Tutorial S2F - Learning Basic Pixel art and Putting it into the Game

Can't wait for the Ebook. Seems like the right place to ask this. I am running a small private server and working on a matter manipulator mod that scales all the way to impervium. I recently found a pretty good sprite for it that the author has given permission for its use. I keep having issues when I try to make the first improvement use the "learnOnPickup" code. All its assets work, like the icon and menu images, and recipe. But in the crafting section it shows up as a perfectly generic item. Could I have you pm me and discuss the coding? I've looked and looked at other instance of the same code and can't figure out what's wrong. I want this up and running for my server so I don't want my players to suffer through expiremental stages of this.

 

This is what it's showing:
Error: Could not instantiate item '[stonebeamaxe, 1, {}]'. ItemException: No such item 'stonebeamaxe'
... (3)
00462F8A (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/frontend/StarCraftingInterface.cpp:519)
... (2)
004BCDD3 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/windowing/StarButtonWidget.cpp:185)
004BDE0C (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/windowing/StarButtonWidget.cpp:104)
004B3EB9 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/windowing/StarPaneManager.cpp:173)
... (2)
00402781 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/client/StarClientApplication.cpp:280)
0040A1C7 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/application/StarApplicationBase.cpp:186)
00407C30 (E:/Steamworks/Starbound/git/starbound/source/client/main.cpp:48)
004DBBD1 (c:\SDL-1.2.15/./src/main/win32/SDL_win32_main.c18)

o.o it hasn't done this prior to me editing it. I'm grabbing the old asset to see if I can't repair it

-.- found it had an extra comma

 

dude THANK YOU SO MUCH!
also, how would you update your mod when new patches and updates are released?

 

i dont get the thing with merge or _merge or __merge , overwrite and delete , its somewhat confusing.

if folder mod = assets , how is it loaded then mod first assets afterwards ?

 

im up to chapter 4, when i'm trying to find the code for an axe (weapon) theres nothing
help?

 

One problem I can't get the unpacker to work

 

Ok, please tell us when you post the new version on the forum

 

I'm having an odd problem this has been happening since the last update(Think its the updates fault) My animated object would show all frames as an object instead of just showing the first frame and cycling thru need a bit of assistance.

This is my code for frames

Code:

{
  "frameGrid" : {
    "size" : [40, 32],
    "dimensions" : [6, 1],
    "names" : [
      [ "default.0", "default.1", "default.2", "default.3", "default.4", "default.5" ]

    ]
  },

  "aliases" : {
    "default.default" : "default.0"
  }
}

And this is the code for the object itself

Code:

{
  "objectName": "matterconverter",
  "rarity": "Uncommon",
  "description": "A machine that does the improvable.",
  "shortdescription": "Matter Converter",
  "race": "generic",
  "subtitle": "A break-thru in science!",
  "category": "crafting",
  "price": 200,
  "objectType": "container",
  "printable": false,
  "hydrophobic": true,
  "apexDescription": "This object has endless uses.",
  "avianDescription": "Anything can come out of this egg.",
  "floranDescription": "Crazy thing makesss weird noissssess.",
  "glitchDescription": "Awestruck. This machine can create endless possibilities.",
  "humanDescription": "I'd like to meet the mad scientist that made this.",
  "hylotlDescription": "This object mysterious like the tides...",
  "inventoryIcon": "matterconvertericon.png",
  "orientations": [
    {
      "dualImage": "matterconverter.png",
      "imagePosition": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "frames": 6,
      "animationCycle": 0.5,
      "spaceScan": 0.1,
      "anchors": [
        "bottom"
      ],
      "collision": "platform"
    }
  ],
  "recipeGroup": "matterconverter",
  "openSounds": [
    "/sfx/objects/campfire_use.wav"
  ],
  "slotCount": 2,
  "uiConfig": "/interface/matterconverter/matterconverter.config",
  "frameCooldown": 67,
  "autoCloseCooldown": 3600
}

 

Thanks for the look!

 

Does this allow you to use it in multiplayer too? I am making myself a sword

 

If found some incorrected things in your Tut. But its a nice thing what you got done here.

this thingy is far from good readable.

Do this method for one item and open the list (look code above), if you will add more.