Idol Manager

Will this be available on Mac as well?

Yeah, if all goes well the Mac version should be up by Monday

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Hey, I just added a mac version of the editor

1. First you'll need to move IM_Data folder into your ~/Documents folder
2. Your mods will be available here: ~/Documents/IM_Data/StreamingAssets/Mods/

3. To install a mod, find the game .app -> right click -> Show Package Content
And copy your mod's folder (~/Documents/IM_Data/StreamingAssets/Mods/*mod_id*/)
into Contents/Resources/Data/StreamingAssets/Mods/

buttdress golly4 years ago

You're the best!!!

It might have been super obvious to everyone else, but when you put in the number for how many fans to add/subtract, the number is a percentage. So if you put that you want to add hardcore fans like HC=300, it adds new fans equal 300% of the total fans LOOL. Also, I noticed the color tags don't work, but I might need to post that in bugs, I think?

Bicky Desu!4 years ago (1 edit)

I have just created my first event, with a single actor, but when I play my event in-game, and Idol A is the one to show up on the description, once I pick an option, another idol (Idol B) will be the one to show up on the effects pop-up screen instead of Idol A. Any ideas on how to fix that?

buttdress golly4 years ago

I am having this issue as well

kPOP_Mod4 years ago(+1)

In the documentation it states:

"All images in accessories, face and hair folders are 1024x1500 transparent png images and should be named as 0.png, 1.png, 2.png, etc"

If we want to add more options to these folders do we just continue the sequence, or will we need to change something in the code to have the game call on those extra added textures?

My ultimate goal is to make a mod that allows for customization of your idols, but the first step is just adding more options that can be randomly generated like hair colors, accessories, etc. I would also like to possibly reverse engineer the idols body images to take out the outfits in order to create more options. I know this may be part of your ultimate plan, so if you need any extra help let me know. Especially with the artwork. Thats more my strength.

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

You can't add more layers, but you can add as many hairs, faces and accessories as you want.

One thing to keep in mind is that there's a 35% chance that an idol will be generated with no accessory, but I can make it customizable (for example if you want to use the "face" layer to render clothes, "hair" to render face and "accessory" to render hair).

kPOP_Mod4 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

That is great insight! Thank you so much for the quick response and all the helpful info!!

Would it be possible to have that 35% be variable that can change in the editor possibly? Id probably just make it 100% of the time. That way I could use Accessories folder for all of the clothing and the face and hair would stay in the same directory?

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Yeah, something like that

Bicky Desu!4 years ago (4 edits)

Another question I have regarding the Editor: I tried making a dialogue that, depending on the player's choice, would trigger that same dialogue after one week. However, the dialogue failed to trigger itself, no matter the delay I set for the trigger. Is it possible for a dialogue to trigger itself, or am I doing something wrong?

Edit: I couldn't manage to trigger an event using the Start Event parameter under the Meta target either. Copied and pasted the event's ID, followed by the number of hours to wait, but that yielded no results. Additionally, I am having issues with dialogue options that just don't work (you click on the option in-game and nothing happens), even though the option is correctly set to Choice, and has a Message child node, just like the other option (that does work). I'll compare my dialogue to Default ones and see if I can fix the error on my end.

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

My bad, it's actually days, not hours

Btw, if you loop a "parent" dialogue, it restarts the substory and the game will pick new actors every time. But if it's a "child" dialogue, then the actors will stay the same.

Not sure what the issue with options is, maybe you have some effect on the child message node that somehow breaks it?

Bicky Desu!4 years ago (6 edits)

I set the delay to 2. I tried waiting 2 days, but the trigger still didn't work.

The child nodes I'm talking about are "dead end" nodes (there are two of them, neither works). The other nodes, the ones that do work, either trigger a new dialogue, or an event (though this latter trigger isn't working for me). ~~My guess is that the game is not able to finish the dialogue when it reaches a dead end, so it just doesn't activate the child node that has no triggers.~~

Edit: I found the culprit. Both dead-end nodes that weren't working featured the 'Emotion > Sad' effect. I removed that effect from both nodes, and now they work correctly. Thank you for your help. Still no fix for the event triggering effect, though.

