Starbound

Starbound

Felin
Nn. I used to be good at this
Ever since the conversion to .pak files, I've completely flubbed tinkering with mods.

I would really really really like to use the Felin ship and Sail with the Lamia race, and I used to be able to do things like this by just swapping some files around.

But.. I'm a bit stumped now. I like to think I'm at least somewhat capable, being able to unpack files and such.. But I'm not really sure what I need to do to make it work properly now.

Not looking for a complete custom version to be made just for me, just some pointers on what I need to do to do it myself.
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Kawa  [developer] 3 Jul, 2017 @ 4:13pm 
Ah ♥♥♥♥, this thread is a thing? Haha! Well, if you have both Felin and Lamia installed, the best way to do what you say you want is to make a third mod. And to ensure proper load order, we'll use the user metamod instead of actually making a mod in the mods folder.

First, the ship. Assuming you have both Felin and Lamia installed, get down to your assets/user folder. That's where the game puts the song data for playable instruments, you might know/notice. Make a new file in there named "universe_server.config.patch", make sure the extension actually is patch and not txt or anything, and put this in it:

[ { "op" : "add", "path" : "/speciesShips/lamia", "value" : [ "/ships/felin/felint0.structure", "/ships/felin/felint1.structure", "/ships/felin/felint2.structure", "/ships/felin/felint3.structure", "/ships/felin/felint4.structure", "/ships/felin/felint5.structure", "/ships/felin/felint6.structure", "/ships/felin/felint7.structure", "/ships/felin/felint8.structure" ] } ]

Off the top of my head. The lamia bit might be wrong. I wouldn't know. What this does is literally make the lamia use the felin mod's ship files without having to copy anything.

Now, make a folder in assets/user named "ai", and in there make a file named "ai.config.patch", with this in it:

[ { "op" : "add", "path" : "/species/lamia", "value" : { "aiFrames" : "felinai.png", "portraitFrames" : "portraits/felinportrait.png", "staticFrames" : "staticfelin.png" } } ]

Hmm... looks like it's basically the same thing as the ships, doesn't it? The only thing this probably won't do is replace the quest log icon for SAIL to match.

You might wonder, why does it say "add" when we want to replace? That'd be because "add" in JSON Patch is effectively the same as "replace", but if there's no original thing to replace, it adds the new value regardless... and "add" is shorter to type :)
Woo I posted this a really long time ago. Unfortunately the person who I played this with no longer plays it with me but. I appreciate the response :) I'll make sure to archive it so if I ever come back to it I know what to do. Thanks a lot.
Kawa  [developer] 3 Jul, 2017 @ 4:19pm 
Nar karrdi.
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