Karmatose

So, I'm a new(ish) pixel artist who is learning with the intent of using this knowledge to create textures for VS (among other things)...I'm familiar with the concept of UV mapping but I have NO idea how that would work when drawing flat textures from scratch...Since usually afaik UV mapping is done after the texture is made. I've been working on a mod that for the most part only requires editing flat items, but the mod could be greatly expanded in the future with this knowledge. Any info would be appreciated, even if it's just a link to a good video tutorial! 

I've been searching stuff like 'How to draw textures for video games pixel art', and a few variations of...but all I'm getting is how to draw character sprites heh. Help would be appreciated! Thanks.

Our server host found an error code: 

14:27:52 [Server Error] [vschatbot-1.2.0.zip] Missing modinfo.json

Our server recently had a switch of server host / server reset and on 1.15.1 the mod will not create the .json file we need to connect it to the server. It worked on game version 1.14.1 before the server host switch/reset.

Updated the main post: Made a lot of changes to the features, added the official server logo, added a mods list, made some edits to the update text to represent current state of events.

MAJOR UPDATE!!!

Server is being reset. Fresh start for everyone.

See main post for more details.

On 3/9/2021 at 9:01 AM, Slaad said:

How do you guys have Prox chat? Is that a mod?

Yes! It's a server-side mod, requires no download from players. Apologies for the very late response, I don't check the forums all that often. I'm not 100% sure where that link is though, I might need to do some digging to find it again...let me know if you're still interested in it.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. ^^

For some odd reason I can't cure small hides, only medium/large hides. 

SALTPOINT LAKES RP

Logo art by Vilderos

A new server opens it's doors to the Vintage Story roleplay community! Saltpoint Lakes is the perfect place for writers, creatives, and anyone with a story to tell! We are a roleplay server, which means that everyone must submit a character on our discord in order to be whitelisted, and all interactions in-game will be in-character. We are accepting of those new to roleplay, so long as you're eager and willing to learn!

Featuring:

- Proximity-based chat for IC interactions.

- All mods are included in a server pack, so you can just download one .zip and drag-and-drop. We also have a server launcher that will skip the process of downloading mods in the works.

-Server-exclusive mods and a small but talented team of modders working on projects for the server.

-16 player slots, with the ability to upgrade higher as long as performance permits.

-An active community. 10+ players are often online during peak hours, and the server is rarely empty.

-Roleplay helpers on the discord to aid new roleplayers in learning the ropes, as well as general helpers for any questions related to playing the game and rule clarification.

-Beautiful survival world with a small, expanding town built by the players primarily in survival. (The Lazy River Inn in New Saltpoint was started in creative with limitations on materials used). View our picture album HERE.

-A server youtube channel with recordings of important events, such as mayoral campaign speeches, which can be found HERE.

-Ability to spread out and start new towns.

- No temporal storms or stability. We believe these detract from the roleplay experience.

- Longer days and nights, slower food spoilage and hunger rate, and longer months to give players more time in the day to RP.

- A soft permadeath system in which death leaves players with the choice of either ending that character permanently and making a new one, or acting it out as if they had been found and taken to safety by someone else. Inventory is kept for continuity purposes.

-Jobs and roles with the freedom to create your own roles and have up to three roles at once.

-A basic law system, with the ability to break the law, rob banks, steal, etc. provided you have an in-character reason, with in-roleplay consequences. Land claims disabled to make stealing more viable, if you have valuable items you can use reinforced blocks. Sheriff investigates crimes and performs arrests. We have a mod that logs item accesses to make this viable.

-A jail with possibility of jail breaks if you're creative enough to escape!

-A basic financial system, with coins being minted and distributed by a banker, and the ability to buy and sell items using Trade-o-Mat mod, or barter if you have no coins.

-A system for adding and polling new mods for the server.

- A fun and friendly community of other creatives just like you!

Taken by Lovelorn.

