How to mod

akinata

your sound file might have a problem.

"Halfling.ObjectText.OTParseException: Unexpected token "�" at position Line=1,Char=5 in file "C:\Users\Marvin\Documents\My Games\Cosmoteer\Mods\MacHaddish.IonThing\Sound\ion.wav"."

CaptainMacHaddish

Lemme test it...

In the meanwhile, here's my code so far (mod.txt)

Walt

CaptainMacHaddish You're trying to replace the actual .wav file with a different file. It would certainly be convenient to be able to do that, but right now it's not supported. You need to modify the .txt file that references emit.wav to reference your ion.wav instead. Try this (untested, but I think should work):

{
    Action = Replace
    Replace = "<shots/ion_beam/ion_beam.txt>/BeamMediaEffects/1/Sound"
    With = "Sound/ion.wav"
}

CaptainMacHaddish

Aha! I had no idea non-text file replacement was unsupported. This makes my life so much easier now that I understand that. Thanks, Walt!

CaptainMacHaddish

Hmm... it crashed again, but this time when I load the mod.

ERROR LOG:

It seems to be saying that the item referenced in ion_beam.txt does not exist. I found the item in ion_beam.txt, but I'm not sure if the path to it is correct.

Walt

Oh I got it wrong, it should be "<shots/ion_beam/ion_beam.txt>/BeamMediaEffects/2/Sound".

CaptainMacHaddish

Ah, cause it's the second Sound item?

Walt

CaptainMacHaddish Because it's the third but you start counting at 0.

CaptainMacHaddish

Walt Actually, I'm trying this myself now from scratch on a trickier sound: the FTL drive spin sound, to learn more about how paths work in Cosmoteer. Unfortunately, I can't work out how to get at it. My code snippet looks like this

{
	Action = Replace
	Replace = "<ships/terran/ftl_drive.txt>/Components/FtlSpin/MediaEffects/1/Sound"
	With = "Sound/FTL.wav"
}

CaptainMacHaddish

The fruits of my (your) labors!

Walt

You're missing the folder for the ftl_drive.

CaptainMacHaddish

Oops. Classic programming mistake.