Talk:Enchanting tutorial

Initial feedback

This isn't bad at all, we need more of these basic tutorials. There are a few things I changed though. I would appreciate it if you could take a look at tutorial with the following things in mind. I guess you're not an experienced wiki editor, so I recommend the syntax and style guides.

• I removed the new NPC section, because the tutorial didn't explain anything about creating a new NPC. I don't think it has to, the Basic NPC Creation Tutorial does a good job, I referred to that.
• Wikified the source - you're using a lot of <br> tags, try to avoid those in Wiki articles.
• Some choices/instructions aren't clear in the article. Because this a basic tutorial I think it would benefit from a detailed explanation of every action. For example:
  • Changing the EditorID creates a new form, this should be explained. Also mention that you have to click YES on the question you get after clicking OK!
  • What do the Range, Area, Duration, etc. boxes on the effects window do?

I added an unfinished tag at the first line of the article to make sure we don't forget about it. If you think it's done you can remove that. I also added three categories at the bottom of the tag, but included them in HTML comments (<!-- and -->).
--Qazaaq 05:01, 6 October 2009 (EDT)

great, i'll get right onto all that now!
UPDATE: Finished it, also I notified that it says expand the tree to

Items > weapons

then

items > weapons > elven 

so I removed the first one to hopefully make it quicker and simpler.--Oblivious12123 12:55, 28 December 2009 (EST)

Questions

If I make my own Enchantment, how do I change how many charges/uses it has before it is depleted? Is it possible to create a constant damage vs enemy effect? I've been scourng the forums trying to find out the answeres to these seemingly simple questions. I should be able to control the amount of charges/uses I have. Rimefire Witch

If I make my own Enchantment, how do I change how many charges/uses it has before it is depleted?

First open your enchantment window, you can see Charge Amount and Enchantment Cost at he bottom of your window. Then you'll need to un-check the Auto-Calculate box. The amount of uses is equal to the charge amounts divided by the enchantment cost (eg. If charge amount is 25000 and if enchantment cost is 500 then you can use the enchantment 50 times), if you want to have infinite charges, set charge amount to 1 and enchantment cost to 0.

Is it possible to create a constant damage vs enemy effect?

Yes it is possible, they are called abilities. First go to the spell window and change the type into an ability, ID:000Ability and chose a name and your effects. To use abilities as enchantments you'll have to create a script effect for a spell to give the target this ability:

scn 000ScriptEffect

ref Me

Begin ScriptEffectStart
     Set Me to GetSelf
     Me.addspell 000Ability
End

To create the spell, go to the spell window and add a new effect and select your script. Create a new enchantment and add the spell you created earlier. And finally attach your enchantment to your weapon.

Darkness X 15:02, 8 December 2009 (EDT)

Alternative method: Open the magic section and click Enchantment. Change the enchantment type to weapon, then make the ability. The magnitude, as shown in the tutorial, is the amount of damage, the duration is how long. Oblivious12123 08:11, 28 February 2010 (EST)