Uncanny_Valley wrote:
Something I been thinking about (and was the first thing I played around with the tools) is to implement some easy way to replace textures and meshes. The XL engine forums has a lot of nice replacement textures and meshes that people have made and it would be great too see them in-game. Because having them showcased in a demo might inspire people to continue improving and adding more replacements. My own experiments with this was a simple material replacer; after loading a material in MaterialReader.cs, search the "Resources" folder for a Material with the same name, if you find one, use that instead of the one you loaded. Not the best solution but it worked quite nicely. Not saying that it needs to be in this april demo but I feel that it would be a great addition to have in the near future and would add more spark to modding community. Any thoughts on this?
I played around with replacing whole objects (mainly trees, street lamps and some other common flats you find around the cities) with prefabs a long time ago. It worked well, but that was before the streaming world arrived...I haven't really looked into since. I think your plan sounds great! It would be amazing down the line if it was possible to load replacement files externally (ie not have to recompile it every time you want to add something) - but that's of course not needed yet!
An idea I had for the demo is an ingame fast travel map / menu, rather than just the presets and random location. I'll try and tackle it if I have the time, but if someone else is interested and does it first I won't complain
(and of course it's up to InterKarma whether or not it goes in the demo!)
edit: Oh yeah, mid April should be fine.
I don't know if there is much more I can do with it at this point, but if I find anything to fix and improve I will of course upload it.