Talk:General Discussion/@comment-81.182.175.108-20170105173601/@comment-24722167-20170106145828

First question: No - all special abilities (wel, most of them) are hard coded. The only exceptions are build skill and psyche.

Second question: Yes - but the powerup won't have the correct image as all the powerup images are all bound to a single image file per race and the game only checks against each race's file for the powerup image. Modifying the image won't work either, as the location along the image for the powerup image is also hard coded. But other than that, you can simply just take the ID of the powerup and slot it into the race's build tree and dependencies list and have it work (Building.CFG). However, the effects of the powerup and who is affected by it is also hard coded so you only really want to copy over generic or global researches to other races. Armorer and Weaponsmith are global, so any race can benefit from them (including High Elves).