Modding Help Matter Manipulator. Make race specific?

I created a race mod with their own version of the matter manipulator which works fine, but I want to make this new mm their 'default' when placing blocks etc as currently it switches back to the default yellow MM graphic.

Looking at the player.config there's a section for the 'beamGun'. Now I think changing it here would change the default for all races, which I don't want to do. I tried copying the section over to the .species file, altering the image line and although it doesn't throw any errors, it doesn't work.

Does anyone know if it is at all possible to have a race specific 'matter manipulator' in this manner?

 

Nah, tried that one, that just allows me to give the characters the new MM I created. No problems there nor even making sure the intro quest points at the right MM.

The problem is always when placing blocks, for example, the manipulator switches to the default yellow matter manipulator.

 

gravgun1.png is baked in, unfortunately. This, along with the beam up/down animation, I would reeaally like to see softcoded. Someday, perhaps.

 

I disagree.

He wants different races to use different assets, that's the problem. The same beamgun asset is shared between races no matter what.

 

Unless I'm misunderstanding your point, you're still mistaken.

The beamaxe.beamaxe is not tied to humanoid/any/gravgun1.png, it's only using it incidentally. The manipulator you appear to be holding when you place objects, etc., is not an item, it's just made to look that way. The line that chooses that image is in player.config - once. And to the best of my knowledge that's the only place you can get to it, and you can't specify more than one.

You can have a bunch of different custom matter manipulators, but when you go to place a torch or something, the beamaxe you will appear to be holding (which, again, is not an item at all) is the one specified in player.config - no matter what. That's what I meant by baked in.

To prove my point, code in a manipulator that's a different color than the one in humanoid/any. Then put a torch on your hotbar, and select it. You will appear to be placing the torch with the manipulator graphic in humanoid/any, not your custom manipulator.

 

You're not understanding me here. Also, where is this beam gun item? Are you talking about the beamgun parameters in player.config? I'm not sure I'd call that an item. The thing that appears when you place objects doesn't appear to be an ingame item, you cannot craft it or obtain it.

And I really don't think you can make it race specific.

 

I still wouldn't call it an item. You can't place it in your inventory, that's ultimately what determines that - at least for me.

And you cannot make it race specific. That behavior (drum roll) is hardcoded. There's only one beamgun to go around. That's been my point this whole time.

Like, as far as I'm aware, you can't duplicate the beamaxe's code block in player.config and make one for each race.

 

Daimoth is on my wavelength.
The tool item change is not my issue and I can mod that all I want. The 'placing items manipulator' is my problem. As I feared it might be, it could be baked in currently.

I was thinking of removing the beamaxe info from the player.config file and placing it in ech race's .species file, but not got around to trying that yet and I'm betting it'll just break it heh.

 

He is very explicitly asking how to make a race-specific version of the item that appears when you place objects. I think the misunderstanding is on you this time.

 

I agree. I wish that weren't the case, however. Hell I also wish beamaxes could get their own damage parameter. That would make them, you know, useful.

 

You can change the speed of them to make them cut through stuff ridiculously fast if you want. I created a beamaxe+ for a test mod and just simply copied the defaults, renamed them beamaxex and changed the line - "fireTime" : 0.25, to - "fireTime" : 0.02,