Assistance Needed: New Mod in Progress, With

[KorytheMaril]

As of very recent, I had started on creating a mod for a character I had made when I was in 7th grade (who I still create stories for even today, 2 years later), but I seem to have run into slight complications. I had gotten Don't Starve relatively recently, and started work on the mod shortly after, hand drawing the graphics for authenticity, and even coming up with . However, I am currently stuck on how to program it, even after doing research and asking friends for assistance. During my research, I had downloaded the blank character template and Matt's tools, but this had only confused me further. My ignorance aside, I had decided to try asking one of the creators of the Satori mod, Shia, and she had told me to try creating a discussion on the forum (hence this discussion. Sorry if I sounded rude...)

 

I plan on making a video that goes further into my character's development, which I will put in this discussion upon completion. However, since the video isn't posted yet, I would like to go into specifics on my character. His name is Dr. Lip-lash, and is essentially a parody of the Emperor from Star Wars. His goal in life is to conquer every planet in the known universe to follow in the footsteps of his father, who had almost achieved this goal. However, unlike his father, Dr. Lip-lash has yet to actually conquer a single planet, despite his numerous attempts. Not only is he essentially a failure, he is also extremely poor, barely able to afford his own Starship's (S.S. Lash-Blast) payments, and can't really properly pay his soldiers. As such, his soldiers constantly complain about their lack of payment, but are forced to stay with him. Despite this, one of his soldiers does manage to escape and formed his own army, but I'll go into further detail about this in the future video. Surprisingly, despite his constant failure, Dr. Lip-lash is incredibly confident and has a semi-large ego. Even though most of the soldiers say other wise, Lip-lash actually does care for his soldiers, working a side-job selling his own brand of toilet cakes just to be able to give some form of payment to his soldiers, albeit, he can never really pay all of them. This is just a brief introduction to my character.

 

I had two possible ideas for abilities for this character mod:

1.) In exchange for 10 gold, Lip-lash can actually spawn soldiers to assist him. Being poor, he's used to going long periods without eating. Despite these interesting traits, he has a naturally small sanity rate, given his personality at times.

2.) The more sanity he loses, the stronger he gets. If sanity reaches zero, he would be able to shoot lightning from his hands, albeit, it doesn't really travel far. The only similarities between the two ideas is that he can go an amazingly long time without food, as he's mostly accustomed to it.

 

Thank you so much for reading this, and I apologize if I ate up anybody's time...

[emerphish]

*COUGH*wrong area*COUGH*

 

other than that I am even more clueless than you. sorry for being "rude"

Edited April 10, 2014 by emerphish

[KorytheMaril]

Crap! Everything's already starting out quite horribly, and I just created the post today! Would it be too late to switch over to the correct forum and simply copy and paste...? Gosh darn it, I knew my IQ level was probably small, but I didn't think it'd ever get this bad!

[imsomony]

Don't worry man, people make mistakes =) This still shows up in the General Discussion area, but it looks like the devs moved it "officially" over to the Mods forum.

 

I'm still a noob in programming (mainly because I can't ever settle on learning one language at a time, so I end up biting off way more than I can chew)... but I'll give it a go! Where specifically are you stuck?

 

Is it with initial setup, such as folders or naming conventions or calling functions in-and-out of files? Do you have that down, but you're still struggling to get the specific cause-and-effect of #1 and #2 to actually happen in-game? Are you able to play your mod, but are getting errors/crashes with one of those variables or another? Are you looking for ideas to accentuate/embellish your character and/or his lore?

[JackSlender]

So where I would start off you should (from the sound of things) start with this tutorial:

http://forums.kleientertainment.com/topic/27341-tutorial-the-artists-guide-to-characteritem-modding/

That should guide you through basic character creation.  Now for the special traits, both of them are do-able.  The hunger part is especially easy.  May I suggest, however, that he starts with an item to summon members of his army, and when he uses it it consumes gold.  This would be easier than building the summoning function into the character itself.