I'm trying to mod and...

[Tufted_Titmouse]

I'm attempting to make a mod for a plague doctor character for DST. I have used this set of instructions to name my character

Thus far i have not replaced the placeholder sprites with my own as i am not that far in the modding process. I'm just trying to get my character and dialogue lines up and running. I run into this whenever i try to host and start my own server in DST. 

Any Advice is much appreciated!

[Leonardo Cox]

where is your ghost_esctemplate_build.zip located? It needs to be in your mod's anim folder.

[Lumina]

Did you rename the ghost template but not rename the modmain info or something ?

[Tufted_Titmouse]

According to the mod instructions i had to rename ghost_esctemplate_build.zip to ghost_Will(charactername)_build.zip

this is where ghost_Will(charactername)_build.zip is located C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Don't Starve Together\mods\Will\anim

[Leonardo Cox]

You need to find the asset table that adds that build and rename the  ghost_esctemplate_build.zip  to  ghost_Will(charactername)_build.zip.

[Lumina]

And you need to change this kind of information for each thing you rename. If you change the name of a file, you need to look in the .lua file and make the related change.

[Tufted_Titmouse]

I have gone through all .lua files i can edit and replaced esctemplate with will. It still returns the same error. 

 

[Tufted_Titmouse]

Thanks for the help thus far i think i found one possible snag. I have  rebooted to see if it works and now its stuck in the pale screen after you load your character

 

 

[Lumina]

You could find it how to find the log of your mod. If the error isn't clear, copy it here. If you don't find any error, attach your mod pls.

[Tufted_Titmouse]

Here is my mod compressed. you might have better luck than i did

 

 

Will.rar

[Lumina]

22 minutes ago, Tufted_Titmouse said:

Here is my mod compressed. you might have better luck than i did

Will.zip

 

Ok i think the issue was that the name Will was with a capital letter. I think the name should always be in lower case, except some specific situations when you need it in upper case. So i normally replace all the "Will" by "will" and got the mod working, but i could have miss some (also, didn't change all the .png, because not needed now, but change them if you plan to use them).

Also, i changed some things in the modmain because some WILL needed to be in upper case. Here again, i should have changed it well, but don't hesitate to verify.

 

Good luck.

[Tufted_Titmouse]

Thanks a lot! I'm underway trying to apply your suggestions. 

 

[Tufted_Titmouse]

Do you know specifically which Wills need to be uppercase?

[Lumina]

If i follow the template, should be :

STRINGS.CHARACTER_TITLES.esctemplate = "The Sample Character"
STRINGS.CHARACTER_NAMES.esctemplate = "Esc"
STRINGS.CHARACTER_DESCRIPTIONS.esctemplate = "*Perk 1\n*Perk 2\n*Perk 3"
STRINGS.CHARACTER_QUOTES.esctemplate = "\"Quote\""

-- Custom speech strings
STRINGS.CHARACTERS.ESCTEMPLATE = require "speech_esctemplate"

-- The character's name as appears in-game 
STRINGS.NAMES.ESCTEMPLATE = "Esc"

The two last. But you could check your template to be sure (should be the same but still better to verify)