Part 4: adding the skillbook to a vendor

This article is part of a 4-part series on how to create, edit and use a new skill.

Part 1: creating a new skill

Part 2: creating a skill from existing

Part 3: creating and using a skillbook

Part 4: adding the skillbook to a vendor

The data used in this article was created in parts 1 & 2 of the series.

Description

Vendors are NPC characters that buy or sell items. In order to assign our skillbook to a vendor npc, we will need to do a couple of things:

1. Create a treasure table
2. Create a vendor
3. Add the treasure table to the vendor

Setting up a vendor

Step 1: Creating a treasure table

_{Creating the treasure table stats entry}

First, we will create a new treasure table to assign to our vendor. Treasure tables are item tables used to define random loot.

To create our treasure table, we:

• Open the TreasureTable stats document in the Stats editor (Create the document if it does not yet exist) (1).
• Create a new treasure table, I named mine "ST_SkillbookWaterBolt", and then set the following fields (2):
  • DropCount (1,1): this defines the minumum and maximum amount of items generated from the treasure table.
  • ObjectCategory (I_SKILLBOOK_Air_WaterBolt): this is the name of our skillbook's stat object with "I_" prefixed to it.
  • Frequency (1): the likelyhood of SKILLBOOK_Air_WaterBolt being generated from the treasure table.
• Save (3).

Troubleshooting

Several things can cause a skillbook to not show up on a vendor's sell list:

• The item was not generated out of that treasure table
• Your skillbook stats entry does not have the correct root template id

  Items in treasure tables are randomly generated, if an item does not show up it might just be bad RNG!

• The "Story Item" flag is checked in the skillbook properties