Making walls beautiful again?

[Woyzeck]

Is there a simple XML edit that will make walls count towards the Beauty score again?

My last attempt at this only resulted in the game crashing.

[mrofa]

Its a example but you just add it in statbase

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<statBases>
      <MaxHealth>500</MaxHealth>
      <WorkToMake>300</WorkToMake>
      <Flammability>0.2</Flammability>
  <Beauty>12</Beauty>
    </statBases>

[harpo99999]

there is a xml that is for stones and walls of stone, look for the Various_Stone.xml in the \Defs\ThingDefs folder, (and I suggest placing you modified one into a \defs\thingdefs folder inside a mod of your own), BUT when it is on its own in a mod crash in wierd colours happens and even with the other files from the core thingdefs

[NoImageAvailable]

there is a xml that is for stones and walls of stone, look for the Various_Stone.xml in the \Defs\ThingDefs folder, (and I suggest placing you modified one into a \defs\thingdefs folder inside a mod of your own), BUT when it is on its own in a mod crash in wierd colours happens and even with the other files from the core thingdefs

Should only happen upon loading an existing map.

[harpo99999]

there is a xml that is for stones and walls of stone, look for the Various_Stone.xml in the \Defs\ThingDefs folder, (and I suggest placing you modified one into a \defs\thingdefs folder inside a mod of your own), BUT when it is on its own in a mod crash in wierd colours happens and even with the other files from the core thingdefs

Should only happen upon loading an existing map.

that IS how I was testing,have not tried a new colony with the idea yet

[Woyzeck]

Harpo - I think what you're trying to do is what I tried to do the first time around, resulting in the multi-colored crash.

Mrofa's suggestion works, i.e. adding a Beauty stat to the wall in Buildings_structures. Only problem is control of how beautiful that makes walls is complicated by the Stuff system, since the walls are all just "Wall" plus a material. Changing the material's stats will change the beauty of anything else made out of it as well, such as statues. With stone floors this wasn't a problem (floors are not Things, I take it). Ex. I set the Wall thing's beauty to "1", and wound up with marble walls having a beauty of 7, on account of both the Beauty % statFactor and Beauty statOffset stacking. I had hoped I could set the Wall's base Beauty to "0" and let the materials wholly determine Beauty of a constructed wall, but the game seems to treat a Beauty value of "0" as "not applicable", and just leaves the walls as not having any Beauty score at all.

[harpo99999]

that suggests that the beauty code is using multiply as in x *0 = 0 , so a small wall beauty ie about 0.1 should give the walls a small boost from the materials, but the material beauty does work when starting a new game