Let's see if we can get it working for @rancid minnow
#Icon Badges Installation / Troubleshooting
worldly shoal
rancid minnow
oooh, cool
worldly shoal
What have you done so far, and what are your goals?
rancid minnow
honestly just wanna add my own IB's, and change vanilla ones to fit my mod
i tried a couple things to no avial, but this is what i had last
worldly shoal
Do you want to use csv-style tables for the data, or Lua?
Do you want to have user settings for language, eg Fe vs I for iron?
You need to call BuildBadge.
It's been a while, so this is a good test of the documentation.
rancid minnow
Do you want to use csv-style tables for the data, or Lua?
Do you want to have us...
uhhh, which one is the one above (CSV/lua)
and the bottom one, i havent really touched settings so im gonna leave it
worldly shoal
That's Lua. It's a good choice if you don't have too many icons to deal with.
Ok, so we'll use Icon Badges without the IconBadgesGroups additions.
rancid minnow
sure
and yeah, like it'd be around the same as normal IB calls which is where i got that code from 😭
worldly shoal
Galdoc's instructions miss a key step.
rancid minnow
~~what is that key step 😭 ~~
worldly shoal
Build_badge( prototype, ib_data)
prototype = data.raw.ammo['high-densith-magazine']
local ib_data = { ib_let_badge = v.badge, ib_let_corner = 'right-top' }
Reverse those lines.
IIRC Build_badge is a global function, so no fancy steps to be able to access it.
worldly shoal
Reverse the lines. I did them in the order I thought of them.
worldly shoal
Yes.
rancid minnow
cool
worldly shoal
How much programming do you do? So I know how much to break it down.
rancid minnow
...
rancid minnow
i know jack about using lua, or scripting
i dont program much apart from using the API 😭
worldly shoal
Ok, I won't assume much then.
brittle geyser
I'm the one who turned his ingredient definitions into functions so he could continue using the shorthand with 2.0 removing it
rancid minnow
exactly
worldly shoal
Shifting to notepad for thinking out loud, then.
rancid minnow
😭 all good
worldly shoal
NP. We have to start somewhere!
rancid minnow
exactly!
worldly shoal
If we don't start where we are, then it's really hard to move forward.
rancid minnow
ofc ofc, completely understand
wait, because it has prototype = data.raw.blah.blah["high-density-ammo"], does that mean i have to do that for everything i wanna add IB's for?
worldly shoal
typing out an example in notepad. I do it in a strange order, confusing to others.
rancid minnow
e.g
prototype = data.raw.ammo["ammo-name"]
prototype = data.raw.item["item-name"]
etc etc
its all good
worldly shoal
-- DRAFT!!!!
my_data =
{
{type = 'ammo', name = 'pm-high-density-magazine', badge = 'HDR'},
{type = 'item', name = 'iron-ore', badge = 'I'},
}
for _,i in pairs(my_data) do
Build_badge(data.raw[type][name], badge)
end
@brittle geyser Does that look right?
rancid minnow
imagine it needs penny-inatoring
brittle geyser
I'm just going to complain before I interpret that
worldly shoal
To access a prototype in data.raw, you need to give the type and the name.
rancid minnow
oh yeah, i know that
brittle geyser
Make it a lua code block so it actually is readible D:
rancid minnow
Make it a lua code block so it actually is readible D:
you're a lua code block :(
brittle geyser
(Did it myself)
my_data =
{
{type = 'ammo', name = 'pm-high-density-magazine', badge = 'HDR'},
{type = 'item', name = 'iron-ore', badge = 'I'},
}
for _,i in pairs(my_data) do
Build_badge(data.raw[type][name], badge)
end
I often make silly typos, and don't have it setup for easy testing.
LOL, seconds after I fixed the original.
rancid minnow
😭
brittle geyser
Yeah, that would work.
