Piepieonline's DDSLoader

Library. Loader for both new and patch based overrides DDS content (Trees/Messages/Blocks) and localised strings

Content Layout

Content is loaded from any folder named DDSContent, in one of two ways:

• Folder scan (default): files are found by where they sit, eg DDSContent/DDS/Trees/*.tree, DDSContent/Strings/English/*.csv
• Manifest: if DDSContent/ddsmanifest.json exists, only the files it lists are loaded, from wherever they actually sit

The manifest's files keys are file paths relative to the manifest (so a bare filename is a sibling), and the values are the folder the file would have sat in if it were a folder layout:

{
  "enabled": true,
  "files": {
    "MyConversation.tree": "DDS/Trees",
    "Messages/MyConversation.msg": "DDS/Messages",
    "MyStrings.csv": "Strings/English/DDS"
  }
}

Setting enabled to false skips that DDSContent folder entirely.

Debugging

The library provides some useful features for debugging

• Logging of all conversations that begin
• Pausing when a specific conversation begins

For executing in UnityExplorer:

• DDSLoader.DDSDebugHelper.StartConversation("DDS_Tree_ID", new string[] { "Human_1", "Human_2" });

Manual Installation

• Ensure you have BepInEx BE installed
• Extract the mod to ".\BepInEx\plugins", so you should have ".\BepInEx\plugins\DDSLoader\DDSLoader.dll"

Source:

https://github.com/piepieonline/ShadowsOfDoubtMods/tree/master/DDSLoader