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[Awake]

Ok, i've read "Sim's Complete Scripting Guide" and that doesn't seem to help. I've used Search, and that doesn't seem to help. I have read several posts, and they don't seem to help at all. I'm trying to add a new spell animation that I made to the ids, but i don't know how to do this. I want it to be done using WeiDU too. I don't understand this at all. If someone can explain step by step how to do this, thanks.

[hlidskialf]

Are you talking about adding a new spell projectile? If so, you add it to the ProjectL.ids file. In weidu you use the ADD_PROJECTILE action. Details and example is in the Weidu readme.

[Awake]

thanks, yes, i did mean projectile. Seifer had helped me out earlier, and i had just figured out what he meant by saving it as a projectile. now, just to figure out how this updates the ids and what the id number will be so that i can refer to it in other places

[CamDawg]

When use use ADD_PROJECTILE, it creates a variable with the proper value of the projectile you just added. For example, this is what I used to add a new projectile for Curse in Cleric Remix:

ADD_PROJECTILE ~Cleric_Remix/vanilla/CDCURSE.pro~

COPY ~Cleric_Remix/vanilla/CDCURSE.spl~ ~override/CDCURSE.spl~  // Curse
  SAY NAME1 @104
  SAY NAME2 @104
  SAY UNIDENTIFIED_DESC @105
  SAY DESC @105
  WRITE_SHORT 0x98 "%CDCURSE%"
  SAY 0x2AE @104

When you use ADD_PROJECTILE to add filename.pro, it sets a %filename% variable which you can use for your spells. For example, if I add CDCURSE.pro and it ends up being projectile 134, then %CDCURSE% = 134. You can't use a number directly in the spells you're adding, you'll need to patch the projectile offset in the spell(s) in which you're using it with a WRITE_SHORT as I've done above.

[Awake]

Thanks, CamDawg, that is exactly what I needed. One more problem though is this hex thing. I keep on reading that I'm supposed to go in with NI and find the hex value of whatever, but I'm not sure how to do this. I click "Edit as hex" and that changes the actual .pro filename into a hex, so I don't see how this will help with changing that. I don't know if that made sense... kind of tired.

[CamDawg]

In Near Infinity, go to Options and check the 'Show Hex Offsets' box. Every screen should now have a third column with the hex offset of the field. That's the value you need to use when determining where in a file to patch.