so I'm a big anime fan and was thinking a Sword Art Online mod would be great for this game however Im newer to modding iv only done a few steps here and there my own game has been altered big time for testing of how some things work iv only released one mod dark matter set my main worry is i know almost nothing about frames how to change them alter them so on so forth so if anyone is interested in possibly helping or putting some ideas out of how, what, things to add i would be forever greatful JediLord
Before you think about starting a mod, you should know what exactly you want to do. It's ok to ask others for their ideas of course, but you should bring your own ones first. Also, as you are new to modding, I would recommend you to make more smaller mods with easy to reach goals, instead of one big thing you have no idea about where it should end up. And, neither I nor the most other modders have the time, patience and passion to give individual modding lessons to some randoms guys. Look for tutorials, there are some nice ones in this forum, and play around with the game to learn more of the basics. If you want a big mod, it is not a bad idea to learn lua coding. You can do this by making small tech mods, for example. However, if you have specific questions about modding, I will gladly answer them, if I can
An actual SAO mod would be huge. The amount of work needed to put into it. You'd be creating RPG elements in Starbound, which means that you'd have to add or change a lot of the base leveling system to accommodate for it. Unless all you meant was adding things like their armor and the weapons like the Elucidator or whatever. SAO is also the series name, so you'd have to specify whether you'd want just Aincrad, or Sword Art Online as a whole to be added. If it's as a whole, you need to add magic, guns, and tons of stuff to do with Alicization which would be akin to tech. As lonesurvivor said, it's not a good idea to just start a massive mod, it requires a LOT of planning before you even begin to start any work on the mod itself!
Oh wow glad I looked on the forums. I was originally thinking about making an armor set based off Kirito's black jacket, but got kind of distracted and started making another different set of armor. Anyone know what values you have to change if you're trying to make a sprite bigger than it used to be? I know it's in the .frames files, but I'm unsure as to which values need to be changed for what and where everything matches up.
well i have some ideas and im thinking if i start with weapons and armor and work from there i can update as i go im not a total noob to modding an im pretty quick to learn i plan on going mostly sao not aincrad (not out of question tho) my biggest thing is frames n such and as u said most dont have the time to help and such as well as i dont have massive amounts of time however i will work on this regardless cus i really want this to happen as for leveling system thats pretty outa my league i have ideas n images in my head great ideas just not always that easy to put them togeather as for tutorals my bulk time is spent reading them i spent my nights at work on my phone on the fourms just flipping thorough them just wanted fellow sao fans options n ideas its good to hear im not first to think of this more or less i was looking for a modder or 2 alot like me dont need the best just someone with basic idea of modding so we can bounce ideas help each other and then if needed ask on fourm (probly shouldav started with that in first post my bad) lol
Not to nitpick, but that reply was kinda hard to read, and if you plan to have a big post describing your ideas you'd want to have punctuation in it. You still havn't said what your ideas are though. I've a huge knowledge of SAO but without some concrete ideas there's nothing to really volunteer.
Lol we can tell by your avatar of Asuna I'd be happy to help, but I , like Enigmatia, have no idea what you want to accomplish here.
Making a sprite bigger has other reprocussions too. As sprites seem to be hard-coded into the engine at the moment. Unless you mean literally just changing the size of the sprite, which you can do with something like Free Transform in Photoshop to stretch it to the proper size. The reprocussions I mentioned are being discussed here though, if you'd like to take a look: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/player-sprite-resolution.49212/ and http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/high-def-sprites.49946/ Though that applies to the player sprite. I'm not sure if it carries over to weapon/armor sprites, I havn't really done texture modding as of yet. So don't take my word, I'm sure you could just make oversized weapons/armor. THOUGH! For Kirito's Coat of Midnight, you could just add a cloak AND the torso. And it'd be as close as we could get to the real thing, even though it's two items. Damn, and I thought I was being subtle?
sorry, Im not the best with typing or writing really for that matter. I will try tho. I have managed to get and retweak some images. This is were it get tricky for me as I have no idea how to make them work ingame add effects and so on. If anyone has a link to full frames tutoral great. You could also get them to work and let me know how and such. Im working on suit now trying to figure the whole half n half thing for armor lol. please dont judge me p.s. is there a way to change the name of money in the game without alot of recoding or is that impossible
That's okay, not everyones amazing at English, plus some people are still learning, it took a long time before I felt good enough to say I'm good with English, so don't be sorry about it! You still havn't said any idea yet though, bar volunteering the Elucidator and Asuna's Rapier sprites. For it to be a project you would really need to volunteer your own ideas too! Can I ask what this is about? I found it very odd to have in your post? I apologise if I came off as mean/critical. As a modder you're basically a hacker, you're trying to find out as much about the game as you can. So please, rather than immediately asking, try it yourself, it literally took me about 20 seconds to figure out how to do it. You literally edit one word to get it to show up as Col instead of Pixels.
I'm also a fan of SAO! I have experience with weapon and weapon frame modding etc. in starbound from making this mod. I'm still not exactly sure what your end goal is though, could you shed some light on exactly what you plan to add with this mod. Do you want to Add the full RPG system from SAO with permadeath etc. Add just some or all of the armors and weapons from SAO, Or something in between?
I know I havnt giving much up. It started as just an idea lol. I work 3rd shift and am a single father of 3. My goal right now is to change money to col as you said. Iv been trying to look up items that were used in the show. My goal at this point is per ideas is - adding weapons (those 2 as of now) -adding ingame items that were used in show ( sandwitch he eats, potions, exc) -armor / clothing from show (I'v got one I'm working on pixilizing but only one so far not the best) -money changed / aswell as possible renaming other items to possible match show -plain to reimage some items -in long run been thinking about adding wings to in-game (thinking through a tech or something allowing muiltiple jumps) -along with magic items like staffs with projectiles -possible recreations of scenes like tree of life -and not even sure but quests of sorts and that post bout jugdeing me was nothing more then jokin cuz u got all technical on me all good. I know i should have did more then one long post. lol
Change the description in money.cointem There's a tech (The Grav-Bubble? ) and if you/we just edit that it'd be close enough to wings if we added horizontal levitation too. The World Tree in Alfheim?
yes however, it was just saying in long run main goal is SAO then Alfheim possible as 2 diffrent mods since its 2 diffrent games. I was just running ideas I'v started on a few but, my kids mother and them got in car wreck last night they are all ok. been spending time with them got pretty worried about them so may put some of it on hold for little bit and only code at night when they sleeping.
@JediLord I am in progress of making a SAO mod! At this point i have Kirito's swords and when the game starts instead of loading it says "LINK START" and when you die it says "YOU ARE DEAD" in a red hexagon
