making a custom character mod and dont understand why it wont work?

[nt3000s]

its not even finished yet is the thing in regards to sprites, dialogue, etc. i just want to test it ingame to see if it works in the first place, but when i try to get in a world with it (with the mod enabled) it wont work. i am way way way too new to this to know what specifically is the cause of the errors, i really need someone to help me i dont even know how to make it compile. the autocompiler immediately closes when i try to open it, and when i open the mod ingame the files dont compile there either? i have the folder for the mod in my downloads, should it be somewhere else? where? what am i doing wrong? i dont even know what to look up to get it working

attached if anyone would be kind enough to see whats up themselves

writermodunfinished.zip

[Chesed]

8 hours ago, nt3000s said:

i have the folder for the mod in my downloads, should it be somewhere else? where?

Okay, I've spent an hour troubleshooting your mod and I've found a lot of things I needed to fix, so this is going to be a big post. Sorry!

The folder that you have named "extendedsamplecharacter-dontstarvetogether-master" needs to be in "Steam\steamapps\common\Don't Starve Together\mods", or the autocompiler won't work and the game won't find it..

I couldn't get your character to compile at first because several folders (such as the "hair" and the "tail" folder) have been deleted. It's best not to delete these if you're new at modding. The autocompiler can't run if folders or any of the files in them are missing. Make the sprites transparent instead of deleting them. (This is what the folder "esctemplate_cleared" is for, but that folder didn't have the missing sprites either.)

I also tried to run your mod and it crashes. It seems like when you were replacing "esctemplate"/"ESCTEMPLATE" with "writer"/"WRITER", you didn't enable case sensitivity, so your code says "WRITER" when it should say "writer" in several places. I have gone through and manually fixed them for you.

Your mod doesn't crash now, but your character sprites are positioned incorrectly in-game. I can see that you've edited the dimensions of your sprites' canvases as you've been working on them. You can't do this unless you change the image dimensions in "writer.scml" to match the new canvas size. Either put the canvases back to their original size, or open writer.scml in a program like Notepad++ and change the listed width and height. I'm not going to fix this for you because 1. I don't have the original files 2. your sprites aren't finished yet.

Because I had to go in and fix this manually in so many different files, I think it would be easier if I just send you the mod with the character already compiled and functioning. Unpack this and put "extendedsamplecharacter-dontstarvetogether-master" in your mods folder.

writer_fixed_version.zip

I hope this covers everything.

Edited November 4, 2024 by Chesed

[nt3000s]

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