skills

[slayer200230]

so i been messing around with the skills and have a question

if
490100000000000002000000 = revive pet
4a0100000000000002000000 = heal pet
a70000000000000001000000 = town portal
2b0100000000000001000000 = Venomous Scarab
i can give any toon these skills, and they work

my question is, how does
2b0100000000000001000000
translate into Venomous Scarab

anyone?

[MentaL]

[Drakaer]

It can be broken up into three sections.

2b0100000000000001000000
2b010000 - Skill ID
00000000 - The amount for crafting skills, eg 200/200
01000000 - The level of the skill

To get the skill ID you find the skill in skillstr.txt in configs.pck. If you find venomous scarab in there it will look something like this.

2990  "Venomous Scarab"
2991  "^ffffffVenomous Scarab  (Level %d)

^ffcb4aRange　^96f5ff%.1f^ffffff　^ffcb4ameters
^ffcb4aMana　^96f5ff%.1f^ffffff
^ffcb4aChannel　^ffffff1.5　^ffcb4aseconds
^ffcb4aCast　^ffffff1.0　^ffcb4aseconds
^ffcb4aCooldown　^ffffff1.0　^ffcb4aseconds
^ffcb4aWeapon　^ffffffUnarmed, Magic Instruments

The 0/1 on the ID is just for the name/description and is not part of the ID. So the ID for venomous scarab would be 299. If you run 299 through a converter like sPCalc or pwgen1 or w/e you will get 2b010000 which is what you see on your character.

More info can been found here.
http://forum.ragezone.com/f755/weapo...4/#post6693029

Note Sage and Demon skills have a separate ID and are not level 11 of the skills. The level on them is 10 by default I believe but something like summer sprint that normally has a max level of 3 might differ. It shouldn't break anything setting it as 10 though.

[slayer200230]

ok thanks for the reading, this makes me wounder, i took a skill, revive pet, copied the hex at lvl 2, and at lvl 10, the code was exactly the same, what controls the lvl of the skill?

[Drakaer]

Well then you need to repeat your test because the hex should not be exactly the same. I said in my post that the level of the skill is the section on the end. I'm guessing you didn't reload the character xml properly.

[slayer200230]

i went back to the first screen retyped in the id and clicked xml and as u stated it did not reload, sure enough it changed the "2" to "a" thanks for saying that i did not even think to recheck if it reloaded i just assumed it did alrighty, thanks im gonna have some more fun, by any chance are the # in the elements.data file for skills the same as stated in the configs.pck?

[Drakaer]

No. Character skills aren't in elements.data, just the skill books are. So the IDs are different. There are weapon addons in both however. I haven't managed to figure out how they relate to each other yet though.

[slayer200230]

wouldn't the books link back to the skill number tho?

[Drakaer]

Not directly there would be a bunch of stuff in between. If you look at the list in elements in there isn't really anything useful there. You would be better looking in tasks (if its in there) to find out what happens when you learn a skill at a trainer. It does seem a bit of a long way just to get ID's though when there is a file that already lists them all.

By all means do look into it though. You never know what you might stumble across.

[slayer200230]

Not directly there would be a bunch of stuff in between. If you look at the list in elements in there isn't really anything useful there. You would be better looking in tasks (if its in there) to find out what happens when you learn a skill at a trainer. It does seem a bit of a long way just to get ID's though when there is a file that already lists them all.

By all means do look into it though. You never know what you might stumble across.

the reason i ask this, is bc i dont know how to open configs.pck, what program would i use to be able to see these files, thats y i ask, bc i dont have the tool(not to my knowledge anyway) so the long way would still get me the same results

[Drakaer]

o.o how can you not know how to open them? Even if you search pck files you should find out exactly whats needed.

Anyway since I'm nice you can either use
sPCK - pwTools
If you downloaded the sELedit from here then you already have it. There is also a post by me somewhere with batch files for easy use or you could find sPCK-GUI or something. Its pretty simple to use anyway.

pwrepack - This is another tool that can extract pck files.

pwpack2008 - This is a really old tool that we used to use.

Personally I would (and have) find a copy of all 3 and keep them as backups. That way you can choose which one to use and if one doesn't work then you have others that might.

[slayer200230]

ok yeah i saw sPAC but had no clue what exactly it did, im finnally getting a chance to mess with stuff besides npc/mobs/resources, and of course fixing instances, ill get on this one next thanks