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Homing Pigeon
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PommieGamer  [developer] 19 Sep, 2016 @ 6:26am
Mod Integrations
How to integrate your mod with Homing Pigeon?

If you're a mod author for ARK: Survival Evolved and your mod adds custom flyers that are tamable by players, then there is only one thing you need to do in order to integrate with Homing Pigeon:

  1. Add a costume slot to each of the flyers in your mod that you wish to for the Homing Pigeon Leg Ring to be equipped to.

That's it. Homing Pigeon will allow the Leg Ring to be equipped to the costume slot of your dino provided it can fly.

Verified Mod Integrations

Homing Pigeon has been officially tested and verified as compatible and working with the following third-party mods. If you use one of these mods, be sure to equip the Homing Pigeon Leg Ring to the flyer(s) they add:

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SP 11 Jul, 2017 @ 6:21pm 
I hope |SE|prome gets in touch with you to integrate your mod with his ARK: Eternal mod!
PommieGamer  [developer] 12 Jul, 2017 @ 6:52pm 
Originally posted by SP:
I hope |SE|prome gets in touch with you to integrate your mod with his ARK: Eternal mod!

Already taken care of. ARK: Eternal support will be in v2.8.0. However I am waiting for the new Dev Kit to be released so that I can address a critical bug fix relating to v259 game patch as part of that release.
SP 14 Jul, 2017 @ 2:18pm 
That's awesome!! ty! :) fyi after I posted this I contacted Prome on his Discord and he added integration with your mod to his to do list so it might be worth letting him know if you are already on it
prome 18 Jul, 2017 @ 5:48am 
All our custom tags are on our spawnsheet. Let me know if you want me to sort out all the flyers for ya.
PommieGamer  [developer] 18 Jul, 2017 @ 5:52pm 
Originally posted by |SE|prome:
All our custom tags are on our spawnsheet. Let me know if you want me to sort out all the flyers for ya.

Thanks Prome, I have actually already worked with LeutianKane on integrating with ARK: Eternal (the spreadsheet was a god send).

Release of this integration is currently blocked by current breaking change. Once I have fixed that I will release the next version of the mod that contains the integration with ARK: Eternal.
SP 19 Jul, 2017 @ 2:39pm 
you guys are awesome! Thank you!
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PommieGamer  [developer] 13 Aug, 2017 @ 4:08am 
Originally posted by SP:
I hope |SE|prome gets in touch with you to integrate your mod with his ARK: Eternal mod!

Homing Pigeon v2.8.0 has been released which includes support for ARK: Eternal mod. Tamable flyers (that have a costume slot) from ARK: Eternal can now be equipped with the Homing Pigeon Leg Ring. See change notes for more details.
SP 13 Aug, 2017 @ 7:57am 
<3
JayZX535 30 Sep, 2017 @ 2:00pm 
Hey, I'm not a mod author, but as I understand correctly, you just need the spawn tag for creatures, right? The Gryphons mod already has a costume slot implemented (at least for their main gryphons-- haven't encountered the others but I'd assume they do?), and they list their spawn tags as
Gryphon_Character_BP_C
Gryphon_Snow_Character_BP_C
Gryphon_Pygmy_Character_BP_C
as per this
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1092784125
Since they already have a costume slot, would you be able to support integration just by adding these?
Also I don't think the Pygmy Gryphon is not actually rideable, if that's important...
PommieGamer  [developer] 2 Oct, 2017 @ 3:13pm 
Originally posted by JayZX535:
Hey, I'm not a mod author, but as I understand correctly, you just need the spawn tag for creatures, right? The Gryphons mod already has a costume slot implemented (at least for their main gryphons-- haven't encountered the others but I'd assume they do?), and they list their spawn tags as
Gryphon_Character_BP_C
Gryphon_Snow_Character_BP_C
Gryphon_Pygmy_Character_BP_C
as per this
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1092784125
Since they already have a costume slot, would you be able to support integration just by adding these?
Also I don't think the Pygmy Gryphon is not actually rideable, if that's important...

Spawn Tags and Custom Tags are unfortunately completely different things (Spawn tags are actually the Class names of the blueprints for the various dinos).

The Custom Tag is a variable within the Class definition of the dino's blueprint itself, and as such is something only the mod author can provide.

For example, the vanilla Argentavis has the following Class: Argent_Character_BP_C but its Custom Tag name is Argent. It's the custom tag name that I need.

Most mod authors provide a spreadsheet with all of the info needed to do integrations like this one[docs.google.com] from ARK: Eternal. Reach out to the mod author and ask if they can provide the Cutom Tag names, (feel free to link to this page).
JayZX535 4 Oct, 2017 @ 12:37pm 
Ahhhhh, okay-- I will ask, though attempts at reaching the mod author have been unfortunately unsuccessful so far :/ Hopefully they come back online. Thanks!
Max 28 Feb, 2018 @ 5:53pm 
Fragasaur 12 Apr, 2018 @ 9:35am 
Tags for Parados mod flyers are listed here:

GuardianGriffin
FlamingFeatherlight
WickedWyvern
WickedDragon
LedgendaryGriffin
LedgenPtera
LedgendaryTapejara
LegendQuetz
ParadosWyvern
RecklessArgent
RecklessGriffin
ParadosManticore

From what I've seen they already have the costume slot.

Thanks!
PommieGamer  [developer] 12 Apr, 2018 @ 6:01pm 
Originally posted by Fragasaur:
Tags for Parados mod flyers are listed here:

GuardianGriffin
FlamingFeatherlight
WickedWyvern
WickedDragon
LedgendaryGriffin
LedgenPtera
LedgendaryTapejara
LegendQuetz
ParadosWyvern
RecklessArgent
RecklessGriffin
ParadosManticore

From what I've seen they already have the costume slot.

Thanks!

Thanks for this. I will schedule a task to complete this integration. Hopefully it will be in the next major release. I'll post a message on your mod page when the integration is available for users of your mod.

Edit: I have added this as a task[trello.com] to the Homing Pigeon development board. This is a public board so you can track the process of the task.
Last edited by PommieGamer; 12 Apr, 2018 @ 6:04pm
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