Outdated Avali Race Mod 0.12.4

Another Wild Starbound Patch Has Appeared!

Edit: (looks like it must've been a hotfix)

 

But in regards to community projects we are open to them provided you don't take the existing mod's assets and/or lore and claim it as your own and give proper credit if you do borrow assets.

 

Code:

{
  "objectName" : "avalicushion1",
  "rarity" : "Common",
  "description" : "A luxuious cushion",
  "shortdescription" : "Cushion",
  "race" : "avali",
  "category" : "furniture",
  "price" : 125,
  "printable" : false,

  "apexDescription" : "Not the most practical furnishings",
  "avianDescription" : "It beats straw bedding...",
  "floranDescription" : "Sssssssssssssoft",
  "glitchDescription" : "Caution. This furnishing it structurally unstable",
  "humanDescription" : "Truly, Avali civilisation is beyond doubt, they have beanie chairs!",
  "hylotlDescription" : "What exquisite material!",
  "avaliDescription" : "Lie on them, sleep on them, pile them up, make a fort out of them... cushions the building blocks of furniture!",

  "inventoryIcon" : "avalicushion1.png",
  "orientations" : [
    {
      "dualImage" : "avalicushion1.png:<color>",

      "imagePosition" : [-8, 0],
      "frames" : 1,
      "animationCycle" : 1.0,

      "spaceScan" : 0.1,
      "anchors" : [ "bottom" ]

    }
  ],

  "objectType" : "loungeable",
  "sitPosition" : [3, 24]

}

Code:

{
  "objectName" : "avalicushion2",
  "rarity" : "Common",
  "category" : "furniture",
  "price" : 150,
  "printable" : false,
  "description" : "I wonder if the avali use their own down to fill these?",
  "shortdescription" : "Pillow",
  "race" : "avali",

  "objectType" : "loungeable",
  "sitFlipDirection" : true,
  "sitPosition" : [8, 7],
  "sitOrientation" : "lay",
  "sitAngle" : 90,
  "sitEmote" : "sleep",
  "sitStatusEffects" : [
    { "kind" : "Nude" },
    { "kind" : "Health", "amount" : 0.06 }
  ],
  "sitEffectEmitters" : [ "sleepbubbles" ],

  "apexDescription" : "Where's the rest of the bedding?",
  "avianDescription" : "I'll need more of these to make a nest",
  "floranDescription" : "Floran hear humansssss fight with these. Which end is pointy end?",
  "glitchDescription" : "Uncertainty. Is this for sitting or sleeping on?",
  "humanDescription" : "I'll freeze to death without bed clothes",
  "hylotlDescription" : "I think there's been a terrible mistake, I only seem to have recieved half my bedding",
  "avaliDescription" : "Avali living spaces are soft and warm, you can just sleep on the floor curled up with your pack.",

  "inventoryIcon" : "avalicushion2.png",
  "orientations" : [
    {
      "dualImage" : "avalicushion2.png:<color>",
      "imagePosition" : [-8, 0],
      "frames" : 1,
      "animationCycle" : 0.5,

      "spaceScan" : 0.1,
      "anchors" : [ "bottom" ]

    }
  ]
}

I've already fixed it and it'll be in the next patch. I just didn't want to roll out 3 hotfixes in one day for sake of driving people mad xD - they changed how interactive objects work hence it failed.

 

yes, the file is a little off, and needs edited that's all

 

This has been brought up before. The answer is that it's not currently possible to use separate sprites per race for a single piece of armor; it's only possible per gender. (Hopefully the devs will change this in the future.)

I am working on making alternate versions of the basic armor, however. (Copper, silver, gold, etc...) Once I've finished, it will be possible to "tailor" a piece of armor to fit an Avali. Here's a preview of what I have so far:

 

Very much looking forward to it. Hay, before you release it give me a heads up So I may prepare a wiki page for Fan based mods So we can get yours added.

 

Well, that just looks awesome.
Keep it up man, I am very much looking forward to seeing how it looks when complete.

