[HOWTO] Swap Handmade <> Procedural playfields

Would be a good idea to make a toggle at STARTING NEW GAME whether if hand made (default - for new players, these are more beautiful! but repetitive after the 100th new game start ) or random generated planets should be used.
Yes, you would need TWO different sector.yamls then.
Still would be a good idea!

 

A couple things to be aware of if you're doing this.

If you use desert instead of newdesert for Omicron in 7.0, the resources removed (magnesium, cobalt) are back. Also, I play on low yield deposits, and using desert the deposits were all 3000+. There's something different with how much ore is appearing between 6.x and 7.

Also, you start off with medium armor instead of light armor.

There's probably other differences as well.

Many of us want all the features/changes that come with 7.0, just with a randomly created world. If you played with 7 in experimental, you're probably tired of the hand drawn map. It seems the only way to fix this for the time being is to cut and paste parts of newdesert.yaml to desert.yaml, which is tedious.

 

that's all configurable in the appropriate yaml file.
Eleon (or whoever) needs to adjust them so they are nearly similar to each other.

 

As you said above, it sure would be ideal to be able to choose at the game start. Or, at least, give us a line in the yaml file that specifies whether the world is random or hand drawn. I've gone over them a few times, and I can't find a line that sounds like it has that effect.

 

okay, I'm trying to make an deeper How-To:

1) Open Explorer to
C:\STEAM\SteamApps\common\Empyrion - Galactic Survival\Content\Sectors
(your Steam dir could vary)

2) Open File Sectors.yaml with appropriate Text editor like Textpad or Notepad++

Find "Akua" =>

you will see

Code:

- Coordinates: [92, 5, 117]
  Color: 0.04, 0.3, 0.37
  Icon: Circle
  OrbitLine: True
  Deny: [Oscutune Orbit, Aitis Orbit]
  Playfields:
  - ['0, 0, 0', Akua Orbit, SpaceAsteroidFieldRingAkua]
  # - ['0, 0, 0', Akua, Temperate, 'Human:1']
  # - ['-6500, 5000, 6500', Akua Moon, Moon]
  - ['0, 0, 0', Akua, NewTemperate, 'Human:1']
  - ['-6500, 5000, 6500', Akua Moon, NewMoon2]

these lines describe the playfields Akua, Akua Moon and Akua Orbit.
You will see "#" in front of two lines, that means these lines are remarks and not active.
These both lines are the old RANDOM GENERATED worlds.

Now remove the "#" from both lines and add this to both following lines so those are deactivated.

DONE.
You now have random generated Akua, random generated Akua Moon and standard Akua Orbit.

BUT these are the old 6.0 random generated worlds.
I will show you, what have to be done to make both - the handmade and the random generated - have the same ressources, POIs and such (but leave it to you to finish that ;-)

Okay,
look at the line
# - ['0, 0, 0', Akua, Temperate, 'Human:1']
Thats the (here still deactivated) old random generated line for Akua.
"Temperate" is the Name of the Directory which includes the Definition of anything POI/Ressources/Drones/Biomes/etc. related.
The other line
- ['0, 0, 0', Akua, NewTemperate, 'Human:1']
reads "NewTemperate", which is the corresponding directory for the handmade version we have in 7.0 now.

Now look here:
C:\STEAM\SteamApps\common\Empyrion - Galactic Survival\Content\Playfields
you will find those both directories there, each having a file called "playfield.yaml" which is the file we need to change / look at.

To be more accurate,
we want to read the file
C:\STEAM\SteamApps\common\Empyrion - Galactic Survival\Content\Playfields\NewTemperate\playfield.yaml
and modify the file
C:\STEAM\SteamApps\common\Empyrion - Galactic Survival\Content\Playfields\Temperate\playfield.yaml

When you look into these files, find "Resource"
and you find the RandomResources and AsteroidResources then.

This is the code from NewTemperate (which is the new handmade 7.0 version) and you see Iron, Copper, Silicon and Promethium as Deposits there:

Code:

### Resource Deposits
RandomResources:
    - Name: IronResource
      CountMinMax: [ 5, 7 ] 
      SizeMinMax: [ 8, 10 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 5 ]
      DroneProb: 0.2
      MaxDroneCount: 1
      DistTypeCylinder:
        MaxRadius: 10
        YVariance: 12

    - Name: CopperResource
      CountMinMax: [ 3, 5 ]
      SizeMinMax: [ 6, 8 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 10 ]
      DroneProb: 0.3
      DistTypeWorm:
        FreqDirChange: 0.5 
        DirChangeMagnitude: 0.2
        MaxLength: 40
        DeepnessType: 2

    - Name: SiliconResource
      CountMinMax: [ 3, 6 ]
      SizeMinMax: [ 6, 7 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 5 ]
      DroneProb: 0.3
      DistTypeCylinder:
        MaxRadius: 13
        YVariance: 8

    - Name: PromethiumResource
      CountMinMax: [ 4, 8 ]
      SizeMinMax: [ 7, 10 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 5 ]
      DroneProb: 0.4
      DistTypeCylinder:
        MaxRadius: 13
        YVariance: 10

