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Nielk1 / AnythingGalleryModLoader

Mod Loader and Mods for The Anything Gallery to make it function again
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A few things are broken #1

Open Xaicracker opened 2 months ago

Xaicracker commented 2 months ago

I checked out The Anything Gallery today and realized that the fixed version from 2 years ago no longer works!

Your mod loader fixes most problems except for the YoutubeScanner, which no longer works, the exhibitions, which are mostly always the same, and a thing or two.

I would highly appreciate it if you tried to patch out these bugs, as this is the only way to play this game nowadays, and you seem more active than The Anything Gallery's original creator these days. Thank you.

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Xaicracker commented 2 months ago

This is my first time making a comment in Github, so I'm sorry if I did a few things wrong.

Nielk1 commented 2 months ago

I feel like the older version combined with the mod loader is actually better than the newest version since the newest version removed the info pedestals and the screen effect shader.

I'm not sure how to tackle this. Fixing the pedestals and adding back the screen effect as an option would be optimal but I don't think I can hook into the pedestals anymore now that they are neutered. It depends on how he neutered the pedestals, if the code is still there and just bypassed I can probably bring it back but if it's entirely gone it might be too difficult.

I had a lot of cool ideas I wanted to add like new rooms with a low-poly phonograph in it for audio, but I never got around to it because I'm not an artist. I also wanted to fix the jigsaw module that was used to build the random layouts so they didn't fold back in on themselves sometimes but I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it to patch it.

This would all be way easier if the author released the original project files since I could add mod loading directly into it and make the entire core logic module based, but that's likely a pipe dream. I've thought about trying to make my own version from scratch but I am not a game-dev, I am most often a server software developer who dabbles in reverse engineering for fun.

I'll keep this bug as a stub and close it after entries for individual sub-issues related to updating this for the latest version are ready. I can't promise when that will happened but this issue has bumped this higher on my rather long priority list.