[george] How to specify manufacturer tag on items

[Aury]

Vanilla weapons got tags specifying the manufacturer (if corporate) but I looked at the xml and it did not have any new things specifying that as far as I could tell

How is this done?

[Amilir]

Look at the code in CorporateHierarchy.xml to define your own labels (see <DisplayAttributes>).

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<DisplayAttributes>
	<!-- Define item attributes so that the player can see which Corporation 
		created the item. -->

	<ItemAttribute label="Bushido"			criteria="* +bushido;"/>
	<ItemAttribute label="EI"				criteria="* +ei;"/>
	<ItemAttribute label="Makayev"			criteria="* +makayev;"/>
	<ItemAttribute label="NAMI"			criteria="* +nami;"/>
	<ItemAttribute label="Rasiermesser"		criteria="* +rasiermesser;"/>
	<ItemAttribute label="Taikon"			criteria="* +taikon;"/>
</DisplayAttributes>

EDIT: The DisplayAttributes block goes in <Sovereign> for whatever reason.
EDIT2: Probably just because it has to go somewhere, and under the corporate sovereign makes sense for displaying corporate manufacturer.

[Aury]

Ah, alright, thanks for finding that! I had only been searching through the items themselves. >.<

[digdug]

Wolfy, since your mods have sovereigns, just place the <DisplayAttributes> in one of those.

I just tried a virtual sovereign, and that works well too:
http://forums.kronosaur.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6106

[PM]

A virtual sovereign entity is not necessary. I placed it within one of my non-virtual station entities and it works. It may work with any entity (but I have not tested that).

[george moromisato]

A virtual sovereign entity is not necessary. I placed it within one of my non-virtual station entities and it works. It may work with any entity (but I have not tested that).

Yes, it should work with any top-level design type (basically, anything with an UNID).

[Aury]

Is there any way to have colored attribute tags? (such as Illegal, Military, etc, or even arbitrary tag colors as digdug was suggesting on irc)

(BTW for any other modders using this, using a <Type UNID="unidType"><DisplayAttributes> ... </DisplayAttributes></Type> works just fine)

[george moromisato]

Is there any way to have colored attribute tags? (such as Illegal, Military, etc, or even arbitrary tag colors as digdug was suggesting on irc)

(BTW for any other modders using this, using a <Type UNID="unidType"><DisplayAttributes> ... </DisplayAttributes></Type> works just fine)

Try:

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...
<ItemAttribute ... labelType="advantage"/>
<ItemAttribute ... labelType="disadvantage"/>
...

[Aury]

Thanks george, that works!

[digdug]

A virtual sovereign entity is not necessary. I placed it within one of my non-virtual station entities and it works. It may work with any entity (but I have not tested that).

Yes, it should work with any top-level design type (basically, anything with an UNID).

Ah, I totally assumed that it's a child of sovereign only
Good