Some Custom Skill Questions

Grim Dawn Modding - Tutorials and Help
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I would like to know, to what degree are we allowed to create a new skill?

  • [li]Can it be entirely new? [/li]New animations & properties?


    [li]If not, do skills have to use pre-existing files? [/li]If so, can I at least mish-mash them? For example would it be possible to have Blizzard cast Fissures as well (not that I want to do that lol)?


    [li]If I can’t, then are custom skills limited only to what has already been designed?[/li]I won’t be able to do above at all, instead I can only change the numbers of a skill already in the game. Like making Cadence do Chaos damage and nothing else?


    [li]Can I at least use skills to trigger other skills?[/li]If I’m limited to tweaking modifiers can I add for example, 100% chance to cast Blizzard on hit to any skill?


    [li]Would it be possible to turn immobile skills into projectiles & vice versa?[/li]Can I turn Canister Bomb into a trap, or have Blizzard cascade outwards?

I have yet to look into Grim Dawn entirely, but I’ve been a long time modder for other games. I saw a post from a dev saying new skills were impossible, so I wanted to see what the specifics of that statement are before I started my project.

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Kinda? Skills follow Templates, and you can only use existing templates (unless you’re one of those fancy people that somehow knows how to inject working templates into the game).

Yes.

Yes.