I am experimenting with mods. This is my first one. It is a replacement for the harder-to-see brown mushroom.

It was created using a free image editor called "the Gimp" (the poor man's version of Photoshop).

I found that in the game, the mod mushroom is easier to spot from all views in all places such as mixed in with the crops from the overhead map view.

I was thinking about another mod where the brown mushroom would be a slice of pepperoni pizza and the red mushroom would be a whole pizza.

Mmmm... pizza!

I am not sure what the rules are for mods, if one is allowed to share them, or if there is a means to share them. If it is permitted and if anyone wants psychedelic mushrooms I will gladly share. If mods are frowned upon please forgive my ignorance, no disrespect intended.

Any interesting stories or ideas for mods?

-Borg

i lurve the pizza idea!!!

OHH!!! This opens up a whole new world to me! I had no idea it was that easy to change the graphics! Now I have new veggies, new hair, new clothes (for free) and new shrooms! YAYAYAYAY!

(Although, looking into the graphics folder was a total spoiler for some of the things to come... D'OH!)

NO MORE GREY HAIRED KIDS! WHOO HOO!

Hmmm... maybe I can change the carried baby graphic into a pregnant belly look instead.....

I want the purple mushroom! Little silly brown mushrooms are really hard to see.

Another mod of the brown mushroom - A slice of pepperoni pizza! Mmmm..



A view of the original images and the mods.

If you like your mushrooms big and pink, or if you are crazy about pizza, there are instructions for obtaining and installing the mods further along in this thread.

Instructions are located further along in this thread.

is suppose this
will help you with your questions. Mods are welcome and will be featured on this site!

There are 3 mushrooms shown in the pictures - I have only seen 2 - the regular brown one and the red one - What Is The Speckled One???

Good answer, bluemchen! You beat me to it.

Where are the New Mods listed on the site?

Is there a "walkthru" for how to change the graphic (mod) in the game? Not only to change the color/shape but to add a mod created by another player.

It's up to the creator of each mod to provide instructions for using their creation. Some mods are more involved than others. Since the mods are all user creations, they aren't supported by LDW and you assume any risks associated with using them. We just post them for the convenience and enjoyment of our community.

Thanks Barbara!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MUSHROOM MODS

1. Download a mod from HERE.

2. Find your VV2 images directory at:
   C:\Program Files\Virtual Villagers - The Lost Children\Images

3. in the image directory, find the file:
   collectables_images.png and rename it to:
   collectables_images_ORIGINAL.png

4. extract the file collectables_images.png from the zipped mod
   you downloaded in step 1 and copy it to the images directory.

Borg, check the link that bluemchen posted on the previous page - it tells you all you need to know to get your mods posted.

how do you get into the graphics to change things like the shroom things (i have adobe photoshop)

see borgs last post - go into that folder and simply open the files in photoshop then - edit according to your desires. save and that's about it :-)

I'm starting a mod site for Virtual Villagers. It only has one mod so far, but I'm working on others to add to it. http://millsmods.tripod.com/MillsMods.html If anyone goes there, most of the pages are still blank.

And if you're making changes to the images folder, you should definitely copy them to a safe location first so you have backups of the original.

I was wondering that myself ... anyone know?

I'm not sure. I haven't seen it in the game yet, and it doesn't appear to be in the carry pic, which has the graphics for the items while they are carrying them around.

Use your image editor to edit the file:
   collectables_images.png
which is located here:
   C:\Program Files\Virtual Villagers - The Lost Children\Images

The file above is for the images of the collectables. There are other files in this folder that you can edit to change clothing, heads, and much more.

Don't forget to make a backup of the original files first!

And you must use a graphics editing program that preserves transparency or you will mess up the way the graphics appear in your game.

If anyone is interested in my site, I added a mod for brighter mushrooms that I made a few days ago for Xay.

is there a way to see the collectibles from the main map. I am getting dizzy scan the 9 blocks looking for the few left in this game that I need.

Do they need to be bigger, or is that program writing thing

Once you get level 3 exploration, you can see them on the map, but the won't appear when you have the map up, so you would have to check occasionally.

Just wanted to add my mushroom mods to the thread. If anyone wants them, I can submit them or send them.

for the red mushrooms: I haven't actually had one pop up in the game because they are rarer, but I created the scene:



for the brown mushrooms:




here are just the mushrooms, of course they look a lot smaller by themselves!

EASTER EGG MUSHROOM MOD

Brighten up the lives of your village children with colorful easter eggs!

I've added easter eggs to the mod folder which still also includes the big pink mushroom and the pizza mushrooms.

This mod replaces the brown and the red mushroom with easter eggs.

Instructions on downloading and installing can be found HERE

I've copied the white robes for all the bodies and pasted them onto all the other clothing items... now all my villagers are wearing white robes. I considered putting them on the guys too, but they didn't look quite right. I just took one of the mostly white guy outfits and edited it to be all white and copied it for all the guys.

My little utopia going on. Oh, and I opened Robyn's Hair Salon and Spa and fixed some of the things that were bugging me. I outlined the shroom in purple and you know... the one they carry around has that purple too and I didn't modify the 'carry' pic. Weird. I figured maybe they just use that big shroom as a "rare" since the other two could be common and uncommon - but I've never seen it either and I've gotten somewhere around 300-400 shrooms so far.

You should see some of my awesome new highlights! I tried to shrink down the faces of some of the pics I have of my real kids to put onto the faces of the villagers, but I couldn't shrink them down enough while still keeping them recognizable as faces. Bummer.