LUA Question - Adding new size-tags for weapons

[Lc4Hunter]

Hello everyone!

i wanted to add a new size-tag for the weapons tab in the ship configuration menu (on the top left where the slots are shown with their size and a number S1 S2 and so on).

As this is a UI-thing i looked at the lua-files and found two that seem to be relevant:
..\ui\addons\ego_detailmonitorhelper\helper.lua

For my understanding the section "Helper.upgradetypes" is relevant for my goal so i added the "extrasmall" part to the "weapons" section:

{ supertype = "macro", type = "weapon", category = "weapons", mergeslots = false, allowempty = true, emode = "Weapons",
text = { extrasmall = ReadText(1001, 8075), small = ReadText(1001, 8075), medium = ReadText(1001, 8076), large = ReadText(1001, 8077), extralarge = ReadText(1001, 8078) },
shorttext = { extrasmall = ReadText(1001, 52), small = ReadText(1001, 51), medium = ReadText(1001, 50), large = ReadText(1001, 49), extralarge = ReadText(1001, 48) },
},

I also added the new tag to "function Helper.getSlotSizeText(slotsize)":

function Helper.getSlotSizeText(slotsize)
if slotsize == "extralarge" then
return ReadText(1001, 48)
elseif slotsize == "large" then
return ReadText(1001, 49)
elseif slotsize == "medium" then
return ReadText(1001, 50)
elseif slotsize == "small" then
return ReadText(1001, 51)
elseif slotsize == "extrasmall" then
return ReadText(1001, 52)
end

return ""
end

And last but not least in "Helper.slotSizeOrder"

["extralarge"] = 1,
["large"] = 2,
["medium"] = 3,
["small"] = 4,
["extrasmall"] = 5,

But that all does not work. If i give a weapon the extrasmall tag, it shows nothing...


Did i miss something? Is there a hardcoded part which makes my attempt impossible?

Hopefully someone can help me out here

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: The modification of the file in general works. When i replace the Text for the "Small" Tag, the changed text is shown in the game.

[Casishur]

would extrasmall weapons or turrets be a good candidate for Pdc turrets?

That would be wonderful.

[Dj_FRedy]

Hi Lc4Hunter,

The block that handles this in first instance in your particular case is in the function 'menu.getDataAndDisplay' of the file 'menu_ship_configuration.lua':

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                if not slot.isgroup then
                    slot.slotname = i
                    slot.slotsize = ffi.string(C.GetSlotSize(menu.object, 0, menu.macro, false, upgradetype.type, i))
                    if slot.slotsize ~= "" then
                        if sizecounts[slot.slotsize] then
                            sizecounts[slot.slotsize] = sizecounts[slot.slotsize] + 1
                        else
                            sizecounts[slot.slotsize] = 1
                        end
                        slot.slotname = upgradetype.shorttext[slot.slotsize] .. sizecounts[slot.slotsize]
                    end
                end

The GetSlotSize() function does not return anything for your slot. This function is hardcoded.

[Lc4Hunter]

After some research and help from other modders it SEEMS that the games exe-file is responsible for reading the size tags and forwarding it to the interface... so a modification of the exe would be the way to go. But i thinks thats not worth it...

@Dj_FRedy: I will take a look on this part! Maybe my initial suggestion was wrong and this could work...