Issues with Custom Character Mods

[Veiledbyamask]

Hello everyone!

I'm very very new to modding like... anything ever, so I'm sorry in advance for any dumb questions I might ask--

But I've been trying to make custom characters for me and my friends, using the ESC sample character here and following this tutorial here!

Now there is two main issues I've run into.

1) The character doesn't show up/is invisible. I figured though that that would fix itself once I actually get past writing/editing the script and draw my own art assets, freshly compiling those. The mod still works fine, I'm just invisible!

but the second and more important issue is

2) While each character I make works fine on their own/if that is the only ESC sample character-based mod I have enabled, the moment I try to enable more than one custom character made with that, the game crashes as soon as it tries to load into the world. (That also goes for when I try to enable the original ESC sample character alongside any custom characters I made based on it).
I don't get any error messages during or after the crash, and the game just tells me upon restarting the game, that it disabled all mods since that was what caused it to have trouble earlier - but no other indicators of what went wrong.

I've made sure to follow the tutorial and rename all file names and the whole ESCTEMPLATE/esctemplate within the files themselves - and as said, when used on their own, each of the mods seems to work just fine (minus the fact that they're invisible).

If anyone has advise for me for this, I'd be super grateful! Thanks in advance for any help!

[Goregonzola]

1) Is it possible that you replaced the esctemplate files with images with different ratios? The most common issue about invisible characters is this. If you didn't, create a backup folder of your assets and try replacing the sample assets again, one by one. If the problem still occurs for some reason, than it requires a more situational solution.

2) This crash mainly happens if the game finds different stuffs with the same prefab names. Are you really-really sure you didn't missed anything? 

You can also check the error message about the crash. I've wrote about it in my guide:

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Good thing the game can practically tell you what went wrong. If you experience any of the previous problems, head into Computer/Documents/Klei/DoNotStarveTogether and check the client_log file. It should note every single step you made since you launched the game. Scroll down until you can find your buggy part.

If you can’t the bug report there, head deeper into Computer/Documents/Klei/DoNotStarveTogether/169275625, sort the folders here by date, open the newest, go into Master and open server_log. Act the same, scroll down until you find the buggy part. Try to debug the part that’s messy.

 

 

[Veiledbyamask]

17 hours ago, C_Thun said:

1) Is it possible that you replaced the esctemplate files with images with different ratios? The most common issue about invisible characters is this. If you didn't, create a backup folder of your assets and try replacing the sample assets again, one by one. If the problem still occurs for some reason, than it requires a more situational solution.

2) This crash mainly happens if the game finds different stuffs with the same prefab names. Are you really-really sure you didn't missed anything? 

You can also check the error message about the crash. I've wrote about it in my guide:

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Good thing the game can practically tell you what went wrong. If you experience any of the previous problems, head into Computer/Documents/Klei/DoNotStarveTogether and check the client_log file. It should note every single step you made since you launched the game. Scroll down until you can find your buggy part.

If you can’t the bug report there, head deeper into Computer/Documents/Klei/DoNotStarveTogether/169275625, sort the folders here by date, open the newest, go into Master and open server_log. Act the same, scroll down until you find the buggy part. Try to debug the part that’s messy.

 

 

Oh thank you for your reply! I haven't replaced any of the image files from the esctemplate files yet - I figured I would be doing that once I have all the script done (since doing the art for ~6 characters would be what is gonna take me the longest haha), so while every mention of esctemplate/ESCTEMPLATE has been replaced with the respective character names, the picture assets are the same still (and still named the same, e.g. "arm_upper-0", "arm_upper-1" and so on). Would that be the reason for the mods not working together currently? Because I am very sure I have replaced the esctemplate with the names ahaha.

I actually found your guide yesterday and let me just say again, thank you so much for that! It definitely is making things a lot easier for a modding noob like myself.

I didn't know about how to access the log until then, and after checking that now, the main issue I spot seems to be several 'orphaned unnamed resources' (see attached screenshot). Would that be the reason?

Thank you so much for your tips and help already aaaa

[Goregonzola]

Darn, it's a tricky situation then. Could you upload the whole log file here?

The name of the body parts shouldn't be renamed. Everything got renamed in the images folder as well? 

[Veiledbyamask]

Of course! As said, I am an utter and complete noob so it's fully possible I'm overlooking something obvious--
Thank you again for the help, I appreciate it!

Everything in the images folder has been renamed as well for all of the characters, yes!

client_log.txt