.campaign files

playAnimatic

• arg1: path to animatic lua file
• arg2: 0 or 1, esc takes you to leave animation, no continue
• arg3: 0 or 1, re-enables UI after finished

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Updated Formatting? Initial
Updated for HWRM? Initial

What format should my .webm's be?

The codec, resolution, sample rate, bitrate must be EXACTLY what homeworld has them for it's .webm's, as you'll start to see strange behavior like the audio track warping or looping.

Uploading an animation as part of your mod

Wanna add a cool intro to your mod? Got a custom campaign with some fresh animatics? Just use the WorkshopTool right? Na. Well kinda.

First, create your mod using WorkshopTool and upload it. Retrieve the mod id (from it's URL) and note it down.

Update your path to the animatic to filenameV = "data:../../../../workshop/content/244160/xxxxxxxxx/Intro.webm", by replacing xxxxxxxxx with the ID you retrieved above

Update it again....

Next get steamcmd. In my case, I created a folder called steamcmd at C:/ and put in in there

Then create a file called example_file_name.vdf

Inside, make it look like this

"workshopitem"
{
 "appid" "244160"
 "publishedfileid" "xxxxxxxx"
 "contentfolder" "C:\\steamcmd\\hw"
 "previewfile" "C:\\steamcmd\\hw\\preview.png"
 "visibility" "0"
 "title" "your title"
 "description" "for testing"
 "changenote" "new updator"
}

Then ensure steam has downloaded the mod, and run the launcher.

Then get the mod from C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Homeworld\HomeworldRM\DataWorkshopMODs\76561198073061232\xxxxxxxxx

Paste it into the same directory as you've set the contentfolder in the example_file_name.vdf file, and also drop in all your .webm's.

Then run steamcmd, type login (and fill in your username/password/steamauth)

Then type workshop_build_item example_file_name.vdf