Custom definition

[Danetta]

Hello.

I have created a new class for my object and now I need to create a new definition inside one of XML files.

I did this:

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  public class NewThing: ThingDef
    {
        public string newdef;
    }

Then I added <newdef> to XML, but how to make it loaded from XML into C# code?

[RawCode]

please provide your xml

[Danetta]

There is nothing to see in it.

It's like a original barrel:

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  <ThingDef ParentName="BuildingBase">
    <defName>FermentingBarrel</defName>
    <label>fermenting barrel</label>
    <thingClass>Rimmod.Building_FermentingBarrel</thingClass>
    <graphicData>
      <texPath>Things/Building/Production/FermentingBarrel</texPath>
      <graphicClass>Graphic_Multi</graphicClass>
      <damageData>
        <rect>(0.05,0.1,0.9,0.9)</rect>
      </damageData>
    </graphicData>
    <minifiedDef>MinifiedFurniture</minifiedDef>
    <altitudeLayer>Building</altitudeLayer>
    <passability>PassThroughOnly</passability>
    <fillPercent>0.45</fillPercent>
    <pathCost>60</pathCost>
    <statBases>
      <WorkToBuild>600</WorkToBuild>
      <Mass>10</Mass>
      <MaxHitPoints>100</MaxHitPoints>
      <Flammability>1.0</Flammability>
    </statBases>
    <description>A barrel for fermenting raw wort into beer.</description>
    <costList>
      <Steel>10</Steel>
      <WoodLog>30</WoodLog>
    </costList>
<comps>
<li Class="CompProperties_TemperatureRuinable">
<minSafeTemperature>-1</minSafeTemperature>
<maxSafeTemperature>32</maxSafeTemperature>
<progressPerDegreePerTick>0.00001</progressPerDegreePerTick>
</li>
</comps>
    <tickerType>Rare</tickerType>
    <rotatable>true</rotatable>
    <designationCategory>Production</designationCategory>
    <constructEffect>ConstructWood</constructEffect>
    <researchPrerequisites><li>Brewing</li></researchPrerequisites>
  </ThingDef>

I want it to have an additional field like <newdef>somevalue</newdef> so I will be able to retrieve this value and use it in my C# class.

[RawCode]

instead of ThingDef you should define your own type NewThing (don't forget to put it into proper folder (NewThings) and you will have your field available.

[Danetta]

Well, I don't understand what you are trying to say. It's like creating new XML structure in different folder, but I am okay with existing strcuture. I am not creating a new object, I am adding functional to existing object. Why can't it be a child of an existing one, but with additional field?

Total lack of documentation blowing my mind. PS1 romhacking, disassembling and modding was much easier that this.

[RawCode]

use your own head, modding is part of "game play", i hope you are not asking someone to complete difficult fight or complicated puzzle for you and actually try again and again self?

[Danetta]

use your own head, modding is part of "game play", i hope you are not asking someone to complete difficult fight or complicated puzzle for you and actually try again and again self?

It's not the same thing. I have completed a lot of "complicated puzzles" via modding because, as I said, I am PS1 mod-maker.
Modding in Rimworld is opposite thing, I cфme here to create content (so others and myself might enjoy it), not to solve puzzles again (doesn't mean I don't want to learn — I do want to learn). So, yes, hindering myself from creating content simply because "I need to learn this myself instead of reading documentation" is pretty stupid.

Also, saying "figure it out by yourself" in Help-section of the forum is kinda... you know.

Again, back in the time when I did a lot of rom-hacking — those puzzles made a lot of sense, because there was almost no one who can answer my question. It was only way to do anything — solve puzzles. Even developers of some of the projects were lost and forgotten by the time I did touch their products. You should not solve puzzled with Rimworld. Well, you can if you want so, but it's like trying to explore The Great Pyramids and their assignment when all the builders sitting right infront of you.

Rimworld is not dead and it's not some old game from 1998. All the stuff going here can be easily structured and documented. It's right here and right now, it's alive. Why would you talk like that?

[skullywag]

<ThingDef>

should be

<Namespace.CustomClass>

then if you have a field in your class it will be available with the same name in xml. Hope that helps.

[Danetta]

<ThingDef>

should be

<Namespace.CustomClass>

then if you have a field in your class it will be available with the same name in xml. Hope that helps.

So, it will be mirrored automatically?

[skullywag]

yes so if you have:

float myFloat; in c# the def (matching the namespace.classname) will now accept an xml node of <myFloat>1f</myFloat>

[Danetta]

I am still misunderstooding something.

XML:

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<ThingDef ParentName="BuildingBase">
<defName>FermentingBarrel</defName>
<label>fermenting barrel</label>
<thingClass>Rimmod.Building_FermentingBarrel</thingClass>
<defaultAlcohol>Beer</defaultAlcohol>
...
</ThingDef>


C#

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namespace Rimmod
{
public class Building_FermentingBarrel : Building
    {
        string defaultAlcohol;
        ......
    }
}

Everything works except the new field and I got a console pop-up with no log.

[skullywag]

<ThingDef ParentName="BuildingBase"> should be:

<Rimmod.Building_FermentingBarrel  ParentName="BuildingBase">

and the closing tag obv. I did state this a few posts up.

[Danetta]

If it is no longer a "ThingDef", how can it be derived from "BuildingBase", which is "ThingDef"?
Apparently, my object just dissapeared after this change.

[Haplo]

You need a ThingDef variant:

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namespace Rimmod
{
  public class ThingDef_FermentingBarrel: ThingDef
    {
        public string defaultAlcohol;
    }
}


Change the XML ThingDef:

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Old: <ThingDef ParentName="BuildingBase">
New: <Rimmod.ThingDef_FermentingBarrel  ParentName="BuildingBase">


And then you can access it in your building by using this:

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baseAlcohol = (def as ThingDef_FermentingBarrel).defaultAlcohol;


This should work if I didn't do any errors (not at my computer right now)

[skullywag]

Ah yes i missed that you had building there. Needs to be ThingDef as above. Good spot Haplo.