Can you make a video explaining modding? I'm still confused even with the doc...
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You can't make custom stats for them, but you can make portrait + name.
To make a static portrait, you can have the entire portrait in body.png
You still need to have at least one hair file and one face file, so you can just make them transparent: hair/0.png and face/0.png
You can set the name that will always be used with this portrait in params.json, it would look something like this:
{
"left": 264,
"top": 176,
"first_name": "First name here",
"last_name": "Last name"
}
I think you can overwrite some of the constants in Constants\constants.json with a file like this:
[
{
id: "MM_GROUP_NAME",
text: "Company Name"
}
]
That should work in theory. If it doesn't, then that's a bug and I'll fix it. You might also have to restart the game after enabling the mod for it to work, I'm not sure.
I'll check if I can do something about the other stuff, should be easy
You'd have to do some pretty hardcore stuff to make something like this, our built-in tools won't be enough.
You can start from this page: https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/Unity_modding_tools (I never actually worked with any of this stuff, so I can't help you much)
A few things to keep in mind:
1. Events get triggered randomly only once per playthrough
2. When you trigger an event manually, event conditions are ignored. Actor conditions still get checked though, but not if you used "Trigger Event (Same Actor)"
3. "goodcoffee == false" is only true if goodcoffee was explicitly set to false. But "goodcoffee != true" is also true when this variable doesn't exist.
4. Don't forget you can also add variables to idols. For example, you can add variable "coffee" to an idol when the first event get triggered. Then in some other event you may or may not add "goodcoffee" to the same idol. And in actor requirements of a third event you set that an actor should have "coffee" but not "!goodcoffee".
5. I think custom conditions don't actually work for events right now, only for dialogues. There is a custom condition "has_breakroom". You can test it: add a CHECK node with "Meta" -> "Custom" -> "has_breakroom"
I'm working on a small mod related update, so maybe I'll do something about it.
6. Also, if you add custom condition "high_prio" to a random dialogue, the game will prioritize this dialogue over all other events and dialogues. (meaning, when it's time to drop something on the player, the game first checks if any of the high_prio dialogues are triggerable).
Again, this only works for dialogues now, but I'll add it to events too
In the example mod, there's "ignore.json" file:
{
"Ignore_Idol_Portraits": true,
"Ignore_Files": []
}
You can add it to your mod to remove all default portraits from the game. (But keep in mind that your old save files probably won't work when this mod is enabled because of idols in your group that use default portraits)
Okay, I'll probably add more datetime conditions
For the legacy ones - you can only use them for events, not dialogues. And also they're very specific, here's the actual code for them: https://pastebin.com/4eC3d6a3
Also, this is not implemented in the editor, but you can actually check for any policy, not just dating. You'd have to look up policy IDs in policies.json and manually edit your dialogues.json or random_events.json file
And while we're at it, here are all custom conditions https://pastebin.com/kFDw6KBS
About variables, if anyone else is confused:
First of all, normal variables and idol variables are different.
Idols either have a variable, or not. You set them like "Girl1 -> Variable -> nice_variable", and remove "Girl1 -> Remove Variable -> nice_variable".
Then, to check if an idol has a variable "Variable -> nice_variable". If you need any idol without the variable, do "Variable -> !nice_variable".
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To set a normal variable, you do "Meta -> Set Variable -> nice_variable = true". (you can use any word or number with no spaces, not just true)
Then, to check it you do "Meta -> Variable -> nice_variable == true".
Variables can also have numeric values, for example "Meta -> Set Variable -> nice_variable = 5"
Then, you can do "Meta -> Variable Math -> nice_variable + 1" (only + and - work)
And then, to check the value "Meta -> Variable -> nice_variable > 5" (you can use ==, !=, > and <)
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Hello, I'm trying to add a portrait that switches images in "Dress".
But, since the position of the face is different in each image, I am having trouble setting the small-face-icon (360x360).
I challenged the following.
I prepared a PNG of 1024x3000, placed the image for small-face-icon outside the display range, and specified the position in params.json. This attempt failed.
Do you have any good ideas?
Thank you for your reply!
But, I am not good at English and it seems that the content is not conveyed correctly.
Folder and file structure is this.
Folder and file structure is this.
face\0.png
params.json
{ "left": 512, "top": 1589 }
This challenge failed.
Is it impossible after all?
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.
