I LOVE the WW Furnishing mod and I especially love its wallpapers, and I've been thinking about making a tutorial for a while, but now that I have officially been enabled (thank you @dru-plays-starbound) I sat down this morning to finally make one.
This is Marion. Marion is standing in a criminal's old hideout that has been mostly gutted and had its lighting replaced. This room alone should be a good size space to play around in.
But of course this still has its old wall, so step 1 is to remove it and start with a hollow shell. Unfortunately Marion could not stop the relentless passage of time and now night has fallen.
You know at this point I really regretted choosing a structure on a planet whose parallax is a bunch of vertical lines which is THE go-to wallpaper pattern. Nonetheless we shall sally forth.
Have some wallpaper rainbows.
These are the solid colors. There's a corresponding Solid I Wallpaper to that first borderless solid, but I left that one out because this one shows all the colors you can turn it to and solid 1 is just an unassuming gray square, and full disclosure I have so many interiors to update because the solid and bordered wallpapers together are jarring and I hate it. That first one is for the vanilla colors, and the other solids have the modded colors.
"solid wallpaper, borderless solid wallpaper, what does that mean" Well, the borderless wallpapers are exactly that. These are good for the back walls, and the bordered wallpapers are your side walls.
If you look close enough at those blocks of half rainbows, you can see that from top to bottom, these colors are all arranged in the order of your matter manipulator's paint tool Cycle to that color, get that wallpaper's color. Be prepared for an intimate relationship with the paint tool, especially as we go further into this.
Okay it's morning. Let's look at the wallpapers.
Here are those solid colors along with modded versions of the classic and striped wallpapers in vanilla Starbound. Don't be deceived by their default grayness--these will give you more vibrant versions of those wallpapers. I didn't cover this because we all probably know the vanilla wallpapers are ass, but to test this for yourself go put up some classic vanilla wallpaper and go to town with the paint tool. You'll see that the colors are depressingly faded.
Look at all those pretty colors. Modded starbound is the best. What you see is exactly what you get, but those other blocks are gonna have you painting a wall pink with green.
Also the teleporter is offscreen to the left and Marion has had to turn into a spike sphere to get past that wall. Let's get rid of these.
That's better. And here's just a few of those modded colors on the other solid blocks. Thankfully Solid II wallpaper has a lot of similar colors to the modded borderless solid.
Let's talk about those modded wallpapers a little bit.
See what I mean? That pink color takes the place of green in the paint tool's color order, but rest assured this is how Marion painted that borderless pillar. That will allow us to use some of those modded wallpapers, like this.
This is just one example, and those lace wallpapers are borderless. Some patterned wallpapers have borders, and that includes our modded versions of the vanilla wallpapers from earlier. But that specific solid in that specific color is the only reason this works. Marion, could you slap a bunch of solids around a patterned wallpaper and paint it all green please?
Thank you. Always know which solid wallpaper you're using. Unless you want this. I'm not gonna judge.
Now let's get into some proper wallpapering. Marion, tear that all down and put up a solid color. Any color, any wallpaper.
Okay, default solid 2 it is. Also I can't help but notice you've been eating on the job. That is an entire chocolate cake under your arm.
Also it's nighttime but we won't have gaping holes in this building for much longer. Let's keep going!
Wow, look at all that pink. This is nice, but what if you don't want a huge wall of pepto bismol?
You could always paint some stripes. But we didn't do our math here, so that last purple stripe is an extra block wide. Might want to choose a smaller stripe pattern. Like i said, be prepared for an intimate relationship with the paint tool. Including the eraser at the end.
In the meantime, let's see those bordered wallpapers and borderless wallpapers together in action. Marion, knock out the walls again. Yeah, knock out one of those iron block walls too.
Looking good, but this is still a little boring. Let's add some baseboard trim.
That's better. Also we're almost out of this kind of wallpaper so we just shaved off like 12 blocks.
But why stop at trim on the bottom when you could put trim...
...on TOP?
There's a ton of vanilla blocks I would recommend for trims, but we only packed a few. But what if you still don't like that solid red?
There's that smaller pattern I was talking about! But the dark tones of the wood and the dark tones of the red are kind of drowning each other out. Time for a paint job!
And now the teams have been auto-balanced.
Marion you stupid slut you got levitating dirt all over the construction site and now you're breaking the walls and making the wallpaper pattern look like that thing I hate. If you put a window up there I swear to god.
Just kidding! She just needed scaffolding so she could add an even fancier trim to the top! And since we only had these starry blocks on hand we might as well paint it green. Now that's a fancy room.
But that's not all! Here's some other uses for wallpaper!
You could use wallpaper...
...for a loft!
Or a kitchen backsplash!
Or a bathroom in your loft!
You could even use it...
AS TRIM???
If those big blocks of wallpaper still bother you, consider adding wall hangings or windows.
Tried my hand for the first time ever at making a tenant building in Starbound! I had always never really tried the colonies in the game because I just love the fact I can explore endless planets with my characters. I built it on a barren planet to protect the tenant since this is a trial run, and I may end up extending the area to have multiple tenants in their own houses. I have enough resources and materials to do that at least 50 times if I wanted
A commission of a Starbound character named Auramin! I had a lot of fun drawing the character and making a fun little background, so I'm really glad with how this piece turned out!
Said background is meant to mimic the streets of a Hylotl town, which are inspired by modern Japanese towns.
For those who can't read the Blog Description (I hope it's working, but if it isn't)- My name's Ender! I'm a game developer, who works independently on my own passion projects when I can, and currently on the search for more stable work besides my part-time job.
And this- Is the blog that's going to document my development journey while making a species mod for Starbound!
I've already made a lot of progress on the creatures, but, it's come to my attention that I need to get the word out on these little creatures- And moreover, get some feedback and interaction from the entire community on it!
I'm hopeful that one day, this mod might be as great as some of the other species mods I've seen out there- With fully-fleshed-out concepts of the Ryophi and their place in the universe, furniture, and other little, fun details!
Also, to share a bit of information about these snake-creatures, I added a bit of info on them, below the Keep Reading line!
The Ryophi are a species of snake-like creatures with humanoid upper torsos. From a biological perspective, they are capable of breathing in thermal energy, exhaling air much colder than before, through the gaps in their scales. They are, on average, twice the length of a human, but stand approximately as tall. Humidity is a minor danger to these species, having originated from a very hot, dry planet. In the past, Ryophi used to get hydration from processing liquid methane that naturally occurred on their planet, until their introduction to the intergalactic civilization beyond the borders of their planet, where- With the introduction of water- They found a much easier way to sustain their hydration, though still retain the ability to process gas.
Historical records of the Ryophi show that, a century or so before the creation of space-age technology and their introduction into the greater galaxies, they had suffered a war amongst themselves, created by a biological divide- Some Ryophi were born with fur, and others with scales, and eventually, a leader among the furred Ryophi spurred the ebbs of war, and created a terraforming device that turned a portion of their home planet into a winter wasteland, where the furred Ryophi congregated. Despite the tensions of war, however, Ryophi came to care for one another too much to let such a divide prevent unity among their people, and the war was soon called off.
The Ryophi treasure many things that some other species may take for granted- From water, to art, to little friendships. They are known to be keen on learning everything they can, whether about culture, skills, or knowledge of the world.
