Just started working on making my second mastery, and avoiding going back to fiddle around with the first and I run into a problem.
I struggle, I search, I throw my hands up and watch some youtube videos to calm down. Then I come back to it and there it is, staring me in the face.
Proof that I’m an idiot.
Ya know that feeling when your new skill just won’t show up, but you swear it’s set up right? So you double check in skills, in ui, everywhere it’s supposed to be. And then you realize, sonuvabitch I can’t believe I put the display name instead of the file name everywhere!
Damn display name, you’re only supposed to be in the tag file! How did you get out of there!?
The answer, this idiot, right here.
Also, Davood, thanks for that .txt in DAIL, ya know the one saying I must be a masochist. You’re right, I am, but I can’t even get the right file names in place, how the heck am I supposed to merge into that crazy mod? Keep up the good work though, getting that thing as stable as it is must be nuts.
What’s the easiest way you’ve found to edit the locations of the skills? I’ve been wanting to make a mastery on my own and it’s almost overwhelming. Any tips?
Yeah, modding GD is the most frustratingly addictive thing I have ever stumbled upon. Entire weeks sucked down the drain with nothing to show for it, but knowledge. And unless you do it daily, that knowledge turns into a distant recollection real fast.
Even if what you stumbled on seems trivial now, write the guide up as to what you did wrong, how you figured it out and how you plan to do it right the first time, next time. Cause in two weeks, you are most likely going to want to read your own guide to refresh.
Yeah, I try to write down everything I do, then if I fuck something up I can go back and figure out what it was, or if I fix something that was fucked, I know what it was as well. Having a log is definitely useful information, also having access to these forums is definitely a huge plus. So many bookmarked threads for things I just cannot remember, such as the specific lines to hex edit for workable TQ meshes, etc.
Warebare made a pretty nice graphic too, if the one Ceno posted is too confusing.
Also, if you have photoshop or any other photo editing program that has x/y coords, you can open a file the size of the masterypanel background, and you can get coordinates that way as well. It’s a little more complicated than simply looking at one of these premade grids, but if you wanted to do your own system, that’s how you’d do it.
made a tool for that - itll get an update at some point with a lot more features and cross-platform, but if you are using windows you are good for now.
