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PhotoFrames

Print photos and clip newspaper stories onto your walls, then wire them into a real case board with string and writeable post-it notes. Everything stays with your save.

By kropath

CHANGELOG

Changelog

1.1.1

  • Fixed hung photos showing up horizontally flipped. A printed photo on the wall now reads the same way round as its case-board thumbnail. Photos already on your walls fix themselves the next time you load the save, so there is nothing to re-hang.

1.1.0

Build a real case board. This update turns the wall of photos and clippings into something you can wire together and annotate, and fixes the lighting on the items you hang.

  • Yarn mode. Press the yarn key, pick a colour with the mouse wheel, and left-click two pins to stretch coloured string across the wall. The string sags like real yarn, sits on top of your photos and notes, and dims in the dark. Aim at one to highlight it and right-click to remove it.
  • Writeable post-it notes. Place a note on a wall and type on it in the case-board handwriting. Aim at a note to edit it, right-click to reposition it, or recolour it; empty a note to remove it.
  • Photos, clippings, and notes now dim to match the room's light, so an unlit room no longer leaves them glowing. Adjustable, up to nearly invisible in full dark.
  • Choose whether each printed photo hangs with a frame or as a bare print, with a key while holding it; each photo remembers its choice.
  • Photos and case-board items are unlimited by default (they cost very little), with optional limits in the config for constrained machines.
  • Many robustness fixes from a full review: the hung-item models can no longer reappear after leaving and returning, right-clicks no longer double up between features, items only pin to walls (never to citizens), and a note edit can never leave the game paused.

1.0.0

First release. A cosmetic mod for keeping the photos you take and the news you read on your walls. It does not change cases, evidence, or how citizens behave, and everything you hang is kept with your save.

  • Print your photos. Every shot from the in-game camera can be printed from a Photos app on a home cruncher: browse a ring of your recent photos, preview one, and print it to your inventory. A quick key also prints your most recent photo out in the world.
  • Clip newspaper stories. While reading a newspaper, step through the stories and cut any single one out, article or advert. The clipping is rebuilt cleanly on newspaper paper with the masthead, date, and type, sized like a real cut-out, and it reflects whatever the page is showing.
  • Hang photos and clippings on any wall with right-click, and take them back down the same way to move them.
  • Everything you hang is stored in the save, so it survives saving and loading and travels with Steam Cloud.
  • Works with PlacementPlus: precision-place a photo or clipping and see the real picture or article as you position it, then set it down as a proper hung frame.

Keys can be rebound and the Photos app, newspaper clipping, and PlacementPlus preview can be turned on or off in the config file. See the README for the controls.