spriter Invisible items displayed on the meat rack

[DarkM]

Hello, this is my first time working with Spriter. When I try to place my item on the meat rack, it becomes invisible, and even after it dries, it remains invisible even when I try to generate dried meat that's already in the game. I've also tried adding an existing file to the code, but that didn't work either. Any clues or help on how to solve this problem would be greatly appreciated.

[Bumber64]

You could look at my leaf jerky mod, although that's more to modify an existing prefab (which happened to already have an unused animation).

The important part should be something like this:

local assets =
{
    Asset("ANIM", "anim/rack_large_bird_meat.zip"),
}

and this:

inst.components.dryable:SetBuildFile("rack_large_bird_meat")
inst.components.dryable:SetDriedBuildFile("your_jerky_build_here")

in your prefab.

I'm also reasonably certain you don't need a separate anim file for the rack version? It's usually in with the same file that makes the raw meat visible when dropped on the ground.

Edited Saturday at 02:05 AM by Bumber64

[DarkM]

Thank you! I know your mod, I think it's very well done. 

I also think that two separate files aren't necessary too, but I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet. Is it just a matter of putting both images in the same folder before creating the project?

Like: exported > large_bird_meat > large_bird_meat > then inside that folder, I put the default images and the one that will be displayed on the drying rack? Or does the first folder need a separate folder for each image?

[Bumber64]

Like this (imagining it's raw meat):

And the prefab has:

inst.AnimState:SetBank("plantmeat_dried")
inst.AnimState:SetBuild("plantmeat_dried")
inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle_dried_plant")
inst.scrapbook_anim = "idle_dried_plant"

I'm not entirely sure how it knows to use "dried_plant" for the rack animation. Perhaps it defaults to the first animation?

Edited Saturday at 10:18 PM by Bumber64

[DarkM]

I imagine there's still a lot of room for improvement, but the important thing is that I learned how to do it. Thank you very much for your help @Bumber64 ❤️
I'll leave some files here, maybe they'll help someone else too.
 

local assets = {
	Asset("ANIM", "anim/large_bird_meat.zip"),
}

local function fn()
	local inst = CreateEntity()

	inst.entity:AddTransform()
	inst.entity:AddAnimState()
	inst.entity:AddNetwork()

	MakeInventoryPhysics(inst)

	inst.AnimState:SetBank("large_bird_meat")
    inst.AnimState:SetBuild("large_bird_meat")
    inst.AnimState:PlayAnimation("idle")

    MakeInventoryFloatable(inst)

    inst:AddTag("dryable")

    inst.entity:SetPristine()

    if not TheWorld.ismastersim then
        return inst
    end

    inst:AddComponent("inspectable")
    inst:AddComponent("inventoryitem")
    inst.components.inventoryitem.atlasname = "images/inventoryimages/large_bird_meat.xml"
    inst.components.inventoryitem.imagename = "large_bird_meat"

    inst:AddComponent("dryable")
    inst.components.dryable:SetProduct("meat_dried")
    inst.components.dryable:SetDryTime(TUNING.DRY_FAST)
    inst.components.dryable:SetBuildFile("large_bird_meat")
    inst.components.dryable:SetDriedBuildFile("meat_rack_food")

    MakeHauntableLaunch(inst)
    return inst
end

return Prefab("common/inventory/large_bird_meat", fn, assets)