Dark Souls 3. Adding, changing elemental effects for weapons with its original skills and move set.

[rotund canyon]

Hi everyone, I am new to modding. However, I have already familiarized myself with programs like Yapped, Blender, UXM and some others. I would like to learn about the possibility of adding or changing the type of elemental damage when using special techniques of certain weapons.

For example, I would like to add some kind of elemental effect (fire, dark, magic, etc) to Gael's sword when using a special technique, preferably during its use.

In Yapped, I was able to partially realize what I had in mind by changing the techniques of Gael's sword and Lorian's sword. Gael's sword now uses the Sword of Lorian technique and continues to burn after use, and I did the same with some other techniques with elemental effects (the Onyx Blade technique, putting fire on Profaned Greatsword's enhanced strikes, and the Straight Sword of the Ringed Knight technique), which means that the effects can be applied, though sometimes it doesn't look or work very well. However, normal buffs with elemental spells or resins apply just fine, even on the integrated Wolf's Gravestone, and everything looks adequate to the original set of muvs of the chosen weapon [Gael].

Yeah, I just want Gael's sword to use some sort of effect, but preferably only when using his special abilities, like Profaned Greatsword, during boosted attacks.

Alas, I could not achieve anything other than what I described above, perhaps this program will not give me such an opportunity, and have to climb into the files of the game, but still I understand that there is a way out, take for example the same "Convergence", this mod has a bunch of original sets of muvs, and with their own effects, and perhaps it can be done in the files of the game itself.

I hope my questions on this topic will not seem to you through too simple, nub or obscure, I just do not even know where to start, I do not know how difficult it can be realized, but I have not yet found on the forums or here such questions, and the answers to them may be and there are. I've been trying to figure out the features of Yapped for a while now, but other than replacing special moves and hit types I haven't gotten anywhere.

[lofty wolf]

First off, stop using Yapped and switch to DSMS which is far more powerful and more supported

I believe in dsms, there’s a damage parameter, and you’d simple change the type of damage there

[near pelican]

so you want to use gael weapon art and it will apply the flame buff to the weapon or just change the damage to fire, like lorian weapon?

[rotund canyon]

Thanks for the advice, now as soon as I have some free time I will start looking into DSMS.

[rotund canyon]

I would like to see a short term fire buff appear on Gael's sword when using the special ability "Blade of Peril".
No, I wouldn't want to see a burning sword already after using "Blade of Peril". I hope I understood your question correctly 🙂

[rotund canyon]

Yeah, I wouldn't mind a little fire damage while using Blade of peril. 😉

[near pelican]

u can use dsanimstudio to create an event that will apply the speffect of carthus arc for example and reduce its "lifetime" to a couple of seconds to match blade of peril

to edit the lifetime use DSMS

[rotund canyon]

Thanks, I will definitely try it when I start learning this program, I was thinking about something like this too, just didn't know where to implement it.

[near pelican]

If you need any help with this, just ping me

[rotund canyon]

Hi again. Alas I can't find the animation I'm looking for, I spent some time today trying to figure out how to find it using Yapped and this cheat sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nK2g7g6XJ-qphFAk1tjP3jZtlXWDQY-ItKLa_sniawo/edit#gid=326750794,
Could you give me some hints on this? I'm actually already thinking about trying all the "anim" files in "chr".

[lofty wolf]

Again, it’s best not to use Yapped. DSMS is far more superior and widespread

[near pelican]

to find your animation use dsanimstudio, just download it and open your c0000.anibnd, that should be in the chr folder.
I would tell you to listen to Andy and start using dsmapstudio, it will make your job a lot easier

[near pelican]

Are you editing the Blade of Peril right? It is on TAE 263, u can see that on dsmapstudio very easily.
Just go to equipparamweapon, find your weapon and look for the special motion category, there should be your weapon art TAE

and to edit the animation use dsanimstudio

[rotund canyon]

At this point I'm not going to use Yapped to make any changes, so far I've only tried to find the animation I need (Blade of Peril) in DSAnimStudio. I'm sorry, but at the moment I don't understand how I can use DSMS to find what I need in the DSAS program, there's a huge number of options with different animations. I'm confused 😦.

[rotund canyon]

Yes, of course I have c0000.anibnd open in DSanim. Now I have two questions:

1.The first one is how exactly can I access the same options you have in your screenshot? 🙂 Yeah, I haven't figured that one out yet.
2.Second - how does DSMS help me find the animation I need in DSAnim? It's just that I'll probably have to edit something from Blade of Peril into DSAnim anyway. I'm just trying to follow BloodHunterEileen's advice, which mentions using both programs.

Thank you both.

