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Amount of skills

10-06-2002, 08:22 PM#1
Guest
With the help of one of my good friend I edited the game.dll to make it so that heroes can get more skill points than 10 and edited the button so that Attak and Stop and so on.. fell of the screen and it only had the level up button and movement button then I tried to fill the empty space with skill buttons but then i ran into the problem that Heroes can't have more than 5 custom skills.

So now I'm asking all of you if any of you knew how to make that amount go up?
10-06-2002, 08:53 PM#2
ChronOmega
cant you edit the dll for that to
10-06-2002, 09:19 PM#3
weaaddar
well as far as I know I don't really think he edited DLLS more like text files (misddata commandfunc & command string). I think you'll have to physically edit Game.dll and changed the spell cap.
10-06-2002, 09:23 PM#4
Guest
My friend is a bit better than me so, basically he did the dll editing, but since he's away now (only god knows for how long) i turned to you guys.
And I'm positive that you need to edit the game.dll to raise the skill cap.
10-06-2002, 10:38 PM#5
ChronOmega
oh
10-06-2002, 11:53 PM#6
weaaddar
Erm Unless blizzard changed it since beta 1.32 (which I doubt it cuz there lazier then me) editing unit\miscdata.txt and raising the cap to 15 levels works just fine. You willl gain 5 extra points how to spend them is beyond me.
10-07-2002, 05:37 AM#7
Guest
Won't get it that way...
Raising the maximum level won't give you more points than 10.
But anyways.. That is not the issue. It's about getting more skills.
10-07-2002, 02:11 PM#8
dataangel
I dunno, have you considered that maybe it's just the hero skills button positions overlapping? Try editing the ability.txt files to move them.
10-07-2002, 08:07 PM#9
Guest
Tried that already, no luck. I already gave all the skills different positions.
like 0,0 0,1 0,2 0,3 1,0 1,1 and so on...
so it's not that they are overlapping. Well, i guess it's just debugging for me then...
10-07-2002, 10:44 PM#10
Guest
If you could, could you either post the updated game.dll or tell how/what you replaced to change the max skill points? I have been looking in the game.dll and I haven't come up with anything, although I have absolutely 0 experience with editing .dll files.
10-08-2002, 11:57 AM#11
Guest
Quote:
Originally posted by Althanaes (not anywhere here though)
In Game.DLL at offset 3C8682 is the byte that controls the max # of skill points. Hex edit it to anything up to 255 and you have that many max skill points.

That's about it. But yeh, it was Althanaes that came up with it.
10-08-2002, 03:30 PM#12
Guest
KICK ***!!! It works

I have NO clue how your friend found that, but hell, it worked so who cares. (Please don't tell me he looked at every value that was 10 until he found one that worked).

If someone wants the game.dll that is edited I can post it, but remember I didn't actually find it out, I am just the messenger for a genius.
10-08-2002, 03:37 PM#13
Guest
Yeah. Please post that. I'm interested in seeing how it works.
10-08-2002, 05:58 PM#14
Guest
If you're gonna use it, you should give atleast some credit to him.
But the fact that you can get more skills is still rather useless since you can't have more skills until someone finds a way to raise the skill cap.
10-08-2002, 11:05 PM#15
Guest
Well, I can't post it here cause it is 3 megs zipped. Just download a hex editor from www.download.com and edit it yourself, its not that hard.

And I had no intention of using it without giving credit to Althanaes. Didn't you see my little disclamer about me being the one who just did the menial work after Althanaes found out what that work was to do?