will think Dragon is stronger than Owl. That is more to the perception alone.

But it will be slower in the making, because it must provide a different Status on each Pet, but to make it look more real sometimes it is necessary.

Not only must pay attention to Pet Status alone but we also must pay attention to the Pet Size, so that Pet is not to Over Size.

But if you think it will be troublesome because there will be a lot of Pet that will be in merge you can ignore it (just make the pet stats be harmonized). Because most important now we can merge the existing Pet first.

- What to do with pets who already have skills ?

This is interesting, there are indeed some Pet that I found to have skill. Actually I like the Pet who already have the skills (more varied)  , but there is a pet that has too much skill and over power.

Maybe you can be made Pet has only 1 skill as an innate ability in addition to regular attacks. Of course if that's what you do then you need to adjust it like, cost MP (MP = 0) and MP cooling down (not too short).

It might be good, for example Wolf Pet that has the ability to make Bleeding / Poisoning enemies. Dragon that can Spit out fireballs / ice breath. A kind of support skill for our Pet in addition to regular attacks.

But you must pay more attention to the "Duration of Cooling Down", because if the duration is too short then the pet's tendency will automatically use the skill instead of attacking with regular attacks.

I found there is a pet that has a skill with a small MP cost and its short cooling down duration. The pet only uses the skill and spends the MP he has, consequently he can not use the spell skill we give him.

- What is the pets basic file supposed to bring? I looked at it and it seems to contain only a few Inventory tags, knowing that these tags are already in the original files. I'm a little confused about it. 

Sorry, I do not quite understand about that. 
Is it different from how to merge Class?

hey @Korzeam if those are the contents of the file, my guess is lyravega just made it to lessen the amount of code you need to put into the pet unit's .DAT (just guessing )