So, I've been working on my first custom planet which is not heavily based on any one existing planet. I have three problems, two of which may be linked: 1. Creatures don't seem to want to spawn. 2. The biomes in-game say "bm" before the name. (ie. the "IrradiateOcean" biome says "bmIrradiatedOcean" in game.) 3. For some reason, the planet is able to be started on, when it shouldn't be. Code: --- # Playfield Configuration # IMPORTANT: YAML files use spaces as indentation. Please don't use TABs - tab indentation is forbidden: http://yaml.org/faq.html # For more detailed explanations of the different parameters, see examples in Empyrion\Content\Playfields\ExamplePlanet and ExampleSpace # Please do not use long comments here because in a multiplayer game the yaml file has to be sent from server to client # Playfield Characteristics RealRadius: 1303.797294 ScaledRadius: 1300 Gravity: -38.2 AtmosphereDensity: 3.113 AtmosphereO2: 0.0 AtmosphereBreathable: False TemperatureDay: 0 TemperatureNight: -20 Music: default Radiation: 8 DayLength: 24 PlanetType: Abandoned Moons: 0 Water: WaterBrown SeaLevel: 81 PvP: True #Seed: 123456 #UseFixed: False # Playfield Difficulty Difficulty: 5 # Planet or Space PlayfieldType: Planet Description: "Anomaly was once an inhabited Alien planet. However, several decades ago, a disaster occured, which caused its gravity to increase threefold, and caused its surface to become severely irradiated. Caution is recommended when exploring the planet." # Sun SunFlare: EnvironmentalEffects/SunFlareWhite4 # Atmosphere and Sky AtmosphereEnabled: True AtmosphereColor: "0.30,1,0" SkyColor: "0.30,1,0" SkyHorizonColor: "0.30,1,0" # Light DayLightIntensity: 0.1 NightLightIntensity: 0.1 DayShadowStrength: 0.01 NightLightColor: "1, 1, 1" # Color of moon light, default is blueish "0.67,0.65,0.99" # Fog AtmosphereFog: 1.0 FogCloudIntensity: 1.0 FogIntensity: 1.0 FogStartDistance: 25 GroundFogIntensity: 1.0 GroundFogHeight: 0 # Clouds CloudsDensity: 1.0 CloudsSharpness: 0.3 CloudsBrightness: 1.0 CloudsOpacity: 1.0 CloudsZenithColor: "0.30,1,0" CloudsHorizonColor: "0.30,1,0" # Wind Speed WindSpeed: 4 # Special Effects SpecialEffectsGlobal: # Weather - Name: Fog Type: Weather InitialDelay: 0 Delay: 0 Lifetime: 9000 # Global Effect - Name: MeteorShower Time: Always InitialDelay: 3.5 Delay: 5 Lifetime: 60 PlyDist: 200 SpawnY: 100 Struct: Avoid ### Terrain and Decorations # Terrain and Local Decoration Terrain: Name: Moonstone PoleLevel: 30 PerlinCol: 1 NoiseStrength: 0.2 ColorChange: YFadeCenter: 80 YFadeRange: 20 YFadeMin: 0.1 YFadeMax: -0.15 MainBiome: Textures: - [ RockBlack, 3 ] - [ RockGrey08, 0 ] - [ Bedrock, 2 ] # Biome Definition and Main Decoration Biome: # Underwater - Altitude: [ 10, 65 ] Slope: [ 0, 45 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "IrradiatedOcean" Id: 1 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 Radiation: 8 Decorations: - [ RealRock8Water, 0.5] - [ RealRock9Water, 0.5] - [ CrystalsPyramidBlue, 3] - [ SkeletonWhaleFull, 0.6] - [ PromethiumStone, 1] - Altitude: [ 65, 75 ] Slope: [ 0, 35 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "IrradiatedOcean" Id: 1 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 Radiation: 6 Decorations: - [ PromethiumStone, 0.5] - [ SkeletonWhaleFull, 1] - [ RealRock1Water, 0.2] - [ RealRock5Water, 0.2] - Altitude: [ 75, 83 ] Slope: [ 0, 35 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "IrradiatedOcean" Id: 1 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 Radiation: 4 Decorations: - [ SkeletonWhaleFull, 0.4] # Plains - Altitude: [ 83, 96 ] Slope: [ 0, 180 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "Plains" Id: 1 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 - Altitude: [ 96, 106 ] Slope: [ 0, 12] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "Plains" Id: 2 ClusterSize: 30 NbOfClusters: 80 Decorations: - [ AridRockBrown01, 0.01] - [ AridRockBrown02, 0.01] - [ AridRockBrown03, 0.01] - [ RealRock1, 0.05] - [ RealRock10, 0.05] - [ RealRock3, 0.05] - [ RealRock4, 0.05] - [ RealRock5, 0.05] - [ SkeletonWhaleFull, 0.4] - [ SkeletonMammothTorso, 0.2] - Altitude: [ 