[Guide] How to Create a Custom Mastery

[Poinas]

What do you mean by that? PvP in the original map?

[Oldsoul]

realy nice no way i am going to read that all in less than a year lol
anyway can somewhane help my on this?
its not the tecknical part of mod making but this
Devil: (diablo)evil powers rely on the blud of thousends souls all skills are mostly based on healt
Skills: goes undergroud jumps out and kills the whole world gost 99,9% healt 85% energie
Summon demon: powerfull pet
God: by worshipping the ?priest?angel? greatates power bejond the living world realyse or hold and slowely lose it are options it can chose. Fly;s up and deals masive damage 100% energie you suver 5 seconds of stun while your anemys who have survived to 5 times there damage!
Gladiator: master of all weapons exept the bow in higer lvls he can learn to wear mutleple schields swords the gladiator deals more damage when it makes use of his body to by kicking his oponent he triples his damage!

thats my fantasie now the question das anywane thinks this is nice would you play it if i made something like that?

[Doggsmo]

Hi, Poinas. Can you please explain how to make a skill from scratch? Not just take another skill and edit it. Pretty please? ^^

[Poinas]

So you have a basic idea of what your skill is going to be. Pick a skill from the game that works similarly. Import it. Opne it. Click view -> show template file.

Now right click on the right pane, new -> record. The open the created file and choose the template for it. Now you have a blank skill.

Choosing the correct template is very important. You can't create a buff with a projectile template for example.

[Ravia]

I was wondering if you could give me some clues as to what I am doing wrong when trying to make a custom mastery.

My problem that I see is when I go into edit the skill tree on the male and female if I go to records\skills\stealth where I put in the custommastery.dbr and customskilltree.dbr it does not show up in there, when I browse in there editor. Its the same anytime I go to browse to put a skill location in. I works if I manually type in the link.

With the mod correct when I go to load it, will it say Main.map or World1.map?

also what database files are needed in the mod just those that are needed for the mastery or every file in the database?

Thank you for the help in advance and hope all is well.

Ravia

[Oldsoul]

i am just trying this out now
i have extracted tempaltes whit TQVault and but those files in the database of the mod that you tolt my to creat second so it looks like MyGames/Titan Quest - Immortal Throne/Working/CustomMaps/OldsoulMOD2 -> in there there are 3 maps assets source and database in database are the templates(extracted) but in there there is no folder for records??? what did i do rong
(i dident build the second i created)

[Oldsoul]

now i just made a map and patch it saved it but i did something rong in they art manayer i gess becouse i am not able to play my map i think i have prest build(f7) one time i dont know what to do to make my map playable

[thepiedpiper]

I tried the masteries mod guide by Poinas but for some reason there is no folder called records in the ...Working\CustomMaps\*ModName*\database\
please could somebody help me.
edit i've found the problem now

[bulletbutter]

I am having the same problems that thejester was having with the missing icons/skills in the mastery pane. As well as I am not able to browse all things in the records as most of them are missing. I am either going crazy or the guide is extremely hard to follow for a beginner.

I also have a few questions that I am unclear on....

1. Its said several times to click "Database > Import" then browse to the file you need. But later it also says that you can click on the right pane and import that way as well. However, I noticed that when you click Database > Import, the file structure/directory is also imported. But when you right click on the right pane, just the file is imported. For example....

Database > Import - skillmastery.dbr will add the following files to the left side on the art manager....records, skills, *masteryname*.

Right click "import" just throws the dbr files in on the right side so now you don't have the folders (records/skills/masteryname/).

So when (if ever) should I use the right click import?

2. When adding my modified dbr files do they have the follow the same file structure/directory? For example, if I need to import xxxmastery.dbr do I need to make sure its located at records/skills/masteryname/ in my mod?

3. Like I stated earlier, when I hit "Database > Import..." and I browse the records folder, a lot of files are missing. Stealth isn't there in skills/stealth for example. Only 4 of the 8 that are supposed to be there are there.

Now I am assuming that is because of the additional files directory that I set up (the first part of the guide talks about setting up Build, Working, Tools and Additional files for the art manager). I've been banging my head over this for some time now and can't figure it out. I did the exact thing tuftyfella did (placed the records folder I extracted with TQVault in my database folder with Templates) and had the import error.

Would I be correct in assuming that I am pointing to the wrong place (In additional files) if I cant browse all the files with "database > import"?

4. If I can't Database > Import the files that I need but I can right click import them, could I just create the file structure/directories first and then add the files where they need to be? (Right click on my mods folder in database and hit create directory, give it a name...etc)?

[bulletbutter]

I finally managed to get it working. Was never able to get Database > Import working so instead I just Copy/Pasted from the AllDatabaseStorage mod into mine by using windows explorer. After previous attempts of creating the directories in art manager and failing....using windows explorer worked.

Also, doing it this way the only way it worked was to import everything in the folders. For example, the guide says to import records/skills/stealth/stealthmastery.dbr as well as stealthskilltree.dbr (along with your custom spells). Doing that failed, I had to manually copy/paste the entire record/skills/stealth folder from the AllDatabaseStorage folder into my mod (at *modname*/records/skills/).