August 19 - The day when all your mods died.

Hand-apply the __merge, then run it through a diff generator?

ntm I literally had months to update my mod, including figuring out the paths for things like NPCs and such, without a diff generator, and there's still at least one month to go.

 

I couldn't get it to segfault on my machine. I'll try under windows later tonight. Windows likes segfaulting a lot more than Linux (which is a good thing)

I did fix the bug where it wasn't outputting a PGI, but as far as I can tell it's always done that when it comes to treasure pools.

 

I did it!

I put CE's treasurepool data in my scratchpad and made an avian character. Rebooting the ship AI caused no shiplocker to spawn, and Access violation detected at 0x95003b (Write of address 0x8) in the log. Then, it crashed when I quit.

 

inb4 a pegasus comments thats not actually sarcasm but scarily accurate
Oh wait
das me

 

Working on my own generator, trying to teach it what a - is.

Scrapped that, used the one linked earlier instead, with a more immediately-helpful, copypastable output format. Will upload tomorrow.

 

After tinkering with this new mod format... well, if you don't replace full objects, and said objects have arrays or nested arrays, json patching saves a LOT of space and redefinitions. Plus, the fact that you can reach into such nested arrays of arrays and add single elements means that fully mutually-compatible biome expansion mods are now possible (as far as I can tell) among other things.

 

has anyone figure out how to add tiered items? i'm playing around with doing the following:

Code:

[
  {
    "op": "add",
    "path": "/defaultBlueprints/-",
    "value": {
      "tier2": [
        { "item": "testitem" }
      ]
    }
  }
]

but this results in an error

Code:

Error: Exception raised during Root finishInitialization: (VariantException) Improper conversion to VariantMap from null
  StarException::StarException(String)
  Variant::mapPtr()
  Variant::toMap()
  PlayerFactory::load()
  Root::reload()
  _Function_handler<void (), _Bind<ClientApplication::preSplashInitialization()::{lambda()#1} ()> >::(_Any_data)
  ThreadImpl::runThread(void*)
  BaseThreadInitThunk
  RtlInitializeExceptionChain
  RtlInitializeExceptionChain

 

Code:

[
  { "op" : "add", "path" : "/defaultBlueprints/tier1/-", "value" : { "item" : "testItem" } },
  { "op" : "add", "path" : "/defaultBlueprints/tier1/-", "value" : { "item" : "anotherItem" } }
}

Once again: use the tools.

 

i was specifically trying to add to "tier2", the JSON itself is valid, but Starbound doesn't seem to like it.

current mods add stuff to other tiers like:

Code:

{
   "__merge":[ ],
   "defaultBlueprints":{
   "tier2":[
      {
         "item":"testitem"
        }
     ]
  }
}

so i was trying to work out how to do it in the new format.

--edit, i also tried the following, but met with the same "Improper conversion to VariantMap from null" error

Code:

  { "op": "add", "path": "/defaultBlueprints/tier2/-", "value" : { "item" : "testitem"} }

i figured you'd have to add the "tier2" object because including "tier2" in the path results in a "Could not apply operation to base. No such key in Variant::get("tier2")" error

 

When I put

Code:

[
    {
        "op" : "add",
        "path" : "/defaultBlueprints/tier2/-",
        "value" : { "item" : "testItem" }
    }
]

in my online patch tester and apply it, I get this: Path not found in document

Obviously, this is becaause there is no such place. So why not add tier2 first?

Code:

[
    {
        "op" : "add",
        "path" : "/defaultBlueprints/tier2",
        "value" : []
    },
    {
        "op" : "add",
        "path" : "/defaultBlueprints/tier2/-",
        "value" : { "item" : "testItem" }
    }
]

This works. But since we're so keen on the old paradigms, why not combine these into one add?

Code:

[
    {
        "op" : "add",
        "path" : "/defaultBlueprints/tier2",
        "value" :
        [
            { "item" : "testItem" }
        ]
    }
]

Hit Apply, confirm the output... and we're there.

Update: In fact, if you were to use the online diff generator that I just added, you'd get the exact same output.

 

Thanks, i see what i was doing wrong now. I had tried to add the "tier2" object manually, but i did it wrong

Code:

{ "op": "add", "path": "/defaultBlueprints/-", "value" : "tier2" }

Also, thanks for making the online tools available, i'm seeing another odd error, but i'll see if i can use your tools to figure it out before posting.

 

Waiting with bated breath here.

 

Kawa to the rescue!!!

i was getting a weird "Caused by: (VariantPatchException) Could not apply patch to base. Invalid operation: add" error, but after tweaking the JSON a little using your example, and validating w/ your tools, this error has gone away.

 

For me a little bit confusing but I am not a programmer just want to make some new things to the game.

 

Lucky you. If it's only new things and not editing old things, the patch parts are minimal

 

Mainly I want to make some new race for this game and later do something other but still not did anything just created some folder for the future projects but I think I need to do some experiment with the new system because for me that part is almost chinese.

 

For that, there are a few patch points. Might I interest you in my species mod template, which includes patch support since last commit?

 

I'm having a bit a trouble renaming an item. There's a tile called apexshipdetails.material and the item's name is "Metal object" with a lowercase 'o'. I tried changing it to "Metal Object" so it would have a capital 'O', but nothing happens. The game doesn't crash or throw any errors at me, it just simply doesn't change the name of the tile. This is how I set up the apexshipdetails.material.patch file.

Code:

[
  { "op" : "replace", "path" : "/shortdescription", "value" : "Metal Object" }
]

If anyone can point out the problem, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

@Broconut

Code:

[
  {"op":"replace","path":"/shortdescription","value":"Metal Object"}
]

Your code should be working.. Are you naming it apexshipdetails.material.patch AND making sure that you have it in the correct directory in your mod?