[TOOL] Empyrion Playfield Designer v2.43.0 EXP (Empyrion V1.11.x compatible)

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  1. jmcburn

    jmcburn Rear Admiral

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    Can you send me your playfield.yaml renamed to text and the terrain.ecf. Then i can take a look.

    If you're sure, you entered everything correctly, you can disable preflight in the options.

    But this should be no way related to editing the terrain.ecf. Those are two completely separate parts of the program. There must be something wrong with the playfield.yaml. :)

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  2. Mia

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    Hmm, at least with the playfield you uploaded, I got no preflight errors when saving. Seems ok to me.

    The only thing I noticed in your file and I'm still trying to fix is the error in the random resources. There's always an extra empty DistTypeWorm and/or DistTypeCylinder in the yaml for all resources, so those might not work as expected. I can only suggest that you delete those extra lines for now in the yaml. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    upload_2018-6-30_19-11-51.png

    Those lines should be deleted for every random resource (As long they are 0 or empty).

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  4. Mia

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    I'm grateful for your EPD program without it, I'd be lost. Thank you for all the help and advice. :)
     
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  5. ulthrin

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    How do you make changes to the static yaml in EPD?

    I see preflight options for the static yaml, so i would think you can do it, but i just don't see how...
     
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    The static yaml are only some parameters of the main yaml, so you edit the main yaml, and export the changed static via file menu.

    You could edit it by simply opening it, but i would not suggest this workflow. It's best to keep the static and the main yaml consistent.

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  7. ulthrin

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    My bad. Now i look closer and actually read what it says i can see that export option in the menu(need new glasses)

    I might have missed that one too, but is there also that option for the dynamic yaml. I know EPD let you change that file, but it would nice if you can just edit the playfield yaml and then export to both of them at the same time
     
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    Hey.

    is it my server, my singel player ect that have this bug.
    Start new single player. Invader Vs Defender. Start on the planet Eleen or Trader Res.. At the start base , jump out and have a look on the grass or nearby terrain. This is allways bugged for me. Three's and grass are 3-4m abow the ground. If I move away 1km and come back its back to normal some times. ? I cant get this to go away ?

    It looks like the Terrain and the Starter POI do not merg to the terrain around it.
     
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    Well, I don't know when that happened exactly, but it seems the devs have removed the sectors folder from the dedicated server.

    Need to adapt EPD. As a workaround for now, copy over the sectors folder from the game or just create an empty folder called Sectors. That should work too.

    EDIT: Just checked my code and tested the latest public release version. There is NO check in EPD anymore for the sectors folder. That whole part has been already commented out some time ago. And there is no error popping up for me.

    EDIT 2: Taken from your screenshot you've not installed the latest EPD version on dropbox. File sizes differ a lot from the dropbox link you posted to those in your folder screenshot. :)

    Sure you have v1.57.2?

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    That won't really work for the dynamic file. The dynamic file has ranges for all the standard properties, so I can't just export that one from the playfield.yaml.

    The two files are linked and there are some shared properties like Biomes, and changes made to those in any of the two files will automatically change the other one too, but other that that, the dynamic file is totally different from the palyfield.yaml.

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  12. Mia

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    Sorry, I do not know what's wrong, I can not save any playfield.

    Skärmklipp.PNG
     
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  13. remeey

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    Yeah some how i got a link to an older file EPD_v1361_public.zip

    https://doc-00-98-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ko6ksj25rhkktrrr0bm3rs87pitl55mb/gc1oqijrvp5pqmvspfpg5ebe0ukhaie0/1530496800000/09602044763411861173/02009145363163128697/0BxUpWMGez5I0STZOZ0p4THpEMWs?e=download&nonce=kpt5m75c8vv8c&user=02009145363163128697&hash=1r0hlvl66ojpgnks43i5jffd7ghh
    and it gave me the wrong version I see you have taken it down now thank you for the replay the tool is now updated and working again :D
     
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    Well I can't tell from the screenshot. :)

    Please upload your playfield and I'll have a look. Or make a screenshot from the values behind the preflight window, if you can't save.
    I'd like to see the terrain level field, the base level field and the Terrain Height Map Max field.

    You can also disable preflight (for main planet playfield.yaml) in the options. Then save the playfield (that should work now after you disabled preflight) and upload it here renamed to txt.


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    Yeah, you accidentally grabbed the deprecated version of EPD, which is only working for Alpha 7.6 playfields.

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  16. Mia

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    I apologize so much. I'm fool.
    in 157.2 there is a box "Version" (PUBLIC) Alpha 8.0.2 v 8.02
    there it was changed to PUBLIC) Alpha 7
    I do not know how it happened.
    I think I need to take a vacation from the scenario. :confused:
     
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    No worries. :) Happened to others as well.

    As preflight is a rather new feature, it's very possible that it's still bugged. :)

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  18. remeey

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    Hi I don't know if this is the right place for this but, is there a way to fix and issue with the resource on my planets I generated it with the ssg and edited it with the epd but now my resources are 100% untouched but only 10% in them pic for example. upload_2018-7-3_9-23-35.png
     

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    I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's the bug with the extra disttypes in the random resources:

    I have no solution for it yet. The only way, you can fix it for now, is by deleting those empty disttype lines for all the random resources in your yaml, after saving in EPD. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    upload_2018-7-3_16-49-12.png

    /jmc
     
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  20. Ibrox

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    a mistery....
    2 days ago i save the last time 5 different playfields, all without aerror
    since today all playfields have "IndexOutOfRangeException: Array index is out of range. error.

    any suggestions ?
     
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