#dst modding

yes, today is the final day for art. the "Tale of Tails" didnt end exactly how i wanted it to, but it was the best i could do with what i had. . first thing i did was tackle the ghost part: i cut her horns from the headbase, resized the ghost pngs and pasted them on there. with a few adjustments. but of course resizing the fucking file means i have to edit the eye placement. . my first try vs messing with the pivot point in under a minute:

a good start already. . i changed some minor stuff in the other files (added the modicon, silho, swap icon, etc), but now im proud to say that i have a working, fully animated demon girl:

obviously she doesnt look perfect, but at least it's decent.

**Spawns with**

1 Telltale heart

5 Fluffy Fur

**Stats**

and he would have 100 health, 200 sanity and 250 hunger (a hungy boi)

**Cons**

Low health (13 under wes)

Loses sanity quicker (2x faster than usual)

In summer he is slower and overheats faster

Pig people don't like him, neither do other villager types.

Deals 25 less damage in summer

The dark lowers his sanity quicker

"Charlie" Kills him in one hit (does exactly 100 damage)

When Deerclops frozen attack hits him, it takes away his buffs.

**Pros**

Immune to frostbite

Faster in winter

Deals 25 more damage in winter

Can shave some fur off every 10 days for 2 fluffy fur

Instead of loosing health for telltale hearts, he looses all his sanity.

Cannot be frozen

Beargers will not attack Nightshade unless he is too close.

Doesn't loose sanity near monsters.

Motto: I like red! Red is the color of my shirt.

Nickname: The Truthful

Best Quotes:

(Inspecting cardinal) "Cardinals are red, Like my shirt! My shirt is a nice red, kinda like watermelon, watermelon tastes nice- wait what were we talking about again? "

(When examining bearger) "Hey, you kinda look like me, not much, but a bit!"

(Inspecting Fluffy fur) "I made these."

(Mod would add Fluffy Fur, a item that can craft "Fluffy Vest", which gives 5 sanity per 2 seconds. It is made with 12 Fluffy fur, 5 twigs and 5 nightmare fuel, does not heat you.)

(Inspecting fluffy fur)

Wilson: Fluffy, but thin fur.

Willow: Soft like Bernie!

Wolfgang: Soft comforting fur, easy to rip apart.

Wendy: I wonder what animal was killed for this.

WX-78: SO SOFT

Wickerbottom: It's just fur.

Woodie: Very soft fur.

Maxwell: Small clump of thin fur.

Wigfrid: Fluffy hair from a creature, was it lost in battle?

Webber: Fluffy fur, kinda feels like mine but less- scraggly.

Winnona: Fluffy fur, too thin for a coat.

Warly: Fur from a creature, I wonder what it was.

Wortox: Grey fur from a grey creature.

Wormwood: Oh such soft fur, from a probably soft creature!

Wurt: Cuddly fur, could it be new friend?

Walter: Very soft fur! Can Woby track its owner down?

(Inspecting Fluffy vest)

Wilson: Fluffy coat of grey fur.

Willow: Is it flammable?

Wolfgang: A comforting vest.

Wendy: It is quite soft, Abigail would've loved this.

WX-78: SOFT FUR KNITTED TOGETHER.

Wickerbottom: A very soft jacket.

Woodie: Not warm enough for the winters back home.

Maxwell: A thin jacket.

Wigfrid: Useless armor.

Webber: A very nice little jacket!

Winnona: Useful for summer, useless in winter.

Warly: A grey little coat.

Wortox: A grey coat for the summer.

Wormwood: Its so soft! I wonder who made it.

Wurt: Kind grey fur-vest, so nice, so kind.

Walter: Soft like Woby!

Biography

Nightshade is a curious little cryptid, with light grey fur, a slight tint of orange, small little eyes and a nose so cute you would 100% boop! A friendly little curiousity with thin fur, yet how thin it is- he has plenty of it, so it insulates him well. Often described as "The Pacifist", he doesn't like fighting, only if he must. Usually running away from battles, Nightshade runs a little quicker than the rest of his friends, paths do not effect this, though. With a big heart, Nightshade loves to help people, with a unique ability to revive friends without the cost of max health, he's more of a healer than the rest!

Other

Nightshade would have all the skins a usual character would have, Victorian, Survivor, Magmatic, etc etc, but he would have some of his own!

The Past (Different Voice)

The Medic

After so long, she’s finally here.

Sorry for the delay peeps, I’ve been super caught up on other things and I think this skin suffered a little for it.

BUT PRESENTING, GUEST OF HONOR CHARLIE!

You can get her on the Steam Store at:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1203081846

these are the last few days of making character art for this mod. im pretty hopeful that the "Tale of Tails" will finally come to an end! . but first, there's some stuff i need to tweak. when i tossed her into the game, i noticed the game itself adds a filter that makes her hair way too light. i did desaturate it a little but with the filter on, it looked almost white. then i just darkened and saturated it a little more just so see if that would fix it. here's the before and after:

it's not a BIIIG change, but to me it looks much better. excuse the difference in the tail, i remade the tip so it wasnt curved. from the front, she looks perfect. but today is the day we conquer this damn tail layer.

the "Tale of Tails" continues. i decided to bite the bullet and just redraw Zakaria's tail to look exactly like the template's so the animation wouldnt break. and it looked terrible. i tweaked it a little so it didnt look as bad but it's still fucking weird.

i also remade the braids to look significantly shorter, but it also looks weird.

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this is how she looks with the "proper" pivot points (not counting the layer thing):

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and this is how she looks when i reset the .scml file:

as you can see, everything is all over the place, i still havent figured out HOW to change the layer hierarchy OR the pivot placement in a way that matters.

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im kinda reaching my breaking point tbh.

Hello! Do you make DST modded characters? Have you noticed that the Esctemplate Sample Character is missing several character parts?

Some friends of mine got frustrated that Esctemplate’s ghost was missing the ability to have hair. So I fixed it!

This version of the ghost build adds the ghost_Hat symbol to ghost_esctemplate_build.scml. You can grab it here!

To add it to an existing mod:

Add the “ghost_Hat” folder to your character’s ghost folder.

Rename “ghost_esctemplate_build.scml” to match the name of your character’s existing ghost build.

Replace the old build with the new one.

Compile.

You can then go ahead and alter ghost_Hat as you please.

This isn’t a difficult thing to do, but I hope this helps someone who wasn’t sure how to do it themselves!