Custom Buildings

Your own buildings for Shadows of Doubt: your own floor plans inside, your own outside if you want, shops and restaurants the game fills like its own, and your own pieces of the city's sea wall, like a pier down to the water.

New cities only: custom buildings and wall pieces appear in cities generated after they were added, not in old saves.

What's in this package

• The CustomBuildings plugin (BepInEx 6 IL2CPP). It loads the buildings and wall pieces in BepInEx\plugins\…\CustomBuildings\Buildings and …\Edge. It needs nothing but BepInEx.
• An example wall piece, BoundaryCoastal03 ("Pier wall"): the game's straight sea wall with an opening in the railing and stairs down to a wooden pier 3 m above the water. Every new city gets one. You can walk on it; NPCs don't use it. If you fall into the sea next to it, you're put back on the pier. Don't want it? Delete Edge\BoundaryCoastal03, or set "Enabled": false in its piece.json.

Making your own

Buildings and wall pieces are made with the editor, SodBuildingEditor.exe (Windows, one file, nothing to install). It has a floor plan editor, a 3D preview, an exterior painter, wall pieces with export to Blender and a checked import, and it can set up BepInEx and the plugin by itself.

https://github.com/Ranelle19/SodCustomBuildings/releases/ and in manifest.json's website_url. --> Get the editor from the mod's website (link above).

With a mod manager (r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager) the plugin lives in the manager's profile, not in the game folder. In the editor, use File → Open mod folder… and pick the profile's BepInEx\plugins\Ranelle-CustomBuildings\CustomBuildings folder. (Open the profile folder from the mod manager's settings.) Don't install the plugin a second time from the editor's setup into the game folder while you use a mod manager.

Playing someone's buildings

Copy the folders you got into the plugin's folder: buildings (like cb_MyTower) into CustomBuildings\Buildings\, wall pieces (like BoundaryCoastal04) into CustomBuildings\Edge\. Then generate a new city.

Multiplayer (SOD MP)

Every player needs this mod and exactly the same Buildings and Edge folders. The game log shows a content hash at start (Content hash …); it must be the same for everyone. The host generates the city.

Works with

SOD MP, SOD API, SOD-Optimizer, NewLife, SodDebugMenu. Optional: the editor can also export buildings for Asset Bundle Loader / UniversalObjectLoader.

For mod makers

Your mod adds its own kinds of places, rooms or furniture? With a few lines they work with custom buildings: building makers can reserve a unit for your place in the editor, and saved cities keep it. See MODDING.md on the GitHub page (checklist, example code, and a small optional API, CustomBuildings.Api).

Settings and help

Settings: BepInEx\config\Ranelle.sod.custombuildings.cfg. If something's wrong, send BepInEx\LogOutput.log (close the game first); the plugin's lines start with [CustomBuildings], [edge], [pier].