Tutorial Basic Object Implementation: A Tutorial

1)But it does matter. Having a larger box for a smaller sprite will mean, for a vehicle for example, that a projectile that would miss from visual aspect could actually hit instead because of the extended hit box. Though this would be a fairly specific instance it could still happen with some custom bullets too.

2) I suppose that looks to be correct after I took another look at it.

 

Molly, you are just fantastic!
More please!

 

There is a modder badge already I believe

 

Game is not even in Beta yet, yet there is a basic modding tutorial already on the forums. I wonder where that will go. EPIC MODDING TIME!!!

 

Also, info on how to input where and how items will appear in the game would be good for a tutorial. I presume you can choose places chests, enemy drops, or crafting recipes for items that you make?

 

Assuming you can flag an object like, for example, IsWeapon, IsFood, IsPlant, IsArmor, or IsDecoration etc., and (in the case of armor) you can specify how those items attach to the model(s), and which races they fit (I'm guessing that you need a different graphic armor for each race)... I'm pretty excited to start modding.

Let's say I can create a Plant object that starts out as just a pod and has logic built in to bud into a separate object, an actual plant. It removes the pod and puts a plant with a shoot in its place. That shoot can randomly bud any of several types of flowers. The flowers can drop Seed objects when picked up/destroyed. Those seed objects, when inserted into dirt and provided with water and sunlight (or other environmental factors) can produce a pod, and start the whole process over.

Hopefully you could do fancy stuff like require darkness (cave plants) or low gravity (planet of origin was low gravity) or high temperatures (Lava Melon) or the presence of a specific kind of animal biome (Tiger Pee Flower) or make the plant wiggle randomly (Triffids) or dance when you play music (Groovy Gourd)...

 

That's correct.

 

Yes please, do more of these!

 

Not going to bother putting up a modding subforum until the game IS actually out.

 

Dear god... the modding seems rather simple !
Lets hope people just have enough patience not to right away install mod packs premade before even playing the game

*Edit* Since there ain't mod sub-forum yet, this should be made sticky eh ?

 

And you just invented the Wheel!

Nice, thanks for that ^^

 

It just seems not very optimized and too redundant. I guess, it is legacy code, but why do the .object and .objitem files have same information repeated? What is the difference between these files?

 

Theoretically, If I were to make an item like this wheel and add it to my game, are there any server functions implemented that can distribute the item to the other players on the server?

 

amazing, please post more

 

Two words: Metroid, Baby.

 

Looks like something I would be able to do

 

I guess one is for the object placed in the world and one is for the Item that can be held in your Inventory or dropped to the ground.
Making the placed object show different information can have some uses, I guess.

 

Is it this simple for monster object parts as well? Can we just say, keep adding animated headpieces and the like.. then with a few tweeks the game will just pickup the parts and you'll start seeing them in randomly generated monsters around the universe?

 

Cool, a first insight into modding Starbound (sort of)! I hope the modding API will be well documented, because it looks like I'll be playing around with it a lot.

 

i like this, its informative and useful
adding in objects also seems very intuitive as long as you know what to look for

i get the feeling this is actually something i might have been able to figure out on my own, with very little guidance (this is a good thing)