Spell editing .slk help

i need to get two things straight,

i need to edit the .slk to edit spells more indepthly like making something that doesnt do dmg do dmg afterwards, or like make a spell have uber ias buffs for each level?

and also when i extract the .slk notepad is like whoa too complicated i think, is there an easier program ro edit .slks? either by text editing it , or is there a program that edits .slks more thorouhly, i checked out the spell editors but they only let me edit mana etc. for spells nothing much

any help to my questions plus additional help i might appreciate is needed

thanks

Use excel, or if you don't have it, one of the many spell editors.

ok i check the spell editors but i dont see much to edit other than mana cost if its a hero spell etc.

am i missing something?

do u wanna tell me what spell editor u prefer me to use?

etc.

lol thanks

Ok night, ill give you a few ideas. Get excel (hint hint wink wink) and use that. Its very easy to use, as long as you know what your doing, and doesnt take alot of effort. And since you all seem to have a bit of a problem with it, ill write a spell editing tutorial, exposing some of the lesser known spell editing tricks. But for now, you will have to do with the one on thats up now.

ur missin a whole shitload, chief. The spell editors do a ton more than just editing mana cost, duration, cooldown..... That is what the 4 data fields are for. When ur lookin through the things u can edit, ur gonna come across something that says data11, data12, data13, and data14.....or something like that. Those are unique to each spell and are basically what non trigger-aided spells are about.

Like for instance---blizzard. One of the datas is the amount of waves, one is the amount of shards per wave, one is the damage per wave, and another is the time between waves....i think.

Its like that for all kinds of spells. If u have a spell editor that has the tooltips in them, then it will tell u what each data field does.......if not..... then u just have to open excel and look in the boxes for the corresponding spell data fields. in the office xp version of xl, it has little red boxes, i dont know if this is in all excels, but if it is, then just frag ur mouse over it. But most likely the editor will have the tooltips built in. I use wiebbe's spell editor, i would use Daishi of Deaths editor, but either it doesnt have the tooltips, or i cant find them, so i use wiebbe's.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: Ya, listen to electromancer, he got his post in 41 sconds b4 mine, but he is right that excel editing is easy if u know what ur doin

nam guy eeek, SO THATS WHAT THOSE FIELDS ARE FOR

i knew i was missing something,

u know which spell editor gives those tooltips?

man thanks alot namguy

and electro looking forward to your tutorial

i will aslo be getting excel anyway

man thanks w00t, this gives me a whole new depth of spell editing

wiebbe's spell editor has tooltips

um im using wiebbes spell editor but i dont see a tooltip button or anything.....

just import export

and the basic editing fields for the spell, but no tooltips telling me whats what in the data slots

eeek now i see the tooltips

thanks alot

ya, just hold ur mouse over the data field for liek a second