AvatarCreatures

A Lethal Company mod that lets you load custom avatars for players in your lobby.

You only see other people's avatars not your own. If you know how to hide the default hands please open an issue in my GitHub repo.

Each player must have the AssetBundle for each player to see them properly:

1. Use the Unity plugin to generate an AssetBundle for your own avatar in your steamapps/common/Lethal Company/Avatars folder
2. Share this AssetBundle with your friends (eg. 12345678912345678.assetbundle) and make sure everyone's AssetBundle is in the same "Avatars" folder
3. Run the mod and you should see them

Forked from DarnHyena's LethalCreatures mod

3rd person mods

This mod is not compatible with 3rd person mods.

You can look at a broken version of yourself with 3rd person mods and enabling setting AlwaysRenderLocalPlayerModel and restarting the game.

Development

Unity plugin

1. Open Unity project

2. Copy everything in UnityPlugin to Assets folder inside Unity project

Mod

1. Open solution in Visual Studio 2022

2. Change .csproj references:

   LC_API => C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Roaming/Thunderstore Mod Manager/DataFolder/LethalCompany/profiles/Default/BepInEx/plugins/2018-LC_API/LC_API.dll

   Assembly-CSharp/everything else => steamapps/common/Lethal Company/Lethal Company_Data/Managed/<name>.dll

3. Restore NuGet packages

4. Build project

5. Copy LethalCreatures/bin/Debug/netstandard2.1/CreatureModels.dll to C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Roaming/Thunderstore Mod Manager/DataFolder/LethalCompany/profiles/Default/BepInEx/plugins/PeanutBuddha-AvatarCreature/CreatureModels.dll

6. (optionally) From Unity use official plugin "AssetBundle Browser" to create a new bundle named "core" with these files (the mod uses another mod to load them from their own assetbundle):

   • UnityAssets/CritterControl.controller
   • UnityAssets/CtritterIdle.anim

7. Launch game

Publish

NOTE: Include unity plugin with the mod to make it easier for people.

Unity plugin

1. In Unity project export PeanutTools/AvatarCreatureGenerator inclusive as PeanutTools_AvatarCreatureGenerator_X.X.X.unitypackage

2. Copy into mod folder C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Roaming/Thunderstore Mod Manager/DataFolder/LethalCompany/profiles/Default/BepInEx/plugins/PeanutBuddha-AvatarCreature

Mod

1. Ensure the manifest file is up to date

2. Run ./packageup.ps1 to copy everything into the plugin directory

3. Compress the plugin directory into PeanutBuddha-AvatarCreature-X.X.X.zip

4. Release

0.0.6

• added config to enable your model in (broken) 3rd person for testing

0.0.5

• if no assetbundle is found, fall back to a custom default.assetbundle then the game default
• if no chest bone is found, fall back to spine

0.0.4

• fix bug where you must have a 0.assetbundle or else it fails to load
• only if emission map is set use white

0.0.3

• fix controller name

0.0.2

• hide custom avatar in 1st person
• UI improvements

0.0.1

Initial release only tested in LAN mode