Updating other people's mods for personal use

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie
Well you can redo the mod or use an upgrader no one will look down on you but you need someone's premission to post the modified mod.

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie

dafeeeeeeeeeesh Where does one find a mod upgrader? I apparently used the wrong search terms when looking for such a tool, as I couldn't find one (or wasn't looking hard enough- just as likely.)

Edit: Apparently when searching I didn't use the word "Upgrader"- using it led me here, where I found the 0.14.0 version

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie
check the walt account (creator of cosmoteer) then click discussions scroll down and youll find some the latest is 14.10 i think ever since weekly updates its hard to keep mod upgraders up to date.

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie

dafeeeeeeeeeesh I found it! Thank you, I'll mess around with it.

dafeeeeeeeeeesh

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie
okay now you can go ask 70 mod makers if you can update their mod lol.

Alpha

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie Since nobody can really verify what you do with the mods for personal use, you're free to do with them whatever you want.

However, if you intend to upload your edited/updated version somewhere you should ask permission, since it's still the original creator's property.

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie

Alpha Alright! Makes sense. If I get them working, I'll throw a comment on the relevant mod thread and ping the owner or something, and hand over the updated version if they want.

Thank you guys for the assistance!

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie

Alright, so I ran the updater on two mods (Bubbet's Placeholder Mod and Redstone's Diffusion Shields), but I'm still getting the same errors as when I had tried to run them prior to updating. I've gotta be missing something- my process is:
Unzip old mod -> use the 0.14.10 mod upgrader on it -> zip the new folder -> install the new zip in Cosmoteer

logs on request in case I'm not actually forgetting a step, otherwise I'd just post it (via Pastebin)

CaptainRedstone

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie In the case of my mod, and almost certainly bubbet's, 0.14.7 broke them before 0.14.10 did, and therefore the upgrader own't fix the issues present from the 0.14.7 update. Also, I am working on a quick port/patch of my mod, so you needn't worry about that.

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie

CaptainRedstone AWESOME
Really love the shields, to me they make a lot more sense than a bunch of tiny ones.

So does that mean that one would have to run a previous Upgrader (0.14.6 -> 0.14.7 THEN -> 0.14.10), or just re-make them?

CaptainRedstone

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie Well thank you!

Unfortunately, there wasn't a mod upgrader for the 0.14.7 update. You will have to do that part manually. Theoretically it shouldn't matter if you use the 0.14.10 upgrader first, but I would upgrade it to 0.14.7 first just to be safe.

CaptainRedstone

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie https://forum.cosmoteer.net/d/9502-diffusion-shields-1-1-1-0-14-10-0-14-11 Happy Birthday (Early or late, your pick)

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie

Ok. Is the it the Changelog or something else I should be looking at for the edits I'd need to make, or is there a guide somewhere that lays it all out?

CaptainRedstone

SkyeTheTerribleBeastie Really the best way to figure it out is by reading the inevitable crash log, and figuring out what went wrong. 90% of the time it is a simple copy-paste sort of fix

Edit: BTW the only thing wrong with 0.14.7 is UIStats, which can simply be removed, or if you want to put in the small amount of effort, basically copy-paste a UIStats branch from the data files, and edit the values