How to install mods

[KasterisK (Athriq)]

@Evolution4Weak

also made some ui edits if you are interested:

The left/right margin of the top panel with the item lists could have some more space. Maybe add a bit more spacing between those bottom buttons and the middle panel, Lato font would also probably look nice for the mod description. Not sure about the usefulness of the move up/down button at the center. Other than that, that UI layout looks great

[hhyyrylainen]

I think the bigger icon may become problematic as big images can’t scale down nicely, so each mod would need to specify two icons, one for the lists, and one for the image showing.
Also I’d place the reordering buttons to the right of the loaded mod list, because there is no need to reorder the available mods list.

[Evolution4Weak]

@hhyyrylainen

How do the scripts from them get executed? Did you have to overwrite an existing scene or something to get the code to load?

currently yeah they need overwrite a scene first, they don’t auto execute right now

@hhyyrylainen

I think the bigger icon may become problematic as big images can’t scale down nicely, so each mod would need to specify two icons, one for the lists, and one for the image showing.

The icon is supposed be for preview images ,just a gallery of images that mods can show if they want to i just added it since i had it in my own mod loader and i just copied it from it, the icon is still small shown next to the mod name,

@hhyyrylainen

Also I’d place the reordering buttons to the right of the loaded mod list, because there is no need to reorder the available mods list.

i think it be useful to be able to reorder mods in both lists as i personally like to organize everything before and then just enable all

@KasterisK

The left/right margin of the top panel with the item lists could have some more space. Maybe add a bit more spacing between those bottom buttons and the middle panel, Lato font would also probably look nice for the mod description. Not sure about the usefulness of the move up/down button at the center. Other than that, that UI layout looks great

better?

[hhyyrylainen]

@Evolution4Weak

i think it be useful to be able to reorder mods in both lists as i personally like to organize everything before and then just enable all

That needs separate storage. I very much would not like to keep extra state just to have inactive mods order list. At least in my mind that is something I don’t want in Settings.

@Evolution4Weak

currently yeah they need overwrite a scene first, they don’t auto execute right now

So there is a need to support in the mod loader an autoload system that allows a tscn defined in a mod to be automatically instanced and attached to the root node.

[blackjacksike (Weird FNAF cat)]

What’s that language?

[Evolution4Weak]

Latin, it’s just standard lorem ipsum, basically filler text for testing

[TwilightWings21 (Death From the Shadows)]

You could have just… actually deleted it. Then it wouldn’t have needed to meet the twenty characters limit.

[C009]

if ill delete post you should do the same so you don’t look like talking to noone

[hhyyrylainen]

Delete your posts if you actually want them deleted. I deleted the post immediately.

[hhyyrylainen]

I’ll note in this thread that mod authors should distribute mods as .zip files that contain a folder with the required mod contents in it. To install such a mod all that’s needed to be done is to unzip the folder from the .zip file to the Thrive mods folder (accessible with a button in the mod manager in the game).

For reference I talked about this here:

Texture Pack i made

You can’t expect mod users to know how to make mods. The wiki page actually talks about how to distribute your mod, and the easiest way for other people is for you to zip the entire mod’s folder including the JSON data file. That way they can unzip the folder to their mods folder to get your mod. There’s plans to automate these steps: However as with a ton of missing features / issues, I can’t promise when those get done.