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Custom class -Help needed

G'day everyone :cool:

I've read through various threads on custom classes and with some tinkering cobbled together a custom class, or rather a partial one, consists of two tabs to be used in conjunction with hybrid.

I know the class does work as is since i did override demonhunter skilltrees via .gdb to test, skills didn't work though.. When i purchased a skill it told me i didn't have it, I suspect it's because commands didn't get called.

Now.. Problem one is that i'm not sure how to add a button linking to my class amongst all the others. I tried but it didn't show up, Probably have to make room for it but really don't know how, Here's what i've got.

ModNewCharacter.mnu

Code:

mergeWith NewCharacter



Button

{

        text "Custom"

        textAlignment center

        position 70.0 225.0

        size 120.0 25.0

        draworder 4.0

        color White

        canClick 1

        addCommand "updateNewCharacterClass ClassCustom"

        addCommand "setUserVar HybridClass 0"

        addCommand "setuservar NewCharActionAnim newCharCustom"



        selectedCondition UserVarMatchesDefault

        UserVar PlayerClassBase ClassCustom

}

ModPickSkillTree.mnu

Code:

mergeWith PickSkillTree



Widget

{

        position 370.0 305.0

        texture Textures/UI/marbleborder.tga

        drawOrder -0.5

        size 105.0 20.0

        userVar FakePlayerClass ClassCustom

        hideCondition UserVarMatchesDefault

        color "0.75 0.75 0.75"

}



Widget

{

        position 370.0 305.0

        texture Textures/UI/marbleborder_selected.tga

        drawOrder -0.5

        size 105.0 20.0

        userVar FakePlayerClass ClassCustom

        showCondition UserVarMatchesDefault

}



Widget

{

        position 370.0 305.0

        size 105.0 20.0

        text "Custom"

        textAlignment center

        canClick 1

        addCommand "setFakePlayerClass ClassCustom"

        addCommand "setUserVar FakePlayerClass ClassCustom"

}

Problem two, I'd like to use a non-human model for my player, Is there a way to add human animations to a model? Would also like for armor to still show up over the model.

Problem three, i made a pet summon skill that i also made a skin for but didn't find a way to convert .tga to .skn

Tried consulting sdk but documentation on many fuctions is not in there :confused:

~Thanks for your time

Happy new year everyone.

Another question, i want to make it so that all npcs can go renegade, can i simply do this;

ModBaseNPC override BaseNPC
CanGoRenegade 1

Or do i have to use addsTo since it doesnt have that line by default? Can i simply use BaseNPC or do i have to apply it to each and every town npc?

Do added/overriden values in Base take higher priority to those in archetypes?

Any help would be great..

Well this has been helpful~

Sorry lots of questions at the same time are difficult to answer.

1) Your UI stuff mostly looks fine off hand. Is that file in the Assets/UI directory? It's possible that you have just placed the widgets somewhere where it gets covered. You could increase your draw order to a much higher number to see if that is the problem.

2) The game isn't setup to use animations from one model on a different model.

3) skn files are just text files telling the game which texture/shader to use for which surface on the model. Most models only have 1 surface though.

4) You would probably want to use overrides instead of addsTo, but I'm not sure the code is going to let any random NPC go renegade.