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Spongie's Character Customisation
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Spongie's Character Customisation

In 2 collections by spongie
Spongie Cool Mods
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Character Customisation Addons
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Description
Adds a new menu to character creation with more customisation options
This is a framework for mods that is intended to feel as vanilla as possible.

Supported by Spongie's Character Retexture - Adds 12 new face options

Supports B41 and B42. Works in multiplayer
Should be loaded after any mods that add new body locations.
Needs to be loaded after the Tattoo Parlour mod.

Enabling retextures that use this mod requires a restart.

Features
  • Select different face textures

  • Add details to your character

  • Works on all skintones

  • Visible muscles depending on strength level. Can be changed in sandbox settings

  • Replaces chest hair with body hair for both body types. Now separate from the body texture

  • Replaces stubble. Now has a different texture for darker skintones

  • Stubble and body hair grow in-game and can be shaved. Can be changed in sandbox settings

  • Mod Support

Included
  • Base mod - Framework, doesn't add any customisation options

  • Vanilla Faces Pack - Adds 4 male and 4 female faces. Only supports the vanilla body textures

  • Details Pack - Adds 37 details including: freckles, moles, scars, burns, and missing eyes.
    Missing eyes also affect the players vision in B42 (sandbox option)

  • Details Pack HD Textures - 512x512 textures for the Details Pack.
    Do not use this with the vanilla body textures or any retextures that are 256x256 or it will cause seams.

Works in existing saves
Joining a game with a character from before the mod was added will open the character customisation window.

Stubble and chest hair will automatically be converted.

Change Customisation In-Game
There is a sandbox option to allow players to open the customisation window and change their face or details in-game.

The buttons to change your appearance and body hair are in the character info panel.

Sandbox Options
Admins are always able to change their appearance, but they can spawn an Appearance Changing Spiffo item which gives this ability to players when held.

There is also a sandbox option to hide customisation options with specific categories from normal players. Admins can spawn an Appearance Unlocking Bear item which will unhide these options when held.

Body hair growth and visible muscles can be enabled or disabled - but there is also an option where players can toggle them on their character from the customisation window.

There is also the option to set if missing eyes will affect the players vision cone. This is exclusive to B42

Mod Support
I've tried my best to make character customisation as moddable as possible - new faces and details can be easily inserted into the mod.

The body hair textures used in this mod will cut off at the underwear which will look broken when using a nude mod.

I have included nude versions of the body hair textures that you can freely use. There are 256 and 512 resolution files.

You can add any clothing item as a face or detail option as long as they use an appropriate bodylocation that won't collide with other items.

You can also add fullbody textures but they will appear above muscles.

All of the functionality for getting and setting a characters customisation is accessible which should hopefully make it easy to add support for NPC mods.

See the readme and Example.lua for an explanation of the mods features

Compatibilities
  • Makeup

  • Ellie's Tattoo Parlor

  • Any remodel mods

  • Any retexture that includes replacement textures for this mod

    You can disable muscles in sandbox settings if the retexture you are using does not support it

    Nude mods will need to replace the body hair textures to avoid it cutting off at the underwear line

  • Improved Hair Menu

  • Bigger Character Avatars - Recommended

Incompatibilities
  • Some clothing mods might cause transparency issues with customisation. This is caused by having a broken masks folder that is missing textures for bodyparts. To fix this you can copy the missing textures into the masks folder from media\textures\Body\Masks

  • Mods that access the players clothing without doing any extra checks on the items will cause weird side effects
    One way for modders to avoid this problem should be to ignore items that have "MaleBody" as the display category or to ignore items that have no display name

  • Mods that affect stubble or chest hair will probably cause errors (Ras' Body Mod, Reorganised Info Screen, etc)

  • Reorganised Info Screen

  • Dynamic Body should probably work fine if you disable visible muscles

  • Retextures that replace the chest hair textures with new skins won't be accessible because vanilla chest hair is replaced with a separate texture

