deckorate

Board customization for skate. under ReSkate: a different wheel for each of the four wheels, a different front and back truck, and up to seven stickers on the bottom of the deck that you can place anywhere. It also includes inkd (four tattoo slots on each arm and leg instead of one) and the light objects (spot, beam and bulb lights for the object dropper). deckorate was called mixNmatch up to 1.2.0.

What it adds

• Wheel 1 - Wheel 4 and Truck 1 - Truck 2 tabs on the board page. Each wheel and truck has its own slot. Wheel 2-4 follow Wheel 1 and Truck 2 follows Truck 1 while they are empty, so a board looks the same as before until you change one. On the skater page the Board tile shows the deck, grip and both trucks on its top row and the four wheels on its bottom row. Truck 1 and Truck 2 can be different models.
• A Stickers tile on the skater page (under Tattoos) that opens a page with seven sticker tabs. The tile shows which of the seven slots are in use.
  • Every sticker starts in the middle of the deck. Press Adjust to move, resize and rotate it, like a tattoo.
  • The Vibrancy / Wear slider sets how worn the sticker looks: the middle matches the board's own wear, all the way right is brand new, all the way left is scuffed. (On tattoos the same slider is still vibrancy.)
  • The board page no longer has sticker tabs.
• Four tattoos per arm and leg (inkd): the Tattoos page has Left Arm 2-4, Right Arm 2-4, Right Leg 2-4 and Left Leg 2-4 next to the stock tabs. Each extra tattoo has its own Adjust values, and tattoos in higher slots are drawn on top of lower ones.
• Lights for the object dropper: categories bkLightSpot, bkLightBeam and bkLightBulb, each in six colours (warm, cool, red, green, blue, purple) and four intensities (10, 25, 50, 100 %). A spot shines down like a streetlight, a beam is a narrow spot that reaches further, a bulb lights all around. The light itself is invisible; a small grey cube marks where it is, shown only when the camera is close. The lights need ReSkate's option to unlock objects.

Any wheel, truck or sticker item works, including ones added by other mods. It works in the main world, the other stock areas and on custom maps.

Install

Install it like any other mod (launcher MODS page, or drop the folder into Mods) and start the game. ReSkate 2.0.4 or newer is recommended (1.1.2 is the minimum): from 1.1.2 ReSkate loads a saved skater whose outfit has more or fewer slots than the game expects, and from 2.0.4 it shows other players' outfits across such differences, which is what this mod makes. New slots start empty on skaters saved before the mod, and your picks stay in the profile while the mod is switched off, so you can toggle it freely.

Good to know

• Do not enable inkd or Light_Objects as well: deckorate already contains both. The separate mods are for players who want only those parts; with both on, one replaces the other's changes.
• Extra tattoos on custom maps: custom maps run the game's own tattoo script, so there only the first tattoo of each arm and leg shows (the extra ones are kept in the outfit and show again in the stock areas).
• Multiplayer: with ReSkate 2.0.4 or newer, players without deckorate see your skater and board (with the stock wheels and trucks on all four corners and no stickers), and you see theirs with their stock stickers. Players with deckorate see each other's wheels, trucks and stickers, also when several players spawn in the same instant. On ReSkate older than 2.0.4, a player with a different slot layout looks like a copy of you.
• Stickers and files: the stickers live in the skater's outfit and reach the board through a small record file in the game's logs folder (or the game folder, or the system temp folder): deckorate-skaters.txt. It is cut down as it grows; deleting it does no harm.
• Board-shape mods: mods that replace the stock wheel, truck or deck mesh (wider trucks, egg shapes) work alongside deckorate in any load order. A board whose wheels all match and whose two trucks match is built from the shape mod's meshes. A board with mixed wheels or trucks uses deckorate's own copies: in the shape of widemod-WideDeck12 or aescher-OldSchool_Board_Shape for the default truck and the wheels while one of those is enabled, otherwise in the stock shape. A truck added by another mod has no such copies: a board that uses one shows Truck 1 on both ends.
• Game build: made for the Steam build ReSkate 2.0 supports. ReSkate leaves the mod out after a game update until it is rebuilt.
• Other mods: works alongside item, deck and map mods. A mod that replaces the board loader script, the board sticker compositor, the tattoo compositor, the customization menu data or the quick-drop item list will conflict with it.
• Camera: Wheel 3, Wheel 4 and Truck 2 use the whole-board view.

