Heya
obsessionau , great game from what I've played so far. Really does remind me of A Photographer's Lies but a more softcore version that focuses more on the collection side of things, which tbh has been more up my alley as of late.
I've made mod packs in the past for Whoremaster and APL. Only recently stopped working on APL but after playing this I have the urge to make packs again. I've looked at both threads and it seems no one has made any modpacks yet so I hope you don't mind if I go through a few things with you (baring in mind I only have minor coding knowledge).
1. I'm assuming the collections are hard coded to 8 per type. If not is there anyway to increase (or decrease) this number and if so how?
2. Since the cards templates are set, I'm guessing that the images for the collections will need to be 533x800 and landscapes won't work at all? Also I'm guessing the naming stucture will have to be the same (0101-0108 for clothed shoots, 0201-0208 for lingerie and so on...)?
3. For the most part I think I understand how the relationshipdata works. Could I use this in a way to tell almost like a short story as you gain more relationship with that model (i.e multiple events with that one model at varing levels of relationship)? If so, that's something I've been hoping to do for a very long time but can't really do that with APL or WM. Just to add can I also add events to existing models via this method too?
Update :- I got bored and started experimenting. Basically answered 1 and 2 myself. For anyone else who is interested in adding packs, images for the collections and portraits will resize automatically, however when clicking the cards themselves anything larger than 533x800 will more than likely not fit on the screen when zoomed in. 533x800 seems perfect for a 1920x1080 monitor. You can probably get away with bigger images on higher resolution screens but make sure you keep the aspect ratio of 533x800, otherwise the images will be streched. Landscape not compatible.
I also got the events working, however it seems only one relationship event will trigger per model (unless I have terrible RNG).
Also some minor feedback, in the event triggers the images are also autoscaled down, but the scaling is rather small. May want this to be much bigger or not use auto scale at all. (Landscape does look better here, but not by much).
Other then that though, this was suprisingly easy. Only issue I'm seeing will be installation, since it requires overwriting the main .Ism files, meaning either modders will have to update their pack each game update, or modders only giving the extra code then it falls on the user to copy/pasta the code.
Congrats btw, this will probably be another game I'll sink time making packs for.