[Tutorial] circular/radial splash damage

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[Tutorial] circular/radial splash damage

Post by eleriaqueen » Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:32 pm

I hope this post will help beginner modders add a useful property to items. It is made of info I found in threads / posts / discord.
(Tested on Diablo 2 (Legacy) 1.10)

[!] After following this tutorial you'll end up with a property that adds a splash damage AoE with no need for nextDelay. Property will read "An evil force" but I'll add info later on how to add a custom string (text) for it.

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Copy the following row data into the right files.
(Modify 'Id' values to match your skills/missiles files. If previous row has an id of 380 then use Id 381... etc)

skills.txt:

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radialsplash	357													splashmissile											4																																																																																				1	2		none												SC	SC	xx																	1																							1						1	7	5	0	1																																		1																																													0
missiles.txt:

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splashmissile	684	1		1	44																																																				2				255	255	255	1	0	0	null	1024	1	16					3	1		1		1							3				1	1								1									33	12	8		96																																			32																						0
Adding this data will only create the skill and associated missile but it won't spawn on any item.

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To be able to add the property to some base items you need to add the following data.
(In itemStatCost.txt use an id that fits your file)

itemStatCost.txt:

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item_splashonhit	359		1	7	16						1			2	190	256	1024		21	0	7	0	16											1	domeleedamage	20			160	15	0	modstrsplashdmg	modstrsplashdmg									0
properties.txt:

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splash	1	skill/chance/level		11	item_splashonhit																									splash	radialsplash	% Chance	Level		0
automagic.txt:

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splashdmg		100	1	1	1		1				1	306	splash	radialsplash	100	1											weap														0
Put 306 (splash property's automod group) into the column "auto prefix" for every item base you want the property to appear on.

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Customisable splash damage parameters:

skills.txt:

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aurarangecalc : radius of the splash (In this example it is 4 but can be an expression/calc)
missiles.txt:

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ResultFlags : Damage properties (Example has 33 which is 1 + 32 which mean "Deal damage + No crushing blow")
HitFlags : Addition effect properties (Example has 12 which is 4 + 8 which mean "No Life Leech + No Mana Leech")
More info about ResultFlags/HitFlags in Cypress' awesome post viewtopic.php?f=4&t=67405

automagic.txt:

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rare : a rare item can spawn with property
level : minimum item level required for this item property to spawn on the item
maxlevel : maximum item level on which this property can spawn
levelreq : minimum character level required to equip an item that has this item property

mod1min : chance for splash damage to trigger (In this example it is 100 %)
mod1max : level of the 'radialsplash' skill used (In this example it is 1)

itype1 : First item type on which automod is allowed (In example it is "weap")
itype2 : Second item type on which automod is allowed (In example it is blank but can be "armo" for instance)
itypex...

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