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===== Skill Set ===== | ===== Skill Set ===== | ||
This is the skill set name which this preset is assigned by default (the skill set must be defined in the data). | This is the skill set name which this preset is assigned by default (the skill set must be defined in the data). | ||
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| + | ===== Starting Points ===== | ||
| + | There are four properties under this category : Talents, Attributes, Combat and Civil ability points. Tweaking these will make your class start with a different amount of points available to spend. | ||
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| + | ===== Equipment Properties ===== | ||
| + | As you can see the equipment properties are a bit different. They are a list, which specifies the equipment set that each race will wear during the preview in character creation. | ||
| + | N.B: If you add a custom race, you'll need to fill it in this list as well | ||
Revision as of 13:24, 11 September 2017
Contents
Getting started
The Divinity Engine uses XML style file presets in order to load in the available classes during character creation. This data driven approach allows us to define custom presets in character creation in the blink of an eye. The first thing you need to know when creating your first character creation class is the location of the preset files. You can find those located inside : YourMod/CharacterCreation/ClassPresets (If the directory doesn't exist, you can just create it yourself).
Once you find or create the directory inside of your mod, you can just place the provided template file - - inside of it. If you load up character creation now and cycle through the presets, you should be able to see something like the following:
Preset breakdown
Now that we've loaded our class preset let's take a look at the most important properties
Class Name
The name of the class which is displayed to the user. The handle property is set to ls::TranslatedStringRepository::s_HandleUnknown by default in order to signal that this string has not been localized for other languages yet.
Class Type
This is the string which is used by code in order to identify the class with its unique type. IT doesn't need to be the same as the Class Name, but it is nice to be similar for readability's sake.
Skill Set
This is the skill set name which this preset is assigned by default (the skill set must be defined in the data).
Starting Points
There are four properties under this category : Talents, Attributes, Combat and Civil ability points. Tweaking these will make your class start with a different amount of points available to spend.
Equipment Properties
As you can see the equipment properties are a bit different. They are a list, which specifies the equipment set that each race will wear during the preview in character creation. N.B: If you add a custom race, you'll need to fill it in this list as well
