Hi, I'm sure this has been asked before but the search gave me so many unrelated results I'm not even sure I know how to search the forums here.
I'm trying to learn how to edit skills, and I've managed to figure out a few things, but so far I'm pretty stumped on the AoE portion of skills.
For example, I'm trying to make Acid Terror into an AoE. I have made it into a multi hit skill, and made it not reduce the amount of acid bottles by editing the skill_db.yml.
I tried to copy the text from fireball and magnum break without any results on either, and I found one vague message on the discord when searching that said "you can't just edit the skill_db to make something an aoe" but it didn't clarify how to actually do it. (not trying to being rude just saying.)
Should I go into the skill.cpp and change something there or is there another way that I'm not understanding. The formulas in the skill.cpp make me really nervous because I don't want to make any drastic changes and I was worried about breaking something in there.
Anyway, if anyone could give me a baby mode breakdown of like "first do this, then do this, and then finish by doing this" I would really appreciate it. I just started learning to do this last night with an offline build because all the lawsuit stuff has me anxious I won't be able to play ro again in the future lol.
I'll post the code I have in the skill_db for reference so you can see if I'm messing that up. I believe I took this one from Mag Break.
Oh I think I'm supposed to say the client is 2021 11 17?
- Id: 230
Name: AM_ACIDTERROR
Description: Acid Terror
MaxLevel: 5
Type: Weapon
TargetType: Attack
DamageFlags:
Splash: true
IgnoreFlee: true
Flags:
IgnoreAutoGuard: true
IgnoreCicada: true
Range: 9
Hit: Single
HitCount: 1
SplashArea:
- Level: 1
Area: 2
- Level: 2
Area: 2
- Level: 3
Area: 2
- Level: 4
Area: 4
- Level: 5
Area: 4
CopyFlags:
Skill:
Plagiarism: true
Reproduce: true
CastCancel: true
CastTime: 1000
Duration1:
- Level: 1
Time: 5
- Level: 2
Time: 5
- Level: 3
Time: 5
- Level: 4
Time: 5
- Level: 5
Time: 5
Duration2: 120000