Adding new skills and skill groups

[AsYlum-]

There are a few issues and limitations when adding new skills. I think it would be good to add such information in Fiddler UI to avoid confusion. For now I will leave this issue here as a reminder.

Looks like client by default can only support 57 skills:

You're restricted to a total of 57 skills right now, it's a client restriction and I'm unsure how to overcome it so what I'd suggest is pinpointing the more useless skills and getting rid of those. Unless someone else knows of a way to overcome this, I'd actually be interested in a solution as the following solution I'll mention isn't a great one.

Source: ServUO forums: Adding skills using Fiddler

Other things worth remembering:

• Skill groups are cached in character profile folder so after each edit those may require deleting.
• There is prof.txt file in client with new character templates it is pretty rigid so not much can be changed here.
• You can add more skills but supporting them will require implementing custom skill gump or some client file editing.
• Editing skill groups need some love because it's not really intuitive.
• The clients skill amount limit probably changed few times it would be great if we can get info about each expansion and actual limit.

[andrtechno]

@AsYlum- tab skillgrp not working adding via skillid v4.9.12

[AsYlum-]

@AsYlum- tab skillgrp not working adding via skillid v4.9.12

Can you please explain in more detail? I've just checked and it works fine.

You only have to remember about client side limitations mentioned above.

Process is simple:

• go to Skills tab and under right click menu click Add
• fill your skill name and tick the check box if needed
• right click again and from menu click Save
• get the new files from UOFiddler's profile folder and overwrite your skills.idx/.mul in client directory.
• remember to clean character cache in uo client's profile

[andrtechno]

I'm talking about the Skill Group tab in it, if you delete a skill, then you can no longer add it by ID

skillid 58 this is a new skill i added

[AsYlum-]

@andrtechno You can but the UI logic is a bit weird. Here is how you can do this:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/377468/167829514-c22a1fc0-0f5e-4beb-a2ab-0590b8538d62.mp4

You add new node and name it. Then you add skillid to that node and only after that you can drag it to the group.

And after you replace skillgrp.mul it will look like this

[AsYlum-]

This control needs a refresh but so far I don't have enough time to do this.

[andrtechno]

thx, I wouldn't have guessed it was done that way

[andrtechno]

the skill did not appear in the game. I registered all the skills everywhere, made maxskillid 58, etc.

It's like it's there, but it's like it's not.) I even re-created the character, the new one did not appear in the "Skills journal".

I cleared the character cache, but for some reason the skillgrp.mul file is written there without the created skill

the skill is in "Misc" - it's not there I can't figure out what's the problem

[AsYlum-]

@andrtechno I think the problem is hard-coded limit in client. It's 57 skills. That's it. Check the post from ServUO I've linked in the first post here.