You just need to do i.type and i.name etc..
rancid minnow
i keep the ib_data still below it all, right?
worldly shoal
Right! I forgot he changed it to ib_data.
rancid minnow
worldly shoal
my_data =
{
{type = 'ammo', name = 'pm-high-density-magazine', ib_data = {badge = 'HDR'} },
{type = 'item', name = 'iron-ore', ib_data = {badge = 'I'} },
}
for _,i in pairs(my_data) do
Build_badge(data.raw[type][name], badge)
end
let me edit that
rancid minnow
aight
worldly shoal
That should be it. I'm going to mark earlier versions as drafts, to avoid confusion for anyone reading later.
rancid minnow
fair enough 😭 gonna test it rq, but if it works thank you so much
worldly shoal
Are there any parts that aren't clear? It's best if you understand each layer.
rancid minnow
oh no, i essentially get that
worldly shoal
There's also a way to tell it to ignore the vanilla set it comes with.
rancid minnow
the only thing i dont understand doesnt really matter to what we are doing 😭
rancid minnow
There's also a way to tell it to ignore the vanilla set it comes with.
oh yeah, saw that
worldly shoal
Be sure to count the {}.
rancid minnow
i can hear penny mentioning the nesting, a distant scream a continent away /s
brittle geyser
And Black. do you want me to turn that into a function like this?
PM.badge(type, name, letters, position)
Of course it'll in effect just be this:
-- Things are not final since I don't know about how icon badge works
function PM.badge(type, name, letters, position)
if not mods['icon-badge'] then return end
if #letters > 3 then error("Badge can only be up to 3 letters long") end
if position and valid_positions[position] then error("'"..position.."' is not a valid position") end
Build_badge(data.raw[type][name], {
badge = letters,
position = position,
})
end
uhhhhh, idm, its really up to you
it means nothing to me which i use 😭
both are equally usable
brittle geyser
(also I'm going to again mention that vencord's ShikiCodeBlocks are fantastic)
worldly shoal
That should work. I used to wrap Build_badge in pcall(), but now it's pretty stable.
rancid minnow
(also I'm going to again mention that vencord's ShikiCodeBlocks are fantastic)
pretty
brittle geyser
Alright, time to pull my local copy up to date with PM
brittle geyser
:(
Your formatting makes me unhappy
rancid minnow
HAHAHAHA
worldly shoal
Icon Badges Groups adds the ability to change language (eg Fe vs I), and csv-style data which is easier to edit.
Do the formatting BlackATM is used to.
brittle geyser
I'm just upset about trailing whitespace
rancid minnow
:(
Your formatting makes me unhappy
you see the difference though right
brittle geyser
I've wrote some regex to remove all that at one point
Yeah, and I don't know what setting I have to complain about it while yours doesn't
worldly shoal
I used to be upset with the almost-empty lines, but brackets not lining up is worse. That might change if I give the new built-in rainbow indents a chance.
rancid minnow
....do i need to make the file required by a data- file? 🤨
worldly shoal
The automatic formatting, ctrl-shift-f , removes trailing whitespace if the syntax is correct.
worldly shoal
Is it in its own file now? If so, you need to require it in one of the data stage files, after all the icons are made.
The program only looks in data, data-updates and data-final-fixes. It won't look anywhere else unless you tell it to.
brittle geyser
Btw I'd personally put it in compatiblity for sorting
rancid minnow
true
brittle geyser
Before going back through it with auto-formatting. I need to figure out how to tell it how we want it formatted
I know when I went throguh it first, it turned {"something", "else"} into { "something", "else" } which annoyed black
rancid minnow
it said to put it in final-fixes, right?
rancid minnow
Before going back through it with auto-formatting. I need to figure out how to t...
...did it
i dont remeber 😭
worldly shoal
To change that, you'd need to know more about VSCode than I do. It would also make their install non-standard, and harder to trouble-shoot.
rancid minnow
fair enough
worldly shoal
In this case, it was easier to retrain my brain than change how it displays. I'm new enough at it that I want to keep my installation as standard as possible so it's easy to get help.
