Guided Tour to Custom Foundations
Originally posted by devilsrope at maty. Download Decks.zip
Parts needed for a custom deck
- A custom deck script – dur
- A wall script – Probably to be hidden from catalog view.
- A wallpattern script – This part is not supported by the Scriptorium, so must be added to the basegame wallpatterns.txt.
- A floorpattern script – Same issues as the wallpattern. I didn’t use one for the white lattice deck.
- A package containing the texture for the wallpattern
- A package containing the catalog entry info for the custom deck – I put this in the Scriptorium Decks etc. folder, but it may work other places. Combining it into the texture package in downloads did not work for me.
Custom Deck Script
- catalogTextResource 50_WhiteDeck 138 – Name of the deck (what I named the file) followed by 138. This number comes from the build.package file, where 138 is the instance that lists the game’s decks/foundations/pools.
- buildTipIndices 5 5 – The build tips to be displayed. These also come from the build.package. No need to change this.
- deck 50 – The number I chose to call my deck (just like you would do with modular stairs).
- wallStyle 200 – The wall my deck displays, in this case, my custom wall. More on this below.
- floorPattern “deckDarkRedwood” – I didn’t use a custom floorpattern, so this is the default deck floor.
- supportObject 0xAA75A097 – Stuff I left alone from the script I copied (the original lattice deck).
- supportObjectUpperLevel 0x9EDE28AE – More stuff I left alone.
- catalogTextIndices 0 1 – Which lines of the catalog entry package to display for price/name/description.
Custom Wall
- wall 200 – The number I chose for my wall.
- defaultPattern “deckwhite” – The wallpattern my wall will display.
- wallThickness none – I left this alone.
- mayChangeSurface false – I left this alone.
- mayAttachObjects false – I left this alone.
- mayCutAway false – I left this alone.
- requiresFlatBottom false – I left this alone.
- requiresFlatTop true – I left this alone.
- submersible true – I left this alone.
- verticalSpan floorToFloorBasedCeiling – I left this alone.
- blocksLight false – I left this alone.
- deleteTool levelRoom – I left this alone.
- notInCatalog – I left this alone as I don’t want this wall to show in the catalog.
Wallpattern Script
- wallPattern “deckwhite” – The name I chose for my wallpattern.
- material “wall_deckRedwoodB_base” – The texture my wallpattern displays.
- notInCatalog – I left this alone.
Texture
The texture I used was recycled from the base game. I took an (as far as I know) unused, duplicate pattern of the regular, brown lattice, and recolored it. My texture package is simply a default replacement. You could go this route as well, as I think there are plenty of unused and duplicate textures in there. I have tried every which way I can think of to get a completely custom texture to display, and I can’t seem to get it to work. I ditched all the stuff I was working on in case I’ve just been staring too long and am missing something obvious (it’s not hard to reproduce these little scripts after all). I may or may not revisit them in the future. Please let me know (here, or you can PM me at PMBD) what you find, if you do try these. I probably did something silly, or maybe the game needs to think (by trickery?) that the texture is native. But yeah, I got sick of testing. Sorry to leave that part so flimsy. Hopefully it wasn’t just a typo I kept missing, or I’ll feel really dumb.
Catalog Info
The catalog info package just holds the info listed above (name/price/description). It’s simply the instance 138 of the build.package extracted and edited.
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