Known issues
  • Having too many traits active may cause the info screen to break because of how small it is. You'll need to use Bigger Character Avatars to fix this

  • Some details are stretched on the female model, this is impossible to fix

  • Scars look too bright on darker skintones

  • No controller support. Might try and add at some point but it's too much of a nightmare to figure out

Not adding
  • Tabs for facial features like eye colours, noses, etc. It doesn't fit my vision for the mod and it would take too much effort to add now

  • Tattoos. There's already a tattoo mod

  • Body shapes are impossible to add stop asking

  • Nude options. There are already like a million mods adding nude versions of the vanilla textures

Credits
I had to take a lot of code from Improved Hair Menu by duckduckquak to make this mod work.

Studying the code from the Furry mod by Jaql and Wuffwick as well as Ra's Body Mod helped me make this mod, but I haven't used any of their code.

[ko-fi.com]


Workshop ID: 3414634809
Mod ID: SpnCharCustom
Mod ID: SpnCharCustomDetails
Mod ID: SpnCharCustomDetailsHD
Mod ID: SpnCharCustomFaces
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emopitis 5 Oct @ 10:01am 
I cant seem to find the button to change appearance ingame, I have the sandbox setting to enable it for everyone but the only things i have is to change hair with vanilla pz, and "training materials" (books + vhs tapes checklist i guess, i dont use it.)
Only thing that influences the info section that i have is Bigger Character Avatars
spongie  [author] 3 Oct @ 2:05am 
its not abandoned it still works
overwateredcactus 2 Oct @ 6:46pm 
spongie, is the character retexture mod abandoned? Are we gentiles stuck with the fugly vanilla skins now?
EastDawn 29 Sep @ 5:03pm 
@spongie Thank you so much. With your latest update, the crash when we shooting zombie point blank is no longer the problem now :steamthumbsup:
Mattatatta 28 Sep @ 5:36pm 
Following up now with a tentative bit of good news: Body Hair Growth seems to actually behave now. But I've observed a odd behavior before it started working.

It should go without saying that changing sandbox settings in-game does not apply those changes until you at least quit to menu and reload the save. This means when I loaded in with the Body Hair Growth setting already at 0, and I swapped it to 20, it was not going to start using the 20 setting straight away - I'd need to quit to main menu and load back in first.
But there appears to be another step to consider: shave off the body hair so that it can grow back 1 more time with the incorrect behavior, shave it again, and then the new settings should take complete and full effect.

Because I'm trying to have 20 days between body hair growth events, and I'm on 2 hour days, I won't be able to be confirm the growth event happening when its supposed to for a while. For now, though, I think the too-fast behavior has been fixed.
Mattatatta 28 Sep @ 4:10pm 
I am on B41, I had neglected to mention this originally.

Yesterday I set Body Hair Growth to 0 as a temporary measure after reporting the issue, and in some very short testing it seemed to work as expected and disable growth. But now body hair just grows within 2 in-game hours regardless.

I unsubbed and resubbed before playing today to make sure I was on the newest version.

I'm still playing the game normally to see if the head stubble prompt appears after the (alleged) 3 days its set to. It didn't appear in 3 hours so it might be behaving.

On that note, is the sandbox setting supposed to still say (Days) despite it being configured for hours now?
thepigeontrooper 28 Sep @ 8:07am 
Playing in B42, body hair and beard stubble growth is way too fast, I have had to shave twice or thrice a day. After updating to the mod's latest version, beard stubble growth has seemingly calmed down, but body hair still hasn't. I've been shaving every 2 hours. The kicker is I even made a point to disable body hair growth in the sandbox options by setting it to 0.
spongie  [author] 28 Sep @ 4:52am 
nevermind i found the issue and ive updated the mod
Pure Vanilla 28 Sep @ 3:49am 
I meant to specify my issues in b41, apologies.
spongie  [author] 28 Sep @ 12:50am 
The settings shouldnt matter it already multiplies the timer by 24