Happy Saturday! Being the weekend I didn't get a ton of hours in today, but I did learn about all I need to in order to finish programming Workshop interaction. I got stuck on properly setting up the thumbnail for uploaded items, as it's something you can't do from within Steam, it has to happen from within Solace Crafting, for whatever reason. So I'm definitely going to have to make some changes to the way that files are loaded and handled as well as the current interfaces.

For now, there is an "upload to workshop" button when you click "save" after selecting a structure in the building interface. This lets you assign a title, a description, and set the item to either public or private. If you try and upload a structure with the same title as a structure you have already uploaded, it will update the item to the structure you are uploading. If you updated a structure by mistake, you can reset it to an older version from within Steam.

In order to upload a thumbnail you need to locate your Saved Structures folder which is located at:
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\LocalLow\Big Kitty Games\Solace Crafting\Saved Structures
Inside this folder if you add a jpg or a png of the same title as the structure you are uploading to the workshop it will upload the image with it as the default preview image. To test it I uploaded "Staircase" with "staircase.jpg" in my Saved Structure folder. I believe the proper aspect ratio for this image is 800x450.

Unfortunately the game is not yet automatically loading in subscribed structures, though Steam will download them to your computer. If you've subscribed to a structure Steam should download it to your Steam folder: steamapps\workshop\content\670260. The number 670260 is the appID for Solace Crafting. Underneath that folder if you have anything you've subscribed to it will be in a folder named after the fileID of the item you subscribed to. If you copy the file inside that folder to your Saved Structures folder, you should be able to use it as normal. I will of course be updating this workflow to not require the manual copying of files.

So still just a start, but I wanted to patch it in along with some small fixes to creative to make sure everything up to this point is working as intended for not just me. I want to add "monster spawn point," "loot spawn point," and traps into creative mode to let players create custom "dungeons" or encounters to be plugged directly into the random world generation. Currently there are procedural towers and the static towers that I made, but there could easily be 1000+ different types of buildings of various difficulty to run into and it would require very little disk space. Mines as well are currently procedural and random, and I do plan to add procedural dungeons, but user made dungeons I am also very interested in making possible. And lots more stuff I shouldn't really talk about until I can get closer to it!

v 0.6.3.4 2020.02.16
- Turned on cloud saving
- Added "Upload to workshop" button to structure save interface
- Updated structure save files to a non-binary format. Old files will automatically update when interacted with.
- Fixed new structures requiring materials in creative mode
- Fixed loading saved structures requiring materials in creative mode

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.

To opt into Beta you only need to go to your Steam Library, right-click on Solace Crafting, select Properties, click on the Beta tab, and opt-in to the beta.

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