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.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
• How to Use
• Configuration
• Troubleshooting

Requirements

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

Installation

Manual

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

/BepInEx/plugins/

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

Via mod manager (e.g. Mod Manager)

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

How to Use

• Open the skills window (L by default).
• 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.
• Your favourited skills show up as HUD widgets during gameplay.
• Widgets can be repositioned and resized through the settings panel (see Configuration).

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:

/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 ski