BoswenMcBastok
SMSatisfactory Modding
•Created by BoswenMcBastok on 4/13/2025 in #help-developing-mods
Fresh install with "Unknown specifier" errors up the wazoo!
Hello again, all! I just finished following most of the fresh install steps under getting started -- including a uninstall and restart from scratch since I thought maybe my copy of UE4 was somehow causing these same errors. (Spoiler: That didn't fix it! Oh well...)
Anyway, not too sure what's causing this and didn't see any similar errors from other users when I searched the Discord. Here is my very first build output, attached. (Apparently it was too big and it made it an attachment automatically? Neat!) Anyway, if it does what it did before, I can double click any of these errors and it opens some kind of mini-compiler where it looked like it was trying to compile library modules for the various
#included headers or something ... I can do it again if that helps, but it added a ton more errors every time I did.
Any idea what's causing this? I made sure I have the right version of all of the required software -- even the optional VS extension. Thanks again, all!130 replies
SMSatisfactory Modding
•Created by BoswenMcBastok on 4/12/2025 in #help-developing-mods
Docker development container?
Hi, all! I've been discovering Docker over the last year or so at my new job and learned about an idea called a "Development Container" thru Gitlab. As I understand it, this concept can be used to create a ready-to-use development image that can be loaded up in Docker Desktop. And once it's loaded, all of the tools I've just manually downloaded (I'm starting my SF modding journey today!) could be ready to use. So in other words, new users would only have to download a single Docker image and it would have within a completed installation of Unreal, VS, Audiokinetic, SMM, the basic starter project, any other dependencies we might need, and an automatically mounted persistent volume that links back to a configurable location on the user's host storage. If that's true -- and assuming I've described that accurately -- that seems really useful! And it's not that the process is that difficult, I just thought being able to pull up VS Code right on GitHub was so awesome that I'd love to replicate the expedient experience here.
Sooo... long story short, do we have that available somewhere? And if not, can I help make it? It's a bit beyond my grasp, but I'd love to do what I can to help if that kind of thing would be useful!
(Side note -- I realize there are also questions of if are we allowed to have that kind of thing because of individual software license concerns and external sign-ups I just had to do with Epic, Wwise, Microsoft, etc to download everything the BeginnersGuide just asked me to get. However, I feel like these concerns can be answered with some kind of mTLS handshake between a authorization gate at wherever we post the development container image and the external parties. We could even make write kind of logic that opens a sign-up / login page to any site where the user's request was rejected, e.g. because they weren't already logged in...)
Looking forward to your thoughts, all!
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