Content Patcher Integration - Floogen/FashionSense GitHub Wiki
Content Patcher is a powerful tool which allows you to edit game / custom assets based on various conditions.
Fashion Sense integrates with Content Patcher by loading all appearance data into a dedicated path. By targeting this path, you can modify any arbitrary Fashion Sense appearance property and the changes will be applied while the game is running (according the content pack's Update field. This enables mod authors to do things such as hiding an accessory until an achievement is met (via the IsLocked property).
Note: Using Content Patcher along with Fashion Sense requires a fair bit of understanding of both mods and this part of the Wiki assumes you are familiar with them. If you are not, please read over the Creating a Content Pack and Content Patcher's Author Guide before proceeding.
Using Content Patcher
To utilize Content Patcher, you'll need to first make a content pack for Content Patcher with a required dependency on Fashion Sense.
An example manifest.json
for a Content Patcher content pack:
{
"Name": "Content Patcher Examples For Fashion Sense",
"Author": "PeacefulEnd",
"Version": "1.0.0",
"Description": "Tests for using Content Patcher to modify Fashion Sense packs.",
"UniqueID": "PeacefulEnd.ContentPatcherForFashionSense",
"UpdateKeys": [ "Nexus:???" ],
"ContentPackFor": {
"UniqueID": "Pathoschild.ContentPatcher"
},
"Dependencies": [
{
"UniqueID": "PeacefulEnd.FashionSense",
"IsRequired": true
}
]
}
Making Property Changes
To start making changes to the relevant Fashion Sense appearance properties, you'll need to create a content.json
file. This file is utilized by Content Patcher to detect which changes the content pack wants to make.
Example of a content.json
which sets IsLocked
for the hat Animated Pumpkin Head until 9PM in the game:
{
"Format": "1.26.0",
"Changes": [
{
"Action": "EditData",
"Target": "Data/PeacefulEnd/FashionSense/AppearanceData",
"Fields": {
"ExampleAuthor.ExampleFashionSensePack/Hat/Animated Pumpkin Head": {
"IsLocked": true
}
},
"When": {
"Time": "{{Range: 0600, 1800}}"
},
"Update": "OnTimeChange"
},
{
"Action": "EditData",
"Target": "Data/PeacefulEnd/FashionSense/AppearanceData",
"Fields": {
"ExampleAuthor.ExampleFashionSensePack/Hat/Animated Pumpkin Head": {
"IsLocked": false
}
},
"When": {
"Time": "{{Range: 1900, 2600}}"
},
"Update": "OnTimeChange"
}
]
}
The Fashion Sense Data Path
Notice the "Target"
property is set to: Data/PeacefulEnd/FashionSense/AppearanceData
This is the path in which Fashion Sense stores all relevant appearance data and enables for external, dynamic changes.
Update rates
The framework will sync changes immediately with Content Patcher when using OnDayStart
, OnLocationChange
or OnTimeChange
for the Update
field.