Hello everyone, I’am basically at the point where I want to learn something new and was wondering how to make custom pets. I was thinking about PM’ing someone like I have been doing to save making topics but I am sure this is info some others in the community wouldn’t mind knowing.
I did look around and play with some stuff in the editor before asking and couldn’t seem to figure it out =/ If someone could fill me in on advice on how to make some type of basic summon that would be awesome =)
Try modifying records\skills\playerclass03\summon_raven1.dbr
In the Spawn Config you will find a summon DBR for each Summon Raven skill level. Try changing the first one (records/skills/playerclass03/pets/pet_raven_a01.dbr) to records/creatures/enemies/boar_a01.dbr
So, at the first level of this skill, you will summon a boar. Later, you may replace a boar with your custom summon.
Thank you for your reply, Sadly Stonetusk didn’t live very long because he was incinerated in my AoE ( Stlll attackable ) but thanks to you I figured out that 1st step. I cloned a new pet then changed around some stuff and everything is working great.
You will be missed Stonetusk Boar =/ R.I.P
Open the .dbr file linked to which monster, npc, other thing you want to make as a pet and then click in the menu on File and then on Set Template then scroll until find pet.tpl.
Creating custom pets isn’t trivial but also not that hard once you understand how the files are connected. I usually had most issues with their individual skills (but nothing that can’t be sorted out).
Basically the structure is this: there’s a skill_summon.dbr for summoning the pet which uses skill_spawnpet.tpl. This is the skill that’s displayed in your mastery.
Inside it is Spawn Config. Here you define the actual pet pet.dbr files (usually inside the pets folder). You’ll notice for example that summon_briarthorn.dbr calls 26 thornedhorror files. These use pet.tpl templates meaning they scale with pet bonuses. For player scaling switch to petplayerscaling.tpl.
Each one of these is the same, except each one calls a different pet skill level inside it’s config. I recommend copying briarthorn or similar and experiment with only 1 file. Once you’re satisfied then copy/paste according how you want the ultimate level of your pet to be and adjust the skill levels in each file.
The pet skills themselves are single file each just like for player skills (unless there’s some specific buffs/debuffs).
I thank you guys for your input, It’s been a great help for sure. I spent the good part of my morning setting up a summon for a new relic I am making, in fact just got done finishing it.
I was able to make a custom gargantuan summon who summons other custom melee skeletons lol, Really fun to mess with, My summon only has 1 level so I adjusted his level and his summons levels according. The focus is for the Witchblade redesign in my overhaul and with this its so much fun.
thanks for your help!