SerieYuki4 years ago(+2)

Would it be possible to change the hairstyle/accessories of an existing idol, either through direct player intervention/direction during the game or by the consequences of an event? I feel like this would be a very interesting component to influence and "grow" your idols, so to speak, but I understand if it's not possible or something that could potentially come at a much later time.

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Your saves are in a different folder, so you can just download the new version of the game and delete the old one.

Or you can install and update your game using the app https://itch.io/app

stlglasshole4 years ago

Thank you, I need to remember that next time.

KuiperDeveloper4 years ago (3 edits) (+1)

Idol Manager beta update 8 is now live. See the dev log for the full patch notes.

Here's a rundown of the parts of this update which pertain to modding:

You can now customize the accessory rate for idol portraits. (By default, only 65% of idol portraits have accessories.) Add "accessory_chance": 100 to the params.json of a portrait to always render the accessory layer. (This can be useful if you want to use the accessory layer for things other than the normal system, e.g. if you wanted to use the accessory layer for hair for a custom portrait, and ensure that idols always have hair.)

All json files in IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Languages\en are now moddable. Just keep the folder structure.

For example, if you want to mod the folder: IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Languages\en\JSON\Singles\genres.json

Copy it as: IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Mods\*ModID*\JSON\Singles\genres.json

You can use this to make balance changes, rename things, and so on. If you run into issues or have questions, feel free to ask here.

You can tell the game to ignore certain original files. Create ignore.json file in the root folder of your mod.
The game checks if file path contains one of the ignored words. For example, if you want to tell the game not to not load default portraits and variables.json file, you can do this by creating an ignore.json file with:

[
"IdolPortraits",
"variables"
]

Hello, dev boys.

I've started working on a fan translation for IM, and though almost everything is working as intended, some text is still displayed in English in the game. For example: when testing out my translation, I started a new game and was about to create a room. Every room name, tooltip and clickable button, every text that was supposed to be displayed in Portuguese, was correctly displayed as I translated it, except for the 'Recording Studio' room name. I checked the constants.json file, where all the translated text from the New Room popup was, and verified that the id: "AGENCY__REC_STUDIO", item was correctly translated. It is the only line of text in the file that mentions a recording studio, and all other room names have been successfully translated, so I'm just assuming that is the item that's causing this issue.

Hope you can help me with that one!

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+2)

I probably just missed it, should be fixed in the next update. Let me know if you notice any more of these

Thanks for the quick fix.

Bicky Desu!4 years ago (3 edits)

Hello there, it is me again.

Yesterday, while polishing my translation of dialogues.json, I apparently have somehow completely broken the file. Now, I don't think I made any changes to the code itself, since I was only making small tweaks to words and phrases. But somehow, after doing that, the game just won't load the translated version of the file. And even though I only made tweaks to the 'intro' and the 'too many dates' parts of the file, the 'the_dancer' dialogue seems to have been affected as well, since I cannot manage to properly run them in Portuguese anymore after making changes to the file last night, though the rest of the translation (translated text from other files) still works as intended. I'll admit, I'm at a loss here. I tried looking for changes I may have made to the game's actual code, but other than a few quote marks and/or commas I had accidentally deleted (and even without those the file still worked), it all seems to be fine. I tried deleting the modded file and readding it to the mod's folder, but that didn't work. I do have a backup of an older version of the file in case I need to use it to restore it to working order, but I thought I'd run this through you guys in order to possibly avoid issues like this in the future, or at least know how to fix them in case they happen again. Culprit has been found. Never forget to begin your values with quote marks, kids.

~~Let me know if you guys need any logs, or even the modded file itself, in order to assist me. If there's even any way you can help me, that is.~~ I'm also working on a list of certain values that cannot be translated properly (like the Recording Studio text), and will share it with you once I've gone through all, or at least most of the game's translatable files.

