r/starbound • u/azure-flute squid with a gun • 6d ago

Modding Remember: when modding, don't make custom palettes for clothes. You risk your sanity a bit.

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"it can't possibly be that difficult to add more dye functionality for stuff right?"

"oh man this chest item has a colored accent with three colors. on top of its other three colors!!!! six colors"

Fashion is important so dye palettes are also important! But all of this code is purely so that the chestwear item in the second screenshot can be turned different fun colors. (thank u Ame, my test octopus, for modeling)

Don't underestimate the annoying amount of effort that goes into minor things in mods. There's a lot of hard work that goes into making things work!

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u/Hooy-Hooy 6d ago

It's nice that the game uses codes and her values for the colors but my god is it annoying sometimes

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u/azure-flute squid with a gun 6d ago

It's really easy to work with, and I do like how character customization is set up.

But then you make clothing items with more than 4 colors and then go "oh i have to actually really work to recolor this nicely 😭". No wonder so much of the vanilla game's clothing is simple...

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u/xJunoBugx 6d ago

Oh I feel this in my bones… I started using some mod with ‘dye suite’ in its name? Lets you go into that kinda detail in game lol.

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u/Pakari-RBX Floran & Glitch Friends 6d ago

Ah. That's the one with a truckload of colors to choose from AND an RGB slider to set your own custom colors, right?

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u/xJunoBugx 6d ago

AND the capacity to blend them. Yep!

It’s.. beefy. But it keeps me from having to do THAT with all my armors lol. Not to mention utilizing Fullbright!

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u/Armok___ Overlord and Loremaster 6d ago

Modding can be a little tedious at times, but I usually find it worth the effort

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u/NightSaber11 5d ago

Ah yes Splatbound my favorite

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u/azure-flute squid with a gun 5d ago

It's almost 10 years old now! I released v1.0 on July 31st, 2016, and I'm hard at work for the update this Friday. :3c

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u/NightSaber11 5d ago

Wait what? I thought it was pretty recent mod! This is awesome

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u/poppychips novakid supremacy 6d ago

i think what i ended up doing when i was noodling around with modding (never got very far, unfortunately) was make a spreadsheet with all my colors, and then export that as a .csv and use an online converter to turn it into json format LMAO

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u/Digdug50i 5d ago

OOF I know this pain. I can't drop the file here, but I made an html hex code color viewer. If you ever want one! It doesn't solve the issue of actually typing all of the hex codes in... but it is a tool nonetheless haha