Here's what I have so far. https://imgur.com/a/zAeNpWy

looks good :D

Did everything else work well for you - or haven't you tested it ingame yet?

I haven't tested it yet, I've only made the side view

I haven't forgotten about this, I did the north view today and started on the south

take your time, I know how it is ;D - (multiply that with the ~4.5 mods I now have on here ^^)

still looking foward to it

I'm very much looking forward to the rhino armor, thanks for working on it!

You bet. Knowing that other people are waiting on it is encouraging. I'll try to finish it up today or tomorrow.

Hey @Dylan I finished the artwork and code file. Should I just send those files to you?

I know you originally conceived of this mod as a template for people to add their own, but how do you feel about the idea of changing this mod to be "Animal Gear: Vanilla", expanding the scope to eventually include all vanilla animals, and then putting it on github to make it easier for the community to contribute additional animals?

Nice :D

Well, I have never done anything on Github, but I would not be opposed to it in general.
(MIT-License or something like that)

The question is, if it does make more sense to create a new mod with that name and leave this as it is (so nothing changes for people who play with the mod currently - I always try to leave everything compatible between updates on the same mod [as much as possible])

It is true, my aim was more to make it possible rather than having to also create all the animal stuff :D but at least we now see some mods starting to use it.

If you are willing to create the new "Vanilla" mod here on the Workshop and on Github you could copy all the existing stuff for it from "Animal Gear: Basic", but I can do that too if you don't want to (at least the Workshop part ^^). (I would have to ask if it is OK for the most recent images from Onyxheart (for Github), but I think it will be ok)
(The problem with the Workshop is that only the creator of it can upload updates as far as I can tell)

Otherwise you can of course just send me a link to the files or we do it over the Rimworld Discord and I put it into "Animal Gear: Basic" + I could also add you to the Workshop-Page for that if you like and see about the Vanilla-Variant later.

As a side note why I am suggesting you to create it: I have kind of overreached my capacity with the five active mods I have on here right now ^^

Cool! My reasoning for the github upload would be to make it so that you didn't have to act as the repo yourself by accepting individual submissions from everybody. But now I wonder if it might be more hassle than it's worth since there aren't a ton of vanilla animals left that most people would *want* to give armor to, and there's also no guarantee that anyone else would even use it.

New consideration:

I wonder if it might actually be better for the popularity of this mod if I uploaded Rhino Armor as its own thing after all. Updating this one wouldn't cause it to show up on the "recent" tab in the workshop, but a new mod would. Also, the more mods that require this one, the better, right?

Sounds good! ^^ and yes the recent-tab makes a lot of sense (the initial visits there can be way higher than the amount of people that normally find the mods)

There is actually nothing bad about having it in a seperate mod I can think of (just that you have to subscribe to both, but also the bonus that you can just subscribe to the one's you are interested in soo.. [+ collections of mods are also possible])

Send me the link to the Workshop-page once you have it and I put a link on the Animal Gear pages.

Will do. Btw the armor isn't showing up under the animal apparel tab on any of the menus, how do I fix that?

Do you mean in the outfit-menu?

As long as it has the "<li>Animal</li>" tag exactly like this under the "<tags>" it should get recognized by the "Animal Gear: Base"-patch


otherwise it is hard to tell without seeing the XML