MOD-TUTORIAL 4: How to make your own Armor

you mean an armor with no protection?

 

no when i use my new armor all attacks from hostile monsters are blocked and the only damage i can take is fall , poison , drowning, and burning damage

 

I think you need to go to a higher threat level sector xD

Either that or lower the defense on your armor

 

For repainting/color change etc, will paint suffice?

Because I heard paint doesn't allow for transparrency

 

i think you can't save with transpary... but im not 100% shure...
you could use paint.net or gimp which are good free tools for that....

 

yeah i ended up using gimp

I tried making a new back item but everytime I try it ends up as "Perfectly Generic Item" lol

I'll try again tomorrow I guess but I wonder what could've been wrong

 

Thanks for this tutorial. I noticed a shortage of Cave Story related content, so I am working on Quote's outfit and will post it here as a mod when finished.

 

Alright, im stuck. you say to copy the .frames files, but i cant find them. im in the right folder, but there simply isnt anything there. am i missing something?

 

the newest update packs everything in a .pak file....

http://community.playstarbound.com/...successfully-pack-and-unpack-pak-files.66649/

 

Ah, makes sense! Thank you!

 

Hey ho, i got it to work so far that 3 generic items show up in the game. They are also in the armor section. I haven´t paintedt the whole armor but i don´t think that is the problem.
Here is the itemfile for the chest (in mod/items/armors/basic_iron):

{

"itemName" : "basiciron_chest",
"inventoryIcon" : "icons.png:chest",

"dropCollision" : [-4.0, -3.0, 4.0, 3.0],

"maxStack" : 1,

"rarity" : "Common",

"description" : "A simpel chainmail from iron rings. It will do the job.",
"shortdescription" : "Iron Chainmail",​

"inspectionKind" : "armor",


"maleFrames" : {

"body" : "chestm.png",

"backSleeve" : "bsleeve.png",

"frontSleeve" : "fsleeve.png"

},


"femaleFrames" : {

"body" : "chestf.png",

"backSleeve" : "bsleeve.png",

"frontSleeve" : "fsleeve.png"

},

"statusEffects" : [

{

"kind" : "ColdProtection",

"amount" : "12,5"

},


{

"kind" : "Protection",

"amount" : 30

},


{

"kind" : "healthincrease",

"amount" : 80
}

],


"colorOptions" : [

/* GREY */

{ "ffca8a" : "b5b5b5", "e0975c" : "808080", "a85636" : "555555", "6f2919" : "303030" },

/* BLACK */

{ "ffca8a" : "838383", "e0975c" : "555555", "a85636" : "383838", "6f2919" : "151515" },

/* GREY */

{ "ffca8a" : "b5b5b5", "e0975c" : "808080", "a85636" : "555555", "6f2919" : "303030" },

/* WHITE */
{ "ffca8a" : "e6e6e6", "e0975c" : "b6b6b6", "a85636" : "7b7b7b", "6f2919" : "373737" },

/* RED */
{ "ffca8a" : "f4988c", "e0975c" : "d93a3a", "a85636" : "932625", "6f2919" : "601119" },

/* ORANGE */
{ "ffca8a" : "ffd495", "e0975c" : "ea9931", "a85636" : "af4e00", "6f2919" : "6e2900" },

/* YELLOW */
{ "ffca8a" : "ffffa7", "e0975c" : "e2c344", "a85636" : "a46e06", "6f2919" : "642f00" },

/* GREEN */
{ "ffca8a" : "b2e89d", "e0975c" : "51bd3b", "a85636" : "247824", "6f2919" : "144216" },

/* BLUE */
{ "ffca8a" : "96cbe7", "e0975c" : "5588d4", "a85636" : "344495", "6f2919" : "1a1c51" },

/* PURPLE */
{ "ffca8a" : "d29ce7", "e0975c" : "a451c4", "a85636" : "6a2284", "6f2919" : "320c40" },

/* PINK */
{ "ffca8a" : "eab3db", "e0975c" : "d35eae", "a85636" : "97276d", "6f2919" : "59163f" },

/* BROWN */
{ "ffca8a" : "ccae7c", "e0975c" : "a47844", "a85636" : "754c23", "6f2919" : "472b13" }

]
}

Here the recipe (in mod/recipes):

{

"input" : [

{ "item" : "money", "count" : 1 }

],

"output" : { "item" : "basic_ironchest", "count" : 1 },

"groups" : [ "plain", "armors", "all" ]

}
​

pls help ^^

​

 

i think after the patch
"amount" : "12,5"
should be

"amount" : 12,5

and look into the starbound.log there is an error message...

 

Thaks, did what you told me still doesn´t work. I checked the crash but I´m not gettig any wiser:

Error: Could not load /items/armors/basic_iron/basic_ironchest.chest asset, attempting to use default.
AssetException: Could not read variant asset /items/armors/basic_iron/basic_ironchest.chest
caused by: JsonParsingException: Cannot parse json file: /items/armors/basic_iron/basic_ironchest.chest
caused by: JsonParsingException: Error parsing json: bad string, should be '"' at 48:21
009AE772 (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/core/StarVariant.hpp:14)
00511B96 (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/game/StarAssets.cpp:584)
00512B2C (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/core/StarVariant.hpp:41)
00508AFF (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/game/StarAssets.cpp:992)
... (3)
00514B51 (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/game/StarAssets.cpp:712)
0098243C (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/core/StarThread_windows.cpp:74)
75D7336A kernel32.dll
76EF9F72 ntdll.dll
76EF9F45 ntdll.dll
​

The the red part seems to be the importend one but the coordinates tell me nothig.

 

oh well i think it means the line i corrected for you change it back again and look at the log file again..

 

Well taht did fix that but the new report helps even less:

Error: Could not instantiate item '[basic_ironchest, 1, {}]'. ItemException: No such item 'basic_ironchest'
... (3)
0059F6A7 (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/game/StarItemDatabase.cpp:219)
005D4A76 (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/game/StarRecipeDatabase.cpp:76)
004FDAFE (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/game/StarRoot.cpp:209)
0040494C (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/client/StarClientApplication.cpp05)
0098243C (/Users/builder/starbound-slave/releasebuilder-windows/build/source/core/StarThread_windows.cpp:74)
75D7336A kernel32.dll
76EF9F72 ntdll.dll
76EF9F45 ntdll.dll
​

Is it the diretory i put the file in? basic_armormod/items/armors/basic_iron
... i don´t think so.

 

i followed the tutorial to the best I could and i managed to almost get it working however even though i can craft it and equip it aswell it just shows my character naked.
now since its a full armor suit that shouldn't be happening. please help

 

I am experiencing the exact same problem. My items were fully functional outside of actually appearing in game. It was almost as if the framework files werent reading the armor.png's I had edited (Which I altered in gimp so that they support transparency). My code was flawless I don't understand. Also upon having posted this I deleted my files to re-attempt the same gear. So I have mo .zip to share atm.

 

the problem is the filename of basic_ironchest did you change it or used it in your recipe?

it's most likely because of the recent update you should get a error message for that in the starbound.log...

 

that would be a lot harder as all the techs are written in lua and not c++

 

just a question in the .head and .chest file for the tier 10 armor there is a line of code that reads

"kind" : "Protection",
"level" : 36,
"amount" :

I know that the first line is the effect and the third is the amount of it but what is the second line? What does it mean with level?