Actually, you want to make this an Ability, rather than a new skill, since what you want to do is to look up all the existing Craft/Perform/Profession skills.
Then, you'll need a way to add it to your character.
So, in the editor, go to the Mechanics tab, and create a new mechanic. The last option there is "Sources" - go there, and create a new source as a child of the House Rules header - call it "Show Day Job Roll".
Give your mechanic a Unique Id, like "mechDayJob", and save it.
Switch back to the main Hero Lab window, open up a blank character, and add each of craft, profession, and perform skills.
Now go to the develop menu, and make sure that the first item, "enable data file debugging" is checked.
Back to the skills tab, and for each of those skills that you've added, right click on it, and select "Show Selection Tags".
Study the three tag lists (and you'll want to see the tags for some other skill, too), and you'll find that all Craft Skills have the Helper.SkCatCraft tag, Perform has Helper.SkCatPerf, and Profession has Helper.SkCatProf.
Clear out those windows, and right-click on any skill. This time select "Show Selection Fields" - leave that open and add a level of a class that doesn't offer this skill as a class skill, then add a rank to the skill. Watch how the fields change. Try using the skill focus feat to modify the skill, and add a trait that modifies this skill. Then add a class that does offer this as a class skill, and see what changes when it's a class skill.
Alright, now that we know what we're looking for, we'll write the ability.
Back to the editor, to the same file the Mechanic is in.
Go to the Ability tab, and create a new Ability. Name it "Day Job Roll".
Now, press the Eval Script button.
Change the phase to Render and the priority to 10000.
First, we'll search through all the skills on the hero, limiting our search to craft, perform and profession skills (we'll also set up some variables):
Code:
var skilltemp as number
var skillbonus as number
var skillname as string
foreach pick in hero from BaseSkill where "Helper.SkCatCraft | Helper.SkCatPerf | Helper.SkCatProf"
Now, for each skill, we'll total all the bonuses we want to include:
Code:
skilltemp = eachpick.field[skTotal].value - eachpick.field[BonAlch].value - eachpick.field[ModCirc].value - ...
(You'll need to finish out that line, subtracting out any fields you don't want included in the total, like enhancement or sacred bonuses)
And then compare that total to our previous total, to see if this one's bigger. If so, we'll use this new skill's bonus and name instead of what we had.
Code:
if (skilltemp > skillbonus) then
skillbonus = skilltemp
skillname = eachpick.field[name].text
endif
Now, close the foreach, and generate a name from what we've found:
Code:
nexteach
~if we didn't find any appropriate skills, hide us
if (skillbonus <= 0) then
perform assign[Helper.SpecUp]
else
~otherwise add the name and bonus of our best skill to our name
field[livename].text &= ": " & skillname & " " & signed(skillbonus)
endif
Putting that all together for easy copying:
Code:
var skilltemp as number
var skillbonus as number
var skillname as string
~search through our Craft, Perform, and Profession skills.
foreach pick in hero from BaseSkill where "Helper.SkCatCraft | Helper.SkCatPerf | Helper.SkCatProf"
skilltemp = eachpick.field[skTotal].value - eachpick.field[BonAlch].value - eachpick.field[ModCirc].value - ...
~if this skill is better than our previous best skill, use its name and bonus
if (skilltemp > skillbonus) then
skillbonus = skilltemp
skillname = eachpick.field[name].text
endif
nexteach
~if we didn't find any appropriate skills, hide us
if (skillbonus <= 0) then
perform assign[Helper.SpecUp]
else
~otherwise add the name and bonus of our best skill to our name
field[livename].text &= ": " & skillname & " " & signed(skillbonus)
endif
Now, give your ability a unique Id (like "abDayJob"), save it, and press the "Test Now!" button on the top left.
Once that's done, switch back to the Mechanic, and press the "Bootstraps" button on the top right. Fill in the Unique Id of the ability ("abDayJob"), save and test the mechanic.
Now, everything should be working (reminder: you've set a source for this mechanic, so you'll need to go to the Configure Hero Form and turn that option on.)
