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yetanother's External Item Descriptions

yetanother's External Item Descriptions

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An alternative to Wofsauge's External Item Descriptions that supports modded items.


Full documentation and code examples found in the guide

• Can describe Items, Pills, Cards, and Trinkets
  
• Supports multiple languages (through workshop mods)
  
• Supports images as descriptions
  
• API for other mod developers to add descriptions for their custom items
  
• Toggle cheating (Ignore Curse of the Blind, Check shop items, unidentified pills)
  
• Automatic description fallback for missing definitions (using the game's base descriptions)
  
• Local mode for showing descriptions by the item (with separate text scaling)
  
• Item highlighting
  
• Text scaling
  
• Line colour coding
  
• Custom font support
  
• Console support
  
• etc...

To make changes, use the console (` key) and the commands found below.


For Booleans, value can be true, false, flip, 1, 0, or !
For String, any text can be used
For Numbers, any real number can be used

For example, to turn Local Mode off, open the console and type

To set text Transparency to 50%

Valid options and their types:

• Alignment: Number
  
• CenterMetadata: Boolean
  
• DefaultFallback: Boolean
  
• Font: String
  
• HandleCollectibles: Boolean
  
• HandleGenerics: Boolean
  
• HandlePills: Boolean
  
• HandlePocket: Boolean
  
• HandleTrinkets: Boolean
  
• HighlightTarget: Boolean
  
• Language: String
  
• LineBreakSize: Number
  
• LineSpacing: Number
  
• LocalAlignment: Number
  
• LocalFont: String
  
• LocalMode: Boolean
  
• LocalScale: Number
  
• MaxDistance: Number
  
• PillCheat: Boolean
  
• RenderScale: Number
  
• RenderTextShadow: Boolean
  
• RenderTextShadowTransparency: Number
  
• RenderX: Number
  
• RenderY: Number
  
• ShowAdvancedInfo: Boolean
  
• ShowAlways: Boolean
  
• ShowBaseDescriptions: Boolean
  
• ShowExtraInfo: Boolean
  
• ShowIDs: Boolean
  
• ShowNames: Boolean
  
• ShowTyping: Boolean
  
• SixthSense: Boolean
  
• Transparency: Number
  
• WindowShopper: Boolean

Blacklists the currently targetted entity so the description won't show

Blacklist a specific entity. Use -1 in place of entityType, entityVariant, or entitySubType to blacklist all entities in that branch.

For example, blacklists all slot type entities.

Remove an entity from the blacklist

List all blacklist entries (entityType.entityVariant.entitySubType)


Registering a description is very simple. Here is the code for a barebones mod that adds a description to the Magic Mushroom item:


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