How it works

The board gets more recipe slots and the board menu a tab per slot; split copies of the wheel and truck meshes (and front-only and back-only copies of each truck) are added beside the game's own, each with mesh data of its own, and the board loader script picks the ones that fit. The sticker slots live in the skater's recipe (where the tattoo Adjust sliders reach them); the tattoo compositor script writes a record of them every time a skater is drawn, and the board's sticker compositor script pairs each board with its skater's record: the player's board with the player's skater (the game marks both as the main character), every other board with the skater the game created just before it (their engine ids are handed to the scripts). It draws the stickers by the texture name added to every sticker item. The extra tattoo slots are copies of each limb's stock slot. The lights are build-kit items whose prefab spawns one of the game's light blueprints next to a small marker mesh. No game code is changed.

Changelog

1.5.4

• Other players can see you again. ReSkate only sends your outfit to other players when every slot of your skater and board carries as many adjust values as the slot asks for. deckorate had given the game's own board sticker slots five adjust values, and a saved board keeps the count it was saved with (none on an untouched sticker slot), so the outfit was never sent and you were invisible online. Those slots are stock again; Stickers 1-3 on the Stickers page now use slots of deckorate's own.
• After updating, Stickers 1-3 start empty once (pick them again); Stickers 4-7 keep their picks. Your old Sticker 1-3 picks stay saved and come back if you go back to an older deckorate.

1.5.3

• Hovering in the Stickers page shows the right sticker every time. The customize screen draws two preview skaters a moment apart on each hover (one with your equipped stickers, one with the hovered sticker); the board now follows the newer one. Before, it showed the equipped sticker on every other hover.
• Smoother menus. The customize and pause-menu boards no longer pause a moment to wait for the preview skater's stickers; the redraws that follow every change keep them right.

1.5.2

• The board follows the Stickers page as you browse. Hovering over a sticker, or picking one, now updates the board in the customize menus right away. Before, the board often kept the old stickers until you switched tabs or changed something on the board itself.
• Shape-mod detection now only reads the mod list (Mods/mods.json) instead of opening it the way newer ReSkate builds refuse.
• Fixed some internal menu data links that pointed at the wrong place (no visible change known).

1.5.1

• No more stutter while grinding. The deck redraws every time it wears; a wear redraw now draws the stickers it drew last without reading any file or waiting.
• Your board always shows your stickers. The game marks the player's own skater and board as the main character; deckorate now pairs your board with your skater by that mark instead of by timing, so another skater drawn at the same moment (a placeholder, an NPC, a player joining) can no longer swap them.
• Pause-menu customization shows the right stickers. Every other board pairs with the skater the game created just before it, so the pause menu's preview board follows the preset you are looking at, and NPC and other players' boards never pick up your stickers.
• Shape mods: on mixed boards only the default truck and the wheels follow a supported shape mod now; the other truck models keep their own shape.
• Far fewer file writes. Skaters without stickers (NPCs, the menus' placeholders) no longer write a sticker record; only your own skater and skaters that have stickers do (and a preview skater that just lost its stickers, so its board clears).
• The skater page's Board tile shows the deck, grip, Truck 1 and Truck 2 on its top row and Wheel 1-4 on its bottom row.
• The customize screen's board follows preset switches between presets with the same deck again (it waits a moment for the preview skater's stickers, as in 1.4.x).
• Only one record file is used now (deckorate-skaters.txt, kept small); deckorate-boards.txt from 1.5.0 can be deleted.

