RELEASED Racially Appropriate Ship Backgrounds 1.02 for 1.3

LoPhatKao submitted a new mod:

Racially Appropriate Ship Backgrounds - Better default backgrounds for your ship, based on race.

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hungry hungry hippo!

now this is a sweet mod, adds that tiny but VERY important bit o flavour to the mix! well done!

 

If theres a way to do this though the patch system, modsize would shink dramatically.
As is, mod is just the respective races modified blockkey.config files.

Thanks that's what I was going for.

Some of the names in the example pics are .. different.

 

Don't know if patches are possible yet with blockkey.config files. It may just be a limitation with this mod until the game updates with fixes for the patch limitations. For now, since I'm using a custom ship for my humans, I unpacked your mod, deleted your human folder and then changed the custom ship's blockkey.config by copy/pasting your changes. It's a little bit of extra work to make it compatable, but its worth it.

 

Which ship is it? I'm looking into the patching, but so far it looks like I'll need to modify using array position, since the sub-elements are unnamed.

This should work as long as the custom blockfile doesnt change the order (note the /_#_/ in path)

Code:

{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/3/backgroundMat","value" : "wallpaper"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/4/backgroundMat","value" : "wallpaper"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/5/backgroundMat","value" : "wallpaper"},

etc.

Full vanilla Human ship patch: (I can't see anywhere element 33 is actually used, heh)

Code:

[
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/3/backgroundMat","value" : "wallpaper"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/4/backgroundMat","value" : "wallpaper"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/5/backgroundMat","value" : "wallpaper"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/6/backgroundMat","value" : "wallpaper"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/10/backgroundMat","value" : "baseboard"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/11/backgroundMat","value" : "baseboard"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/12/backgroundMat","value" : "baseboard"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/16/backgroundMat","value" : "baseboard"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/17/backgroundMat","value" : "baseboard"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/29/backgroundMat","value" : "wallpaper"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/30/backgroundMat","value" : "baseboard"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/31/backgroundMat","value" : "woodpanelling"},
{"op" : "replace","path" : "/blockKey/33/backgroundMat","value" : "baseboard"}
]

hmm doesn't actually work :/ need to fix heh

 

I see. So, that's how that works. Neat.

 

ARGH!

While technically correct, Starbound doesn't seem to actually apply the patch file to blockkey.config.
If I can find where to post, will be reporting this as a bug.
Even when a deliberate 'crash to title' error was in patch, file was ignored

 

Very neat, makes a pretty big difference even though its a small edit. Great work!

 

Yeah, I ran into that problem earlier, but I hoped it was fixed by now. O well.

The ship I was talking about earlier was one I'm working on. Do you mind if I use your edits in it? Or rather, I suppose I'm uploading it now, but I'll remove the edits later if I don't end up getting permission.

 

go for it.

 

Great job! It would be nice if these were individual so people could pick which ones they wanted to use.

 

could do that possibly.

here is the unpaked zipped modfolder .
apex is missing, since I didn't change it at all, felt no need to include it in mod

 

can you add compatibility for the Avalii mod?

 

Probably easy to do, I'd imagine it's the Avali triaged mod? http://community.playstarbound.com/resources/avali-triage.2852/
I may take a look at this (I don't use mod races normally, none since Koala versions)

If you want to 'roll your own' heres what you'd need to change in a races "ships/[racename]/blockkey.config":
"apexshipwall" - the light grey wall areas - called 'Wall Panel' in game
"apexshipsupport" - the vertical dark grey border areas - called 'Ship Support' in game
"apexshipdetails" - the horizontal dark grey border areas- called 'Metal object'


for example, the changes for the florans are:
apexshipwall -> hive
apexshipsupport -> vine
apexshipdetails -> plantblock



When you find some blocks that you think would work well, put them in inventory, open char with Starcheat, and get item name of the blocks..
then use that name in place of the apexship* names

 

LoPhatKao updated Racially Appropriate Ship Backgrounds with a new update entry:

Novakid material spelling fix

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the hive block doesn't match any of the floran walls...

 

it used to be green and look different, i just never changed it after hive became a separate biome and block changed
could change it to 'petalblock' or 'floweryblock' in the file, or paint the hiveblock green

 

i just used green-painted moonstone (id:moonstone, not others if there r others)

 

LoPhatKao updated Racially Appropriate Ship Backgrounds with a new update entry:

Floran Fix + 1.0 release

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Does this apply once I upgrade a ship? I'm considering getting the mod then doing that to be able to have the new background, as I don't think this will magically change my existing BG for the starter ship...