I am trying to set the <species> tag in cinematics but am 100% stuck. It honestly feels like i am missing a major paradigm of how the engine functions. Here is a script i cobbled together that overrides the species for the protectorate ship object, you can download and run the project as is to see that it works. https://github.com/IHCaTHB-Starboun...protectorateship/protectorateshipoverride.lua What i need to accomplish is to update the <species> tag in "/cinematics/intro/introcomplete.cinematic" in a similar manner. What I have attempted so far is to add versions of the override i used on the object to the following lua files: - /quests/scripts/main.lua - /quests/scripts/portraits.lua (the portrait in similar cinematics also uses <species>) - /quests/scripts/tutorial/protectorate.lua - all of the above but after manually changing the tag to <speciesor> Most of the attempts just fizzled, no effect with nothing in log. Attached is a log with errors from an attempt. I welcome any solutions, insights, or even just comments about how terrible i am.
from a quick snooping around, /objects/protectorate/objects/protectorateship/protectorateship.lua's only there to set the 'in-game' ship visual, and the /quests/scripts/tutorial/protectorate.lua script sends it the player's specie; the cinematic stuff is handled by the engine, and I don't think you can script it in any way. /quests/scripts/portraits.lua is only used by quests to generate drawable portraits in the questlog; it's <species> tag is for the specie-specific S.A.I.L. faces To do what you wanna do, maybe you could 'remake' the whole cinematic thingy either in a fullscreen interface, or as a map itself while locking the player for a moment, but that sounds dirtyhacky
