Thread: Any one well well versed in C# or C++ want to give me a hand in a mod?

I've been screwing around with 7 Days to Die XML files. Simply put, there is a property code applied to an item that spawns an entity. I've explored the XML in detail, and there is something in a .dll files that tells the game to reference the items.xml back to the entityclasses.xml and generate a specific entity.

I think Kanati is pretty handy with C#. You can probably pay him in likes and/or games. I think Dex and Guyver are both ahead of him.

XML isn't C# or C++. It's a text file detailing data.

Originally Posted by Kanati

XML isn't C# or C++. It's a text file detailing data.

Maybe he was meaning fiddling with a DLL to use an XML file or he wants to see the inside of one to better understand how to change an XML?

Yeah no idea... "Fiddling" with a DLL requires documentation of said dll and an XML file is just a text file so you can read that with notepad. Not sure what the purpose is so I can't give any advice.

I'm using dotpeek 1.4 to explore a dll file. Because in the XML file there code or "class" that tell the game what function and item can perform. Repair, placeasblock, and a very special new class "spawnminibike"

So there is code written in the dll file that somehow tells the game to reference back to that specific entity.

I can go into the xml file for entities and change what a minibike is, ie tell the game a minibike has all the properties, mesh files and AI of a deer, and the game will spawn a "minibike" that looks and acts like a deer. But there are a few errors with it that aren't relevant.

So what I'm trying to learn is how the DLL file governs the process and only allows the game to search of the minibike entity to spawn.

See what testing I did has all been try and error. Go into item xml, change class "spawnminibike" to "spawndeer". Doesn't work.
Change class to "spawnminibikeZ" go into entity xml and change "minibike" to "minibikeZ" Doesn't work.
"Spawnminibike" is its own unique class/action. It's not action "spawn" this "minibike". So what I did was something close to changing "repair" to reDERPERDOOpair, the game has no idea what the new class is.

This is the first instance of an item the spawns an entity, the method is now there, I want to use it to spawn different entities.

And, Kanati, if you still have 7 Days to Die installed and updated, you already have the files involved.

E:\Program Files for AMD FX-8\Steam\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\7DaysToDie_Data\Managed

"Assembly-CSharp" -> <Root NameSpace> -> ItemActionSpawnMinibike.cs

public override void ReadFrom(DynamicProperties _props)

{

base.ReadFrom(_props);

this.entityToSpawn = XN.D(90996);

using (Dictionary<int, EntityClass>.KeyCollection.Enumerator enumerator = EntityClass.list.Keys.GetEnumerator())

{

while (enumerator.MoveNext())

{

int current = enumerator.Current;

if (UN.O(EntityClass.list[current].entityClassName, this.entityToSpawn))

{

There's more to it but where is this telling the game to reference entity files?

The objects themselves might reference the files. The "EntityClass" object might have methods that read the files. Or whatever the XN object is might be doing it.

Or entityclass might be the memory-resident version of the xml file itself... Hard to tell.