avali 2: electric boogaloo

(not intended as an insult, i just love both)

Love how this is still alive. Great modders are like this.

I am glad things are working out. This has been a learning experience for me also because I've really never looked into how modded races work before. Looking forward to playing with it updated and experiencing their full personalities xD

I followed the format of the vanilla json files when putting in my comments, many of them are right next to the commas.
Comments aren't *officially* part of JSON formatting, but many JSON parsers support them. I've never actually had issues with comments before, so honestly I'm not sure it was that.

The missing default key was DEFINITELY an issue though!

Yeah the Felins don't have them either

@vampycat237 If anything your comments are too close to the commas as comments don't typically cause issues but JSONEditor says they are invalid but the Felins Have them...

(okay i will save further dev commentary for the patch notes haha)

Ah yep. I need to add a "default" key in ADDITION to my existing "generic" key. Interesting

For the record, the official converse.config file does include comments, so that's probably where i got the notion it would be fine

@GlitterDragon: Oh that's so weird, it seems like when i made the converse.config.patch i used "generic" as the key instead of "default". I'll have to look at the vanilla stuff to make sure i use the right one, working on a patch rn.

@Lexi Lunarpaw: It seems like maybe comments aren't allowed in patches which i didn't know. I don't remember this being an issue when playing as a race i gave lines, but I'll see about removing them anyway. That seems to be the only issue, though, after checking both with VSCode and Kawa's linter. Wish I'd been more friendly with these kinds of tools from the start!

@GlitterDragon They also didn't format the JSON Properly...

AAAAA I figured it out!
In the converse.config.patch, there needs to be a "default" key
So that players of different mod species [that aren't mentioned in the patch] can talk to them without them dying !
I have learned so much from this and can even better appreciate the effort put into this species!

When I talk to Crylans as tenants, they just immediately die. I've tried to fix it, but I have no idea how to ?_? They're so adorable and epic looking, I just want one to be a friend

@Emerald: Nope, though you can get them as tenants

Does your mod have Towns/Villages?

@Wasabi_Raptor: Good catch! Uploading a fix rn.

there's stray pixel underneath the feet in frame 6 of run cycle for both genders

@vampycat237 Thank you for acknowledging my previous comment.

I am very happy to know that this race is open source besides the lore. I never intended to include lore but only the character's origin that I intend to be obscure due to the reason of the species lore.

Once again, thank you for this information and I hope your creativity continues with this project or another project in the future.

@Xander_100k: I have a species guide on my carrd & a toyhouse link there - the species info is honestly more lax in my head though than it was when i made the carrd, i just haven't had the drive to update it yet. Plus, the carrd info was mostly made for characters intended to fit into the canon lore - if you've got your own stuff brewing, you super don't need to worry about it ^w^

I'm so glad this species has sparked creativity for you! I consider them an open species, and yes I would be fine with you writing stuff about a Crylan! I won't lay claim to any creatures that look like but aren't crylans, i think that wouldn't be fair haha.

My only request is that you don't like, try to pass anything off as Official Crylan Lore! I don't think that'll be an issue tho ^w^

Hello @vampycat237 I had a question about this race you made.

I have fallen in love with the Crylan race for a few years and I had wanted to ask this for a while if is there any limit to how open source this species is beyond Starbound.

Why do I ask; I am a creative writer and I have a character that resembles a Crylan (with some differences in visual detail) and I wanted to ask you, the creator, if the public can use the Crylan in this way.

This species that you made I think would acceptable in some communities. It's very different to what I am used to seeing here and probably beyond Starbound and the race seems highly praise-able as a whole.

If you do acknowledged / respond to my question or don't have an answer yet; that's okay, but I would still like to explore this topic and clear some things out.

Thank you for reading my comment and have a good day
keep up the amazing work!
-Xander

@TransTrash123: Yeah that's fine! You can post it if you like too, you should send it if you do!

Hey i was wondering if it was ok for me to make custom descriptions for objects for this race? I really enjoy playing as them, but but scanning objects is a little dry.

can anyone make more color options for these or make the tail move when walking its odd how it just doesnt move

@vampycat237 awww alrighty.. thanks for reply <3 !!

@Argonautusus: I don't currently have a plan to do this, however that's not to say it's bound never to happen... but it probably won't, or at least not anytime soon.

just a quick question... will the race ever hve own ship? i would love to see this race having a different ship then the human one

It's ok lol! But no i have no idea how to make that happen, and don't plan on adding a feature like that. sorry!

Oh shit so it isn't? I'm so sorry for the inconvenience aaaaaaAXJENFJ this is really awkward :(
But I still wonder if it's possible to make that happen?

