Updated to v1.0.1:

• Unpacking your BIG.FILE is no longer necessary (but still supported)!

Next on my list is more turret types :)

Updated to v1.0.2:

• Added flamethrower turret
  
• Added dirt blaster turret (great for obstructing pesky propellers and turrets)
  
• Pulled IO operations out into an external library
  
• Now even easier install process!

The library (BigFileIO) is available here[forum.snowedin.ca] for those interested, but is also zipped into the mod for ease of use.

Nice :)

Updated to v1.1:

• Ported over to my new mod loader[forum.snowedin.ca] (Included in download)
  
• Even easier install process, much faster too!

Hey Paradox, I downloaded your mod and I'm gonna have a go at trying out your turrets, looking forward to it. Was wondering if you thought of making the hydrogen blaster into a turret at any point? as a sort of mock jet propulsion system, I guess.

Hey thanks for the idea! I'll add that to the list.
Let me know how it goes :)

Ummm, excuse me, can you explain how to uninstall or add another mod?
here's my story (sorry for bad english):
I'm interested in messing with graphics so for start I make "test" folder in "Windforge/data/mods", with "Textures\Characters\MaleAvatar\Reference\" path in in it, and put differently coloured waist.dds inside. I start game, UnlockDevMode, pressed F12, in appeared cmd.exe window I see only "Found Big.file, reading..., found 15260 files". I have no idea how to make it do the same thing that it do when I was installing your mod :(
have no idea how to run windforge with unpacked big.file either: had a screen without menu

hmm. First off, if you've installed my mod, it has edited BIG.FILE a little, so you should unpack the backup it should have made (BIG.FILE.OLD) if that's what you want.

However, my goal with the BigFileIO library I wrote and included with my mod was to make unpacking BIG.FILE totally unnecessary unless you need the files for reference.

I didn't actually think to allow for the installing of texture files with my modloader. For now, you'll have to do so via ConsoleCommands.lua, although my library will still streamline it quite a bit. (I'll be working on this in the future :) )

All you should need to do install that waist.dds texture if you still have BigFileIO.lua in Data/Scripts is something like this:


Hope this helped, let me know if you have any other questions :)

Thank you! When I was trapped and wake up in the cell, without anything I just said to myself "What the hell??? Do I really doomed to play so cool game with so unpolished character's sprites?" so I dig into files and after several hours of frustration, asks for your help.
After that I just unpack everything and finally begin: shorts. Accidentally I found that there is a lot of really great characters graphic inside, unfortunately for some reason it was combined to in-game animation not in the best way. So easy-walk for shorts was reversed to crusade for nice look for all humans.
Since I'm absolutely not coder, and have no idea how to fix all that xmls, I just adjusting textures, rotate them, resize them, experimenting with mask (even picture on loading screen pointing to mask mistake with armors :/). That's a long way ahead. Probably I will try to implement some way to install this without all-unpacking only at finish. (sorry for my bad english again and ever)
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=378072594
it wouldn't be perfect, some issues I can't beat (like this sleeve on picture) and there could be some stuff that I will change just because I found it appropriate (like that revolver on the pic, or, for example, reduced size of jackhammer), and probably not everyone will like it

in addition, I'm curious, is there any way to make repair use money? (or materials, infinite free repairs just ummm... for now I forced to intentionally not repair ship until battle is over, or before returning to port. It's just feels too cheaty )

Wow that's a great start on those textures! Can't wait to see how this looks when you're done!

Originally posted by Shirsh:

Probably I will try to implement some way to install this without all-unpacking only at finish. (sorry for my bad english again and ever)

I'd love to help with that installer, I already have a couple ideas that should make my modloader load textures and non-lua files with ease. Working on that as I type :)

Originally posted by Shirsh:

in addition, I'm curious, is there any way to make repair use money? (or materials, infinite free repairs just ummm... for now I forced to intentionally not repair ship until battle is over, or before returning to port. It's just feels too cheaty )

Sadly no, the engine is a bit limiting in what can and cannot be changed right now. I don't believe that to be possible.

