#Bandit Creator

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rancid fable
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I'm starting a new small/medium side project - Bandit Creator.

I will be basically an UI to customize the look of bandits in every detail. You will also designate your own clans and customize each member.

The level of customization will let you choose physical appearance (skin color, gender, hair, beard, hair color etc), select individual clothes for each part of the body. Assign weapons and carried loot. You will be able to select items and clothes form vanilla or other loaded mods.

Configuration of clans and bandits will save into a file that can be shared with other players but also exported to Lua as a mod that others players can subscribe to to load your configuration. The tool can also be used to export clothing to xml which is a use case for those who just want to make outfits, not particularly for bandits. In multiplayer, the configuration on the server will propagate to clients, this way server will decide how the bandits look for every player.

Finally you will be able to die from hands of a well customized bandit!

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foggy haven
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cool

tired fractal
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Yay

upbeat pagoda
molten brook
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yeah ok now THIS is peak

crimson laurel
# rancid fable

Look cool ! Can u custom what they carry too ? Like food, medical...

tired fractal
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did you even read the text?

crimson laurel
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I just have a doubt when i don't see him on the screen, but if that planned it's cool drunk

delicate saffron
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I cannot wait to make the most random factions

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Such as Just a whole faction of Jesus

fading lotus
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nice

barren grove
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W

severe sigil
narrow dune
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this is absolute cinema

rancid fable
narrow dune
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this is actually absolute cinema holy shit

junior wren
# rancid fable

I noticed that you equipped the bandits with shotguns this time,

so have you broken the limitation of only carrying magazine-type weapons?

tired fractal
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i have seen npcs in the week one mod with shotguns on their back

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but they don't use it

junior wren
# tired fractal I don't think so

Even so, I am still looking forward to it.

I can finally customize various bandit forces in PZ,

Such as the Louisville Brotherhood, the New West Point Republic, the March Ridge Legion and the terrifying Raccoon National Liberation Front (RNLF)

rancid fable
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Yes they will use revolvers and ahotguns

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Also I may release this earlier for the community to make those bandit clans and profiles. Its a lot of work and I feel yall it do it better

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The creator will work and produce files that you can back to me. Then i will include best iotions in the Bandits standard mod

narrow dune
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Will the bandit creator be able to integrate clothing and armors from other mods

fading lotus
tired fractal
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NICEEE

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i will make a cowboy faction with that one, thanks slayer

tired fractal
dense dove
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oh shit this is godlike man @rancid fable

devout horizon
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This looks dope, cant wait for release

silver anchor
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This mod will be peak

crude jewel
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will this include week one?

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bc i wanna edit the soldiers since they look bandits for some fucking reason..

rancid fable
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So the Bandit Creator will come with additional changes to Bandits itself allowing non-magazine weapons to be carried with bandits. You can see here that they can now use rifles without clips and shotguns. Revolvers work too. Too bad Indie Stone did not allow modders (yet?) to use bullet particles.

rancid fable
molten brook
tired fractal
# rancid fable

It would be a great idea to be able to put our audio tracks on certain factions

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like, on their spawn or something

vast geyser
dusty helm
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Will this be compatible with Week One and will I be able to edit Bandits from the Week One mod such as Police and the Military?

rancid fable
worldly elm
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Will we be able to edit existing clans/bandits?

rancid fable
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working with any gun mod too, here's "Firearms"

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rancid fable
# worldly elm Will we be able to edit existing clans/bandits?

yes, you can add new clans or edit or enhance existing ones with new members. When you edit creator automatically detect all items available from all loaded mods, that includes clothing, weapons etc.If you unload the required mods, that creations using that mods are hidden from editing and spawning

dusty helm
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Can’t wait to have my National Guardsmen and Police Officers dressed fresh and tactical

mossy pawn
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that's super cool! I love the UI. Good luck!

delicate saffron
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Can’t wait to make a faction of Jesus with mini guns

crude jewel
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i have a question, is it gonna include week one?

crude jewel
molten brook
crude jewel
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I really wanna customize the police officers and the SWAT guys

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bc bro the SWAT guys look like mercenaries..

vast geyser
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Vainilla doesn't have swat equipment

worldly elm
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Making a HECU faction crowbar

rancid fable
rancid fable
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Ok so here is the deal. Right now bandits use a standard spawn system that is based on outfits.Whenever i spawn civilians in week one or bandits in bandits it's the same system. In this system you cannot change any the clothing after spawn - it's fixed. Bandit creator is a new system - it spawns naked people and dresses them in each single item. Those system can coexist together for some time but i will be replacing the old system with new one. But that means i have to make hundreds of configurations for new system

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Also I haven't yet figured out how to connect it with the wave spawning system that defines rules for 16 fixed clans. Naturally people will create more new clans and that has to plugged somehow into this. But its more probable that the wave config will be removed and replaced with something else

vast geyser
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You could stop after "it spawns naked people" and I'd still gladly download it

molten brook
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oh my

crude jewel
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there is a mod where there are actual swat unis

rich dew
wicked nymph
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peak

tired fractal
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Haii

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any new info?

rare storm
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what will be the use of this mod, will you just be able to customizr bandits for your own faction?

rancid fable
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work in progress 🙂

the idea of this mod opens doors for couple of possibilities:

  • players can simply customize their own bandits for themselves
  • server admins can customize bandits for their server and all people who join
  • customized bandits can be saved into another mod, this way you can share your configurations with others
  • the new clothing system will allow some new features like a bandit during rain will automatically put on the coat for example
wicked nymph
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damn! will it work with accessories that add new positions
like a holster that adds a ankle one

rancid fable
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Here is some info for modding. You do not need programming skills, just basic knowledge about PZ mod structure.