Other things, though? My brain refuses to retrain.
rancid minnow
(this means nothing to me, i have no idea what that is telling me 😭 )
yeah, mood
worldly shoal
should be ipairs ??
worldly shoal
I keep confusing pairs and ipairs, and use trial-and-error.
rancid minnow
😭 lmao
(use your imagination to imagine the same code as above, but with i. next to the three things mentioned)
oh wait, ipairs
brittle geyser
No, ipairs should not have an effect here
brittle geyser
They are functionally the same in this instance, and the recommendation is to use pairs since it's faster
brittle geyser
Oh it's now i.ib_data not i.badge
You see how your data defines the type, name, and ib_data?
That's what you're indexing into
brittle geyser
yeah
rancid minnow
cool
so what is the difference between ipairs and pairs
🤨
...do i need to actually make it not the vanilla preset for it to work? because still nada ingame
brittle geyser
ipairs is meant for arrays, and the order of pairs is comparatively random
Factorio has changed pairs to be determinsitic and will always be identical to ipairs for any index up to 1024
brittle geyser
pairs then falls back to insert order in factorio, meaning if only add elements to the end of the array, it's still the same even after 1024
This is different than raw lua, where it's iterated over in hash order. Which is effectively arbituary and random.
Which, again, factorio is meant to be deterministic so that was rejected and replaced
worldly shoal
Yeah, I was confused for a moment, thinking of how Python does it. (Why? I haven't used Python in years.)
(And I probably remembered it wrong.)
rancid minnow
i learnt 2 years of python and dont remeber a lick of it
as soon as i left high school, immediantly dumped out of my head
gone with the wind 😔
worldly shoal
Leavnign the vanilla preset is fine if you don't delete any vanilla prototypes. It might crash if it tries to put a label on something that doesn't exist.
worldly shoal
show us the current code again
rancid minnow
worldly shoal
Add line (such as local b = 1 ) and a breakpoint after Build_badge call.
Then hover over the variable i, or add it to the watch screen and see what it says.
Change that ... add a break point just before Build_badges so we can step into it if needed.
rancid minnow
worldly shoal
Is pm-high-density-magazine ammo, or an item, or something else? I just assumed it was ammo.
Does the recipe have its own icon, or does it inherit it from main_product?
brittle geyser
If it wasn't an ammo, it would having an error about indexing nil
rancid minnow
uhhhh
rancid minnow
Is pm-high-density-magazine ammo, or an item, or something else? I just assumed ...
its an ammo, recipe uses the icon of the ammo
the iron plate doesnt change aswell, i just havent screenshotted it 😭
rancid minnow
its an ammo, recipe uses the icon of the ammo
(as in it just defaults to it, i havent set it as anything)
vale lintel
(you're not stopped at the breakpoint, so these are just luals's guesses, maybe nto actual values)
also is the warning on that function call relevant?
rancid minnow
also is the warning on that function call relevant?
Build_Badge? undefined global "Build_Badge"
rancid minnow
(you're not stopped at the breakpoint, so these are just luals's guesses, maybe ...
also im gonna be honest, i have no idea what the first half of that means 😭 do i move the breakpoint up or?
worldly shoal
Hard to say about the warning. Build_badges is working for the vanilla items, eg Piercing Rounds.
vale lintel
Build_Badge? `undefined global "Build_Badge"`
Build_Badge is not the same as Build_badge
worldly shoal
Argh, I"m typing too fast, not cross-checking.
worldly shoal
No s. There is no Build_Badge, or there shouldn't be.
rancid minnow
its still an undefined global but least its capatalised!
