How do I create a new spell?

[trevius]

Try copying your edited spells_us.txt file to your everquest playing directory. You may want to back up your old one instead of overwriting it though.

Also, I heard when making spell scrolls, you have to make sure they are useable by the class that is intended for the spell.

[Faza]

i put the edited spells_us in my eq directory (client) and my eqEMU directory (server)

it doesn't change that "level need: WIZ (49)" still shows up for ice comet


i *did* search through a bunch of posts and find that i can change the bit code for what classes can use the spell, sort of ... if you change the class attribute for spell scrolls (items called Spell: SOMESPELL) to 65xxx (i forgot) you can get the in game item to display as "Level: War (255) CLR (255) ...WIZ (49)" etc

so now i just have to find out where those 255's are and then i can make them 1's and then everyone can cast anything =P

[trevius]

If you use the bleh/ailia spell editor, you can find all of that info and change it easily.

[Faza]

i'm using the spell editor on GeorgeS' site for eqemu tools

i'll have to change each one manually, but that's ok

ooh, or i can just open spells_us in notebad and do a find-and-replace for all values of "255" (making them "1")

awesome...all/all spells, here i come

[erik_llewellyn]

I found that opening MS Excel, using the import option, and setting the deliminator to ^ let me view the spells in collum format and make changing them all to be usable by lvl 1 and all classes was super easy. you then simply export it again making sure you use ^ as your deliminator. ***NOTE*** a value of 255 for the level means that it cannot be used, your value should read something like "wizard(1)" in game.

As for setting your scrolls to all/all, you have to go into the database and make the changes to the table "items", collum "classes" AND "races", value "65535"

[erik_llewellyn]

Almost forgot, do NOT simply use notepad and do a replace all "255" with "1" as this will cause several other spells/abilites to fail since it will also replace numbers like 1255 to be 11. I did that innitially when I first started making my all/all server and it was a nightmare that I found was easier to start over instead of fix.

You will also need to be able to make your custom spell_us.txt file available to download for those you want to play on your server. The catch to this is you cannot post said link or file on these forums. It is also highly suggested for anyone who plays on your server to backup thier current spell file for later use on normal servers.

[Faza]

haha, where the hell were you when i was spending 5 hours figuring all of that out?

i must suck at explaining what myself, no one could give me those answers

thank you just the same =)


i'll try excel; i didn't think of "255" showing up as *part* of a number, which was definitely a lazy move on my part

(what if i did a find/replace for ^255^ ? i would only have to worry about whatever spell was #255, right?)


do you happen to know a reference for formula lists? i'm mostly curious about min/max negative values: where the max is a greater distance from zero because the spell should progress toward negative infinity...will that compute, or would i just be using the wrong formula to describe the action?



oh and since you seem to be perfectly ahead of me: how can i give, say, clerics tracking? enchanters FD (the skill)? are skills hardcoded?