Can workshop buildings be used as sub-buildings?

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

Just wondering, does anybody know if this is possible?

 

I'm trying to figure out a way to release my Treptowers office complex both in parts and as a one-plop.

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

I guess it's kinda pointless since it re-packs all of the sub-buildings into one big blob anyways. :/

[Ronyx69 2,413]

Vanilla sub-building implementation bundles the sub-buildings inside the main asset.

This is why I still used sub-buildings enabler mod for Doel even though the vanilla implementation was available.

[boformer 3,169]

Indeed you can do this with SBE.

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

If SBE does something significant that the vanilla game can't do, why have you marked it "DEPRECATED"? This difference is significant enough IMO that we should still be popularizing SBE, and that would be hard to do with such a marking.

 

Does SBE give all sub-buildings the same night light color by any chance? This is a real limiting issue for me.

[Ronyx69 2,413]

8 hours ago, AmiPolizeiFunk said:

Does SBE give all sub-buildings the same night light color by any chance? This is a real limiting issue for me.

No.

I think the colors are assigned randomly, using the building id as the random seed. I tried to look into the code and couldn't find it, I was actually looking at the livestock spawner which clearly had code that randomly decided which animal to spawn based on the buildingid.

Was thinking it would be possible to make a mod that would change this a bit - for all buildings that are used as sub-buildings, it would use the id of the parent building for the light color random seed instead. But I really have no idea how to do that, just an idea.

[AmiPolizeiFunk 446]

That would be wonderful. I think the way it is now (with different parts lighting up different colors) looks terrible. Kinda defeats the whole purpose of having sub-buildings!