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New force power creation
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:49 am
by Commander_Poecky
How to create a new force power?
I searched for tuts but couldnt find one...
edit: i think a weapon creation tut does the trick too, but im not sure
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:52 am
by Teancum
What sort of power are you trying to do?
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:02 am
by woner11
Q: Okay, ingame a force power is a ____
A: Weapon!
Q: So how do I create a new force power?
A: Create a new weapon!
Q: How do I do that?
A: Taking a force power similar to what you want and changing the stats!
Q: How do I make it look different?
A: By changing the effect!
Q: How should I go about doing that?
A: By playing around with it!
I think that sums it up pretty well.
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:55 am
by PhantoM
woner11 wrote:Q: Okay, ingame a force power is a ____
A: Weapon!
Q: So how do I create a new force power?
A: Create a new weapon!
Q: How do I do that?
A: Taking a force power similar to what you want and changing the stats!
Q: How do I make it look different?
A: By changing the effect!
Q: How should I go about doing that?
A: By playing around with it!
I think that sums it up pretty well.
I'm sorry, but the simplicity of that made me laugh.
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:17 pm
by MandeRek
PhantoM wrote:woner11 wrote:Q: Okay, ingame a force power is a ____
A: Weapon!
Q: So how do I create a new force power?
A: Create a new weapon!
Q: How do I do that?
A: Taking a force power similar to what you want and changing the stats!
Q: How do I make it look different?
A: By changing the effect!
Q: How should I go about doing that?
A: By playing around with it!
I think that sums it up pretty well.
I'm sorry, but the simplicity of that made me laugh.
Laugh or not, I'm getting simply frustrated by people who seem lazy to me.. Look at assets, change things, experience a bit.. That's the fun thing about modding! I can't understand people just asking how to do this and this, and finally just copy pasting a file, with no understanding of it at all..
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:08 pm
by woner11
That's why I said things the way I did in m previous post.
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:35 am
by Commander_Poecky
Laugh or not, I'm getting simply frustrated by people who seem lazy to me.. Look at assets, change things, experience a bit.. That's the fun thing about modding! I can't understand people just asking how to do this and this, and finally just copy pasting a file, with no understanding of it at all..
PhantoM wrote:woner11 wrote:Q: Okay, ingame a force power is a ____
A: Weapon!
Q: So how do I create a new force power?
A: Create a new weapon!
Q: How do I do that?
A: Taking a force power similar to what you want and changing the stats!
Q: How do I make it look different?
A: By changing the effect!
Q: How should I go about doing that?
A: By playing around with it!
I think that sums it up pretty well.
I'm sorry, but the simplicity of that made me laugh.
Laugh or not, I'm getting simply frustrated by people who seem lazy to me.. Look at assets, change things, experience a bit.. That's the fun thing about modding! I can't understand people just asking how to do this and this, and finally just copy pasting a file, with no understanding of it at all..
hey! im just asking for a little help...
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:37 am
by MandeRek
Help on what? On what part are you stuck? I can also ask how do i make a reskin, and how do i make a model.. It's basicly the same. Experiment with odfs, and if you are confused or need help let us know what on that specific point
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:37 am
by Commander_Poecky
@teancum
i wanna make a force heal with the effect of a sonic blaster, but it has to be blue in stead of green
@manderek
ok maybe my first post was a little too shallow, ill specify my question: in the odf of force lighting stands healthdrain = "..." (or something like that)
if i wanna make force heal. do i have to replace healthdrain(or something like that) with healthrecovery or what?
and how to edit effects, i wanna make the sonic blasts light blue u know
@woner
dude i dont even know what i have to do before im able to change effects
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:54 am
by elfie
Commander_Poecky wrote:@teancum
i wanna make a force heal with the effect of a sonic blaster, but it has to be blue in stead of green
@manderek
ok maybe my first post was a little too shallow, ill specify my question: in the odf of force lighting stands healthdrain = "..." (or something like that)
if i wanna make force heal. do i have to replace healthdrain(or something like that) with healthrecovery or what?
and how to edit effects, i wanna make the sonic blasts light blue u know
@woner
dude i dont even know what i have to do before im able to change effects
-To create a new effect or edit one use Particle Editor. To change the weapon effect change the line on Effect = "". Look through the common/effects folder to get an idea on what the effects are called.
-No you don't change that. You go to assets/sides/all copy all_weap_inf_buff_health and all_weap_inf_buff_health_ord and put them in your side folder and assign them to the units you are editing
-If you want it blue instead of green you need to use particle editor and edit the effects colors.
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:57 am
by MandeRek
Okay, now this is more clear. A force heal could mean a buff effect. Take a buff odf, the regenerate one, and make Effect = "custom" Then take the sonic blaster fx file, and see if it has a texture. The texture can be reskinned, meaning color. No texture means new effect, see the Particle Editor tuts in the FAQ.
This is basicly what to do, more descriptive can be found in other topics, use search man
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:00 am
by woner11
Or open the tga file with gimp. If you don't have gimp
Instead of doing what elfie said, I beleive this would work. Go into force lightning or even force push or pull. Assuming you're using force push or pull change the effect and get rid of the "//" infront of the effect line. Then set the damage to negative in the ord file. Change the push factor to whatever you want. Reskin the tga of the effect which you should copy along with the effect you choose into this side's effect folder. Wala you be done.
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:02 am
by Commander_Poecky
i dont want it to be a buff,
u know, in bfxtreme shaak ti has a green force lightning as heal, thats my inspiration
@ woner
u know, thats the help i was looking for
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:04 am
by woner11
That's pretty much what ShaakTi has, just different effect. Oh, also set it so it can't effect the enemy, by changing 1 to 0, or vice versa and make sure it affects friends (same thing, but you may not have to change).
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:10 am
by Commander_Poecky
Oh, also set it so it can't effect the enemy, by changing 1 to 0, or vice versa and make sure it affects friends (same thing, but you may not have to change).
That's pretty much what ShaakTi has, just different effect. Oh, also set it so it can't effect the enemy, by changing 1 to 0, or vice versa and make sure it affects friends (same thing, but you may not have to change).
ya, i already saw that in the odfs
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:53 am
by Commander_Poecky
well, i tried to load the sonic blaster effects into PE, but it crashed...
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:15 pm
by woner11
Just open the tga with gimp and then edit it. Also the effect should work in PE, just make sure you installed it correctly.
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:50 pm
by Commander_Poecky
i didnt see any tga, only "geonosian blastballs" but those are only white and black spots
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:20 pm
by tsurugi13
You could give the healthdrain line a negative value. Not sure but it should work.
Re: New force power creation
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:52 pm
by Commander_Poecky
dude thanks for help but did u read the rest of the topic?
allready knew that u know