Need help w/ mods!!!

[catlover13]

Currently, I'm working on two NPCs. One of them, named Ghost, has a den, a bundle, and almost complete dialog. The other one, named Rose, has a shop and almost complete dialog. But there's a few problems.

1. Whenever I recruit Ghost, everything is fine. The dialog, portraits, and bundle work perfectly. But when the game has me try to place his den, there's nothing for me to place; the den doesn't appear in-game.

2. When I talk to Rose, there's no 'visit shop' or 'sell items' option; just 'let's chat' and 'bye'. Her shop doesn't appear.

Anybody know what the problems are/how to fix them?

[Catsquid]

1. That sounds like it'd be an issue with either the ghostden.meta in buildings or the ghostden.region in map. Can you share those files?

2. In rose.meta in npcs, do you have "npc_has_shop" and "npc_shop_uid"?

[catlover13]

Jul 7, 2024 13:58:24 GMT -5 Catsquid said:

1. That sounds like it'd be an issue with either the ghostden.meta in buildings or the ghostden.region in map. Can you share those files?

2. In rose.meta in npcs, do you have "npc_has_shop" and "npc_shop_uid"?

I fixed Rose's shop (Tysm for the advice) and um....I actually don't know how to share files, so....=(

[atlaszt9067]

Jul 7, 2024 14:18:35 GMT -5 catlover13 said:

Jul 7, 2024 13:58:24 GMT -5 Catsquid said:

1. That sounds like it'd be an issue with either the ghostden.meta in buildings or the ghostden.region in map. Can you share those files?

2. In rose.meta in npcs, do you have "npc_has_shop" and "npc_shop_uid"?

I fixed Rose's shop (Tysm for the advice) and um....I actually don't know how to share files, so....=(

regarding sharing files, you can use something like mega ^^

[Catsquid]

Since they're just text files, you can just copy and paste the contents of your files into your post.

(Since they're kind of long, I'd suggest you put a spoiler tag around them. You can do that by typing [ spoiler]file contents go here[/spoiler ] but without the spaces. But that's optional so don't worry about it if you can't figure it out)

[catlover13]

Ok! (I haven't actually fully gotten the hang of placing furniture yet, so the den is currently empty; the file might not be that long)


ghostden.region

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"region_data": {

"template": "Empty Den",

"region_music": "seasonalexteriorpack",

"region_battle_music": "none",

"region_coordinate": [0, 0],

"world_map_portrait_coordinate": [250, 250],

"pass_time": false,

"interior": true,

"allow_daily_battles": false,

"show_mews": true,

"show_mole_cash": false,

"show_festival_tokens": false,

"show_task_tokens": false,

"max_prey": 0,

"max_bugs": 0,

"max_herbs": 0,

"max_mushrooms": 0,

"max_voidlings": 0,

"max_npc_fighters": 0,

"spawn_ladybugs": false,

"spawn_moths": false,

"spawn_butterflies": false,

"spawn_fireflies": false,

"spawn_dragonflies": false,

"spawn_beetles": false,

"background_type": "void",



"is_npc_den": true,

"npc_den_floor_style": 1,

"npc_den_wall_style": 1,

"npc_den_grid": [

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],

[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]

],

"npc_den_furniture": [

{

"uid": "",

"x": 0,

"y": 0,

"direction": "south"

},

],



"spawners": [



],

"warps": [



],

"world_objects": [



],

"custom_sprites": [



],

"water_tiles": [



],

"path_tiles": [



],

"decorative_tiles": [



],

"cliff_tiles": [



],

"stair_tiles": [



],

"herbs_list": [



],

"prey_list": [



]

}

}

ghostden.meta

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{

"unlocked": true,



"sprite": "den_deadtree",

"building_type": "den",

"build_menu": true,

"decor_sprite": "decor_ghost",

"blocker_width": 116,

"blocker_height": 34,

"interior_region_id": "ghostden",

"interior_warp_x": 496,

"interior_warp_y": 978,



"npc_lock_list": [ "ghost" ],

"lock_dialog_key": "lang_ghost_npc_den_locked"

}

[Catsquid]

Hmm. The meta file looks correct. The region file also looks to be correct, except for two things. One: Is there a { that was cut off at the very beginning of the file? There's supposed to be one there. Two: maybe not supplying a uid for the furniture is messing something up? But I doubt that, I think the game would just ignore it.

