new techs
In this section you will learn how to create a technique for a weapon that players, monsters, npcs and bosses can use. As a note, it is possible to have new weapons use old techniques or old weapons to use new techniques. You just have to adjust it in the weapon's Abilities=
The first step to creating a new technique is to open techniques.db with Notepad. You should notice that all the weapons are listed as name=techs. If you've just created a new weapon and want to add techniques to it you will need to add the weapon name to the list followed by = and a list of techniques that the weapon has (such as MonsterTestWeapon=MonsterTech1.MonsterTech2)
The next step is to create the actual techniques. Let's create two techniques for the monster weapon that was an example in the Creating New Weapons section. So let's scroll to the bottom of the file as it's easier to put all the new monster techniques at the bottom. If you were making techniques for players, I would put them in the category they belong to (like new sword techniques in the SWORDS section I have split out).
You can find a technique template and an explanation of all the various settings Technique Template and Flags
For the sake of this tutorial, we have two techs to make. Let's make one be a status type that inflicts Paralysis and then make the other be an AOE that hits all players on the battlefield when used. Let's also assume the AOE is fire magic based but the paralysis is non-magic.
[MonsterTech1]
Type=Single
StatusType=paralysis
TP=10
Desc=jumps at %enemy and injects a paralyzing venom to cause paralysis.
BasePower=10
Magic=No
Element=None
Cost=0
[MonsterTech2]
Type=AOE
TP=10
Desc=engulfs the battlefield with a powerful flame that causes fire damage to all targets
BasePower=10
Magic=Yes
Element=Fire
Cost=0
And there we go. Our two techs are now done and added into techniques.db. Hit save and you're done with that.
If you're ever confused about any of this, you can always scroll through and look at some of the pre-made techniques to know how it all works.