[BBTS] Bronies Beyond The Stars V3.0

Yeah, it's because my friend doesn't actually "Own" the game, so he can't update until a certain "Bay" has it.

The race mods would also be why your characters were gone and why you were crashing. Because of the update, same thing happened to me.

 

So basically no server for a bit.

 

That's just it, I didn't update. I've got steam set to not automatically update my games, thanks to my unfortunate bandwidth limit. I did remove the mods, but it still wouldn't let me connect. So, maybe once I've got my limit reset, I'll ask if you've found a new oven, and if not, you'll get it.

 

Can someone teach me how not to be an idiot.
Also how to install mods ;A;

 

Don't you just have to drop it into the mods folder? Although, I haven't actually tried any mods yet, so I don't know for sure.

 

Hm, oh ok.
I guess i'll try em out now

 

Didn't work. I put them in the mods folder but it didn't appear....Hm....

 

Alas, I cannot help you with the first part. It takes practice.
As to the second part, there are two main methods.
The first involves editing a single file with notepad or similar text editor: bootstrap.config It's found in Steam/steamapps/common/Starbound/whichever folder matches your operating system (such as win32 or linux64 or whatever you've got.)
Bootstrap.config starts out looking like this:

Code:

{
  "assetSources" : [
    "../assets"
  ],
  "storageDirectory" : ".."
}

Change it to this:

Code:

{
  "assetSources" : [
    "../assets",
    "../mods"
  ],
  "storageDirectory" : ".."
}

And then make a mods folder in the same folder where you can see the assets folder.

Then drop the mods into the mods folder, and hope they were formatted such that you can use them like that.

The second method is more involved, requiring you to edit a number of files, placing downloaded files in the correct spots, overwriting files with other files, and so on.

For example, I edited the beam-in and beam-out .png files and now have a sort of rainbow-colored beam sequence instead of the plain ol' red.


Drop these four files into the assets/humanoids/any folder, overwrite the ones there, and you too can have a different beam-out without even editing any files.

(Of course, if you prefer a solid-color teleport sequence, feel free to color-edit the files however you like.)


EDIT: I tend to use the second method more often, though it means I have to either have all the files backed up in case I need to remove anything, or else re-download the entire game if I screw anything up. I much prefer have things backed up.

 

I tried the first method and

 

Sadly, it does tend to depend on the mod-maker getting the file structure right, or in editing the bootstrap file a little further, depending on how they did things. I could try making a set of the files for you that you could just drop in like method 2, but since Starbound has patched tonight and I don't have the update, I don't know if it would work for you.

 

I'm only trying to use 3 mods
Twilicane
Ponex race mod v IK1.4
And cherliee's 80's poster
I copy-pasted what you wanted me to put in the boot file thing
It could just be the update

 

They seem to have changed the way the game loads mods, adding additional assetsource locations in the bootstrap.config doesn't seem to work anymore, at least not for me.

bootstrap.config now looks like this:

Code:

{
  "assetSources" : [
    "../assets"

  ],
  "modSource" : "../mods",
  "storageDirectory" : ".."

From the patchnotes found on reddit that lead to http://pastebin.com/JZkHRWnx . "more details here" doesn't actually indicate where "here" is. So I have no idea how they changed it.

 

Quite possibly it is the update. I'll suggest waiting to for the mods to be updated, but if they don't work I'll see about doing a combination of the mods once I can update the game myself and see how the files have changed.

(That beam-in one doesn't depend on config files, so that should be usable regardless.)

EDIT: Yep, it's the update alright.

 

Apparently the "more info here" leads to http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/making-mod-installation-easier.52349/

Still no idea what that means, though that might just be because it's 3:13am and my brain is derp.

Peace the buck out yo!

 

I'm watching fucking critical and i'm laughing so hard I have to actually take breaks

 

I'm so jealous of all the good artist its pissin me off.

 

You mean they murder and cannibalize hundreds of innocent people?

 

YES!

 

Welp, I already am running into ABC problems. I made a song for Adam Weaver, but it sounds terrible in the ABC program. I fear it will be the same in Starbound. I don't WANT to remove all the sixteenth notes, but I may have to...

 

Including bus-fulls of quadriplegic orphans?