In game company mods

Airport CEO Modding
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The winners of the business design competition already has! :wink:

But this is the standard format for shops and restaurants. You create a folder with a json and a png logo file. Products are placed in a different folder and you can even add your own, including adding texture and color variations.

{  
   "name":"TURNER",
   "description":"Your standard airport newsstand. Selling everything from today’s best sellers & magazines as well as a full line of convince items.",
   "logoPath":"turner.png",
   "businessClass":0,
   "businessType":5,
   "CEOName":"Richard Blankenship",
   "franchiseType":"Shop",
   "products":[  
      "Book",
      "Newspaper"
   ]
}
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That is amazing! So I could do my local news paper imaged on to a news stand shop?

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You guys are amazing…

Alright people. let’s get to work :smiley: I’m sure we can have a few real world entries ready from all over the world before release.

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Chick-fil-A someone needs to make that as a restaurant option!

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Could you … post some other json files? :smiley: Or is that asking too much?

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The principle is the same for banks, contractors, aviation fuel suppliers. “Franchise businesses” have some additional variables.

{  
   "name":"Indigo Investments",
   "description":"Indigo Investments is a infrastructure investment bank that finances P3 (Public Private Partnerships) projects. A large portfolio under management includes public transit, airports as well as ground transportation networks.",
   "logoPath":"indigo.png",
   "businessClass":3,
   "businessType":3,
   "CEOName":"Oscar Klausen"
}

Products looks like this, but might change. We have not spent too much time on this.

"productType":"Headphones",
         "pricePerUnit":20,
         "imagePath":"product.png",
         "availableColors":[  
            {  
               "r":1.0,
               "g":1.0,
               "b":1.0,
               "a":1.0
            }
         ]
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Does that mean you could just add a new shop into the game by just creating a new… Class/Object or whatever you call it in a .json file and then point it to a picture you’ve put somewhere for the logo?

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That is what he is saying. I hope there will be a file with probabilities of a certain shop turning up in a playthrough.

All we need now is a list of businessClass and businessType:)

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You might want to fix my spelling mistake “convince” should be “convenience”. Can’t launch with this bug!

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@Fredrik this is amazing and will be very useful. Thank you so much but I have 2 questions;

  1. What does “business class” and “business type” means and what their values mean?
  2. Could you share json files of airlines too? :slight_smile:
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Will do! :slight_smile:

Business Class:
0 = Cheap
1 = Small
2 = Medium
3 = Big
4 = Exclusive

Business Types:
0 = All (Do not use)
1 = Contractor
2 = AviationFuelSupplier
3 = Bank
4 = Airline
5 = Franchise

Airline does not exist yet as we have not finalized how modding of airline will work. It is a bit more complex than businesses.

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So each business gets his own folder, with 1 json file and 1 png file?
And each product also gets its own folder, also with 1 json and 1 png file?
I reckon the franchisetypes are “Shop” and “Restaurant”?

You give us a finger… :smiley:

By the way, does every save get a copy of these configs? I can imagine that you don’t want 1000 businesses from all over the world in your game when you want a European game, but you don’t want to disable / enable businesses when you also want an Indian game.

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Yes, json and png file required. Will check how we setup the franchise types.

No, each game installation gets a setup of the vanilla businesses. You can simply then add your own. Later we will see how this can work with Steam workshop but it is not priority right now.

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Fredrik I have another question, can regular players reach .json files under steam/steamaps/airportceo folder? Or base files will be locked and only developers can access to it?

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They couldnt do that if they wanted to :slight_smile:

You can reach the files no problem

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Actually they could do. For example in ETS2, you can access to a certain level of in-game files by only using “SCSextractor.exe” file extractor by SCS software and yet you cannot access to core files.

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Sounds to me like the ETS2 files are not simple text files.

For ACEO they are simple text files.

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Correct but you got my point, Devs can lock files by even a passworded .rar file.

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Then how will your computer be able to read those files? :stuck_out_tongue:

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He’s not wrong. The game will know the password of course, it is possible to do.

It’s just a (imo) bad move :slight_smile:

Luckily ACEO will have simple text files, so no problems there

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