Girafe Flora Pack Submenus Exemplar Patch

[Lokiness 11]

Howdy !

I've made an exemplar patch to add submenus functionality to the very popular Girafe Flora Pack, organized with 2 parent submenus: static (not evergreen because some are winter season static) and seasonal, and then under those 2 parent menus the Broadleafs, Conifers, Bushes & Flowers submenus (the same categories as Girafe).
It works and does what I want to, but I need a bit of help to iron out the details:
 -I would like to remove the MM separators items from the building menu, since they're made obsolete by the submenus, but I didn't manage to achieve it myself (tried patching Item Icon, Item Order, Item Button ID, none worked)
 -I'm also wondering if it's ok if my plugin contains the Broadleaf, Conifers, Bushes & Flowers separator icons that Girafe made, not sure how the copyright works in this case where my plugin is a dependency anyway. I included them in my plugin because I wanted my plugin to work even for people who don't use the entire pack but instead individual tree plugins and don't have the separators icons in their /Plugins folder
 -I've made some rudimentary icons for the static and seasonal parent menus but it would be great if someone has the skills to make them up to SC4 standard (unlikely that someone will but doesn't hurt to ask )

[memo 1,472]

3 hours ago, Lokiness said:

 -I would like to remove the MM separators items from the building menu, since they're made obsolete by the submenus, but I didn't manage to achieve it myself (tried patching Item Icon, Item Order, Item Button ID, none worked)

Not sure whether it can be accomplished with an Exemplar Patch, to be honest. Patching the Item Button ID = 0 might be worth a try, but I don't know if it would work. Another option would be to dump the icons into a remote submenu somewhere where they don't get into the way too much. My best advice would be to not put the separators into the plugins, in the first place.

3 hours ago, Lokiness said:

-I've made some rudimentary icons for the static and seasonal parent menus but it would be great if someone has the skills to make them up to SC4 standard

There are already a few flora menu icons created by @Panda:

• Trees
• Shrubs
• Flowers
• Natural
• Artificial

The main reason they're not included with the DLL yet is that there wasn't really a consensus, at the time, on what the flora submenus should be, as there are different ideas on how to categorize the items.

I'd really like to include a set of standard flora menus though, so that everyone can rely on them for their mods. Considering that Girafe's trees are likely a major part of the flora menu for many people, perhaps your work here could drive this discussion into a direction most people can agree on to finally settle this open question.

[Lokiness 11]

1 hour ago, memo said:

Not sure whether it can be accomplished with an Exemplar Patch, to be honest.

That's what I'm fearing. I tried once more to set the Item Button ID to 0 but that didn't do the trick. Deleting the separators files might be the only way to be rid of them, I've patched them to all be at the very bottom of the MM flora menu for now (Item Order: 0x0FFFFFFF ) not perfect but makes them less of a nuisance.

1 hour ago, memo said:

The main reason they're not included with the DLL yet is that there wasn't really a consensus, at the time, on what the flora submenus should be, as there are different ideas on how to categorize the items.

Your categories seem good to me, I would just add 1 or 2 categories for trees, since they are very popular modding wise and I would believe most people have tons of them, maybe by altitude range or leaf types (like Girafe did).

Could I maybe send you the project in its current state to have your opinion ?

[Propfam 2,295]

6 hours ago, memo said:

Not sure whether it can be accomplished with an Exemplar Patch, to be honest.

@Null 45 Any plans to add exemplar deleting to the patch DLL? It'd be useful to remove annoying things that come with a mod without editing the mod files directly.