Help: making a mastery

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For adding tags I followed your instructions here. However, when I go to the asset manager to build the mod, the manager says the resource folder (in my mod file)–with the new TEXT document–is empty and needs to be deleted. Any idea on how to get the new TEXT document to be recognized?

The bar that normally appears behind the skills, telling which are connected, is not showing up. Do you know how to insert this bar?

Okay for the tags, I’m gonna copy-paste a quote from another thread, this person explained better than me since he/she already done it before

[Question] DBR Editor setup + Making an Enemy

Do you have a modstrings.txt in YourMod\source\Text_EN?
If not, make one manually and autocreate asset in the Asset Manage by right clicking the file in your mod on the Source tab.

Then, each and every time you make a change to anything that is shown to the player through a tag, you have to write it down in the modstrings.txt. That’s why I have it open and minimized, so that I can immediately write it down and not forget.

For example in an npc’s Actor Variables, we have the first field: description.

If you write Bob in there, you have to go to the modstrings.txt and write down a line:

Bob=Bob

so that the game knows what tag to load. Things can get messy really fast, so I find it best to keep the “tag” prefix to remind me I have to make an entry to modstrings.txt.

For your second question, here’s a picture that will explain it better than I could

Let me explain you how it works, you need to edit/open the base skill you want to add connections too.
Under UI Information, you will see both skillConnectionOn and Off.
You need to copy “ui/skills/skillallocation/skills_connectoroffcenter.tex” and “ui/skills/skillallocation/skills_connectoroncenter.tex” for each Skill Upgrade you have.
In this example, my base skill “Teleport” only have 1 upgrade so that’s why you only see 1 entry.

I actually forgot to reply to you last time for your question #4.
Sorry about that.

But if you still haven’t figured it out, to have the skill actually connect (not visually but actively) you need to place them in order inside the classtree.
So let’s say you want to modify skill X and you have a skill modifier (or secondary) Y, then Skill X need to be right before Skill Y.
The next base skill that follow skill Y will not be modified by Skill Y.
If you had another modifier Skill Z, then the order would be X, Y, Z.
Outside the classtree the order is not important as far as I know.

Skill Dependencies is used to make a skill (or skills) require the previous skill (or skills).