[H3] - How to edit default starting skills for heroes?

[Gay Lord]

Hi guys, I've just spent half an hour searching the web trying to find an answer.

What I'd like to do is change the default starting skills for heroes for every map. I know the map editor will let me change hero skills, but only for that map. I want to change the default skills, and I don't know where to look.

A newbie modding thread on the Heroes Community forum was helpful in listing file names:

http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=39961

However, neither HOTRAITS.txt nor HEROBIOS.txt contains anything about secondary skills. Does anyone know what file I need to edit to change the starting skills? And if it's difficult, how do I do so?

As an extra, would their starting spells be in the same file?

TIA

[Baronus]

Modding guide in polish:

http://soe.bnx.pl/readarticle.php?article_id=6

Hero editing:
Line 0x279DD0

0A 00 00 00 0B 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 D1 00 00 00 P1 00 00 00 D2 00
00 00 P2 00 00 00 SB 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF
S1 00 00 00 S2 00 00 00 S3 00 00 00 XX XX XX 00 YY YY YY 00 01 01

First hero:

00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF
00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 44 F1 67 00 34 F1 67 00 01 01

0A - sex [ 00 - m /01 - w]
0B - race [07 - human]
0C - profession [00 - knight 01 - cleric, 02 - ranger etc. see herotraits table for number or erm tool guide. ]
D1 - first skill [00 - pathfinding, 01 - archery see herotraits table for number or erm tool guide. ]
P1 - first skill level [ 01 - basic, 02 - advanced, 03 - expert]
D2 - second skill
P2 - sec. sk. level
SB - spellbook yes 01, no - 00 .
FF FF FF FF - starting spell (no for knight) see spell table txt for number or erm tool guide.
S1, S2, S3 - start units 00 - pikeman , 01- halabardier etc. se crtraits.txt for number or erm tool guide.
XX XX XX - dont change
YY YY YY - dont change
00 01 01 - ????