Adding backgrounds - Pandemonium14/ExoLoader GitHub Wiki

Backgrounds are the images that appear in the background of story scenes and custom/job endings, as well as illustrations you see during some special events. Adding your own custom backgrounds is as simple as adding a Backgrounds folder to your YourFolder folder in CustomContent (Exocolonist/CustomContent/YourFolder/Backgrounds), and placing your background image files in .png format in that folder. The name cannot contain spaces or special characters. You can show your custom background in the story scene the same way you would with a vanilla background:

~set bg = custom_background_name

Where custom_background_name is the name of your background image file without the extension.

Background types

There are three types of backgrounds you can add:

• Story backgrounds: These are used in story scenes.
• Ending backgrounds: These are used in custom endings, names of these backgrounds start with ending_. Check out Adding endings for more information on how to add custom endings.
• Illustrations: These are used in special events, typically names of these backgrounds start with pinup_. You still use ~set bg = pinup_marz to show illustrations, but these ones have the special effect of removing the story text boxes temporarily, so players can see the full image for a few seconds.

Gallery thumbnails

Optionally you can add a smaller .png files with the same name as your original background file name, but with _thumbnail at the end (like custom_background_name_thumbnail.png) for the Gallery.