Basic Skill Editing Part 1
In this 3 part series, I will show you minor stuff that you can do with Diablo 2 skills, from merely changing the damage type to basic missile editing.
In this session, we will be learning about damage types and how to apply them to a skill. Our final product will be making Teeth use cold damage instead of Magic Damage.
These files need extracting:
- Skills.txt (1.10+)
Tutorial Prerequisites:
Difficulty: Amateur
Start by extracting Skills.txt.
Scroll down to the Teeth row (Row 69). Now scroll over to EType (Column HZ).
As you can tell, EType controls the type of damage that the skill can do. EMin and EMax control the base damage for that damage type, and EMinLev1, EMinLev2, EMaxLev1, EMaxLev2, etc, control the damage gain for levelling.
Etype can be one of the following:
- mag: Magic damage
- pois: Poison damage. The length of the poison is controlled by the ELen columns
- cold: Cold damage. The chill length is control by the ELen columns.
- ltng: Lightning damage
- fire: Fire damage
- stun: I'm not sure exactly what this does, but ELen controls stun length. It does not pass damage however.
- stam: This drains the stamina of the target it hits. Obviously useless vrs. monsters.
- mana: Steals mana upon hitting. Note that the damage columns damage an exact amount, not a percent.
- frze: Controls freeze length? Freezes target in place? This is unknown
- burn: Does fire damage over time
Since we are making Teeth do cold damage, put cold in this column.
If you want the target to be chilled, follow these next directions. If you want it to just do cold damage but not chill the target, you are done.
ELen controls how long the target will be chilled. And since it is frames, we need to do this formula:
- seconds*25
So lets have Teeth start out with 3 seconds of duration, then gain an additional second every level:
- ELen: 75
- ELevLen1: 25
- ELevLen2: 25
- ELevLen3: 25
Horay! Teeth now does cold damage!