I'm testing this on an Avian character and i really don't think it's a base game feature. Tried placing 2 eggs at the same time and holding S over one (while leaving the other alone), they hatched at the same time. So you might have a mod that adds that incubation feature, but it's not base game as far as i can tell. (Tested with both the Hen Egg and a Fluffalo Egg)

If I remembered correctly, the Avian race can sit on animal eggs to speed up their hatching process (basically holding S key on any sort of animal eggs placed on grounds) And you do not require any mods to do this, at least that's what I remembered.

I dunno if there's anything that sounds confusing, English isn't my first language and my game is also translated, so I don't know if there's anything that sounds off / difficult to understand, sorry for the inconvenience :c

I'm glad you're enjoying the mod! I'm not sure what egg hatching feature you mean though? Is that maybe added by another mod you have? Because I don't think that's base game functionality, which would be why Crylans can't do that.

I think this is my favorite race mod so far.
everything about this is mod feels so perfect to me, I just love the little bat-bird design!
(plus you can fly, which is also quite convenient & cool looking)
But I do wonder why I can't sit on an egg and hatch them like an Avian. Is there a specific reason that makes Crylans unable to hatch eggs, or is it simply because you forgot to add this feature?

@dhwty935: ah i forgot to reply to your message sorry! I love them :) i'm glad you're having fun and best of luck with the other mod creator(s)!

@Golden Booperie: There currently aren't any plans to add more color variants sorry! but they do come in quite a few colors already at least (29 main/secondary feather colors is more than most if not all vanilla races iirc. Assuming I implemented all 29 colors i have sitting in google that is...).

If i hypothetically *did* add more swatches though it would probably be more neutrals tbh, it's a crime that i only have one brown swatch.

Maybe someone with more strength than me could make a colors + patch for crylans or something someday. But no, I don't have plans to do that currently.

Mildly concerned about the cult but honestly I've heard weirder lol. Have fun, be safe, & if other people are involved make sure nobody's getting hurt who doesn't want to be.

abit curious if there might be more colour verities some point, made 12 of em for my cult so far so thats pretty much why

OK this is it! I'm so nervous!
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2819349205

Awesome, thanks so much! I will make this a dependency and a link here when it's ready. I've never uploaded anything but I'll figure it out. I'd rather not make shady ripoffs of your crops with worse sprites. Yours are really good! The bodies don't look too butchered from trying to differentiate them from yours so I hope I showed respect and that you like them. Mod species should interact more. Avali and Trink should have their own trading posts on cold planets. Why not? I hope the Arachne creator is as available and friendly as you! I have to have a similar conversation with them since I also made a giant crayfish creature based on those arthropod sprites. They really push the limits of the game engine rendering plus-sized aliens.

@dhwty935: You have permission to use/modify my sprites if you give me credit in the description yes! and yeah they can totally start with the seeds in their locker - i recommend you put this mod as required for yours so you can use the items straight from here! and as far as merchants i'm actually working on that!! I'd love to see your owl mod when it's up!

No problem! Would it be ok to eventually upload my owl mod based on your sprites? You're magnitudes better than me. The head I'm using is based on Avians but I love the larger bodies with real wings and real flight. I try to work in lore when I borrow assets, like how Avians envy true flight, and I start them with your seeds (having them visit Cryladan before the game starts). Speaking of, it would be rad to start a Crylan with seeds in their locker, or have a merchant that sells them.

@dhwty935: This is really helpful actually, I think it's why a vanity item for another mod I made isn't working too!! Thank you for bringing this to my attention

While tinkering I figured out why the goggles don't work. You tried to efficiently share a folder for two clothing items! I didn't know this was important, but each item needs to have head.png for a filename. They can't be custom names or it can't find a frames file maybe? I separated them and they both worked.

@AnimalLover1999: I honestly have not experienced that before, can you send me your log? like in a discussion or dm me on discord/email me/whatever works for you, you can find various ways to contact me on my carrd here: https://vampycat237.carrd.co/#contact

when i play it and when i colect the right amount of firestones to activate the portal it wont let me

@AnimalLover1999: What do you mean?

why wont it work with the story

@Gingercloud: The fix for this will be included with the next update! it's on my trello. i have finals right now though and there are more things i want to be included in the next update so it's going to have to wait a little, but it will be addressed!

Hey, I know ur prob busy with tons of stuff, but right now the image for Crylans in the character maker is a human without hair. Seems like it'd be a small fix? Thanks.

<3

glad to hear this isn't dead. wish you best of luck with everything

accidentally wrote my own username instead of yours oops. but uh yeah my priorities right now are just mainly focused on college, over break or at least once things settle a little more maybe i'll have more time to work on my mods. and my interests tend to cycle frequently :( hoping to get back to modding again soon tho! did some bug fixes for some mods recently