Outdated Dye Mod 2.1 (Enraged Koala)

@Tripod
Your first piece of code looks good except for one tiny little detail. Everything must be placed inside two { } brackets:

Code:

{
  "__merge" : [],
  "dyeEngine" : {
    "object" : {
      "whitelist" : [
        "locker128",
        "locker256"
      ]
    }
  }
}

 

I did have the curly braces in my code, I just left them out of my post to save some vertical forum space.

But I did find the issue! It was just a directory error. I had it inside of objects\dyestation instead of objects\dyeengine\dyestation

Thanks again, everything's looking good now. It's just a bummer that there's no preview for objects in the dye station: vs

 

The dye bucket won't come up for me for some reason. Are there any mods that might cancel its functions out?

 

It's now called a Dye Station. If it can't be crafted try breaking and replacing any wooden or robotic crafting table.

 

just wondering, i want to install this mod, but what is the dyemodextras folder for?

 

How do i post Error LOG ? the mod won't work no matter if i try with mod manager latest ver or by putting Dyemod & Dyemod extra In Starbound mods folder this is strange

 

Right now it just contains some extra colors that may be a little out of place. It's optional, but you'll miss out on things like diamond colored dye.

Does the error go away if you remove only DyeMod and DyeModExtras?

Judging from the error window it looks like a dependency problem, but my mod can't be the one doing that.

If you want to give me the log file you could open up starbound.log and copy all of it into this site. Then give me the link to it.

 

finally molly the community manager told us why 90% OF mod don't work anymore it because of .pak so ur mod is not the reason my game wasn't starting but .pak that didn't get update today

so it gonna take like a 3-7 Day Before i can re-use all my mods then in a month rinse and repeat kinda like mouthwash gargling if you don't do it you get Error 37

 

Basicly just a bucket insted of a dying station. Crafted the same way as before.

 

MrMagical updated Dye Mod (multiplayer friendly) with a new update entry:

v2.1 - Minor Fix

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

Indeed, both options are pretty much inconvenient, especially if you have already a mod with many items but its already a freaking good solution.

The easist way i can think of would be (of course i've no idea if thats even possible or the bad side effects due to the increasing filesize with every new item that will be added to the object file) to mix the vanilla system with the new one as a third option. So that the colors are defined in the dye station object file in a very similar style of the vanilla system:

Code:

  "ItemName1" : [
     "blue" : { "0875B2" : "3098B0", "043C7A" : "207090", "002347" : "205060", "6CC4DF" : "D8B8E0", "509BB4" : "806888", "35728A" : "504060", "C5DCFC" : "BFEAFB", "7495CA" : "1DD4FA", "3B5E96" : "0492B8", "355484" : "0482A4" }
     "red" : { "0875B2" : "E03030", "043C7A" : "A00008", "002347" : "89000D", "6CC4DF" : "F0F0F0", "509BB4" : "A0A0A0", "35728A" : "505058", "C5DCFC" : "C43367", "7495CA" : "742253", "3B5E96" : "591A40", "355484" : "421330" } ],

  "ItemName2" : [
     "blue" : { "0875B2" : "3098B0", "043C7A" : "207090", "002347" : "205060", "6CC4DF" : "D8B8E0", "509BB4" : "806888", "35728A" : "504060", "C5DCFC" : "BFEAFB", "7495CA" : "1DD4FA", "3B5E96" : "0492B8", "355484" : "0482A4" }
     "red" : { "0875B2" : "E03030", "043C7A" : "A00008", "002347" : "89000D", "6CC4DF" : "F0F0F0", "509BB4" : "A0A0A0", "35728A" : "505058", "C5DCFC" : "C43367", "7495CA" : "742253", "3B5E96" : "591A40", "355484" : "421330" } ],

So "porting items" would be just copy & paste with a few adjustments and would make it much easier to implement new colors in my opinion.

Another and much easier solution would be to just reimplement the bucket as another console, so the mod still have support for the old dying system.

 

@Crystan
The plan is to add a few extra modes that items can use:

• Advanced Palette mode with extra options
  
• Custom mode with full control over the data used
• ColorIndex/ColorOptions mode to allow for the same results as the old dyeing bucket

 

I still wish you would make an alternetive download with dyeing bucket insted of dyeing station.

 

Oh well i think that sounds good.^^

You can download old version via the version history

 

But the older verson ain't updated to newest verson of starbound?

 

Hang on, I don't understand what the "DyeModExtras" file does. What is the difference?

 

It's an extension to Dye Mod that currently just adds some extra colors.

It's also a good example of how easy it is to extend Dye Mod.

 

So do I have to install them both?
EDIT: I just checked what's in the file and yes, you do. Thanks!

 

I'm still a bet perturbed that this mod now wholly ignores dye configs put directly in item and object files by their creators. Also I've seen that starbound supports multiple color channels for items, letting you basically apply partial masks to items and make dye combinations. Would you be willing to try and add some sort of legacy mode that uses the old colorindex system and perhaps look into the masks method? RyuujinZERO (don't bother him in case I'm wrong though) is a supposed user of this system, and uses the classic orange, combined with 2 other sets of colors near black and white. ninja'd

My only other issue with this is that you still use dyes for every single color, and if you are a person who likes color in their life that becomes a problem fast, I was going to suggest a sort of printer cartridge item that bundles some of the secondary colors together and decrease the count of dyes from 16 to 8, 4, 3 etc. Though the ore colored dyes would be best left alone.

Otherwise, great mod.

 

This isn't really the place to ask; but I figure if *anyone* happens to know this, it'll be MrMagical

When working with objects in a brush entry in a dungeon file:

Code:

"objectParameter": {
"colour" : "ColourAliasHere"
}

Can be used to set the colour of an object. But what's the analogue property for setting the tile background/foreground colour?