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Avali Height and Tweaks for Race Traits

Applies an effect to Avali that reduces their size to better match the official lore. Also increases their run speed and jump height by 50% because they're deadly fluff raptors (not sure if this is balanced or not).

When used with the required mods, this mod resizes all Avali and any armor that they wear and items that they hold.

Requires the Race Traits mod and the Race Traits for NPCs patch by Omeruin and Silver Sokolova, and of course the Avali Triage Mod.

NOTE: Previously, the Race Traits for NPCs patch wasn't required to use this mod, but since I had to move some code around to fix an issue with the Morph Sphere, it is now required as without it the Avali NPCs will have their sprites pushed into the ground due to their smaller hitboxes. As far as I know there isn't a way around this, but I'm a Starbound modding noob so I could be wrong.

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NOTE: Apparently using OpenStarbound fixes the scaling issue mentioned below so that it's lossless. I haven't tested it myself but that's awesome if so. 10/10. Never thought I'd see the day. :')

Disclaimer. This mod is far from perfect and probably never will be due to Starbound being a big dumb. It should theoretically be possible for Starbound to resize player species sprites while keeping resolution, but as far as I can tell there's no way of doing this. Consequently, I had to use another resizing method that is a lot more lossy. The sprites generally look passable and at least fairly distinguishable, but if you take off the clothes you'll notice that there's pixels missing in places. There might be more visual issues but I haven't tested every item or customization option.

There's also a few other issues, like some item-holding wonkiness (I managed to get it generally passable, but some items like daggers refuse to cooperate), levitating when sitting, certain animations (like beam up/down) being displaced and looking a bit awkward next to the small character, and the scaled-down melee weapons having larger hitboxes than their animations suggest.


NOTE: Some procedurally-generated weapons, like Assault Rifles, will look busted when held by a small Avali. So far I don't think this issue can be fixed due to the nature of the sprite scaling.
This is particularly an issue for NPC crew members because they often spawn with procedurally-generated assault rifles with no way of changing the weapons.

One way of working around this is using the Crew Cusomization + by Sanghelios and FelmastProMcLane to change your crew members' weapons to something less janky: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2017503832


If you want something with more visual clarity and less wonkiness, I'd recommend SmolAvali by Wasabi_Raptor: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1428129929