Help with adding new skills.

[Greenflame]

I am creating a personal mod which changes a LOT of random things about the game. There is one idea which I have been wanting to implement but every time I try I am unable to make much progress.

The goal I have in mind is to make the three different types of weapons (which I label as neolithic, modern & futuristic) run off different skills.This is so my runs from the neolithic stage aren't sped up ridiculously by good gun drops from raiders.

The issue is that although I have created a new skill, firstly it almost always spawns on the colonist at lvl 2 or 1.
lastly, I am unable to find how guns are defined a skill to use.

If you have any idea how to help please do.

[Rikiki]

Guns all use the "Shooting" skill. This is hardcoded.
If you want to use another skill, you will have to re-write a loooot of the shooting mechanics.
This is impossible without a dll (C# coding).

Look at the JobDriver JobDriver_AttackStatic and the TryStartCastOn function if you are not affraid.
Be prepared to hit a (very very thick) wall though...