Lukela4 years ago

I have a question for you, is there currently a way to change the names with the mod tool? Say instead of the game generating female names for the idols I would be able to have it generate male names?

Bicky Desu!4 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

The 'variables.json' file in the Misc. folder has the list of idol names the game can generate. You can add, remove or edit the pool by modding that file. The pools are divided into three categories, though: male names, female names and surnames. You might have to work your way around those limitations to get the results you wish to have.

Lukela4 years ago (2 edits)

Okay :) Thank you very much!

Edit: Is there a way to change the setting to generate male names for the idols? I've gone through and expanded the male name options :) (sorry if there's an obvious answer to this, I haven't actually tried modding a game before xD)

Bicky Desu!4 years ago(+1)

You're welcome!

In order to change all the idols' gender to male, you'd need to fiddle a bit with the game's code, though I'm not even sure that would be possible at the moment. For now, I'm afraid the only way to get the idols to have male names is to replace all female names from the list with male ones. Devs might have answers more detailed and accurate than mine, though.

Lukela4 years ago

Oo boy xD I'd probably break the code the first few times around lol. Thank you for the advice ^6^ For now I'll create a copy of my files and changed out the female names for male ones :D

Bicky Desu!4 years ago(+1)

Don't ever forget to create backups of the modded files for every change you make. As you may have seen in my last post, I ended up breaking an entire file with thousands of lines of code because of one missing pair of quote marks. That kind of thing can mess with your head!

Lukela4 years ago

Yikes, I'll be sure to keep a couple of backups just in case :D

Bicky Desu!4 years ago (3 edits) (+1)

Hello, devs.

While working on translating the 'date_groupTalk.json' file, under the "mentor";"stop_good" section, I noticed all dialog messages are present, but one of them seems to be placed under the "mentor" category instead of the usual "dialog" category (so instead of it being "mentor";"stop_good";"dialog", it is "mentor";"stop_good";"mentor"), and the line of text that was supposed to be labeled "message" is placed under the "dialog" category ("mentor";"stop_good";"dialog" instead of "mentor";"stop_good";"message").

Now, I am no coding expert, and I don't know if this is having any effects in-game, but I noticed this chunk of categorized lines were different from the others, and thought I'd give you a heads-up just in case this is not intentional.

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Thanks! Yeah, you're correct, it should be

{
"Categories": ["mentor","stop_good","message"],
"Text": "[girl] reluctantly agrees to stop being [girl2]'s mentor."
},{
"Categories": ["mentor","stop_good","dialog"],
"Text": "Aw, okay. But we can still be friends, right?"
},{
"Categories": ["mentor","stop_good","dialog"],
"Text": "Why? Do you think I've been spending too much time with her?"
},{
"Categories": ["mentor","stop_good","dialog"],
"Text": "I'm glad I had a chance to mentor [girl2]. I'm sure she's going to do great."
},

While we're on the topic of 'date_groupTalk.json', I think I should let you know that on the ["group","clique_leader","dialog"] group of dialog lines, the very first line of dialog contains a typo I barely noticed myself. Instead of "I've got my on group of private lackeys", I believe it should be "I've got my own group of private lackeys". Just sharing before I forget about it.

Bicky Desu!4 years ago (1 edit) (+2)

A comprehensive list of issues I had while translating Idol Manager

Hello, devs! I have just finished translating all files inside the IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Languages\en folder, and created a mod with those files for my Brazilian Portuguese localization of Idol Manager. All the files’ content seem to have been correctly translated, and no changes to the game’s code seem to have been made (or at least I assume none have, since I know from experience that deleting a ‘ , ’ or a ‘ “ ‘ can have terrible consequences: the entire file will stop being recognized by the game, and the original file in English will be loaded instead). Now, that does not seem to be the case this time, though I am still facing a couple issues with untranslatable text (like the Recording Studio one I reported about a few weeks ago), words that cannot be found in the files, text formatting, among other minor problems. Of course I understand the game (and the modding tools) are still in beta, so these kinds of issues are to be expected. You might be aware of some of these, but I’ll include them in this post anyway just to be sure!

