Ok, I'm assuming you know how to extract the Monsters.txt file with MM8leveleditor. I you want you can first view that file in MM8lvled because everything is set up nice and neat in graph, the text file isn't so pretty. So here we go:1st there are three types of attacks that monster's will you, physical such as the troll, magic attacks such as an archmage, and finally they can cast many of the same spells as your characters like "Rock Blast", "Light Bolt", etc. Now to make the spider's shoot a magic attack at you find them in the monsters.txt file, scroll over till you see phys, this should then be followed by a damage stat like 3d2+4, so what you have to do is change the word "phys" to one of the magic choices, like fire, elec, dark, etc (you can look at other monster's to see what I mean) you can then also increase or decrease the damage if you like simply by raising or lowering the stat (again you can look to other monster's to get examples.) now this is important tho, if you want the arachnid's attack to now be a projectile you must also put the magic identifier after the damage stat, so in other words like this:
here is what you will see phys 3d2+4 0 (I don't know if 3d2+4 is the actual damage stat, I'm just using it as an example)
you would change it to this pois 3d2+4 pois (or like I say you can make the attack higher 12d12, 12d12+8, or lower 3d2, 2d2, whatever you want)
Now save your changes and import the text file with MM8lvl or MM7view and there you go, your spider's will now fire a poison attack at you instead of a physical attack, and no you don't have to change any of the animations or any of that. You can also make monster's who don't cast spells cast spells, but I've already written alot as it is so I won't go into that but if you look at file in MM8lvl I'm sure you can see the pattern and figure it out. Hope this helps and didn't confuse you even more, if you want you can just tell me want you want modded on your monster's and I can do it for you and E-mail the you text file, but you'll probably have fun figuring it out on your own, I did. Let me know.
