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[SirHartley]

As is (almost) tradition, here I am with another row of stuff I'd like to ask for.

I would like to request the addition of a "plugin" field to commodities.csv specifying the commodity plugin and deobfuscation of the vanilla commodity item plugin implementation.
Custom commodity plugins would open the way towards super fun stuff like render effects on commodity items, something that's currently impossible due to the lack of accessibility.

thanks for considering it!

[Alex]

Ah! Unfortunately, this... actually does not exist in the core game, at least if I understand what you're asking. To the extent that it does - in supporting custom blueprint/hullmod rendering, and other special items - it's already exposed in the API.

But for e.g. commodities, this isn't implemented as a plugin in the core code, it's just a mess of case statements for different types ("commodity" vs "ship weapons" etc), special rendering code for a bunch of crew icons, and so on. It grew let's say "organically".

This would possibly be a nice thing to have at some point, but it'd be a pretty major undertaking/refactoring of the code, too.

[SirHartley]

Oh that explains... a lot of the issues I ran into.
It was worth a try

Thank you for taking the time!