Because I’m facing some obstacles in my project that seem to be universal (whoever decides to localize Idol Manager will deal with the same issues), I decided to make this long list of bug reports and suggestions regarding localized .json files, with screenshots that will help you know exactly which portions of the game I’ll be referring to. Hopefully this list will be able to not only fix issues that might reside in my translated files, but also help you dev people and fans with future Idol Manager localizations. If need be, I can share more the translated files with you. Now, dear developer(s), I must kindly ask you to get comfortable on your seat, grab a glass of your favorite beverage and, with no further ado, ikemashou!

[Save/Load Screen] ‘Load’ button
[All tabs] Buttons at the top of the window and the tooltips you get when hovering over wach tab icon are in English. In general, clickable buttons seem to feature untranslatable text.
[Date] Date lines can be quite puzzling, no matter the topic of discussion between the player and the idol. I’ve tried talking to my idols multiple times, and it seems like it’s hit or miss. I can’t pinpoint a pattern for working and non-working lines, simply because I’m afraid something is wrong with the entire system.Some lines seem to work, some others don’t, and I’d say there’s a 50-50 chance a line will work or not. In fact, I think I’ve seen the same line come up twice - the first time, it was translated; the second, it wasn’t. I checked my date-related translated files and compared them to the original game files in English, and there is no difference between them when it comes to the code, so while it’s not impossible, it’s unlikely that these issues are being caused by changes I may have accidentally made to the game’s code. Also, it seems like trivia displayed in English during the Date talk will also be displayed in English under the ‘Extras’ tab of the Idol’s profile.
[Date > Graduation] The graduation dates the idols tell us about (e.g.: “before I turn 29”) are displayed in English, even when the rest of the dialogue line is correctly translated.
[Notifications] ‘You’ word, as in the player.
[Player’s Office] ‘Socialize’ text while dragging an idol cannot be translated.
[Tooltip menus] Upon clicking on any room, most of the options will display their original text in English .
[Singles tab] All information displayed about released singles are in English, except for ‘Profit’. Same applies to the Media tab and shows either canceled or in production.
[Policies tab] The ‘Policies’ tab is quite the unique case. Apparently, all option buttons (e.g. ‘Image’ > Orthodox, Neutral or Rebellious) are actually duplicated once translated. So my translated ‘Image’ section, instead of having three options, has six of them - three in English, three in Portuguese. Same goes for all the other Policies. It’s quite weird, honestly, and I have literally no idea how that happened, since my ‘policies.json’ file looks identical to the original one, only with the translated text. Tooltips are also untranslatable.
[Policies tab] All ‘Push’ related text is unable to be translated.
[Settings tab] All buttons display their original text in English.
[in-game Settings screen] All sliders are named ‘Background Music’, in English, and the text always displays ‘100’ regardless of the sliders’ settings. This does not happen on the Main Menu Settings screen.
[Audition screen] ‘Finish’ button.
[Idol Profile screen] ‘Bonds’ and ‘Extras’ buttons aren’t translated.
[Formatting] On several occasions, if the translated text is longer than the original text, some characters might end up being overlapped by other objects on the screen. Of course I understand why that happens, but I’d like to know if it’d be possible to make it so longer text has its font size/character spacing reduced to fit without causing visual bugs.
[Bug] When you open Idol Manager with the translation mod activated, the game will boot up in English. In order to actually change the game’s language, the player must head to the Settings screen on the Main Menu and click the checkbox labeled ‘English’. Only then the translation will be activated. It’s not game breaking, of course, but it would be neat if modders had an option to add their own checkbox to the game’s language settings with their translation mod.
[Bug] In the 'event_template.json' file, two lines ('bump1' and 'bump2') have the exact same text. Not sure if intended or not, just giving the heads up.

