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

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

• Your skillbook stats entry does not have the correct root template id
• The "Story Item" flag is checked in the skillbook properties