Map locations and Schematics storable on Scroll Racks

[Never Jhonsen]

I am a hoarder in game, and have a habit of keeping everything I still have the paper my trader friend gave me that marks where The Resonate Archives are on my map, even though I don't need it anymore. Same goes for all the Chapter Two papers that mark locations on the map; I kept them even though I don't need to.

Currently, I have a chest for all those papers, as well as my schematic papers. I would like to put them in my library on a scroll rack, so one could casually pull it out as needed. While I understand that a chest is more practical in terms of space, that's not what this game's about - it's about the aesthetics of putting your scrolls on a rack and books on a shelf, where they belong. And I think these paper items should be rolled up and stored on a rack as well. I think this should also apply to Treasure maps, as I have two laying around in that same chest.

[quihyr]

That would be a neat feature, though probably not on the priority list.

[Thorfinn]

It's a bit more complicated than it seems at first glance. Right-click is how you put something in the rack, but it's also how you use them. The item's functions take precedence. I suppose you could remap the scroll rack, but then you have a difference between how racks and bookcases work. Or worse, between using one item and using a different item. 

There's probably a way that makes sense. Maybe all shelving requires Crouch to place? Maybe something like ground placement?

[Never Jhonsen]

On 1/24/2025 at 6:40 PM, Thorfinn said:

Right-click is how you put something in the rack, but it's also how you use them.

I understand what you were thinking at the time, however that's how regular scrolls and also books work as well. You right-click them on a rack/shelf, and also right-click them to read.

[Thorfinn]

Oh, I thought once you read them the first time, you had to go to your journal to read them again. 'Course, it's been a hot second since  I interacted with regular old lore scrolls, and checking that out was the second or third scroll rack I've ever built. The map is different in in that it is used (in Wilderness) in the same mode to report the distance to the RA, and can't ever lose that, or you have no way of finding the RA if you didn't leave a trail of breadcrumbs.

I'll take a look, though. It's possible all it would take is swapping the priority. If you have the scroll in hand, and are pointing to an empty space on a scroll rack, it's unlikely you mean to read it.

[Never Jhonsen]

9 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

The map is different in in that it is used (in Wilderness) in the same mode to report the distance to the RA, and can't ever lose that, or you have no way of finding the RA if you didn't leave a trail of breadcrumbs

I was thinking about that whilst traversing to the Chapter Two content, how those markers worked in play-throughs without a map. Alas, I was never motivated enough to make a world and find out I guess mapless play-throughs would have more reason to want to save all those lore markers, asides from creatures like me who simply just hoard everything

[Never Jhonsen]

An attempt has been started, and I know where to go from here. I DON'T know how to make custom models, so I'll have to use the current two scroll models (Lore for schematics, paper for others), but asides from that, I've made them all storeable on a scroll rack

Files modified: assets/survival/itemtypes/lore/letter.json, assets/survival/itemtypes/utility/locatormap.json, assets/survival/itemtypes/utility/schematic 

Code added:

    attributes: {
        scrollrackable: true,
        onscrollrackTransform: {
            translation: { x: -0.5, y: -0.18, z: 0.48 },
            rotation: { x: -45, y: 0, z: 0 },
            origin: { x: 0.5, y: 0.1, z: 0.5 }
        },
    }

Maybe in another 9 months I'll have another free day to get the paper rolled up, but this here is good enough for me