I hope this list helps you and whoever may be interested in translating Idol Manager in the future. Please let me know if I'm being an idiot and all those issues are being caused by my lack of coding knowledge! ❤️

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+2)

Awesome work, thanks! I'll try to fix all or most of these for the next update in ~ a week

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+2)

Hey, do you have your files set up like this? I think you put them in the mods folder and that caused some of your issues (random english text in dates, double policies, no checkbox for your language).

Also, yeah, bump1 and bump2 are intentionally the same, this way we can have events with the same text but different outcomes

Bicky Desu!4 years ago (3 edits) (+2)

I'll try to reorganize the files the way you suggested, I'll edit the post with the outcome when I'm done.

EDIT: ~~Alright, I did that and while I did get my checkbox, it cannot be ticked and it has no text next to it.~~ Copied the original 'info.json' and made a few changes regarding ID, Language Name and Author, checkbox is now working correctly. Will explore the game a little and come back with the final verdict.

EDIT 2: Cool, that seems to have fixed some of the issues with English text being displayed instead of the Portuguese text, especially during dates. That weird bug with the duplicated Policies options is gone too, as well as the policies' names and descriptions being displayed in English. The rest (tooltip menus, 'pushes' text, some isolated terms, etc.) is still the way it was before. Thank you for the help, sadambober!

I was curious if I could use the params.json file in the portraits to change the layer order?? I'd like to get the 'hair' layer to show on top of the 'accessory' layer.

I was also wondering how I can change the mini-portrait parameters, so that it consistently shows my girls torso's in the mini-photos and menu photos. With their varied poses the mini-photos and the menu portraits can sometimes be off a bit or not show the Idol's face.

Let me know if you need more information, or screenshots/examples of what I am asking. Thank youuu!! <3

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

I think you should be able to use parameters "mid_left" and "mid_top" in the params.json to get that mini portrait right - I'm using them in default portraits 6 and 7. You'll probably have to clear the cache folder to see changes.

As for accessories, can't you just move hair files into the accessory folder and vice versa?

Yes, I will do that and just switch the files instead of reordering them somehow. I just wanted the labels to match what was in the folder because I am OCD like that, and have plans to expand on the mod later and thought it would make it easier. Thank you for the "mid_left" and right advice. You're awesome.

I had another small question. Is there a way to change the artwork for Photoshoots, Advertisements, Dramas, etc? Or is there only currently the option to change the random event artwork?

Not right now, unless you want to do more hardcore modding, like using something like this https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?22675-Unity-Assets-Bundle-Extractor

It should be easy for me to make more stuff moddable though, I'll do it in the next update

Thank you!! <3

JuliusKabal4 years ago

Hello! Many thanks for the awesome game!

A question regarding the mod support: Is it possible to, aside of the fixed full body picture (using body.png and the rest full transparent), have an idol name fixed to a certain image without generating a random one? Thanks!

You can edit save files in a text editor https://itch.io/post/729513 , so you could do something like this:

1. Create a new save file right after starting the game

2. Copy idols from other save file (and make sure that everyone has a unique "id"), change their looks, names, other parameters if you want

When editing "textureAssets", you'll need to add id of your mod, like this "asset_id": "2 0 2 TestMod"

3. People then can use this save file to start the game with a premade group

JuliusKabal4 years ago(+3)

Thanks for the reply and the save editing tip!

Though I wanted to know if there was a possibility of having a "pool" of premade characters and get them randomly from auditions instead of the random names and images.

Hey sadambober, are there any plans of making some values such as rent costs, hiatus time, new game bonus multiplier and other numericals moddable?

sadamboberDeveloper4 years ago(+2)

Yeah, that should be easy, I'll see what I can do

elite54724 years ago (1 edit)

Hi there! I'm working on a story mod and I've got a question with the tool. Is "==" the only operator available for checking variables? Can I also use "!="?

Reason I ask is I want to keep track of random events that will happen multiple times until a certain choice is made and it has to be a meta variable and not an actor one. If that's not possible at this time, would it be possible for it to be added in the future?

EDIT= Also, what about the new relationship stats that were added in 9.0?