Edit:

Done! All you need to do in any environment running my modloader, is to just drop your files in Windforge/Data/Mods/Your_Mod/!Overwrite/ with the path they should have in Data, and my modloader will copy them over and make sure the game finds them.

Updated Elemental Turrets to v1.1.1:

• Updates to library files

Edit2: Example to clarify: waist.dds would go under Data/Mods/Your_Mod_Name_Here/!Overwrite/Textures/Characters/MaleAvatar/Reference/waist.dds

I decide to do environment textures adjusting mod first (for example: depth - shadows/lights from included in big.file but probably not implemented .dds, brightness/contrasts, hue/saturation and very little of repainting) and believe that I will finish it in week: for couple of days I'm done with Engelstrom, "wild layer's" blocks and most buildings blocks almost ready, some creatures (shaug and scarab) done, ship's stuff ready too (cities take most time - too many small separate pieces need to be changed for more balanced picture)
characters/clothes takes significally more time and could takes month or more so I do them next

sadly, as far as I can see, there are different faces and races for generic npcs in texture folder, for soc and bandits and others, but they choose to spawn with similiar default face (or with red beard) >_<

Originally posted by ParadoxGate:

Done! All you need to do in any environment running my modloader, is to just drop your files in Windforge/Data/Mods/Your_Mod/!Overwrite/ with the path they should have in Data, and my modloader will copy them over and make sure the game finds them.

Example to clarify: waist.dds would go under Data/Mods/Your_Mod_Name_Here/!Overwrite/Textures/Characters/MaleAvatar/Reference/waist.dds

for unknown reason I still cannot force it to work (I was trying different ways, game runs as administrator, was trying different way with foldernames etc), can you check please, what can be a problem?
There is a sample (merchant girl from pic, changed king and new icon/model for grenades and money): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4g2vwkLZCIwNGtrcTZiZXF6VE0/view?usp=sharing

Are you sure you have the updated version of my modloader installed? I tested it and I can see your modified king textures in game with no modification to your mod.

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=382533517

In case I wasn't clear: the game needs launched twice after making any changes, as the installer runs after the game has already loaded some (if not all) of its files.

Excuse me to ask again, but can you create pair of bigger "BaseMod.lua" examples, please? for cases like:

1) I need to change primary color of this LeatherIronBanditPlateArmour to "Skin" (for hands and naked parts of torso) in CraftingItems.lua

2) I need to add new item, how to properly add new full table, like for armor from 1st?
3) changing some npc inventory (like add something in ...\Data\Objects\Characters\NPC\Quest\TutorialKarin.lua) or maybe it's better to fully overwrite it?

I ask about it because I found that huge part of heads, hairs etc simply doesn't exist in CraftingItems.lua and want to add it
meanwhile, characters textures adjusments go slow
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=383503429
also, if I want to add new textures folder, which would be reffered from CraftingItems, will it works only with unpacked BigFile, or it can works from "!Overwrite"? or maybe it can works just when folder would be in \Data\Textures\Characters\...
Wait!!! It will work from any place, if will be reffered right, right?

Originally posted by Shirsh:

Excuse me to ask again, but can you create pair of bigger "BaseMod.lua" examples, please? for cases like:

I wrote up an example[pastebin.com], hopefully it's understandable and not overly commented.

Originally posted by Shirsh:

I ask about it because I found that huge part of heads, hairs etc simply doesn't exist in CraftingItems.lua and want to add it
meanwhile, characters textures adjusments go slow
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=383503429

Looks good!

Originally posted by Shirsh:

also, if I want to add new textures folder, which would be reffered from CraftingItems, will it works only with unpacked BigFile, or it can works from "!Overwrite"? or maybe it can works just when folder would be in \Data\Textures\Characters\...
Wait!!! It will work from any place, if will be reffered right, right?

Absolutely right! :)

Also, I'll include my port of Era's Mod to my modloader (from over on gog.com, made with permission, of course) for a few more examples:
Era's Mod[pastebin.com]
It's not a complete port tho, I did skip a few of the more tedious things...