[Help] Custom Icons On Crafting Tab

[nailertn]

I have a custom craftable chest and for the life of me I can't get its own icon to show up on the crafting tab. In modmain.lua I do:

 

AddSimPostInit(function()   GLOBAL.Recipe("strongbox", {GLOBAL.Ingredient("boards", 5), GLOBAL.Ingredient('rope', 2), GLOBAL.Ingredient('goldnugget', 1)}, GLOBAL.RECIPETABS.TOWN, GLOBAL.TECH.SCIENCE_TWO, "treasurechest_placer",1)   GLOBAL.Recipes.strongbox.sortkey = GLOBAL.Recipes.treasurechest.sortkey + 0.1   GLOBAL.Recipes.strongbox.atlas = GLOBAL.resolvefilepath('my_assets/strongbox_icon.xml')   GLOBAL.Recipes.strongbox.image = 'strongbox.tex'end)

 

I add Asset('ATLAS', 'my_assets/strongbox_icon.xml') to both modmain.lua and strongbox.lua that is in my_mod/scripts/prefabs for good measure but it doesn't work. The game can find the file because it wouldn't even load with a random filename, and the atlas + tex file is also working because it shows up just fine on the crafting tab if I overwrite the original inventoryimages.tex and inventoryimages.xml. Can anybody please clue me in on how this should be done? Thanks!

[Heavenfall]

This is an example of a functional recipe. You don't need to place your recipes in a AddSimPostInit, you should place them straight up in the modmain.lua.

local temprecipe0 = Recipe( "summonskeleton", { Ingredient("nightmarefuel", 2),  Ingredient("papyrus", 1) }, RECIPETABS.SUMMONS, {SKELETON = 1})    temprecipe0.atlas = "images/inventoryimages/summonskeleton.xml"

note that for your atlas you may have to place it in yourmod/inventoryimages/xxx.xml as the game will look there by default if I remember correctly.

Edited August 19, 2013 by Heavenfall

[nailertn]

It worked, thank you. Though I'm not sure why. Isn't it the purpose of Asset() to tell the game where assets are located and when to load them into memory? What's the point if paths are hard coded?

[Heavenfall]

I don't know.