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We're working on a tutorial/documentation that will cover this, but for the moment, the best place to start would be to look at the Steam workshop entry titled "Example: Custom BG, CG, FX and Music"
You can download the mod by subscribing to it on the Steam workshop and then launching Idol Manager on Steam; this will download the mod (check C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\821880 for local copies of all mods you're subscribed to in the Steam workshop.
(This requires that you have the game on Steam, but you should have access to a complimentary Steam key for the game if you bought the game on itch.io; instructions for that can be found here)
Please note that (as per the readme file) only .wav files are supported at this time.
It simply means that, if you wanna add a custom sound effect to your dialogue, and you name the sound file sound.wav, for example, you have to enter the name of the file without the extension (which is the .wav part). So if you write sound.wav it won't work, it has to be just sound.
The audio file must go [mod folder]\Audio\Sounds for sound effects, or [mod folder]\Audio\Music for dialogue background music.
I'm actually not sure about that last one, but you could probably try adding an image file to [mod folder]\Textures\CG , use the Set CG function and see if it works. Let me know if it does, by the way ;)
Thank you for your advice.
When I set "Audio→Custom Sound Effect→File Name" in the dialogue message type script, the message was displayed and the file I set was played at the same time.
Also, for "Set CG", I placed a PNG file with a size of 1920x1080 in "Texture→CG" and was able to display it by using "Meta→Set CG→File name (no extension)".
However, when I place actors in "Actors Setup", the prepared image disappears as soon as it is displayed.
Therefore, it is not possible to use it instead of "Location".
Hi Bicky
Good day and thank you for your reply
I hope you could answer some silly questions from a modder wannabe .
1. About extending / adding story line in Chapter 6
I took a look into the mod editor, it seems to me that there is no options to extend the story line, seemingly I could not add a "dialogue" that should be specifically execute in CH.6. ( for example, setting the event / dialogue to be triggered after story_chapter_5_xx_xx)
Is the above statement true? if yes, would the future mod editor / the development team allows such function?
2. Editing game mechanics
As mentioned I think balancing the mental stamina / adding idol's preference might make the game more balanced.
I believe I could only edit the above by using Unity? and it would not be considered as a mod lol.
Well by the way thank you again, I hope the developers will add more content in the future.
For #1, you can do the following:
Head to IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Languages\en\JSON\Events within the folder your game was installed to. Copy dialogues.json, events.json and, optionally, characters.json. Then, go to the Editor's installation folder and paste those files into IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Mods\[mod name]\JSON\Events. That will allow you to make changes to all of the game's base dialogues and events. From there, you can add certain variables and triggers to specific dialogues in order to add new custom content that would only pop up for the player once they completed the game's main story (for example, you could create a custom dialogue, then head to one of the dialogues you have towards the end of the game's main story and add a 'Meta > Trigger Dialogue/Event' effect to one of the nodes in order to have an automatic, timed trigger for your custom content, or you could add a 'Meta > Set Variable' and come up with a custom variable such as 'playerfinishedgame = true' that could be used as a condition to trigger events and dialogues that should only happen after the player has gone through the game's main story.
And yes, in order to edit those values you'd need a .dll decompiler and some knowledge of coding. It's not impossible, I've managed to change some in-game values myself by watching a 15-minute long tutorial on Youtube and downloading DnSpy, but uploading it publicly as an installable mod wouldn't be an easy task.
Nope. I've asked the devs about it, it's an unused Emotion they just never bothered to remove from the editor. So yes, you're right, it doesn't really do anything.
Note: This is an automatic translation so it is poorly written. I apologize for that. I am using the Japanese version.
I tried to create an event using the event editor.
It's a joke event with +50 to all abilities, more fans and a very good relationship.
To create this, I wrote the event text in Notepad, copied it, and pasted it into the editor.
How about that!
I didn't specify any image, but this image was displayed by itself!
Moreover, the idol shown in the picture is completely different from the idol named in the event text.
Furthermore, the idol displayed is completely different from the idol named in the event text, and only one idol has the effect, but somehow two are displayed.
I made two choices at one point, but they didn't show up at all, and I got a different text.
And when I click on it, this image doesn't switch.
The time progresses and I can play, but this large event image is very distracting and hard to see.
The Notepad software I'm using to create the event text is setting the character encoding to "UTF-8", but what am I supposed to do?
I don't even know what's wrong with me, so I hope you can tell me.
I'm new to this and my writing is poor, but please help me!
P.S. For some reason, the amount of compensation is shown in the event text, but I didn't add that kind of negative effect in the editor.
The content of the event text itself is just an insignificant sentence about attending a TV show event, so you don't need to pay attention to it.
It can be done so manually by following the same file and folder structure as the original game. An example/template mod can be found here, you can use it as reference.
You don't understand.I mean use order to auto chang the idol's sprite in a mod event.The story character have sprite change order,but idol can't.We can use different sprite to make different pose or face,not the simple emotion.
Some have tried doing that before, but to no avail. The truth is there's no simple fold structure that'd be enough to make the game "understand" the what you're trying to do is add custom textures for staffers (it used to work the same way as idols during the early alpha/beta days, but the way those files are handled by the game has changed since). I haven't heard of a single person who's managed to achieve that what you're attempting to do (let alone adding a random pool of accessories and hairstyles to the staffers), but I'd definitely be interested in it if someone managed to pull it off.
