Pulling my hairs trying to get decals to work.

[Illanair]

I've been at it for hours trying to make my own sponsor.

I've finally managed to define a sponsorresearch value (thanks to everyone who dug this one out), but I am struggling to get the PNG Decal to appear ingame, no matter how I try to export the PNG (based off of the Brusselsprout example) in Photoshop.

I've tried with and without an alpha channel like the TGA demands, and I have tried uncompressed and compressed. Nothing. It just won't appear. I'm thinking it might be a LUA error, since I get the following error in the Mods Editor (even though I copied what the Idiocracy mod does word for word basically - everything has the same kind of entity references, except with a different name)

Example of error and layout of mod.
https://i.imgur.com/O1nUuEe.jpg

 

[Luna_UK]

Can you upload the mod file to dropbox or google drive with the png file and I'll take a look for you

 

[Illanair]

Here's the entire mod folder, PSD included as well as rendered images.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhWEjqqTOAwFgaoE9iKfA_6irYgnuQ

 

[Luna_UK]

Try this https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_SuDRsmVAMs2HrCpFxHv3uqc1xqaNBGM?usp=sharing

I've had to recreate it but same settings as yours.

 

[Illanair]

Weird... But it works now, and that's the important thing. Thanks!

 

[Luna_UK]

It's weird I know.

Took me ages to work it out and I've made these steps below to help. Try them out, they're less confusing then they look.

When making a Decal and a Mission Logo, I do the following:

1. Click "New Mod"
2. Enter the Mod Title
3. Double click the newly created mod so it opens
4. Click New Item tab and then New Decal
5. Give it a Name at the top, comment is optional
6. Give it an entity name
7. Give it a Display name
8. Next to "Image" is a blank box, three dots and then an Import button. Click the three dots and a browse window will open and this is where you search for you .PNG file
9. Once located file click open so that the file location appears in the box and then click Import.
10. Wait a few moments then click New Item tab and then New MissionLogo
11. Fill in the details manually for Name, ignore the drop down arrow next to this box.. The Comment is optional and ignore copy from
12. In General give it an Entity Name again
13. In Decal Mod entry, click the drop down and select the decal name you've just created
14. UI File: Click the button that says UI and then navigate to your mods folder, Open the folder with the mod name you're creating, open the UI folder and then select the .tga file in the location and press open.

for me it is defaulted to C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Surviving Mars\Mods

AppData is a hidden folder.

Once you have selected the tga file, you may get a message saying under the box saying "File does not exist" ignore this. Just click back in the box and off again and the error will vanish.

15. Add in your Display Name and any Mod filters such as logo, decal etc

If you're going to upload to Steam do the additional below, if not press save and the above should create the Decal and Mission Logo so in the Logo Select Screen the Logo appears.

Additional Preview Image Steps:

Locate your original png file. Right click and select properties, then click the security tab and copy the object name in that tab. It will be the file location and file name in one.

16. On the left hand side of the edit mod window on the top option (the parent mod) Click in the preview image box
17. Paste in the copied object name
18. Press the upload button.

 

[Luna_UK]

Oh and is your username on Steam Mansen? If so we've chatted on the same threads.

 

[Illanair]

That's probably me, yeah

I'm honestly not sure what I could have done wrong. Aside from the Sponsor being "copied from", everything is done as you suggested by hand. Ah well.

 

[Luna_UK]

Well I'm djayk85 on Steam.

As you seem to have Sponsor creating sorted, I might be asking for your assistance tomorrow if you don't mind. I spent day looking at other things as it looked a bit too daunting

 

[Illanair]

I wouldn't go that far, heh. All I did was copy Russia and tweak it a bit to make starting with Extractor AI seem less gamebreaking.

But I'm always up for some tweaking fun.

 

[adil3tr]

Does this appear in game on rockets and drone hubs or is that a different process?