Hey, I'm setting out to make my first mod. I was wondering if anyone had done something like live-streaming the creation of assets that I could learn from?
#Graphics help
wide stream
silver river
Hey, I'm setting out to make my first mod. I was wondering if anyone had done so...
Galdoc has
Also https://youtu.be/h36kd6wiWy8 from #mod-dev-guide
smoky laurel
first of all i would start with blender basics
than some of texture tutorials
for place holders i used ai gnerated textures
ripe whale
The latest blender guru donut tutorial series is amazing! Took me from knowing nothing about blender to being capable of working on small things 🔥
wide stream
Thank you! That's a lot to go on.
My other question would be for items. Looking at existing mods, it looks like there are specific layouts for the item graphics, but I haven't found an explanation yet. Do people do 3D modelling for the items?
silver river
My other question would be for items. Looking at existing mods, it looks like t...
The multiple different copies of icons, at different sizes? Those are called mipmaps
You don’t need to do that yourself though, just provide a single 64x64 icon and it will be fine
Certainly all ‘proper’ icons are 3D modelled too, yes
quiet wedge
and if you want variants of item visualisation, let's say on belts, then items have a separate property called pictures, where you can define those variations, although fully optional. There is not a lot of mods that use this property (example would be krastorio2: rare metals)
wide stream
Like how ores are implemented in the base game?
quiet wedge
ore variation is a story in itself.
they use 'animation' for the stages.
silver river
That’s ore entities
silver river
Like how ores are implemented in the base game?
Yes, ore items on belts use variations defined in ‘pictures’
quiet wedge
wait vanilla ores have belt variations?
silver river
Yes
quiet wedge
never noticed 😅
