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Custom species are curious too

Allows crew members of custom species to inspect objects in the environment as vanilla species do.

NOTICE: My new mod "Corbent's Interactive Crew" includes the custom species inspection fix, if you are subscribed to that one, you can unsubscribe from this one.

About a year ago, before stepping away due to life getting tough all of a sudden, while doing some experiments with crew members I created a random human and was surprised when while strolling around a planet... she talked! She randomly said the description of a torch we passed by. This is a behavior I had never seen before. I went to the creators of some mods I use like Datebound to see if it was something their mod did. Turns out the behavior is vanilla but I had never seen it because I have used the Lyceen since forever and this didn't work for them.

Recently I have been poking around Starbound again. And I discovered that the inspect behavior has a "hasSpeciesSpecificDescription" check. Therefore if objects don't have a species specific inspect line (which is the case for most if not all custom races since it would be an endeavor of biblical proportions), NPCs won't inspect it.

This tiny mod patches this file to remove this check, allowing custom species to be curious about things around them.

As usual bug reports, comments, obsrvations are much appreciated.

UPDATE 1: It now also modifies the "inspectEntity" function inside dialog.lua (using a new file and hooking it, don't panic) so that it takes human dialogs instead of abstract descriptions. (Thanks for the observation Kronolos). I can no longer say it is a one line fix but it now correctly uses human dialogs for a MUCH better experience.