Bandit Creator integrates with other mods in two ways.

  1. First group are mods that provide with clothing and weapon items that bandits may be customized with. You can use any item from external mods of your liking to customize your Bandits.

  2. Second group are mods that store bandit configuration you have created. Bandits mod loads all configuration files from all mods it can find. By default, bandit configuration saves in Bandits mod. But you can create bandit profiles and mark them to be saved as part of another mod.

So here is how it works in practice:

  1. You create a new empty mod with standard folder setup. In mod.info you need to list mods requirements that you will be using to customize your Bandits. This makes sure that the person that will use your new mod will also load the dependent mods that are needed.

  2. In common folder of your mod you create bandits folder. This tells the Bandit Creator that your mod is ready to store bandit configuration.

  3. Start the game and enable Bandits, your mod and other mods you want to use. Start Bandit Creator and start creating a new clan and one bandit. From the dropbox, set the bandit to save in your mod, not Bandits mod. You will notice that new configuration files were created in common/bandits folder.

  4. Your mod is ready to be shared.

Note that your mod can add bandits to your clans or add or change bandits in existing clans of Bandits mod or other mods. If there are duplicates, mod load order will determine which configuration has priority.

dusty helm
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Is there any way you could make it so that the player is able to use his custom Bandit teams through Bandit events?

half lily
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slayer you are the goat at modding

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your mod and the k15 mod

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chefs kiss

rancid fable
rancid fable
half lily
dusty helm
rancid fable
tired fractal
rancid fable
rancid fable
tired fractal
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Cool!

minor trellis
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Can’t wait to start a new save with this bandit creator

vast geyser
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That’s awesome

rancid fable
rancid fable
molten brook
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bro is like a pz modding machine

half lily
gritty quiver
rancid fable
gritty quiver
# rancid fable What fix do you have in mind?

I saw that when you shoot bandits the limb/body roll that is supposed to roll to calculate where the bandit was damaged never happens, just like their bandaging section, and when shooting the player, bullets can go through certain new vanilla bulletproof armor

ornate jacinth
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Would this mods ui play nice with a steam deck? I wish I had a pc, but that's all I've got as of now

rancid fable
dusty helm
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So is it out yet? I’m seeing one on the workshop page, but it doesn’t seem like it is. I’m just trying to confirm.

rancid fable
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Will be out soon

naive zealot
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can't wait for this mod to come out 👉👈

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would it be possible to limit certain factions from spawning in certain towns? Example: STFR rosewood police spawning in rosewood only

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and not too sure if this has been asked before but is there a limit in the amount of factions we can create?

molten brook
rancid fable
naive zealot
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yippee

rancid fable
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releasing this today

rancid fable
dusty helm
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Is it too late to suggest support for Spongie's Customization?

naive zealot
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heeelll yea

dusty helm
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i lowk accidentally deleted the swat npc category after deleting all of them... if i set everything to week one and name it swat, can i get it back?

rancid fable
half lily
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It's out!!!

dusty helm
dusty helm
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nvm i got it

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just had to verify my game files

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but that softlock problem gotta get fixed fr

rancid fable
dusty helm
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no more will security guards be armed with guns

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crude jewel
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I'm loving this mod so far, I was able to modify the soldiers and the officers

dusty helm
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@rancid fable can I create new NPCs within existing classes like police or military, or do I have to edit the pre-existing npcs. Also there's some NPCs I can't click on so idk

ember jungle
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this is build 42 only right?

dusty helm
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Same thing goes with one of the officer NPCs on the SWAT team, and the Lab Security guards

dusty helm
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nvm seems like its fixed

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might be one of my mods

rancid fable
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it seems the assets still need time to load, its best to wait half a minute before using the creator after game start

elfin condor
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yo when i open the mod the menu overlaps with the creator itself and idk how to fix it

dusty helm
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Everything was fine when I disabled the mod.

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Also when you try to click on certain guns while in the Bandits Creator using this mod, the guns are either missing parts, or do not show up at all.

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Also good work on the Week One main menu theme, I like it.

naive zealot
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is Bandit Creator compatible with Bandit Legacy?

rancid fable
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nope

narrow dune
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dodododo

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Max verstappen

muted oyster
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This is so peak

dusty helm
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Can there be a feature where I can select presets of the Bandit Creator?

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I switched to B41 recently, and after switching back, all the Bandits were set to default

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a preset button would make things much easier so i dont have to go through, customizing each Bandit again

ember jungle
tired fractal
old glacier
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using this to make my week one npcs look nicer

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i gave the hazmat's the authentic z hazmat suits