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boformer / BuildingThemes

Mod for Cities:Skylines
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=466158459
MIT License
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Detect the loaded building packs #20

Open boformer opened 9 years ago

boformer commented 9 years ago

It doesn't make sense to display a "European" theme on a boreal/tropical/sunny map without the EuroBuildingsUnlocker mod.

We have to check which collections are loaded:

Sunny Collections | Boreal Collections | Tropical Collections --> Display "International" Theme Europe Collections --> Display "European" Theme

The problem is that this can only be determined when the game is already loaded (OnLevelLoaded).

A different solution would be to check if EBU is installed.

bloodypenguin commented 9 years ago

I think that individual buildings must be hidden, not whole themes. It's easy to get complete list of buildings and see if it contains certain name. Example: EBU not installed. Some theme contains mix of custom and vanilla assets. Custom assets will be loaded for Tropical map, vanilla won't.

bloodypenguin commented 9 years ago

I mean vanilla buildings are Euro in that theme.

boformer commented 9 years ago

That's how our mod works right now. I just thought it might cause confusion:

User downloads BuildingThemes (not EBU), Euro and International Theme displayed. User selects "Euro", nothing grows in that zone.

bloodypenguin commented 9 years ago

And what if Euro is extended with some custom buildings. Also we can hide themes that contain no available buildings.

boformer commented 9 years ago

The problem is that the Euro theme will always contain available buildings. For example both collections share many low-density residential buildings. The theme is still not usable because it contains no high-density residential buildings if you play on an "International map". It is only a subset of the international theme.

bloodypenguin commented 9 years ago

I know that. But this problem will also affect custom themes. What if user creates a theme that contains only industrial buildings? Maybe we need to limit each theme to a certain zoning type? This way we will have built-in 'Euro HD Res', "int. Office' themes etc.

boformer commented 9 years ago

Then we would mix up zoning and district themes.

The user can create custom themes that only contain buildings of a certain type and combine multiple of them.

The default themes should contain all buildings of a collection.

bloodypenguin commented 9 years ago

Fair enough