Modding Stonehearth's Graphics Test Program

[sdee]

@CatoArcanus

I’ve built projects before, but they have always been in one language, maybe with some python overhead. All of this JSON, Lua, HTML is going to be our GUI stuff has me super interested but simultaneously overwhelmed.

You know, that’s exactly how I felt when I started working here, after 10 years in the industry. Just try–I dare you!–to switch between C++, Lua, and JS four or five times all in one day and not make one mistake that involves a semi-colon and/or curly-brace.

@CatoArcanus

I’m trying unlearn everything I can about various design methodologies and the organization of programming languages.

Why unlearn when you can apply? We’re all fans of design methodology over here.

@Roughshod

When I was doing all of my research for my Fallout Mod, it appeared to me that ‘decompiling’ or otherwise reversing the core code of a program was considered to be a hack (hacking, etc, whatever verb fits), not a mod.

Yes, good instincts.

@voxel_pirate

I am convinced that it is not. As we can see, uncompiled code is already readable. I could imagine that the devs have compiled the code for some obscurity-reasons . Why do I think so? The devs always highlight that modding will be easy in the “final” product. Decomiling does not fit into such statements.

Yes, well said.

Basically, we compiled the code so it would be super clear that the stuff in the graphics test wasn’t final code/api yet, and so that you, looking at it in all of its obfuscated glory, would be unable to forget that it’s unofficial.

Which is to say, we’re really impressed with how far you guys have gotten into it already. We can’t wait to see what happens over the next few months.