[near pelican]

1. That's screenshot is on dsmapstudio, I used Yapped for a short time I'm not a expert at it
2. In DSMS u can find the TAE wich contain the animation that you want, and u can also edit params in there, just like Yapped

[near pelican]

You can understand it as if the TAE was a container and inside it there are .hkt files which are the animations inside them, an example of this is the TAE 263 which inside it has the blade of profile animations that you want

First click on "edit" and "collapse all TAE sections" this will make everything more organized so you can find the TAE you are looking for

then u go to TAE 263 and boom, there is what you wanted

I strongly recommend using DSMS, there you can edit everything in an easier way and it is also simpler for me to help you

[rotund canyon]

Thanks for the tip about DSanim, now I'll start exploring the options of Blade of Peril itself little by little. As for my first question, I was just referring to DSMS, what file do I need to open to access the same options as in your screenshot? Yeah, haven't found an answer yet, apparently no luck, even with youtube videos 🙂

[near pelican]

create a new project inside your mod folder

click file and new project

[rotund canyon]

I've returned

[keen coral]

How did it go man?

[rotund canyon]

Hey, what are you talking about? 🙂 As for my post here, not really yet, I haven't had access to a computer for about a month. I did manage to experiment a bit with DsAnimStudio before that though, trying to add a new effect for Gael's sword (I want the sword to burn when using an ulta), but so far to no avail. Yesterday I finally went back to exploring the program, trying to do something again, found this good video, although "Scrub Milk" adds a slightly different type of effect, I learned a lot of useful things. However, I still can't do what I wanted to do. I posted my comeback to show that I haven't abandoned my idea yet, mostly for those who have spent their time answering a bunch of my questions here. Maybe there will be questions again soon 🙂

[keen coral]

Alright, good luck!

[rotund canyon]

Thanks )

[near pelican]

if need some help

call me

[rotund canyon]

I'm in the process of writing what I have, I tried to transfer a few events from Lorian's sword special attack animation to Gael's sword special attack, but so far nothing has worked, nothing happens with the sword in the game at all. As I write, and I write a lot, [Or maybe it’s really completely unnecessary, just about how I wasted my time trying to do something myself.] i keep thinking about what you told me about adding a Cartus fire arc event during the animation. I might be able to implement that now, say with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_iY2efZLmU&t=178s The problem is that I don't know the ID of Cartus' fire arc, and whether it would work in SpawnOneShotFFX, it's just that Scrub Milk did a slightly different thing, namely just a circle of darkness around his character from some spell, and that was Elden Ring, not Dark Souls.

[rotund canyon]

And here it is worth saying that the sword of Gael, his first part of the special attack consists of 6 duplicates of the same animation, by the way each duplicate has its locked identical copy, that is a total of 12 animations. Between all 6 duplicates (+copy) there are very few differences, one or two events. Special attack continuations have no duplicates, but have their own copy. Lorian's sword has no such thing, only his special attack is split into two separate animations, [as in the game] - a fire buff and a lunge with a wall of fire. There are no duplicates or copies of these animations.

[rotund canyon]

So far, i only have the following to search speffect of carthus arc by id: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nK2g7g6XJ-qphFAk1tjP3jZtlXWDQY-ItKLa_sniawo/edit#gid=326750794

[near pelican]

if you want the Fire Arc you will need a speffect, not a ffx. Create a new event in animstudio and change it's type to 331 and then insert the carthus fire arc ID which is 102435000 ( u can see the ID in MapStudio -> Param Editor -> SpEffectParam )

[near pelican]

that's because each WP has it's version when u have Focus point and when you don't have it. Blade of Peril has 6 anim because it has directional movements, like using weapon art by moving backwards, forwards, etc.

Also if you want to Carthus Fire Arc match the WP duration, u can duplicate the speffect, change it's ID to be different from the original and edit the Duration to whatever you want

This is what you want to do with blade of perfil right?
https://streamable.com/tlmxqm

should look like this

[rotund canyon]

Well my sword is lit, now I'll try to create a take and adjust the duration. Thank you very much 🙂

[near pelican]

no problem, I'm glad I helped you

[rotund canyon]

I feel like I'm missing a few lines at the moment. When I noticed this problem in Map Studio, I decided to hide it in a drawer in the attic for a while, since I was learning DSanim at the time. It's probably time to get it out ).

[near pelican]

u need to unpack the full game with uxm

also update your mapstudio

[rotund canyon]

Ok, I'll try the latest version of MapStudio, I've been using uxm for a while now )

[near pelican]

ye but u need to unpack the intire ds3 with uxm and throw inside your mod folder

[rotund canyon]

Hello, first of all I want to say that I'm still here and also that I finally bought a Steam license, I think that's why I'm having problems with DSMS, but I would have bought it anyway, I just didn't have the option at the time 🙂 I hope to be able to start setting up Param soon.

[rotund canyon]

Hi, I finally saw my Param :), you said I should duplicate the Carthus flame arc special effect, change its ID, then reduce the duplication time. Will I be able to duplicate this in DSMap?

[rotund canyon]

In any case, after changing the duration everything worked, also happy that after the FP is used up the effect of fire does not manifest itself )

[near pelican]

yes just CRTL D

[near pelican]

that's awesome