So I've been wanting to get into game development and might as well start small, right? Well, I suppose small-ish, since this is pretty ambitious and I have no idea what I'm doing. I figured, since Shane is one of my favorite characters and the only thing keeping me from marrying him is his ripped up dirty clothes, might as well make a portrait and sprite mod! I've got it mostly figured out(still trying to understand why the xnb node I got for the png files is a Yz file and my computer not knowing what to do with it) but I decided, why not make Shane's portrait change AFTER you marry him, right? And then I realized, I have no idea where to start. Has anyone made something similar to this before? I searched up "marriage" but found nothing like what I'm trying to accomplish. Here's the link to the forum with the Xnb node and the guide I'm trying to follow. Here is the other guide that goes into a bit more detail. Finally, for those who haven't seen it, here's Siv's marriage mod, which I think may have a little gold nugget of info for me, except I don't actually know what to be looking for. Thanks in advance for any and all help!
https://github.com/Pathoschild/StardewMods/tree/stable/ContentPatcher#readme Here using Content Patcher would be the easiest. You can try and look up how people did, with for example the Seasonal portrait mod. Good luck with your mod! It is indeed a small good first project in my opinion. Have fun, and don't hesitate to check out the discord for any modding questions!
Thank you for your help! I'm definitely going to try this and hopefully, I'll be able to get the hang of it.
