stkfd / buildingaichanger

Choose any building AI in the Asset Editor

Prefab AI Changer

Originally Building AI Changer, after merge of Snow_Cat's (D Lue Choy) additions and subsequent rewrite, generic Prefab AI changer.

This mod adds a drop down list to the Asset Property editor that lets you choose any AI for the asset you are editing.

Warning - WorksAsBuilding() and WorksAsNet() checks are not implemented.

Assigning wildly inappropriate AIs will break an asset, cause exceptions and other weird things. Broken assets will fail to load and cannot be fixed with the asset editor.

You can try to assign inappropriate AI types (a VehicleAI to a building, etc) but chances are something will break horribly. So if you do, backup your asset before you try.

If you want to create a custom Building AI, create a building and assign your new AI to, if you create a custom VehicleAI, start with a stock VehicleAI and change that, etc.

Purpose

The main intended use of this mod is to ease the creation of assets with custom AI classes.

Usage

Just select the name of the new AI class and click "Apply" after you have made your selection. When you click Apply the new AI will actually be applied to the asset and refresh the properties panel with the new set of options for the selected AI. If the previous and new AI share properties, their values will carry over.

Using custom AI classes

You can assign custom AI classes with this, mod. They will start with the namespace of your mod in the AI list.

Source code & Issues

The source code of this mod is available at https://github.com/cerebellum42/BuildingAIChanger

If you want to report an issue, please use the Github issues if you can as I may not always read the steam workshop comments. I will read your comment eventually, but a Github issue will notify me right away.

buildingaichanger's Issues

Crashing Game on Start Screen

Both ItemClass Changer and AI Changer crash the game showing an error message saying file sources of many other mods (like Building Themes, Control Building, Environment Changer, RICO, etc) could not be found.
Game is updated to Natural Disasters

Not Working With Citizen Assets

It seems like changing the AI for citizens doesn't work. I tried changing a citizen's AI from a Tourist AI to a Resident AI, and the citizen never spawned ingame. Is this hard-coded behavior?

Doesn't seem to work with Sunset Harbor

The drop down doesn't appear inside the Asset Editor.

Broken by update 22-Dec

Was working though sometimes unstable until the most recent update, 22 December 2022, 1.16.0.f3 (Financial Districts).

Now causes freeze when attempting to apply change (clicking the button); does not recover and game requires kill through task manager.

Broken by Campus DLC update

Hey. The Campus update seems to have broken the PrefabAI dropdown menu in Asset Editor. Haven been unsuccessful at trying to unsubscribe/resubscribe, and others have noted the same issue on the workshop comments. Hoping it can get fixed – must have mod!