How do you make armbands use force powers?

[Capt_Nemo]

As the title should indicate, I was wondering how do you make it so you can use an armband like a droid item such as a stun ray or something, but instead it uses a force power, such as stasis field or some other pre-existing force power. Do I have to write a script for this, alter the spells.2da, or what? Or did I just screw up in altering the activate item property? In case you are wondering, the reason why I am interested in this is beacuse I was thinking about making a special armband for Mission that takes full advantage of her sneak attacks by stunning large groups without having to wait until you become a jedi, and even then you can only stun people one at a time. Thanks in advance to those who help.

[Darth333]

Do I have to write a script for this, alter the spells.2da, or what? Or did I just screw up in altering the activate item property?

You'll have to do a bit of everything...

 

1. You will need to create your custom script. Beancounter made a forcepower scripting tutorial quite recently: http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=137498

 

2. You will need to edit spells.2da - check this tutorial : http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=130898

 

3. Edit the .uti file as you deem fit but pay particular attention to the following fields:

- Charges: set it at 0 if you want unlimited uses

- Subtype (in the PropertiesList): make sure it points at the corresponding spells.2da line.

 

If you want examples, you can have a look at the All-in-one force power mod (AIOFPM) which contains the following armbands (source code included):

 

- tk102's Darkside Choker Armband

- tk102's Flame Thrower Armband

- tk102's VFX armband (visual effects)

- Darth333's Easy Warping Armband

- Darth Khasei's Spawn Enemies on Demand Armband (original mod, scripts by Darth Khasei assembled in an Armband by Darth333)

- Andargor's Holowan Extradimensional Emporium

 

and there is also my party manager and spawning armband: http://www.pcgamemods.com/7386/ which I haven't included in the AIOFPM yet.

[Capt_Nemo]

Thanks Darth333. By organizing the things I need to do you have helped a lot. I had tried to do it before, but I think I ended up only doing different parts of it seperatly, and not putting it all together, which would obviously result in all failures. Thanks again.