brittle geyser
I think it will always be an undefined global unless you have icon badges as an open folder next to it
vale lintel
probably ought to do that so it can be more helpful
worldly shoal
From Icon Badges mod, data-final-fixes.lua
-- Generate letter icon Badges
-- ***************************
-- Prepare badges for Vanilla
require("vanilla")
-- Iterate over all vanilla items from above and build badges for each
if Ib_global.badge_vanilla then
for subListName, subList in pairs(Badge_list) do
for itemName, ib_data in pairs(subList) do
if data.raw[subListName][itemName] then
Build_badge(data.raw[subListName][itemName], ib_data)
end
end
end
end```but mostly it seems like you just need to run in debug and see what's happening when it goes wrong
rancid minnow
would it matter that im testing this in editor extensions? i doubt it, but might aswell ask
brittle geyser
Luals :(
That's just plainly wrong :(
rancid minnow
AHAHA
gotta love luals
also, for the life of me i know i set up a debug factorio thingy but god knows it doesnt work now 😭
worldly shoal
Luals :(
That's just plainly wrong :(
I don't think the inner brackets should be there.
vale lintel
shouldn't matter, parens around any single expression is no-op
worldly shoal
Gotta love Lua syntactic sugar. There are so many ways to write the same thing, I'd get caught up in that instead fo the real problem.
brittle geyser
Like you know there's multiple...
rancid minnow
Like you *know* there's multiple...
if i push this to main, will it fuck with you rn 🤨
brittle geyser
Nah
brittle geyser
I'm just touching the library (and removing some errors in entity.lua from luals just not being that smart and narrowing)
rancid minnow
😭
worldly shoal
@brittle geyser How easy is it for you to look at what he's done? I'm not set up to test it.
rancid minnow
...should i be using ib_let_badge?
brittle geyser
Easy, I just gotta merge upstream main back into mine
(I probably should learn how to rebase my commits though)
rancid minnow
worldly shoal
(LOL -- I just got started with local Git, and yesterday forgot to start a branch for the day. Trying to merge at the end of the day was interesting.)
rancid minnow
oooof
brittle geyser
Btw Black, where are you requiring the icon-badges file?
brittle geyser
Ah I see it
worldly shoal
Good catch!
rancid minnow
should i switch the badge in the {{}} or the ib_data?
worldly shoal
Is he making any changes to icons after data.lua?
brittle geyser
Not that I know of
worldly shoal
should i switch the `badge` in the {{}} or the `ib_data`?
Explain to me what each bit of code does. It might take you a few rounds or spiral levels. I'll play rubber duckie.
Icon Badges just adds a layer to icons (and converts icon to icons if needed).
rancid minnow
Explain to me what each bit of code does. It might take you a few rounds or spir...
the ib_data presumably says "hey yeah, this shit needs a badge" and then badge... is the badge you can give it? 🤨
worldly shoal
(So many variations in icon and icons and layers and shortcut formats!!)
What are the parameters for Build_badge ?
worldly shoal
Close, but it' s not type and name.
rancid minnow
🤨 whuh
brittle geyser
I feel like I need to get galdoc to become an annotation fanatic like I am
worldly shoal
The parameters are separated by commas. There are two of them.
The first one is
data.raw[i.type][i.name] . That's the prototype. It's one thing.
worldly shoal
Layers on layers on layers. Not easy to break apart, but you eventually get sort-of used to it.
rancid minnow
woo!1 being worn down by systems!! just like real life!!
worldly shoal
What's the second parameter?
worldly shoal
Copying the line so I don't have to keep scrolling up.
Build_badge( data.raw[i.type][i.name] , ib_data)
For the first time through the loop, where is ib_data defined and what's its value?
rancid minnow
uuuhhhhhhh
worldly shoal
It's a bit tricky, since it's a table, not a simple value.
brittle geyser
it's i.ib_data
rancid minnow
yeah, wanted to say that
brittle geyser
So it's also in the my_data object
worldly shoal
Now work up. What's it's actual value?
rancid minnow
the.. first thing in my_data? (HDR)
worldly shoal
Almost. It's actually the table { badge = "HDR" } Which is wrong. Unlike me, you read the docs, and found it should be { ib_let_badge }
worldly shoal
Do you know how tables work, and get passed? They're a bit unusual.
worldly shoal
Everything inside the { } is considered one thing. In this case, it's just the name ib_let_badge and its value.
brittle geyser
Does factorio load icons before trying icon and icon_size?
worldly shoal
It could be more.
ib_data = { ib_let_badge = "HDR", ib_let_corner = "top-left" }
brittle geyser
:(
PM either has another file not in git or something broke
worldly shoal
Does factorio load icons before trying icon and icon_size?
