Space Engineers Colorful Icons

Modification for Space Engineers. Install via Steam Workshop.

Replaces default monochromatic icons of blocks, items, tools and weapons with colorful icons. More info in the Steam workshop description.

Development info

Scripts require texconv cli tool and ImageMagick to be installed and in path.

Convert DDS to PNG:

texconv.exe -ft png -o . "path\to\texture.dds"

Create DDS files from PNG and XCF

.\makedds.ps1

This takes all PNG and XCF from .\textures\modded and saves them as DDS to .\ColorfulItems\Textures\GUI\Icons.

Generate LCDTextureDefinitions

.\gen_lcdtexturedef.ps1

This generates sbc files with LCDTextureDefinitions for icons to be used in user scripts.

Install mod

.\install.ps1

Run this to copy the mod directory (.\ColorfulItems) to the game's directory for local mods.

Inter-mod config API

The scripted mod publishes a local inter-mod API on message channel 205103492865 ((801185519 << 8) | 1, derived from the Colorful Icons workshop id). A client sends its own long reply channel as the payload. Colorful Icons replies on that channel with this dictionary of delegates:

payload["GetConfigVersion"] as Func<Version>,          // Api Version
payload["GetConfig"] as Func<string>,                  // Get current ModSettings as XML
payload["GetConfigBinary"] as Func<byte[]>,            // Get current ModSettings as a binary stream byte[]
payload["SubscribeConfigChanged"] as Action<Action>,   // Subscribe for ConfigChanged events
payload["UnsubscribeConfigChanged"] as Action<Action>  // Unsubscribe from ConfigChanged events

ColorfulIconsApiClient.cs is a copyable client wrapper. The consuming mod owns the reply channel (recomended derive it from its ownworkshop id.)