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

Discussion in 'Planets & Playfields' started by jmcburn, May 5, 2018.

  1. Monroe

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    Awesome jmcburn.
    Do you know of anyone who is doing good youtube videos on how to use it?
     
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  2. jmcburn

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    EPD v2.43.0 Build 6231 is out
    Hotfix


    - fixed: NewDeco properties with values '0' or empty (null) got removed during saving, which broke some playfields.

    Full Changelog

    Download

    /jmc
     
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  3. jmcburn

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    Sorry, not really, there were some old videos once on Youtube, but this even was before dynamic/static playfields were introduced.

    I once tried to do them myself, but I came to the conclusion, that I am completely useless in this regard. :D

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  4. Escarli

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    Whilst the program is easy to use, the topic itself (i.e. planet creation) can be quite complicated and probably why such a youtube series on what to do hasn't been done yet :)
     
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  5. ASTIC

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    Do you get the item icons directly from the game's asset bundles?
    I am still looking for such a possibility for the EWA so that I am not dependent on Eleon updating the icons in the EAH icon folder
     
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  6. Taelyn

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    JMC gets them for us. Reading the Asset Bundles is not allowed
     
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  7. ASTIC

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    I had already thought that. Is it possible to send me the CustomIcons for "Rise of the Dark Faction" too, because *** thinks that an EHA update, now that Jascha is no longer with us :-( , is not so easy to accomplish
     
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  8. Taelyn

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    I will ask if you can have them, if so I will send them over in a PM
     
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  9. Fenra369

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    It would be better to make a post in this forum stating what is the goals you are trying to achieve with building planets, and go from there. There isn't even a lot of written documentation on playfield design, much less a video. What I can tell you is biome editing is hard and you should avoid doing it unless you prepared to do a *lot* of testing. Have a 1 planet scenario setup as a testbed to verify your work, because there's pretty much no other way to validate the file except loading it in game.
     
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  10. ravien_ff

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    You can use the SSG to preview biome setup (though it's not supported anymore it does still work for now).
     
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  11. Fenra369

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    Getting this error whenever I do a first load, cannot seem to resolve it. It seems to not stop me from doing the scenario import tho.
    [​IMG]
     
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  12. Fenra369

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    A nice to have for this tool, given the lack of references not syncing correctly with the configs; Give me a setting which allows me to overwrite all POI/Prefab/filter whatever selections with straight text input. It's really annoying to have to bounce between EPD and notepad++ to do editing, I'd rather use one or the other
     
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