Post by TotalTor in How to edit a modded unit?

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Hello, and sorry for posting in such an old thread.

I have been following this thread as a kind of tutorial. (Very helpful, thank you.) But I have encountered a problem when attempting to use dnSpy.

I have used AssetRipper to decompile v0.11b (I am aware that modded units are disabled in this version, my only goal is to add a custom attack to existing characters.)

When using dnSpy to edit the code of my instillation (still v0.11v) and inserting my modified code in AttackList.cs I encounter several errors when attempting to recompile. (Variations of: Error CS1525, Error CS0119, & Error CS0659)

I have verified that my modified code is not the issue by attempting to recompile an unmodified version of AttackList.cs which encountered all of the same errors. As far as I can tell all of the errors relate to UnityAction which only appears in dnSpy and not the actual CS code.

I’m not sure if it’s because changes have been made since this thread was active or if I’m just using dnSpy wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

crimson9715162 days ago

make sure you're using this version of dnspy first, the more recent versions of vt aren't as compatible with the older versions of dnspy anymore and it should fix some compiling errors you may run into https://github.com/dnSpyEx/dnSpy/releases/

try that first, if that didn't work then I can't tell you exactly what's wrong from the information you gave me since I would need more specific info, my guess is that it would either be a syntax error or not formatting your code properly

TotalTor161 days ago

Thank you for responding. I spent some time messing around and found that the version of dnSpy I was using (6.1.8) was adding unnecessary lines of code that it could not interpret and if I simply removed/reformatted the lines throwing errors, the problem would be resolved.
This new version fixes the issue altogether, thank you very much.

TotalTor160 days ago (1 edit)

+ I want to add this post in case anyone comes looking for solutions after me.
dnSpy just kinda sucks, it will tell you there are things wrong with your code that you didn't change, it will put things in the code that it can't read and it will say it's broken, it needs to be restarted if you added a method and try to call it in the same session, there are many problems.
Updating to the correct version does prevent some of these things from happening but they will still occur. The solution is being smart enough and have the patience enough (because you have to do it everytime you recompile) to unfuck whatever it decides to fuck up.
There's always the possibility that this issue only exists on my machine, or it's a fault of mine but just in case anyone else has this issue, blame dnSpy and spend the next 6 hours reformatting the same 6 lines of the base game's code everytime you make a change and save and restart the program frequently.

TotalTor159 days ago (1 edit)

Apologies for once again requesting support on such an old thread, but I've encountered some more dnSpy jank that I do not know how to solve.
I am attempting to edit the RunAttack() method in EventScene.cs as part of adding a custom attack. I am editing the switch: statement which contains most of the attack IDs and adding a case: for the custom attack in AttackList.cs
In case it matters, the custom attack is a clone of "Pamper" with the only change being the CT.S_Type, I have the ID set to 2223.

The problem in dnSpy is that whenever I attempt to add the code for the new attack, or even edit the code for the existing "Pamper" attack, dnSpy completely misinterprets the code and creates code for an irrelevant attack. (Seems to be "Kiss" most of the time but I've seen other things on various attempts.)

There are no errors with the code to my knowledge, the game still runs find and can execute this strange code, but it is preventing me from making progress and would like to know why it is happening and perhaps how to fix it.

Images attached:
Code that I wish to add -

Code that gets added -

Edit: I have found a somewhat solution after reformatting the entire script that allows the code to stop hallucinating and actually save what I write. Still would like to know why this happens because the reformatting takes a lot of time.

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