Don't Starve Together: How to Bind Emotes to the Function Keys

Beginning

Hello! In this guide i show you How to bind emotes to the function keys, from F1 to F9.
This tutorial short and doesn’t so hard. You can customize it make own by yourself for yourself!

OK, at first we need to download sample of my mod what we will editing and download other programs that help us on our plans.

You can download sample of my mod here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1m_ffid9c5ZLmHpg8x6hdwgeO1RbHMwI_

All programs what we need:

Note C++: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.6.4.html
Paint.net: https://www.getpaint.net/
or GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
TEXTool: https://forums.kleientertainment.com/files/file/73-handsome-matts-tools/

Setting up

Now we download all programs with sample of mod and ready to do our mod.

First what we need to do is name our mod folder. You can name it how you want.
After naming your mod folder, you need put it on C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Don’t Starve Together\mods\ (just put it on “mods” folder in your game directory)
Cut all files from my sample mod folder and put to your mod folder what we created earlier.

When you do this all, we need to edit our “modinfo.LUA” file.
Open that file with Note C++ and get ready to edit…
All what you can edit on this file, is mod name, author, description and version of your mod.

name = “(MOD NAME HERE)” description = “(CUSTOM DESCRIPTION)” author = “(YOUR NAME)” version = “1.1”

Be careful and better recheck your changes twice!

Bind coding

This section can be little hard if you don’t know how to code on Note C++
Open “modmain.LUA” with Note C++ and look what we have here…

function KeyHandler( key, down ) if down then local emotes_map = { “carol”, “chicken”, “robot”, “laugh”, “sleepy”, “flex”, “impatient”, “slowclap”, “bonesaw” } if key >= GLOBAL.KEY_F1 and key <= GLOBAL.KEY_F12 then local emote = emotes_map[key – GLOBAL.KEY_F1 + 1] if emote ~= nil then UserCommands.RunTextUserCommand(emote, GLOBAL.ThePlayer, false) end end end end

Now be careful, and change only what you read this guide!

Let’s look at this:

local emotes_map = { “carol”, “chicken”, “robot”, “laugh”, “sleepy”, “flex”, “impatient”, “slowclap”, “bonesaw” }

We can see that we have the names of in-game emotes. On this moment, we need to know what emotes we need to bind to our keys.
If you don’t know all names of all emotes, check them here: https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Emotes

Binds starts from F1 to F9, that means from

local emotes_map = { “F1”, “F2”, “F3”, “F4”, “F5”, “F6”, “F7”, “F8”, “F9” }

All what you need know, is know what emote you want see when you pressing on this key. Just write emote name instead name on sample mod.
Like that:

local emotes_map = { “carol”, “F2”, “robot”, “F4”, “F5”, “F6”, “F7”, “F8”, “F9” }

That means when i pressing F1 starts plays CAROL emote and when i pressinf F3 key, starts playing ROBOT emote.

Isn’t this easy?

Mod icon

We done all right now. Mod working and what next? How about make mod icon?
That’s important part of functional mod.

All what hard here, is BEING CREATIVE!
Here we need TEXTool. If you don’t have it, just read Beggining of this guide. :/

First step is:

Open TEXTool and press on FOLDER icon. Then open “modicon.TEX” in mod sample.
When image loads, save it on desktop.
In this step you need open Paint.net or GIMP and just make your own icon! It must be 128×128, not bigger or smaller! Be creative!
After completing, save it as “modicon.PNG“! Then open TEXCreator and press on ADD button. Choose your icon and select output desktop directory.
Now press on CONVERT button and we done!