Modding Help (Solved) Trouble placeing object on ship; Object invisible; Partial object image being scaled

Photoshop is showing it is the correct dimensions...

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However when I open it through a photo viewer it is indeed 2048 x 320

I reformatted the image and then re-saved it and now it is opening through the same photo viewer it seems to be the right size. I am re-paking it right now.
I'm going to feel really dumb if that's what the issue was...

While I'm waiting maybe you can help me understand what this means, or how it affects the image when it is place?

Code:

      "foregroundBlock" : false,
      "backgroundBlock" : false,

 

To be honest I haven't gone over creating my changes into mods yet. I am just trying to get the coding to work. I didn't know you could get around paking with it though...
Not my brightest moment.

 

So.... my image was 2048 x 320...
Thanks photoshop!

Now it's not animating though. I'm pretty sure I can trouble shoot that though.

 

For dependencies I want to type in '[mod name].modinfo'?

Code:

{
  "name" : "shipserver",
  "version" : "Beta v. Enraged Koala"
  "path" : ".",
  "Dependencies" : []

 

Thanks man, I really appreciate all of your help.

So what I want is folder [shipserver] in the mods folder containing my .modinfo and then the full path to the actual item's folder I added in objects?

 

Got it!

The layer that had the differences between frames wasn't visible when I saved it.
It's animating now, and I am using the mod folder so I don't have to repak everytime.

Thank you both so much!

 

As Swat said, it's <frame>, not <frames>. In this particular example, this is what you would have to use:

Code:

"dualImage" : "imagename.png:imagename.<frame>",

Everything after the colon is the frame name. If you want, you could just use :<frame>, and name your frames "0", "1", etc.

I'm sorry, but this was hilarious.

Also, as expected. I bet you were using a non-pixel unit of measurement without noticing.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that these determine whether the given block(s) in the ship layout image will have collision pre-set, which probably doesn't matter if you're just adding an object to an existing ship.

 

Haha, yeah, needless to say making a mod for the first time was quite the experience.
I don't know how impossibly long any of this would have taken me without you and SwatElite's help, so thank you both!

I finally got it working and now that I don't have commas in the wrong spot, typos or my image files way out of proportion everything looks great. I suppose it's all going to be a little more down hill from my first modded object.
You guys have been life savers!!