I don't know. Icon Badges should work with any size icons.
rancid minnow
LR users rise up
brittle geyser
I don't know. Icon Badges should work with any size icons.
No i'm entirely talking about how it leaves the icon and icon_size field unaffected, while injecting things into the icons field
worldly shoal
I think that's the wrong path. Does __base__ doesn't have hr-lithium-battery ?
brittle geyser
It's not even looking in base so idk
I'm just commenting out hr to see if it works
worldly shoal
Strange. The error says it's looking in __base__
brittle geyser
Yeah, and it has non-hr
rancid minnow
oooh
worldly shoal
What's hr?
brittle geyser
Oh no yeah
worldly shoal
You learned a lot today!
rancid minnow
i did
worldly shoal
Make sure you get a good night's sleep to consolidate it.
rancid minnow
oh i will, just finished my first week of college and already behind on work 😎
brittle geyser
Alright.. time to start telling you about every high resolution image that's failing :)
worldly shoal
Then try something a bit more difficult. (Then work on other things, come back to this, and realize you've forgotten everything. You'll learn it faster the second time.)
rancid minnow
how tf is that even failing??
rancid minnow
Then try something a bit more difficult. (Then work on other things, come back t...
mood, big mood
i.. forget an i in molteninator
worldly shoal
The first dozen times through it can be discuoraging if you don't expect it.
See also Adam Savage's video on post-project depression.
rancid minnow
The first dozen times through it can be discuoraging if you don't expect it.
See...
i will, ty
worldly shoal
brittle geyser
how tf is that even failing??
I have a feeling I can figure out why
rancid minnow
but also, HUGE mf'ing thank you dudes
my ass would have never figured this out on my own 😭
worldly shoal
moltin / molten e/i
rancid minnow
me very smort 😎
worldly shoal
Entirely selfish on my part. Paying it forward, and teaching is a good way to learn/reinforce/find gaps in understanding.
rancid minnow
oh yeah ofc
i do have one thing though, it doesnt seem to be changing the iron plate badge 🤨
worldly shoal
May also be procrastinating from my own project.
Add a break point inside the loop and make sure it's looping.
Add a dummy line where you want the program to pause, eg local b=1 . Keep the cursor on that line and press F9, or move to the far left and click, to get a red dot in the margin.
Breakpoints are a very important tool in debugging.
Type a variable name in the watch window. Taht's another important tool.
Since iron-ore is a vanilla item, and you haven't turned off Ib_global.badge_vanilla , it might be doing both the vanilla badge and your badge, one ove rthe other.
Try moving yours to another corner.
brittle geyser
I mean, the base game seems to be adding the icon badge to iron plates at final-fixes while you're doing it in data...
worldly shoal
ore or plates?
worldly shoal
Icons for the recipes are being shown. So far, we've only changed hte icons for the items. It might be using the main_product's icon instead of the recipe's icon. Doing both HR and LowRes adds another layer of potential mistake.
Hmmm, how does Build_badge know if there's already a badge?
rancid minnow
i presume it checks the item two times, then goes "already has a badge? aight, leave it"
checks when base loads, then when PM loads
worldly shoal
I think that note is from the older version, back when users added properties directly to the prototype instead of using a function to just add layers to the icon.
@vast surge See #1283843931808858163 message onward . Thoughts?
