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A mod that adds Build Kit objects can name them, and group them into families, with reskate-objects.json at the top of its folder. A family is one tile in the Object Browser, and X / Square on it picks between its objects, the way the game’s own Manual Pad offers its sizes and colours. Without the file, every object a mod adds gets a tile of its own, titled with its key.
ReSkate reads the file of each enabled mod when the game starts, highest mod first. A mod switched on while the game runs gets its families at the next start.

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Fields

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integer
required
1.
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object[]
New Object Browser categories, at most 64. Each has an id (required), a title (the id when missing) and a priority. A new category has no icon of its own: the browser shows its first tile’s picture.
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object[]
Families, at most 1024. Each has an id and a category (both required), a title and a priority. The category can be one of the game’s (category_ramp, category_rail, …) or one this or an earlier mod adds.
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object[]
The mod’s objects, at most 8192. Each has a key, the object’s asset key, starting with own_ (required), and a title, a description or a family: at least a title or a family. The family can be one of the game’s, to add a colour to the game’s Manual Pad, say.
  • Text is at most 255 bytes, without control characters. A text field that breaks this counts as missing.
  • priority is a whole number: lower comes first. Without one, an entry goes after those already there.
  • categories, families and objects are each optional, but a field that is there must be a list.

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What is refused

The file only adds. Each entry below is left out, with a line in the log (Mod objects: <mod>: ...), and the rest of the file is kept:
  • a category or family whose id is already taken, by the game or a mod;
  • a family whose category does not exist;
  • an object whose key does not start with own_, or whose family does not exist;
  • an object the game has: a mod cannot rename or regroup the game’s objects;
  • an object an earlier mod already named: the first mod wins.
A file that is not valid JSON, not schema 1, larger than 4 MB, or with a list field that is not a list adds nothing. The log says how many objects the mods named: Mod objects: N named by M mod(s). The objects themselves come from the mod’s game data, built with ReSkate Studio. The file names and groups them; it does not add them.