How do I make spell tomes?

[Kolagon]

I just got done making a lot of custom spells via Construction set and I'd like to know how to turn them into spell tomes and then add them to the loot list, or at least have them added to a merchant.

Edited February 19, 2017 by Kolagon

[Oblivionaddicted]

You will need a bit of scripting, to create or modify leveled lists and maybe create and add some containers in some cells, nothing very complicated.

 

To create tome spells, take a book matching your tastes, change its editor ID to whatever you want (preferably something including your nickname and in another language than english to decrease the risk of conflicts as much as possible). Replace the text.

 

Give it an object script like it:

 

ScriptName TheNameYouWantYourScriptToHave

 

Begin OnAdd Player

Activate

Player.addspell YourSpellEditorID

Endif

End

[Surilindur]

With OBSE, it should also be possible to use one single script for all the tomes. One simple way to do it would probably be something like this (assuming the script runs on the book ref):

scriptname SomeSpellTomeScriptWithYourPrefix

ref Container
ref BaseObject

begin _OnEquip ; no actor limits - will run on every actor
    let Container := GetContainer ; returns the container the tome is in
    if eval !( Container.IsActor )
        return ; do nothing if equipped on something other than an actor (if at all possible)
    endif
    let BaseObject := GetBaseObject ; get the base object for this tome
    if ( BaseObject == YourFirstCustomSpellTomeObject ) ; if the tome is FirstTome...
        Container.AddSpell YourFirstCustomSpell ; ...then add FirstSpell
    elseif ( BaseObject == YourSecondCustomSpellTomeObject ) ; if the tome is SecondTome...
        Container.AddSpell YourSecondCustomSpell ; ...then add SecondSpell
    elseif ( BaseObject == YourThirdCustomSpellTomeObject ) ; ...
        Container.AddSpell YourThirdCustomSpell
    endif
end

But that one only works if GetBaseObject returns the base object of the spell tome. And it only makes sense to use that if someone wants to stuff everything in one script as opposed to writing one script for each tome. I have not tested that, either, so it really is just an idea. Maybe one day if you get that far in scripting, you could consider something like that.

 

The CS wiki can probably help you, at least the following pages I think:

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php?title=List_of_Functions

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php?title=OnEquip

http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php?title=AddSpell

 

Hopefully that helps a bit.

 

For adding to leveled lists, you could use the Construction Set itself. OBSE offers commands to add items to leveled lists, but making it work in a reasonable manner requires some scripting work. Adding the items to leveled lists in the Construction Set should be enough, assuming the people using your mod will be rebuild their Bashed Patches after adding your mod. You can check the Bashed Patch.esp with TES4Edit after rebuilding it to see if your leveled items were included in it. Actual in-game changes to vendor inventories and all that probably take some time, but I have no idea really. I mostly do scripting and the like. :blush:

[Kolagon]

Oh jeeze, this sounds complicated. Basically, I recreated a lot of Skyrim's Destruction spells into Oblivion minus the Rune/Spray spells, nothing overwritten though. I might just add them to a merchant and let players buy them from said-merchant, I know they'll have a lot of fun, especially the Master spells that reachs up to 35 feet via exploding touch spells.

Edited February 19, 2017 by Kolagon

[Oblivionaddicted]

This won't be hard to do. Need more explanations?

[Kolagon]

Yes please.

[Oblivionaddicted]

Be more precise.

[Kolagon]

Guide me on how to put the custom spells onto a merchant so that players can buy said-spells without needing to use console guides.

[Oblivionaddicted]

You want a merchant to sell the spell tomes which will give the spell to player once he buys the book?

[Kolagon]

No, I mean just buy the spell in general, not the tome. The script to make the tome looks a bit complicated for the time being so I will do it later.

Edited February 22, 2017 by Kolagon