I'm pretty sure now it just adds layers to the icon.
vast surge
Build Badge doesn't check for anything, I don't think
If you call it, it'll just add what you tell it to add
worldly shoal
So that bit of the doc is out of date?
rancid minnow
vast surge
what?
worldly shoal
worldly shoal
They haven't de-activated Ib_global.badge_vanilla , so it's probably putting the vanilla badge on, and his badge.
rancid minnow
i mean, i am ahppy to just disable the vanilla preset and do the pre-existing stuff myself, i need to change it anyway 😭
worldly shoal
(Or they're dealing with main_product or HR/LR .)
vast surge
Oh
worldly shoal
May as well disable it now, get that bit out of the way.
vast surge
Build_badge is just a function that adds a badge, that's all. It's what's called over and over again in the Process Badge List function
worldly shoal
The note implies we don't have to disable badge_vanilla . The mod somehow knows that we already added a badge.
vast surge
lemme see
worldly shoal
@rancid minnow Try setting Ib_global.badge_vanilla = false in data.lua .
rancid minnow
aight
rancid minnow
<@590229908672741455> Try setting `Ib_global.badge_vanilla` = false in data.lua ...
ait, in the file itself? data.lua?
worldly shoal
The mod page doesn't mention Build_badge at all.
Hmmm, the way you suggest doesn't need it.
@rancid minnow I may have steered you wrong. I showed you how I do it, but Galdoc's way also works. (He wrote the mod, so his way should work!)
worldly shoal
The way I do it also works, but combining the two ways won't.
rancid minnow
meh, im all good
aslong as it works and wont cause any issues
also, the disabling thing worked all good
time to rewrite it all!!
worldly shoal
As an exercise, compare what we did to the instructions here
https://github.com/Orion351/item-badges
Or not. It depends what you want to work on next.
Now to stop procrastinating on Nullius BioScouts.
rancid minnow
good luck dude
vast surge
If you need help setting it up, poke me tomorrow and I'm happy to go over it on stream
vast surge
if Ib_global.badge_vanilla then
if not mods["galdocs-manufacturing"] or (mods["galdocs-manufacturing"] and Ib_global.activation) then
Process_badge_list(Ib_global.Badge_list)
end
end
Basically, if you want to run your own badge list, just set Ib_global.badge_vanilla to false, and that won't run. Then just build your own badge list manually.
worldly shoal
We did it a bit differently, calling Build_badge directly, so beware of confusion.
vast surge
and run Process_badge_list([your list])
yah
I wanted Build_Badge in there cuz I use it for GM vanilla
And you can too if you want
brittle geyser
Doesn't Process_badge_list specifically take a dictionary of lists?
vast surge
It just adds little metal plate .pngs to the corners of some recipes
It takes a badge list specifically
worldly shoal
I use it for IconBadgeGroups , but in hindsight I might have been able to make a list in the right format to use Process_badge_list instead of making my own loop. Not a big deal.
brittle geyser
Then I must've looked at the wrong function..
vast surge
-- Badge List Functions
-- ********************
-- This is an optional structure to facilitate easy badging of prototypes. It's what I used for my vanilla badging.
-- Modders may use it too if they wish, or instead use the individual function above.
-- The format for a badge list is:
-- badge_list[prototype_group_1] = {["prototype_name_1"] = ib_data_1_1, ["prototype_name_2"] = ib_data_1_2, ...}
-- badge_list[prototype_group_2] = {["prototype_name_1"] = ib_data_2_1, ["prototype_name_2"] = ib_data_2_2, ...}
-- ...
-- where:
-- prototype_group is either fluid, recipe, item, or child-of-item in data.raw
-- prototype_name is the name of a fluid, recipe, item, or child-of-item in the prototype_group
-- ib_data_whatever_whatever is a table with icon badge properties as outline in the readme
-- Merge Badge List
-- NOTE: To remove a badge from list1 (i.e. un-badging an item from vanilla), simply set the ib_data = {} for that entry
-- WARNING: Using this function will overwrite entries in list1 with entries from list2!!!!
sorry -- badge list in that context meant that data structure there
not a flat list
worldly shoal
Now I remember why I did it my way. I wanted to group all iron (copper, silicon) things together, instead of all recipes (items, ammo)
vast surge
It's a table of {string|table} pairs
yah, that's entirely up to you
that's the other reason I split out the 'build badge' fucntion, so people could organize it how they wanted
worldly shoal
Just be sure you know what BlackATM has before starting to change it, to avoid confusion.
worldly shoal
Comment out all but a few lines in my_data.
