I can't help with the sprite stuff but I've been working on an ek patch for the past few months and have also submitted a few separate mods as well, I turned the patch my server uses into a full EK replacement a few days after 1.0 hit but more modified to our preferences

I may be able to help with anything xml related

Welcome aboard, then.
I'm currently brainstorming with the first offered contributor, but will get to you ASAP.

Hello Commisar. First hail the god emperor secondly. If you can shed some light for me on the sprite issue I might be able to help by recreating the spites which as I understand are the images or textures that everything uses. I have not made bit art like out of cubes but I can likely create the new sprites if needed. However if there is a possibility to reuse the old sprites that should still exist I would like to go that route. Anyways reach out to me I am no real coder but I am no slouch.

Jeez, I just can't stop getting attention from BR1 these days. I'll bother you in a bit (and shoot at you in Post sometime - okay, maybe not you, but definitely Jeepster), Mars.

hey can i send you sprite for high voltage battery, mentioned in issues discussion? i made it when i was bored.

I have my own released and unreleased attempts at balance of EK, and i also agree that EK needs better sprites.
I might also help with this werid lua for barotrauma incompatibility.

I'll try to free up some time this afternoon.
I still haven't gotten to everyone from yesterday and need to get debugging done today, but having more artsy people on board will be a significant boon.

I use the old EK mods with Lua for Baro... I've not had any particular issues.

The bugs with Ramming Prow/ thrusters/ etc. are all a Barotrauma bug; Patch is made by devs but unreleased.

The black sprite issue with lighted components is an alpha blend issue, I've made a mod of my own to fix some of the most common ones. Simple as adding a small line of code to the light components, then testing to make sure they're not broken.

40mm grenades have been supposedly fixed in anothers' patch, Taj the King. Search EK Armory Awesome compatibility and see if he minds you taking them for your own.

Originally posted by Zeorik:

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Still haven't managed to repro the issues that were reported, so it could well just be users usering. Someone said adding a container tag to the offending items fixes the issue and there've been no complaints about it since that was applied (yet).

Aware for the sprite issue - it was initially poorly explained by the one person who had an explanation and it turns out it required altering the sprites anyways. So that's on hold until one of the artists or the guy who provided the full explanation provides sprites with a transparent version of the scuffed layer.

40mm grenades are half-fixed now. Or two-thirds. Large part of the problem was there was no longer a name reference for any of the ID's and the inventory icons referenced blank spots on the EK Armory reference sprite (so the sprites probably got removed at some point). The rest is probably just fixing anything that might still be wrong with the projectile definition.

Originally posted by Commisar Jon Fuklaw:

Originally posted by Zeorik:

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Still haven't managed to repro the issues that were reported, so it could well just be users usering. Someone said adding a container tag to the offending items fixes the issue and there've been no complaints about it since that was applied (yet).

Aware for the sprite issue - it was initially poorly explained by the one person who had an explanation and it turns out it required altering the sprites anyways. So that's on hold until one of the artists or the guy who provided the full explanation provides sprites with a transparent version of the scuffed layer.

40mm grenades are half-fixed now. Or two-thirds. Large part of the problem was there was no longer a name reference for any of the ID's and the inventory icons referenced blank spots on the EK Armory reference sprite (so the sprites probably got removed at some point). The rest is probably just fixing anything that might still be wrong with the projectile definition.

I sent a message in the bug reports on the sprite issue. It doesn't actually need sprite editing, as my junction boxes and whatnot all function normally without any changes to the actual sprites.

So I read.
Testing.

I could attempt other coding tasks, if you'd like. I can't guarantee I could debug NEW issues, but probably resolve any that have a vanilla counterpart (Not perfect at writing new code, but spent lots of time fixing other mods' code by cross referencing and whatnot.)

With the exception of the Grapple Hook, which seems to have relied on pre-1.0 jank to function, and certain Dockyard assemblies, which are allegedly broken due to a bug that's being patched out by PG, the remaining issues are all likely tag, target definition, or other definition errors. If you want to save me time spent on manually checking and debugging issues, it's certainly welcome.

Hmm. I could take a crack at that, since it sounds like a fairly simple search, cross reference, add tags that seem appropriate. Lemme see about getting the other thing working first...

if there are still sprite issues i would certainly be willing to try and help, i have a fair amount of experience creating sprites myself. let me know if there any ways i can assist