 

Dangit! That would've made the whole thing so much nicer, being able to just stick something to merge into the base file. But the idea of converting default vanity items into Avali ones, well... it hadn't occurred to me at all! That would certainly be one way to go about it, one that's actually plausible! Man, why didn't I think of that? hint: it's because I'm not actually a modder or a coder of any kind and don't know how the game works internally hahahaha

I'd be thrilled to help out on a project like that! I do have some BASIC pixel art skill I could probably draw upon/practice with, but there is one thing that stands in my way...

I'll be honest, I've poked around in the animation files for both default races AND the avali, and, well, I can't for the life of me figure out how the animated body pieces would fit together, and how a person would use that as a base for clothing design. It's a bit tricky in this case, since I can't really use other race/default clothing as an example to learn from - there isn't a huge selection of Avali armor/clothing in-game at the moment to study, and what is there doesn't always cover the whole figure since it's mostly cloaks and wraps.

Any tips on navigating these disembodied sprites would be greatly appreciated. Maybe then I could give it a shot and figure out whether I'm in over my head or not. =P

(Also, apologies for any walls of text I may post. I tend to try to cram everything into one part or post to avoid having to double post or whatever)

 

121 pages so far...Lets push for 150!

 

This is the fixes for the file, but it's a lot of text. It goes in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Starbound\mods\avali\objects\avaligeneric\cushions folder on my computer.

Code:

{
  "objectName" : "avalicushion2",
  "rarity" : "Common",
  "category" : "furniture",
  "price" : 150,
  "printable" : false,
  "description" : "I wonder if the avali use their own down to fill these?",
  "shortdescription" : "Pillow",
  "race" : "avali",

  "objectType" : "loungeable",
  "interactAction" : "sitdown",
  "sitFlipDirection" : true,
  "sitPosition" : [8, 7],
  "sitOrientation" : "lay",
  "sitAngle" : 90,
  //"sitCoverImage" : "/objects/hylotl/hylotlbed2/hylotlbed2cover.png",
  "sitEmote" : "sleep",
  "sitStatusEffects" : [
    { "kind" : "Nude" },
    { "kind" : "Health", "amount" : 0.05 }
  ],
  "sitEffectEmitters" : [ "sleepbubbles" ],

  "apexDescription" : "Where's the rest of the bedding?",
  "avianDescription" : "I'll need more of these to make a nest",
  "floranDescription" : "Floran hear humansssss fight with these. Which end is pointy end?",
  "glitchDescription" : "Uncertainty. Is this for sitting or sleeping on?",
  "humanDescription" : "I'll freeze to death without bed clothes",
  "hylotlDescription" : "I think there's been a terrible mistake, I only seem to have recieved half my bedding",
  "avaliDescription" : "Avali living spaces are soft and warm, you can just sleep on the floor curled up with your pack.",

  "inventoryIcon" : "avalicushion2.png",
  "orientations" : [
    {
      "dualImage" : "avalicushion2.png:<color>",
      "imagePosition" : [-8, 0],
      "frames" : 1,
      "animationCycle" : 0.5,

      "spaceScan" : 0.1,
      "anchors" : [ "bottom" ]

    }
  ]
}

 

Was scrolling through the code, when I noticed that in the Glitch Description for the Cushion, it says; "Caution. This furnishing it structurally unstable", Rather than "Caution. This furnishing is structurally unstable".

Thought you might want to know, if you did not already notice.

 

The pages be flying by.

 

The thread is starting to sag...
So many posts....

 

Oh wow....Daily starbound updates.....

Batten down the hatches and prepare the Notepad++!

 

Daily starbound updates? I don't even got all my mods updated yet for me to save my seeds ;-;

 

I would prepare Notepad++, but after 3 Installs, I still cannot get it working.
The Eternal Curse of Windows 8.

 

Content updates are now detached from engine updates. What this means is that the underlying version will not change very often, but the content available will. Next few updates will probably still be Enraged Koala, no need to update mods for compatability.

 

Oh.
Well, if that is the case, then perhaps this will not be so bad for Modders.

 

That update.... I know once I close this game... its over.

 

It's just a content update, only the engine updates break mods. Though to be fair, what it did to me seems a bit broken... I loaded my file to find my storage compartment missing from my ship. I'm only using the Avali and character creation extender mods, so...