Personal Workshop blueprint cannot update

[zaphodikus]

What is it with Blueprints and Workshop?
If I spawn in a BP and modify it, I am unable to "overwrite" the Workshop item. Why?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862842600
In the screenie, you can clearly see that it's the same ship. But I had to save it (with the same name to another file.)

[Pantera]

Have you subscribed to your own BP ?

As far as Im aware you cant overwrtite anything you are subscribed to.
If its your own just overwrite the original BP then update it on the workshop.

[zaphodikus]

Yep.
I have probably never "updated" a BP before and Empyrion is the first game I ever used Workshop with, so I was expecting a button to manually upload a file. Or that in-game the "update" button would be enabled. But it aint.

As usual I am suspecting that the configuration or the mechanism to update workshop items is in plain sight, yet hidden artfully behind the awesomely designed facade that Steam calls a User Interface.

[Pantera]

Originally posted by zaphodikus:

Yep.
I have probably never "updated" a BP before and Empyrion is the first game I ever used Workshop with, so I was expecting a button to manually upload a file. Or that in-game the "update" button would be enabled. But it aint.

To update the workshop blueprint you need to overwrite the original file then update it. It will be marked with a little person & the workshop symbol smaller to the top right of it.

like in this screenshot
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862868321

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862868367

I just uploaded something to test I can update the original but no what I have subscribed too.

The update option is in the F2 menu
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862870430

[zaphodikus]

Um, explain that bit again?
I don't see the little gear icon next to the man as in my screenshot it is absent.

The ship shown with a Gear/Spanner is the Workshop item or the one with a Man is the workshop item? I seem to have been confused by the un-intuitive icons, so even more lost now.
I only have one folder in my filesystem so how do I see 2 items in the list here?

[Pantera]

In your OP screenshot the one you have highlighted is what you are 'subscribed' too.

Try going in to the F2 menu & finding the 'Zap-Runabout' & see if any of them have the little man with the small spanner icon & the Update box is selectable.

The little man with the spanner is what you have published on the workshop.

[zaphodikus]

OK, so the large gear is the subscription, and the man is the personal file.

I think the problem is with steam sync or a bug in how it works The sync is not downloading anything at all. I unsubscribed, deleted the folder, then subscribed again. It downloads 0 bytes, but no file gets brought down. There is a bug in the steam cache logic.

If I restart Steam it will download a 65K file, but only Steam knows where that file goes, it's not in my C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Empyrion - Galactic Survival\Saves\Blueprints\76561197987977449 folder at all. So it's going into the local mystical workshop folder,
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\383120
but no farther. Bugger.

As usual, the only solution will probabyl be to delete my steam workshop folder or something equally daft. I am so lost patience now, any clues what I have done wrong?

[andreykl]

Originally posted by zaphodikus:

As usual, the only solution will probabyl be to delete my steam workshop folder or something equally daft. I am so lost patience now, any clues what I have done wrong?

I figured it out.
Check out your Saves\Blueprints folder, published blueprints have numbers next to their names.
I just 'published' changes as new private blueprint, then fixed number that appeared near blueprint to one from previous workshop-blueprint (last number in workshop item path) and then reloaded game, after that update went fine.