Use the watch window to see exactly what you're sending to Build_badge .
rancid minnow
🤨
worldly shoal
That doesn't matter unles you've unzipped IconBadges and added it to VSCode.
VSCode can't read zip files, or even unzipped that it doesn't know about.
rancid minnow
i think i found the error
worldly shoal
(It depends what folder you put VSCode in. It might already see it.)
rancid minnow
so, a code name in my mod uses '
trying to input that into the icon badges breaks it, because it also uses '
and i presume, because the names arent the sames and therefore is badging something that doesnt exist
its throwing a hissyfit
worldly shoal
You can use ' or " in Lua, but need to make sure they match. Other languages are different.
rancid minnow
thank god 😭
vale lintel
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.1:~:text=Literal strings can be this really ought to be a subheading to itself...
worldly shoal
I've got VSCode up, and can share my screen if you want to see breakpoints and watch window in action.
rancid minnow
uhh, sure
sorry, was making sure everything was spelt correctly
hold on
i think it might actually because i had non-existent shit in there
letting it load rn 🤨
yeah no, it now loads fine 😭
worldly shoal
Make a note of taht technique. I had a list of stuff like that (which I lost, sigh).
rancid minnow
oh i will, defintely
rancid minnow
oh yeah no, i do not have the social or mental capacity to actually talk on call rn 😭
mhm
rancid minnow
ty
and yeah, i can
mhm mhm
i so need to reset that up
i knew i had it, but not anymore 😭
mhmh mhm
i mean.. hm
i understand everything you said 😭
idk, i get it??
worldly shoal
This sort of thing takes practice. It's like walking. Theory and demonstrations are good, but you need to actually do it.
rancid minnow
oh yeah i completely get that, its how i even learned the API
just keep doing it, and you get it
worldly shoal
I'm stil learning the API.
rancid minnow
i mean, im happy to help if your struggling with something
worldly shoal
I'm here most days, if you have questions.
worldly shoal
I'll ask if I need help. Right now I'm building up my mod in tiny steps, learning as I go.
rancid minnow
oooh, nice nice
worldly shoal
I"m paying it forward. jarg and codegreen and the others have been a big help to me.
rancid minnow
i've always wanted IB functionality and now i finally got it
rancid minnow
I"m paying it forward. jarg and codegreen and the others have been a big help to...
oh same, ofc
they do a great service in #mod-dev-help
worldly shoal
And if I can't pay it forward here, I pay it forward in other groups, eg knitting
worldly shoal
Sometimes it takes a while before I can, but it balances over a lifetime.
rancid minnow
mhm mhm, the ability to pay it forward arrives when it arrives
you find it eventually
rancid minnow
does ib_let_inverse have to replace ib_let_badge or is it an extra thing that goes in the ib_data table?
nvm, figured it out
yipee
brittle geyser
Yeah
Just put a
if not mods["icon-badges"] then return end
At the beginning
Like the rest of your compatibility files 
brittle geyser
Yeah
rancid minnow
brittle geyser
It basically just says, hey does the mod we care about exist?
No? Okay then fuck off
data.lua?
brittle geyser
Yeah, this line should be in the icon-badges.lua file...
brittle geyser
Move it >:(
This is not your place Ib_global.badge_vanilla = false
worldly shoal
That flag tells Icon Badges to use its own built-in badges for everything that's in vanilla. If you want to put different badges on things that exist in vanilla, you need to make the flag false, and do them all yourself. (You can copy the vanilla set and edit it to save time.)
brittle geyser
The issue is where he was setting it false
You see the compatibility require right above it?
That contains the logic for not running when icon badges doesn't exist
worldly shoal
compatability -- is that part of BlackATM's mod? If I read the require statement right, it is.
brittle geyser
yeah
worldly shoal
Yeah, Ib_global only exists if IconBadges has been loaded.
brittle geyser
(Also I might go through and reformat Black's Icon badges to use the official list syntax that I made a pr to annotate into a proper class)
vast surge
Yah, that looks right to me