Howto: Blueprints and Steam Workshop

How to get thumbnail to steam for your pre-5.3 blueprint.

Problem is: all blueprint pictures always were .png

And from this build the game started to save them as .jpg

So, to upload an old blueprint you have to open old thumbnail, crop it to 800px*450px and save it in the same place with the same name, but as .jpg. Then "update" the blueprint to steam.

 

I was just lamenting the lack of Workshop yesterday, very nice! I uploaded a SV blueprint, added screenshots, description, all looks good.

Except the tag. Right now there are over 330 workshop items, but only 3 of them have tags. Right now, trying to find a blueprint for an SV (for example) means scrolling through hundreds of blueprints that aren't SVs. I can't find a way to manually update the tag on my workshop item, and the research I did suggests the tag is set by the game when uploading.

If so, please ask the devs about getting this fixed ASAP. Its really critical for using the workshop.

 

Something is sporadic about the tags. I uploaded 5 blueprints on the 2nd and after about 48 hours 3 of them tagged correctly as SV's. the other two are still listed as "blueprint" only. I took a new pic and updated the two remaining BP's on the 6th, it will be the 10th in moments and still no tags.

 

Thanks good to know.

Also FYI, you closed a thread on Steam about SP games having other peoples structures in game. I am telling you i was not mistaken, over-tired, intoxicated or pulling anyone's leg. The only reason i even noticed the PvP tag in the map was because i was extremely confused that another players name was on all the alien towers. When i changed the playfield to PvE that players name disappeared. I have never played MP, i have only played SP and i have never even changed games in over 200 hours. i want you to know because it was incredibly confusing and i rebooted the game several times, and almost quit the game out of frustration. I didnt want to start a war with some other person when i was still a noob, trying to play SP only, and didnt know what was going on enough to start something with them.

 

It hasnt happened since i changed the playfields. But i if i can get the time this weekend i will save my games, then uninstall the game and reinstall and start a fresh new game and see if i get it to happen again. If i do, i will follow your steps as well as take screen shots and video.

 

I tried looking for information on how to manually edit steam workshop tags. Is it still moderators and devs only or? As a quick fix, I'm adding (HV) (SV) (CV) after title of every ship I've created so far...

 

can some one advise please, i have only just loaded my server since the update and found all my blueprints missing, in fact the whole save game folder was gone, now since creating a new game with a new ship and such i can see the blueprints folder, however, when i copy the blueprints from my backup folder into the game folder and try to use the blueprint in game i get an error, so i tried doing the thumbnail thing to reduce the size and change it to jpg, copied it over again and still the same problem, am i missing something? do i now have to upload the files to workshop and download them again for this to work?

Any help will be much appreciated

Never Mind i figured it out

 

Any updates on this? I've uploaded quite a few blueprints that haven't seen the light of day since there are no tags. Lots of creators out there with amazing designs!

 

I follow the howto guide on getting the blueprints but they still don't show up in my blueprint on my game? Anyone have an idea on why?

 

my hard drive has died and i am wanting to retrieve blueprints that i "published" from empyrion servers- i thought published meant i had uploaded them to an empyrion server as thats why pre alpha empyrion staffers were advising us to get our blueprints uploaded as all game files would be wiped.
but as i see no notes on this i'm guessing it only meant that i was having blue print data stored in a folder in MY pc that would not be wiped by the new alpha build yes?

gee i hops its the case i can retrieve them from online empyrion and if someone is able to answer this please i'd be grateful. and Alpha is really ace by the way, well done.

 

when you blueprint a build it's stored locally on your own pc. to be able to retrieve your blueprints is if you (to my knowledge) have published the blueprint to the steam workshop.
if you have done that all you need to do is:
go to your own steam workshop and press the big green button then it will download to your PC.

 

ahhh,

Ahhh, i see. oh man thank you for the info, bit clueless here though i am quite certain i published them to workshop so going to try that now.

thanks again!

 

I have Subscribed to a few blueprints on steam but they are not downloading what do i need to do .

 

sorry to say that you might need to delete the game ATTENTION!!! backup your saves before you do so!! located inside steamapps/common/empyrion/saves!!

then when you have deleted the game, make sure the entire empyrion folder have been removed. then reboot your pc. reinstall the game and then re subscribe to the blueprints. should work, did for me when I suddenly couldn't get the BP's from the workshop.