Creating easily selectable parts from dumped game assets
For those of you that have also used the asset dumper to obtain base game models and especially machines, you might have found that they can be annoying to work with if just imported as is from the fbx files.
I've found that a pretty reliable way, at least in Blender but I'm sure it would work similarly for other modelling programs, to simplify both the mesh and the work flow, is to follow the steps in the screenshots provided; that is, once you've imported the fbx, with all vertices selected, perform a merge by distance operation of 1mm on them with the sharp edges toggled on, and then convert tris to quads with 180 degrees for both numbers values and all 'compare' toggles on.
With these two steps, most separate parts on the machine can be picked and duplicated as necessary by selecting a single face and stepping up the selection until you've highlighed the whole part. The decals will be separate pieces so be sure to shift-select those as well if you want to keep the extra details.
Remember that anything generated from the base game is for personal, non-commercial use only.
If you use parts of base game machines for mods be sure to acknowledge where they came from and be aware that as they are subject to copyright held by CSS and all that entails. ...
Draw Abstract Instances in Editor
Hey I found a new way to draw the Abstract Instances in the Editor. Since the provided code is broken in AFGBuildable.
Also this way doesn't need to edit the Header of CSS:
AccessTransformers.ini:
```ini...
StreamDeck Actions for Devs
Here's the actions that I'm using for StreamDeck to speed up my development process. While they may or may not work on your machine, they should give you a starting point of how to configure them. They're not yet perfectly "tuned in" as I just made them yesterday and haven't hit all the possible edge cases, but sooner or later I will.
I am using the following Plugins for these:
Window Actions
BarRaider Super Macro...
debug box
This is how I am drawing debug boxes. I add a component to an actor here but you could just as easily spawn a static mesh actor.
Quixel megascans for free
https://www.fab.com/megascans-free
Now that FAB is out, they are giving away Quixel megascans until the end of 2k24, ngl they do be kinda hot and maybe someone will make a good use of them...
Retrieve the name of an input and keep it when it get changed
Just a small screenshot of how i did for one of my mods, hope that may help someday
The event is called after loaded a save, when the player get's the control of the character, then everytime the input settings are edited...
