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Party System

Not having friends that play PZ? Need to check on your chicken coop before it gets dark while doing a long loot trip? Need a getaway driver?

This mod allows you to play up to 8 characters by yourself. By open the radial menu (default to TAB, and is rebindable), you can choose to add new members to your party, to switch to their perspective and play as them!

This comes with these constraints:
- New member will be spawned next to your leader (the character you created in the main menu) and you can only add new member when controlling the leader
- When a member dies, they cannot be revived and is removed from the party
- When the leader dies, you can create a new character as the leader, and your party would be kept the same
- When someone in the party sleeps, their fatigue status will be set for all other party members when they wake up, since sleeping in this game is weird and also UI based, not all player based

Due to vehicle registering and rendering differently than player, I have to enforce this so no one can crash their game. If there's at least one out of all local members (members within the currently rendered cell, about 300x300 from the selected member) inside a vehicle, you have to make sure they exit the vehicle before being able to switch to members that are outside of the currently rendered cell. If you , however, walk away from members inside a vehicle until they are outside of render range, open the party radial menu will force kick them out of the vehicle.

tl;dr: if you wanna switch to a far away member, make sure all the closeby members (usually the one that you can select) are not in a vehicle.

When unfocused member are close, they will:

• Attempt to drink / eat when thirsty / hungry, only when drink (only select few liquid container for now) / food is in inventory
  
• Read existing books, newspaper and magazine when bored. Note that for B42, the reading system is reworked. The AI may reread an already read book and yield no benefit, other than immersion

• You can ask a member to follow you by right click on top of them and choose the "Ask ... to follow" option
  
• You can ask a member to stop follow you by right click on top of them and choose the "Ask ... to stop follow" option

When switching to a member that is far away, there's a 10% a random event is trigger on that member. Random events currently available are:

• Eat when hungry, even if no food is in the inventory prior to switching
  
• Drink when thirsty, even if no drink is in the inventory prior to switching

More events will be added in the future!

You can access the party radial menu by selecting the new "Party" option in your "Select" radial menu. Once the menu pops up, use right thumbstick to highlight slice and confirm the slice with "Right Bumper"

Note that the character creation does not work with controller yet, it's currently still cooking!

- On Build 42, the characters that isn't the currently controlled one have their model disappeared. This is due to the new lighting change and for some reason IndieStone specifically told the renderer not to render another player object (FBORenderCell @ line 3527). Thanks Naneek for the FBO cell rendering discovery! There is now a temporary fix for this, but you need to patch your game by overwriting some game files, instruction is provided here.

Why is the limit 8?
- I ran out of distinguishable color.

Are non-leader members their separate entities, with their own moodles and stats?
- Yep. Every character has their own moodles and stats, just like in multiplayer. The only thing that they share right now is level of exhaustion, since there's the limit in the base game where each player can only sleep once every certain amount of time. It's a pain in the neck to get them all to sleep though, I wouldn't think anyone would like to tuck them all to sleep at the same time, so it works out this way.

Does this work with B41 / B42?
- Yes, the mod works with both B41 and B42

Is this multiplayer compatible?
- I haven't tested it, but I would say no, since a lot of things are hardcoded for 1 player. Try it if you want, but you have been warned.

What mods are compatible?
- Mods that modifies character such as traits, stats, etc. are most likely not compatible (unless they have a module for integration). You can always try and let me know which one is and which one isn't. If you found it incompatible, why not just ask if they can integrate? It's easy, I promise! Just send them this thread

Why are some members disabled on the radial menu? Why can't I select them?
- Check the Vehicle constraints section above!

You can learn more on how to integrate your mod into this system thru this thread

Massive thanks to:
- nolanritchie for his work on Superb Survivor, a lot of discoveries helped making this mod
- Naneek for the FBO cell rendering discovery
- Jianghao for CN translation
- JimmyCC for KO translation

And all early subscribers for testing out and reporting issues!

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Workshop ID: 3395761583
Mod ID: RiskyPartySystem