Impossible Creatures

Impossible Creatures

Tellurian
Tellurian Camera on Vanilla?
Hi, I read on a different discussion that it was possible to copy over the camera.lua file from tellurian to vanilla IC, but i can't seem to find any file under such name in the tellurian data folder. Im guessing something changed in recent updates-

How can I get the tellurian camera now on the vanilla game? Where am I supposed to toss the camera.lua file once I find it?
Thanks in advance!
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Biggest ella fan 11 Jan, 2022 @ 1:46pm 
The Tellurian developers compiled most of the mod's data into a SGA file in a recent update, including the camera LUA. I'm not sure exactly why they did this; I suggested it a long time ago but they did it completely differently from the way I proposed it. I assume it's probably unrelated to my idea and just coincidental.
To get the camera LUA, you'll need to decompile the Tellurian SGA file with the ModPackager tool. It should be named telluriandata.SGA. Save the contents of it to a folder you'll remember. The beginning portions of this guide should roughly explain how to use the ModPackager tool if you need any further clarification.
As to where you want to put the file, just simply copy and paste the Tellurian camera LUA into IC/Data if you want it in Vanilla and do Insect/Data if you want it in Insect Invasion. If those Data folders don't already exist inside IC or inside Insect, just make them yourself and it'll work fine.
Keep in mind that I'm pretty sure the game will overwrite your copied camera LUA unless you go into moddev mode. To do that, go to your Steam library, go to Impossible Creatures, click on Properties, and then write in '-moddev'. This keeps the game from updating its files so that you can mod them. However, that does mean that you'll need to disable it or reinstall Tellurian manually if you want to get future Tellurian updates.
Let me know if you have any issues or any questions. I'm not a Tellurian developer, but I know how to mod.
Last edited by Biggest ella fan; 11 Jan, 2022 @ 1:51pm
the2ndSign  [developer] 11 Jan, 2022 @ 7:22pm 
You can just grab an old (pre 2.9) version of the mod from ModDB and nab the camera lua from that.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/tellurian

Also no need to use moddev since you're adding a new file and not changing an existing one.

And, for your information Nirvana, packing the mod into an archive significantly reduces filesize and has greatly reduced slowbooting time for most people. Not all of our decisions revolve around you.
Last edited by the2ndSign; 11 Jan, 2022 @ 7:28pm
Biggest ella fan 11 Jan, 2022 @ 8:45pm 
Originally posted by MemoryOfAlessa:
Also no need to use moddev since you're adding a new file and not changing an existing one.
Thanks for the correction here, my bad!
Originally posted by MemoryOfAlessa:
And, for your information Nirvana, packing the mod into an archive significantly reduces filesize and has greatly reduced slowbooting time for most people. Not all of our decisions revolve around you.
I already stated in my first post that I assumed it had nothing to do with my suggestion. Good to know the actual reason though.
thank you both!
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