Mods:

-Ancient Tools
-Carry Capacity 
-Trade-o-Mat 
-Rope Bridges 
-Primitive Survival 
-Lichen
-Wild Farming (modified)
-Expanded Foods
-Farm Life

-Plus a few server-side mods which you don't need to download, but provide important functionalities, such as BASIC's RP modification of the Proximity Chat mod by Capsup.

If this sounds like your type of server, feel free to join our discord and get to work on your character! We look forward to seeing you around Saltpoint Lakes!

16 hours ago, l33tmaan said:

Drifter-esque variants of the existing animals would fit better than a generic fantasy pack, I think.

That definitely sounds like fun!  

3 hours ago, infinitetech said:

3. thats reasonable, perhaps a fantasy/scifi critters pack could happen at a later date

A fantasy pack is certainly a possibility, but would be separate for sure! ^^

2 hours ago, l33tmaan said:

The VSmodeler is actually fairly friendly to use after you read the article on the wiki a few times and played around a bit. Perhaps you could just edit the existing bunny entity so its got different shapes/textures and preserve the original animation?

Oh, hm. Maybe I'll have to play around with it then! Thanks for the tip.

On 4/21/2020 at 4:14 PM, Julius van Vern said:

Looks like a great job. The mod also runs standalone on the server?

Not sure on this one, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work on a server. I just confirmed it still works for 1.14.5, I've been inactive for a while. I might get around to testing this sometime, I'll post the results if I do.

On 11/29/2020 at 11:48 PM, infinitetech said:

any chance we could get long haired bunnies? those adorable dust balls would make great pets to liven the game up.  maybe you could even allow some way to breed ones that shine with light or like make temporal hair dye that would make them glimmer and glow?  maybe for other animals too... but the idea of glowing, hopping, pompoms in a field is too awesome.  also maybe you could make a fox variant that is a housecat or a small wild cat like a treecat or a lynx.  maybe a red panda and/or a raccoon dog with its leaf hat for raccoon variants.  albino variants are always cool to see.

 I'm mostly aiming for a more realistic mod as of right now. As for long-haired bunnies, I'm not quite sure how to do that as I think I'd have to edit the model for that, and I'm no 3D modeler. Red pandas sounds interesting, but I'd likely want to make it a separate entity from the racoon as opposed to a variant, as racoons and red pandas live in different environments. Perhaps I'll look into it sometime. ^^ Thanks for the suggestions.

This is a rather simple suggestion. My base is constantly swarmed by singing drifters at night, and they unfortunately aren't the best singers.  Please either give them prettier voices, or give me the option to turn down the mob sounds separately from other sounds. I wouldn't mind it so much if they weren't so loud...

Karma's Variants

A mod to add alternate textures to various mobs.

All textures are alternate textures, which means they have a chance of showing up instead of the vanilla ones. Nothing is replaced.

Unless otherwise specified, all variants are available for male and female animals, but not babies.

Fox Variants

Silver Fox

Pig Variants

Almost Black

Black-and-White Spotted (Piglets only)

*The vanilla sow only has one texture, but the boar has five. Now, the sows have all the male textures, and the boar has the added female texture, for a total of six textures for both male and female wild pigs, not including other textures listed above.

Bighorn Sheep 

Dark brown

Medium Gray

Medium brown (Lambs only)

Light Gray (Lambs Only)

Changelog:

Version 1.3
*Added two variants for the male bighorn sheep.
*Added two variants for the female bighorn sheep.
*Added two variants for the bighorn sheep lamb.

Version 1.2
*Added gender diversity to the wild pig textures - there was five male textures and only one female texture. I copied all the extra male textures to the female, as well as making the female texture available for males. 
*Added an almost black texture for both genders of wild pig.
*Added black-and-white spotted texture for the piglet.

Version 1.1
*Added a changelog
*Added the textures to the mod. Whoops!

Version 1.0
*Mod created with silver fox variant of forest fox.

Karma'sVariants1.3.zip