The more I'm thinking about it, though, I almost think that the .region might be irrelevant if you can't even place the den. The .region would probably cause issues only when you tried to enter. But the ghostden.meta file, to my knowledge, is the only one that impacts the den building, so... my guess would just be a typo somewhere or folders being set up incorrectly.

If you can't figure it out, I can take a look if you're willing to share. To share the whole mod, you'd make a zip file from your mod and upload it to a file sharing site like Google Drive (or Mega, as Atlas suggested).

[catlover13]

Jul 7, 2024 15:11:22 GMT -5 Catsquid said:

Hmm. The meta file looks correct. The region file also looks to be correct, except for two things. One: Is there a { that was cut off at the very beginning of the file? There's supposed to be one there. Two: maybe not supplying a uid for the furniture is messing something up? But I doubt that, I think the game would just ignore it.

The more I'm thinking about it, though, I almost think that the .region might be irrelevant if you can't even place the den. The .region would probably cause issues only when you tried to enter. But the ghostden.meta file, to my knowledge, is the only one that impacts the den building, so... my guess would just be a typo somewhere or folders being set up incorrectly.

If you can't figure it out, I can take a look if you're willing to share. To share the whole mod, you'd make a zip file from your mod and upload it to a file sharing site like Google Drive (or Mega, as Atlas suggested).

Turns out, the problem was that the den files were in the wrong folder; I fixed it, and now Ghost has a den! Thank you for the advice.

[catlover13]

Help!!!
New Problem!

I was working on a schedule for Rose, and when I finished, I copied the file that had her schedule on it into json lint, and it said there was an error on a line that was perfectly fine. There were no problems with it. But it kept saying that there was an extra comma even tho there wasn't.

HELP

[Catsquid]

Don't worry! Jsonlint just does that. I guess in "proper" json, you're not supposed to have a comma on the last line of a section. But Cattails will read it either way, so you can just ignore that error.

[catlover13]

Jul 8, 2024 19:31:05 GMT -5 Catsquid said:

Don't worry! Jsonlint just does that. I guess in "proper" json, you're not supposed to have a comma on the last line of a section. But Cattails will read it either way, so you can just ignore that error.

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case for me. I loaded the game; it worked fine. I added her schedule and then tried to load the game; it didn't load. I put the entire file into json lint, and it still told me that I had an extra comma in the middle of the schedule, even though I didn't. =(

[Catsquid]

Ohh, what? Okay, that's a different error then. Can you show me the schedule? Particularly where jsonlint is having a problem with it.

[catlover13]

Jul 8, 2024 20:33:26 GMT -5 Catsquid said:

Ohh, what? Okay, that's a different error then. Can you show me the schedule? Particularly where jsonlint is having a problem with it.

This is the part where json lint is detecting the "error":


},

{

"region": "roseden",

"type": "coordinate",

"hour": 0,

"minute": 0,

"direction": "east”,

"x": 753,

"y": 684,

"behavior": "sleeping"

},

{

(Note: The "error" is where it says "direction": "east”. For the error itself, it says: Expecting 'STRING', 'NUMBER', 'NULL', 'TRUE', 'FALSE', '{', '[', got 'undefined')

[Falcon Development]

Jul 8, 2024 20:33:26 GMT -5 Catsquid said:

"direction": "east”,

I know it's difficult to tell, but the quotation mark on the end of "east” is the wrong character. Should be "east" instead!

[catlover13]

Jul 8, 2024 20:49:56 GMT -5 Falcon Development said:

Jul 8, 2024 20:33:26 GMT -5 Catsquid said:

"direction": "east”,

I know it's difficult to tell, but the quotation mark on the end of "east” is the wrong character. Should be "east" instead!

Thank you! I fixed the error, and now the schedule works! Woo-hoo!