Adding to the Spellbook Pt II

Wow, I've got a lot of people shook up about these new spells, don't I? Allyx, I certainly think many of those spells you listed are quite doable. Indeed it looks like I'm going to have to stick to modding existing spells for a bit until I learn a little bit more of what does what.

A bit of bad news, though, I still can't get the Ice Shield to work properly. It doesn't seem to want to implement the damage reduction and it doesn't seem to be showing up on the druid spell list. I'm studying other spells, though to see if there's an alternate way of doing what I want to do, but so far no go.

I feel like there's some critical piece of the puzzle still missing. I think I might have to start cracking open more files in my search.

Honestly, I don't know if this is possible. I don't know the system well enough yet, but if someone does know how, by all means share. This has particularly been pestering me with the fact that Livonya is on the cusp of a new mod if there are any major changes made to the relevant .mes files, I'll essentially have to manually transfer all the information.

Last night I also noticed an odd quirk of these modded spells; it seems that in the roll history menu, modded spells do not show up. I'm not yet sure how to alleviate this problem, but I'm also not entirely sure it's a real problem from the player's standpoint.

And just to point out, some of the old "mass" spells are already incorporated into their lesser versions, such as haste.

I think today I'm going to work on adding some of the existing spells to the paladin/ranger lists so I can find out exactly how that works. And later I hope to make some sort of breakthrough with my Ice Shield.

Wish me luck, fellas!

 

For anyone else daring (or foolish) enough to give this a go, here's the relevant files and their, well, relevance that I have discovered so far. All are within the \Temple of Elemental Evil\ folder. And fair ye be warned, make backups of anything you screw with or you may find yourself in want of a wish spell!

note: all ### must remain the same in every reference to a spell.

\data\scr\ -this contains the .py spell files themselves as Spell### - Spell Name.py

\data\mes\spells.mes -this contains the spell names as ### {Spell Name} as well as the descriptions as 5### Spell Name {description}

\data\rules\spell_enum.mes -this contains the "spell names to the python interpreter" in three distinct sections:

### {spell_spell_name}

5### {Spell Name}

20### {TAG_SPELLS_SPELL_NAME //spell_spell_name

data\rules\spells\ -this folder containts .txt's of added spells, though I'm not certain of their purpose yet.

(Thanks to Shiningted for the above, give yourself a cookie, ted)

data\rules\partsys1.mes -this file contains the visual effects of the spells.

This is all I have found so far, but if anyone knows of more, please let me know. Also, if there's anyone out there who can give me some sort of key to the columns in partsys1.mes, I'd appreciate it. So far I've only figured out the columns for coloration, which are toward the end.

 

Kuraylon, to keep not-in-rules spells separated from the "regular" ones, simply make the original ones in a file, then make a back-up of that file and keep working on the copy, so you may share 2 separated versions of the same file.
Anyway, great that you're gonna working on it: I really appreciate the effort. Hope that, one day, a new mod will pop up with new locations and monsters, so that all those spells will have a place where they may be used.
Are u gonna to modify the protos tab for them? Isn't it better to wait for Liv's 2.0 to avoid any compatibility issue?

 

I agree fully about Liv's mod. Currently, I'm just messing around trying to understand how things work, if I do try to do any sort of real modding, it won't be until we see Liv's 2.0.

Yeah, adding Item Creation stuff has been in the back of my mind as well, but as you said ted, I gotta get the spells done first.

About the .dat extractor, I've been trying to download it, but every time I try to unzip it I get an error message. I was hoping someone could throw up a working file/link, actually.

I really think I need it to proceed forward. I can't seem to find anywhere where I can add spells to new spell lists. At first I thought it was associated with those .txt files in some way, but that didn't seem to work, and I went through practically every .mes and .tab file in the ToEE folder and couldn't find any more references.

 

Thanks for the pointers, ted. I'll keep fiddlin with them to see what happens.

Meanwhile, to anyone who can help, I'm still looking for a functional copy of that .dat extractor.

 

The one hosted here on co8.org is as functional as it can be.

Though there is a difference between zip and rar files, if you didn't know...

 

Roll, roll, roll...

Well I certainly failed that int check, didn't I? :doh:

 

Well, guys, looks like everything is going to have to go on temporary hiatus. Just not enough time on my hands right now. I figure it'll be better to wait till after the new mod anyhoo.

 

Help....

Okay I am willing to take up this challenge but I need some help. There are gaps in my knowledge that I do not know how to fill. Specifically, I thought it would be cool to do the disintegrate spell. So I did and it works great, except that when I destroy the creature it does not leave behind the valuables in its inventory. The spell (according to the SRD (the system reference document from wizards of the coast)) is supposed to work like this. A ranged touch attack by the spell caster. If this misses then nothing happens. If it hits then check for spell resistance. If successful, nothing happens. If unsuccessful then the subject gets a fortitude save. Upon save, damage is 5d6. No save, damage is caster level *2 * d6 (max 40 d6.) If the damage before save or after save reduces the subject to 0 or fewer hitpoints the subject is disintegrated ( ie nothing left of the body.) All of this was pretty easy and I have tested it to make sure. The kicker is, however, that the spell is not supposed to touch the subjects equipment. My dilemma? how do I kill the creature, get rid of its body, but still leave the loot behind? I have to have some handle to the loot (I think) so I can make the subject drop it before disintegration or recreate it on the spot after the subject becomes nothing. I can't find the function. I looked at Phalzyr's sticky and nothing suggested itself. I tried everything i could think of while testing in game to get a handle on an inventory but nothing worked. If anyone knows how this can be done please let me know. I am going to move on to other spells (even some that you have requested) and see what I can do with those. The actual adding of spells is very easy. Making them do what you want (as I have found out) can be tricky.

Someone asked for a ray of clumsiness before under the assumption that it would be easy because there was already Ray of Enfeeblement. It is not really easy. Most of the effects of the spells are already built in. The relevent python script file usually just makes a call to target.obj.condition_add_with_args with the spell name as the first argument and leaves it to that. So ray of clumsiness is going to have to wait until I (or someone else) figures out a workaround..(Oh...Oh..Oh, while writing this I may have thought of how to use one of Phalzyrs functions (if it actually works that way) to get an inventory list. That will have to wait until tomorrow as it is getting pretty tired out and I have to work at midnight,


Darmagon