1.5.0

• Board-shape mods work alongside deckorate, in any load order. deckorate's split wheel and truck meshes (the ones that let each wheel and each truck end wear its own finish) now have mesh data of their own instead of rewriting the game's. Before, a mod that replaces the stock wheel or truck mesh (wider trucks, egg-shaped boards) either lost its shape or showed trucks and wheels scrambled across the slots, depending on which mod loaded last. Now the shape mod's meshes are untouched: a board whose wheels all match and whose trucks match uses the shape mod's meshes; a board with mixed wheels or trucks uses deckorate's copies, which have the stock shape. That is also the end of wheel textures bleeding into other wheels, which came from the same clash.
• Stickers are per player in multiplayer. Every board now looks for the stickers of the skater it was created with (the game composites a skater and its board together), remembers that pairing, and never takes another player's stickers on its wear redraws. Other players' boards show their own stickers when they run deckorate, and their stock stickers when they don't; players without stickers show none. Boards of two players who spawn in the very same instant cannot be told apart and show no stickers until one of them changes their outfit. The old hand-off file is replaced by two small record files (deckorate-skaters.txt, deckorate-boards.txt in the game's logs folder).
• Other players see you. ReSkate 2.0.4 and newer match a player's outfit to the local game's slot layout, so players without deckorate now see deckorate players' skaters and boards (without the extra wheels, trucks and stickers), and deckorate players see them. Nothing to switch off for online play any more. Needs ReSkate 2.0.4 or newer for this.
• Light objects included: spot, beam and bulb lights for the object dropper, in six colours and four intensities each (the Light_Objects mod; do not enable it as well). They show as a small grey cube up close.
• The skater's and the board's customization components now hand their engine ids to the scripts; a board's skater is always allotted its id just before the board's, which settles which stickers belong to which board when several players spawn in the same instant.
• Debug builds (-test versions) write deckorate-stickers.txt and a probe of everything the game hands the scripts to deckorate-probe.txt.

1.4.1

• Fixes lag while grinding and sliding. The board redraws its deck every time the deck wears, and 1.4.0 paused the game for a moment on each redraw to wait for the sticker hand-off, then queued three more redraws. Wear redraws no longer wait, and only board changes queue the extra redraws. Switching skater presets still updates the stickers as before.

1.4.0

• Includes inkd: four tattoo slots on each arm and leg instead of one. The Tattoos page lists Left Arm 2-4, Right Arm 2-4, Right Leg 2-4 and Left Leg 2-4 beside the stock tabs; each extra tattoo can be moved, resized, rotated and faded with Adjust like the first one. Saved skaters keep their tattoos; the new slots start empty.
• Do not enable the separate inkd mod with deckorate: deckorate already has it.
• Seven stickers instead of eight, so the skater's outfit stays within the 64 slots ReSkate supports (eight stickers plus the tattoo slots would be 65). A sticker saved in the eighth slot is kept in your profile but no longer shown.
• Stickers follow the skater more reliably: switching skater presets no longer leaves the previous preset's stickers on the board, and entering the game no longer drops them. A skater without stickers now writes its own small file (deckorate-handoff-empty.txt) instead of overwriting the sticker hand-off, the sticker hand-off is written before the tattoos are drawn, and the board waits a moment for a hand-off that is still being written.

1.3.1

• Truck 1 and Truck 2 can now be different truck models. Before, the board always used Truck 1's model at both ends, and a Truck 2 of another model put its finish (made for that model's shape) on it, which looked broken and like two trucks clipping into each other. Each truck model now also has a front-only and a back-only copy, and the board uses Truck 1's front and Truck 2's back.
• A truck added by another mod has no such copies: a board that uses one shows Truck 1 on both ends instead of the broken mix.

1.3.0

• The mod is now called deckorate (it was mixNmatch).
• Stickers: up to eight, on their own Stickers page (a new tile on the skater page, under Tattoos, that shows which slots are in use). Every sticker starts in the middle of the deck and can be moved, resized and rotated with Adjust, like a tattoo; the Vibrancy / Wear slider sets how worn it looks.
• The board page no longer has sticker tabs; the Board tile's small row shows Truck 2 and Wheels 2-4 instead of the three stickers.
• The board redraws its stickers when you switch skater presets, also between presets that share the same board.

1.2.0

• The mod is now called mixNmatch (it was BetterBoard while in testing). Nothing else changes with the name: saved boards and picks carry over.
• Works on custom maps: boards build and update there like in the main world, with no extra mod and nothing to redo when a map is added.
• The game's own wheel and truck meshes are no longer replaced. The split meshes are added beside them, one per way of grouping the parts, and the board loader picks the one that fits. A board whose parts all match is built exactly as the game builds it.
• No more conversion of saved boards. ReSkate 1.1.2 loads a saved skater whose recipe has more or fewer slots than the game expects.

1.1.0

• Four wheel slots and two truck slots, each with its own menu tab.