### Resource Asteroids
AsteroidResources:
     - Name: IronResource
       Threshold: 0.2
       Amount: 0.2

    # - Name: IronResource
      # Amount: 5000      
      # InitialDelay: 1  
      # Delay: 24        

    #- Name: CobaltResource
    #  Threshold: 0.4
    #  Amount: 0.4

     - Name: CopperResource
       Threshold: 0.2
       Amount: 0.2

     - Name: SiliconResource
       Threshold: 0.2
       Amount: 0.2

     - Name: PromethiumResource
       Threshold: 0.2
       Amount: 0.2

    # - Name: MagnesiumResource
      # Threshold: 0.2
      # Amount: 0.3

Now look at Temperate (which is the old 6.x random generated version) and you find besides Iron, Copper, Silicon and Promethium the old Cobalt and Magnesium as Deposits too:

Code:

### Resource Deposits
RandomResources:
    - Name: IronResource
      CountMinMax: [ 6, 7 ] 
      SizeMinMax: [ 8, 14 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 1 ]
      DroneProb: 0.2
      MaxDroneCount: 1

    - Name: CobaltResource
      CountMinMax: [ 5, 6 ]
      SizeMinMax: [ 6, 14 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 1 ]
      DroneProb: 0.2

    - Name: CopperResource
      CountMinMax: [ 5, 6 ]
      SizeMinMax: [ 6, 13 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 1 ]
      DroneProb: 0.3

    - Name: SiliconResource
      CountMinMax: [ 4, 5 ]
      SizeMinMax: [ 6, 13 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 2 ]
      DroneProb: 0.3

    - Name: PromethiumResource
      CountMinMax: [ 5, 6 ]
      SizeMinMax: [ 8, 12 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 2 ]
      DroneProb: 0.4

    - Name: MagnesiumResource
      CountMinMax: [ 6, 7 ]
      SizeMinMax: [ 7, 9 ]
      DepthMinMax: [ 0, 3 ]
      DroneProb: 0.3

### Resource Asteroids
AsteroidResources:
    - Name: IronResource
      Threshold: 0.6
      Amount: 0.5

    # - Name: IronResource
      # Amount: 5000      
      # InitialDelay: 1  
      # Delay: 24        

    - Name: CobaltResource
      Threshold: 0.4
      Amount: 0.4

    # - Name: CopperResource
      # Threshold: 0.3
      # Amount: 0.3

    # - Name: SiliconResource
      # Threshold: 0.3
      # Amount: 0.2

    # - Name: PromethiumResource
      # Threshold: 0.3
      # Amount: 0.2

    # - Name: MagnesiumResource
      # Threshold: 0.2
      # Amount: 0.3

What you have to do now is remove / change these lines (in Temperate-folder!!) accordingly and you have random generated 7.0 versions ;-)

(You can do that with POIs etc. too... and the other handmade planets...)

Hope this helps a bit...
and yes, make a backup... or better make a scenario and copy all these files over first...

 

I think the best combination is to have the starter planets procedural and the rest custom hand made pieces of Art.

Please give us a way to save hand shaped terrains as an XML or DLL file to be used as map terrain.

This really is the only way we can get the proper diversity in maps the game is going to need if it wants to create a Galaxy that is not bland and made of all similar planets.

 

Very well done. I would only add that you have to change your armor to "ArmorLight" from "ArmorMedium" towards the bottom of the yaml file under "- Mode: Survival"

You can also change what's in the personal locker here. You get less stuff in 7.0 than you did before.

Only thing I can't figure out... I remember reading in the notes somewhere that resources were no longer supposed to spawn right next to your starting location. Can't figure out how to change that one. Every seed I've started with the altered yaml file has multiple resources right where I'm starting. As if this game hasn't gotten easy enough...

 

yes, to make a true 1:1 version is a bit more work... perhaps someone will make it and upload it to the Workshop...
sadly my time is a bit restricted atm...

 

I've gotten it very close to where it should be, but I'm hesitant to share it just yet. I'm getting holes in the terrain, and I need to test further to see if I can repeat them with the stock 7.0 yaml. Not sure if it's a bug or a result of my tinkering.

 

Awesome. Just what we need. Stupid social life and job will interfere with me trying anything out until late tomorrow.

 

very nice @Pantera
will check as soon as I can (later this day)...
this is a good thingy!
and should be included in one in the next updates!!

 

I have a question, when I make a custom planet and orbit, it gets bombarded with warp lines (see screenshot)

How can I prevent this from happening and mudding up our sector map?

 

There have some news for a handmade planets/moons tutorial for the lasted version and a example we can download ?

 

Oof, you need to modify your sector.yaml, a *lot*. In order to fix the warp lines, you need to manually edit each playfield's Allow/Deny lists to properly allow the playfields that should be warpable, and deny the ones that should not. Note that if a playfield is allowed and not warpable, it will make a wormhole instead of removing it. You can make a one-way warp by allowing a planet on one side, but denying it from the other side.

Ex: Planet A and Planet B. To make a one way warp from A to B...
Planet A
Allow:
Planet B

Deny:

Planet B:
Allow:

Deny:
Planet A