Hello, I would like to modify the chat so that commands can be input, I was just curious where I would go to find such a file, I have been searching and haven't quite found it yet. Does anyone have a clue?
I have been searching as well. As far as I can tell all the chat stuff other than the UI is hard coded.
yeah, unfortunately from what I keep hearing, it's hard coded.. you can however make popup messages appear (Can be buggy if the value returned is not a string so be careful) and you can make NPC's say things. *Shruggs* With any luck, someone can tell me I'm wrong 'cause this would be really useful for both debugging and practical uses..
ok, well thank you both for responding, yeah I was searching the files for a while and couldn't find anywhere to easily mod EDIT: As another question, where would one modify the chat bubbles, I see the area for the .png files but have yet to find the location that will allow me to actually modify them.
'modify' them? you mean the look of them? I'm not sure (take with a pinch of salt) but I think those too, are hard coded. you can only make NPC's (possibly players too? haven't tried..) say stuff with wired objects and lua scripts. (which would not affect the chat it would only popup above their head) The modding capabilities of starbound are still pretty limited because of it currently being in beta. a lot of stuff is subject to change (modding abilities being added and removed because the devs working on the actual game)
Starbound\assets\interface\chatbubbles I believe this is what you want if you want to change the look of the chat bubbles. You probably have to keep the dimensions the same but you could easily change the colours of the edge and inside.
That's what I get for being lazy and not checking the inteface folder. =P good to know. although, these textures would be used for ALL chat bubbles.. variance would be nice.. Had a brief snoop to see if there was a config file that calls the images or anything, couldn't find them.. Was hoping for maybe dimension changing or something.. couldn't find anything.. oh well =/
yea, i'm looking to do a script where if you type something like /online, instead of chat now, all the people online would appear as a chat bubble, but it does appear we are unable to do such without hardcoding the actual game. Thank you all.
I'm sure when the API is out we'll be able to do chat commands and menus for things. Until then i'm just gonna mess around with reskinning/modeling ALL THE THINGS.
yea, I've already been messing with that aspect xD just customizing everything to better fit my desires.
