Posted a while back on an apparently dead thread, so wondering if anyone here can help me with an XML Patch noob question:
Is there a better way to combine two different changes to the same Def without two separate PatchReplace operations? Here is what works, but is there a better way to do this? (I tried just not pointing to /color or /colorTwo in the xpath, but it never worked.)
<Patch>
<Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
<xpath>/Defs/ThingDef[defName="MineableUranium"]/graphicData/color</xpath>
<value>
<color>(255,249,105)</color>
</value>
</Operation>
<Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
<xpath>/Defs/ThingDef[defName="MineableUranium"]/graphicData/colorTwo</xpath>
<value>
<colorTwo>(240,178,17)</colorTwo>
</value>
</Operation>
</Patch>
Thank you!
You could replace the entire graphicData? But that's probably a bad idea.
Someone made a mod that allowed more complex node manipulation that I think included subNodes?
But in vanilla, no, you've got it.
Quote from: LWM on March 04, 2020, 11:33:27 PM
You could replace the entire graphicData? But that's probably a bad idea.
Someone made a mod that allowed more complex node manipulation that I think included subNodes?
But in vanilla, no, you've got it.
Thank you so much for the reply! I really appreciate the help :)
Is this, perhaps, "Make Uranium Green?"
Quote from: LWM on March 05, 2020, 10:54:51 PM
Is this, perhaps, "Make Uranium Green?"
Sorry, I had to look that up. No, I haven't tried that mod. I did this for myself, unpublished. This recolor is similar-looking to a bright yellow-colored Carnotite, although those colors can vary in shades of yellow to more yellowish-green. I first made this little mod for myself by simply overwriting the entire def, but I wanted to know how to patch things like this that have to two almost identical element paths, and the solution I came up with just seemed clunky. It worked, but I wasn't sure if I could merge the two somehow., make a more elegant patch operation. It's all kind of new to me still, so I'm learning as I go. In fact, the first recolor was the first "mod" I've ever made, and it was to help teach myself XML. :)
Sorry for the long reply, but thanks again for the help :)!
Clearly you should release it on Steam as "Make Uranium Yellowish"!
;D
Congrats and yay :)