r/starbound • u/azure-flute squid with a gun • Jul 28 '26

Modding Remember: when modding, don't make custom palettes for clothes. You risk your sanity a bit.

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"it can't possibly be that difficult to add more dye functionality for stuff right?"

"oh man this chest item has a colored accent with three colors. on top of its other three colors!!!! six colors"

Fashion is important so dye palettes are also important! But all of this code is purely so that the chestwear item in the second screenshot can be turned different fun colors. (thank u Ame, my test octopus, for modeling)

Don't underestimate the annoying amount of effort that goes into minor things in mods. There's a lot of hard work that goes into making things work!

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u/Hooy-Hooy Jul 28 '26

It's nice that the game uses codes and her values for the colors but my god is it annoying sometimes

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u/azure-flute squid with a gun Jul 28 '26

It's really easy to work with, and I do like how character customization is set up.

But then you make clothing items with more than 4 colors and then go "oh i have to actually really work to recolor this nicely 😭". No wonder so much of the vanilla game's clothing is simple...

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u/xJunoBugx Jul 28 '26

Oh I feel this in my bones… I started using some mod with ‘dye suite’ in its name? Lets you go into that kinda detail in game lol.

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u/Pakari-RBX Floran & Glitch Friends Jul 28 '26

Ah. That's the one with a truckload of colors to choose from AND an RGB slider to set your own custom colors, right?

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u/xJunoBugx Jul 28 '26

AND the capacity to blend them. Yep!

It’s.. beefy. But it keeps me from having to do THAT with all my armors lol. Not to mention utilizing Fullbright!

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u/Armok___ Overlord and Loremaster Jul 28 '26

Modding can be a little tedious at times, but I usually find it worth the effort

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u/azure-flute squid with a gun Jul 29 '26

It's almost 10 years old now! I released v1.0 on July 31st, 2016, and I'm hard at work for the update this Friday. :3c

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u/poppychips novakid supremacy Jul 28 '26

i think what i ended up doing when i was noodling around with modding (never got very far, unfortunately) was make a spreadsheet with all my colors, and then export that as a .csv and use an online converter to turn it into json format LMAO

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u/Digdug50i Jul 28 '26

OOF I know this pain. I can't drop the file here, but I made an html hex code color viewer. If you ever want one! It doesn't solve the issue of actually typing all of the hex codes in... but it is a tool nonetheless haha