Modding

[endersblade]

Anyone poked around in the files yet and figure out how to edit anything? It being a Unity game, I'm curious if it's even possible. Let me know what you've found!

[Nathan]

Unity engine games have had modding tools before, it's not impossible, can't think of any off the top of my head, other than Dusk getting SDK soonish.
Oh right, Risk of Rain 2 already has a few mods.

[endersblade]

I've opened up many of the asset files, and can't really find anything of note. Particularly looking for the Officer stats, ship stats, etc. Mostly just finding texture and model info though.

[dv]

Modding is possible. You overwrite game files. Every new version overwrites your mod and you have to start from scrratch. So it might not be worth doing.

If you cannot find those stats in resources.assets (and sharedassets*), they are probably part of a scene (monobehaviour).

[dv]

Figured out officers. They are in sharedassets0.assets. "__OfficerDatabase.asset" has the file numbers of all officers. One of those files is "empire-ace-pilot.asset":

      : 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F | 0123456789ABCDEF
000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 | ................
000010: 01 00 00 00 8C 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 | ................
000020: 65 6D 70 69 72 65 2D 61 63 65 2D 70 69 6C 6F 74 | empire-ace-pilot
000030: 10 00 00 00 65 6D 70 69 72 65 2D 61 63 65 2D 70 | ....empire-ace-p
000040: 69 6C 6F 74 02 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 74 69 65 72 | ilot........tier
000050: 3D 32 00 00 0A 00 00 00 75 6E 6C 6F 63 6B 61 62 | =2......unlockab
000060: 6C 65 00 00 00 00 00 00 8D 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 | le..............
000070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 | ................
000080: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
000090: 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 31 2E 38 30 02 00 00 00 | ........1.80....
0000A0: 37 38 00 00 02 00 00 00 35 31 00 00 06 00 00 00 | 78......51......
0000B0: 00 00 00 00 DD 07 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ....Ý...........
0000C0: 96 78 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 23 00 00 00 | .x.........A#...
0000D0: 61 63 68 69 65 76 65 6D 65 6E 74 5F 75 6E 6C 6F | achievement_unlo
0000E0: 63 6B 5F 6F 66 66 69 63 65 72 5F 65 6D 70 69 72 | ck_officer_empir
0000F0: 65 5F 32 00                                     | e_2.            

7C-7F: number of skills (3)
80-83, 84-87 and 88-8B: skills
AC-AF: ability

skills

0	Piloting,
1	Demolition,
2	Fight,
3	Hack,
4	Engineering,
5	Erudition,
6	Persuasion,
7	SharpSenses,
8	Discretion

abilities

0	none,
1	repairHull,
2	speedUpCriticalRepair,
3	weaponCritical,
4	advancedDeployment,
5	speedUpWeaponCharge,
6	boostSquadronFire,
7	boostSquadronSpeed,
8	goldenBoy,
9	laserFocus,
A	proximityDefense,
B	weaponLongLaster,
C	battleshipShielder,
D	squadronHealer

Edit: This is from the Demo version. Plan to buy the game later.

[endersblade]

Awesome find!

[dv]

I suppose "_BattleshipDatabase.asset" includes the file numbers for battleships.

[Pickysaurus]

Hi guys!

Mike from Nexus Mods here. If you guys have any luck making mods for Crying Suns, we'd love to host them. :)

Good find btw! ;)

[endersblade]

I hope it picks up a big enough following to allow it!

[Sabin]

Has anyone else started tinkering with the files yet? "dv"'s discovery of "ace" pilot data seems like he could really be on to something :D I wonder if it would be possible to create a godmode Special Officer, someone who has all 9 skills ^_^

[dv]

Originally posted by Sabin:

I wonder if it would be possible to create a godmode Special Officer, someone who has all 9 skills ^_^

Done that. Makes planetary misisons boring: No casualties and 100 % resource recovery.

[Sabin]

hm, good point :\ I guess it would make it easier to play for the subsequent runs, if you're trying to "Do it all" in regards to story events or crew unlocks.

[Sugam]

Originally posted by Sabin:

hm, good point :\ I guess it would make it easier to play for the subsequent runs, if you're trying to "Do it all" in regards to story events or crew unlocks.

not sure why you would though, you are just cheating yourself. Ill never understand that mentality of wanting to be worse.

I get wanting to create your own campaign or whatever though, its hard to make a (decent?)game with your own efforts.

[Sabin]

"that mentality" how about getting off your high-horse? You want a reason why someone would play differently to you (wow...)? Here's one; I've been playing for 15 hours and I've only unlocked THREE specialist DNAs -- and two of them are permanently on "Growing"

... so maybe some of us would actually like to be able to see more content in our games, rather than bashing our heads against a wall of RNGesus? I mean, Christ, before the latest patch we couldn't even replay sectors to see parts of the story that we missed due to the aforementioned RNGesus not being kind. So yeah, "that mentality" is something I doubt I'm alone in expressing.

[Fry McFly]

Can you help me to mod the aspect ratio?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/873940/discussions/0/1696095261003669949/