SkillsPreview

Skills Preview

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> Note: This plugin is currently under active development. Bugs may occur and features may change in future versions.

Skills Preview is a Valheim mod that adds compact HUD widgets for your chosen skills. It gives you a quick glance at each skill's level and progress without ever opening the character window.

Each widget shows:

• the skill icon,
• current level (e.g. Lv.45),
• percentage progress to the next level (e.g. 72.00%),
• a thin progress bar at the bottom that fills with the current XP %,
• a flash animation when you level up.

On top of the widgets, the mod also pops a Valheim-style level-up banner in the centre-top area of the screen whenever one of your favourited skills gains a level — position, duration, font size, and colour are all configurable.

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Table of Contents

1. Requirements
2. Installation
3. How to Use
4. Configuration
5. Troubleshooting

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Requirements

• Valheim — (current Steam version)
• BepInEx — Valheim modding framework (version 5.x required)

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Installation

Manual

1. Download the latest release from the Releases tab.
2. Make sure BepInEx is installed. If it isn't, grab it from the project page and follow the setup instructions there.
3. Copy SkillsPreview.dll into:

   <game_directory>/BepInEx/plugins/

1. Launch the game — the plugin loads automatically.
2. You can confirm it loaded by checking the BepInEx console.

Via mod manager (e.g. Thunderstore Mod Manager)

Search for Skills Preview in the manager and click "Install".

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How to Use

1. Open the skills window (L by default).
2. A star icon appears next to each skill — click a skill to mark it as a favourite. Skills are tracked in the order you select them.
3. Your favourited skills show up as HUD widgets during gameplay.
4. Widgets can be repositioned and resized through the settings panel (see Configuration).

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Configuration

In-game settings panel

The plugin includes a built-in settings panel accessible directly from the skills window. You can change the following without leaving the game:

• Theme presets — one-click apply of a complete colour + size scheme: Valheim (default warm gold/brown), Dark, Minimal, High contrast,
• HUD panel position — where the widgets appear on screen (default: bottom-left corner near the player stats),
• HUD scale — uniform scale of the entire widget panel (50–150 %, default 100 %), without changing individual size values,
• Widget element colours — background, border, level text, progress text, "MAX" colour, level-up flash colour, progress bar track,
• Star colours — active (favourited) and inactive star colours,
• Widget size and appearance — width, height, icon size, font sizes, corner rounding, border thickness, spacing between widgets, progress bar visibility and height,
• Level-up banner — toggle the centre-top banner on/off, distance from the top of the screen (% of screen height), how long it stays visible, font size, and text colour.

Numeric settings (sizes, font sizes, spacing, scale, etc.) are adjusted with sliders directly in the panel; position X/Y still use text input fields.

Every option has a ↺ button to reset it individually, or you can hit Reset all to restore all defaults at once.

Config file

Settings are saved automatically to:

<game_directory>/BepInEx/config/godzki.skills_preview.cfg

You can edit this file in any text editor. Each option has a comment explaining what it does. Changes made manually take effect after restarting the game.

All configuration options

[1 - General]

| Key | Description | |-----|-------------| | DebugMode | Enables verbose logging in the BepInEx console | | HudWidgetsVisible | Shows or hides the HUD widgets (does not affect the skills panel) |

[2 - Skill Panel]

| Key | Description | |-----|-------------| | FavoriteStarColor | Star colour for a favourited skill | | UnfavoriteStarColor | Star colour for a non-favourited skill |

[3 - HUD Position]

| Key | Default | Description | |-----|---------|-------------| | PositionX | 150 | Horizontal position of the widget panel (px from the left edge of the screen) | | PositionY | 200 | Vertical position of the widget panel (px from the bottom edge of the screen) | | Scale | 100 | 50–150 | Uniform scale of the widget panel in percent; does not affect individual widget settings |

[4 - HUD Widget]