Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 - The Modding Dungeon Divinity - Original Sin 2 - Modding General How to change animations for new skills?

I am trying to make a skill very similar to Fireball; just a projectile that is thrown and explodes in an area. I can change everything about this new skill except the animations it seem, in the stats editor when I change the PrepareAnimationInit, PrepareAnimationLoop, and CastAnimation they don't change. I can even leave these fields empty and the skill still has the Fireball animations. How do I change this?

Go into the Sparks Effect Editor tool and look for things like:
"skill_prepare_air_01_start"
"skill_prepare_air_01_loop"
"skill_cast_self_air_01_cast"
These animations are what your avatar (dummy) will do depending where they are.

For prepare effect (the attacks fx):
"RS3_FX_Skills_Air_Lightning_Prepare_Ground_02"
This will use the animation shown in the FX editor on the prepare attack.
For Cast effect it's more or less the same
"RS3_FX_Skills_Voodoo_Cast_AoE_Water_Root_01"

Adding things like ":Dummy_L_HandFX,Dummy_R_HandFX" at the end of the effect name will cause the fx to appear in the dummy's hands.

This guide may help = https://docs.larian.game/Skill_creation

Thanks I got it to work. Another quick question about animations is how should I attach effects? I understand in the "cast effect" or "prepare effect" I can put an effect, is there somewhere I can see attachment points? And also I know there are modifiers like "keep_rot" or something like that which I assume has something to do with rotation? Like for ground effects I've used "detach". Is there somewhere I can view a list of these?

But we have no idea how to properly change the animations and VFX, and of course the audio doesn't work

Is that because Larian hasn't given us any information/tutorial on it. Or the editor won't allow it?