Hello fellow Dungeoners. This is gonna be a straight repost of my reddit post, but spreading a bit more the word can't hurt :) https://www.reddit.com/r/darkestdungeon/comments/ccp2z5/skin_name_conflict_for_heroes_is_gone/

I'm talking here especially for skin makers or users, but We've found a way to completly avoid skin conflicts for your skins mods.

We tried to change the letters of skins folder,like antiquarian_A to antiquarian_Z

But if two modders use antiquarian_J, they will conflict.

but it seems we didn't tried ( or you did but it's not known ? ) to... simply add letters BEFORE the folder name like this :

• ANTI1antiquarian_J
  
• ANTI2antiquarian_J
  
• ANTI3antiquarian_J

Or some other exemple :

• _abomination_A
  
• 1abomination_A
  
• 2abomination_A
  
• 1abomination_B
  
• WhateverIwanthereabomination_A

And... this work and show in game. Yeah. Skin name conflict is gone, resulting in an infinity of naming possibility for us !
With some test from various members of the community, it seems the game can handle without flinching 260+ skin on the same character.

Note that :

• these wont conflict with " antiquarian_J " or abomination_A or _B. And that they will appear in alphabetical order.
  
  
• I'd recommand at last 4 letters and 1 number if you publish skins with this to avoid the chances 2 modders use 1abomination_B which would be quite infortunate.
  
  
• Also i would not use _A to _D for a new skin with this, as it Will be betweens vanilla skins, unless it's your intention. :)
  
  
• Finally, i'd recommand that you use the same letter for all you skin variant of a same skin so your similar skins wont be lost inbetween some other in the case someone else used your first letter. You can also use the same letter for all your skin if you want. By default, i'm using J.

some folder example :
https://i.imgur.com/LVqmZku.png

https://i.imgur.com/Iy6eiMS.png


If you need a mod using it To see it in game, try my collection : https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1804245425



I hope it will help my fellow skin modders to do content without fearing conflict with other mods and thus help community by avoiding users to have to manually find a new letter.

TLDR : NEW FORMULA IS [WHATEVER][classname]_[A-Z] exemple : Whateverabomination_A