Glad people are still trying to make Starbound more of an escape from reality versus a fun space shooty survival game, appreciate your hard works

@SealonBoard Glad to help. As for the description, I'm not sure. Haven't tested extensibly and world.entityDescription is a core function we can call but we don't have access to the source code for it. The only source of info on the API says:

"Returns the configured description for the specified inspectable entity (currently only objects and plants support this). Will return a species-specific description if species is specified and a generic description otherwise. "

What I have seen is that if they examine a machine, like in the last screenshot here with the hydro trays, they read their status.

@Corbent Thanks. It works perfectly. And if the desired race doesn't have description, it uses human description normally too! Thanks for helping me. I can now enjoy various races and match similar description dialogues for them! You're a life saver!

Also, the crew starts reading the nodes's description too. Breaking the fourth wall. So.. if the object or node doesn't have human description, it reads the short description instead. Am I guessing right?

@SealonBoard Yeah I see what the issue is. I was in a rush in the morning but now I tested it. The substitutions need to go before the block that sets the race as human, not after. Obviously if it's already set to human, it won't be harpy or kitsune, or halfsea for the conditions. My mistake.

@Corbent Thanks for the generous advice. And I tested the code. It seems the original code has taken over the modified ones. Harpy races keep saying human descriptions, including the other races.


-----examples------

if world.entityDescription(args.entity, species) == world.entityDescription(args.entity) then
species = "human"
end

if species == "harpy" then
species = "avian"
end

if species == "kitsune" then
species = "hylotl"
end

if species == "halfsea" then
species = "hylotl"
end

if species == "mechineki" then
species = "neki"
end

if species == "starshroom" then
species = "floran"
end

if species == "saturnmothman" then
species = "saturn"
end

if species == "droden" then
species = "glitch"
end
-------------------

Could the reason would be the order, or priority of the code?

@SealonBoard Hello. Sure. I am super busy at the moment so can't test and do it pretty. But A quick fix that might work is as follows:


if world.entityDescription(args.entity, species) == world.entityDescription(args.entity) then
species = "human"
end

After that little block you can add:
if species == " <YourCustomSpeciesName> " then
species = " <DesiredSpeciesName> "
end

Repeat the block for each species you want to set.

I'm curious about modifying the cs_dialog.lua file to give specific race to share the specific vanila race's dialog.

Such as, giving harpies (they are cutebound avian) to share avian dialog. And share Hylotl's dialogue with Kitsune and Halfsea. Can you give me advice to modifying the code to specifying the races?

@Corbent hilarious stuff, mhm mhm

@Pocket Egg Don't you love it when Steam leaves your post in limbo forever? Happened to me once and I had no idea way.

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New mod released! Was an awfully busy week so it took longer than usual. Corbent's Interactive Crew: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2774848292 , the ultimate crew overhaul! If you subscribe to that mod, you no longer need this one, as the inspect fix for custom races is included!

I like the deerfolk and Neki's.

@CaptainCrazeh A spiritual successor to Datebound is on my plans at some point if the engine doesn't crush my ambitions too early.

@Laudy Thanks. I have other ideas to overhaul the very lackluster companion system in this game.

Last night I got about 30% of the next one done. Instead of a fix It's a whole new crew feature if it succeeds. I'm just crossing my fingers so that I don't hit hard engine limitations that prevent it. I'm a very experienced coder, but not an experienced Starbound modder haha.

Looking for a Sunday release if all goes well.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses Datebound for crewmembers, especially of the Lyceen mod.

This is a rather nice mod you've made here.

@Tea-Loving Lad Now that I see that Starbound modding isn't that hard to get into (although software development experience certainly is helping) I have some experiments to run. Can't make any promises but I'm poking around into some more potential improvements for crew interaction that might get released in a separate mod if successful.

@Hoovy Simulator 2 [FIN] Yeah, if the modders include species specific descriptions for the objects they add, that species can inspect them. This patch allows anyone to inspect anything. Which is the way it should have always been in my opinion.

I mean, and other furniture IF it comes from the Lyceen mod.

I once noticed that Lyceen like to inspect stuff, like doors, lights, tables and other furniture that comes from the Lyceen mod. I wonder if this also happens with other race mods.

Damn! This is something that I never knew I needed.

Thanks for giving crew members some more character!

In fact I just had an idea. Since the default descriptions aren't that bad I might add a random chance (50%) of either using human or default line, increasing the variety of things the NPC can say.

@Kronolos Thanks for the observations. The mod has been updated to properly use human inspection lines. I have to say the mod feels ten times better now.

thats pretty clever. I wish you good luck and a fudgeton of motivation

Now that you revealed this little detail to me, I'll see if I can add one more line somewhere to alter the condition the game uses and actually make it default to human lines and be more natural. FU and Enhanced Storage will remain as they are though since that's how those mods roll.

enhanced storage inspection be like:
"12/64 slots used"

You are right, I was mistaken. it takes the description of the object if no species specific lines are found. Just checked. (Lack of experience using other species).

I found it funny that if they inspect FU machinery, they actually get the whole status display like power, inputs, outputs and such. When they inspect something they get the exact same thing you would get if you inspected it yourself.

actually, the game defaults to the item description, some human things are the description but some are not. Unfortunately, my mothy and coated crew still dont have many unique lines outside of lamp inspection, sat. furniture inspection, and some lush planet furniture dialogue.

@Hermit Yes, human inspection lines are the ones the system defaults to when it can't find race specific ones.

Also the inspect action has a random cooldown between 1 to 3 minutes by default. So they don't talk that much. Left it unmodified since it could become annoying to some people. Might release another file with lower cooldown if people express interest in more talkative companions.

I may be interested in this, I do like my crew being a little more talkative and lifelike. I assume the lines they default to would be the standard Human text?

my fly and floofy as f... brethren will now join me as I inspect every atom of the rng universe