96, 106 ] Slope: [ 0, 180 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "Plains" Id: 2 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 # Higher altitude plaines - Altitude: [ 106, 135 ] Slope: [ 0, 12 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "Plains" Id: 2 ClusterSize: 150 NbOfClusters: 30 Decorations: - [ RealRock10, 0.05] - [ RealRock3, 0.05] - [ RealRock4, 0.05] - [ RealRock5, 0.05] - [ SkeletonMammothTorso, 0.2] - Name: "Plains" Id: 2 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 Decorations: - [ RealRock1, 0.1] - [ RealRock7, 0.1] - [ RealRock5, 0.05] - [ AridRockBrown01, 1] - [ AridRockBrown02, 1] - [ AridRockBrown03, 1] - [ RealRock10, 0.05] - [ RealRock3, 0.05] - [ RealRock4, 0.05] - [ RealRock5, 0.05] # Steep Hills - Altitude: [ 106, 135 ] Slope: [ 0, 25 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "Hills" Id: 2 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 - Altitude: [ 106, 135 ] Slope: [ 0, 180 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "Hills" Id: 2 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 Decorations: - [ SkeletonMammothTorso, 0.2] - Altitude: [ 135, 250 ] Slope: [ 0, 180 ] BiomeClusterData: - Name: "Hills" Id: 3 ClusterSize: 0 NbOfClusters: 0 Decorations: - [ SkeletonMammothTorso, 0.2] # =================================================== ### Resource Deposits RandomResources: - Name: IronResource CountMinMax: [ 3, 5 ] SizeMinMax: [ 5, 9 ] DepthMinMax: [ 0, 10 ] DroneProb: 0 MaxDroneCount: 1 DistTypeWorm: FreqDirChange: 0.5 DirChangeMagnitude: 0.2 MaxLength: 50 DeepnessType: 2 - Name: GoldResource CountMinMax: [ 1, 2 ] SizeMinMax: [ 2, 5 ] DepthMinMax: [ 0, 10 ] DroneProb: 0 MaxDroneCount: 2 DistTypeWorm: FreqDirChange: 0.5 DirChangeMagnitude: 0.2 MaxLength: 50 DeepnessType: 2 ### Resource Asteroids AsteroidResources: - Name: IronResource Threshold: 0.6 Amount: 0.4 ### POIs POIs: Random: - GroupName: AnomalyResearchFacility #Custom POI CountMinMax: [1, 1] DroneProb: 0 DronesMinMax: [0, 0] ReserveCount: 1 InitPower: True SpawnPOINear: [] SpawnPOIAvoid: [] Properties: - Key: PersonalContainer Value: ArmorMedium:1, PlayerBike:1 - GroupName: AbandonedPOI CountMinMax: [ 3, 5 ] DroneProb: 0 DronesMinMax: [ 0, 0 ] ReserveCount: 1 TroopTransport: False SpawnPOIAvoid: ["Anomaly Research Facility"] POIDistance: 1300 SpawnResource: ["IronResource:0-2"] ResourceDistance: 300 Properties: - Key: Music Value: DarkSoundscape - Key: RegenAfter Value: 720 - GroupName: CrashedShip # Do not use regeneration with burried POIs CountMinMax: [ 1, 3 ] DroneProb: 0 DronesMinMax: [ 0, 0 ] ReserveCount: 4 TroopTransport: False SpawnPOIAvoid: ["Anomaly Research Facility"] POIDistance: 800 Properties: - Key: MapMarker Value: Neutral DroneSpawning: Random: - DronesMinMax: [ 0, 0 ] CenterX: -2500 CreatureSpawning: - Biome: Plains Entities: - Name: TotalHorrors Period: Night Amount: 2 Delay: 0 - Name: AlienBugs02 Period: Day Amount: 5 Delay: 0 - Biome: Hills Entities: - Name: AlienBugs02 Period: Always Amount: 5 Delay: 0 - Biome: IrradiatedOcean Entities: - Name: TotalHorrors Period: Always Amount: 3 Delay: 0 The planet is meant to be a dead planet with nothing but Abandoned Structures, a single research facility (Custom POI), no Drones, but a few Nightmares and Alien Scorpions.
First of all: Are you working in the singleplayer game folder or in the dedicated server folder? Where is the playfield.yaml that you are editing here located in your folder structure? Content\playfields\YourTemplateName\ or are you editing and already started savegame in the Saves\Games\NewGameXXX\Playfields\YourTemplateName\ Saves\Games\NewGameXXX\Templates\YourTemplateName\ If so, which one? Predators (Hostile creatures) like Overseers only spawn after 24 in-game hours have passed. You can test if they do spawn, when you move time ahead one or two days in debug menu. Editing creatures after a savegame is created means either wiping the playfield again or starting a fresh game. Creatures don't update in an existing savgame anymore. You have used custom names for biomes. The game now creates a key out of your name via adding a prefix 'bm' to your name. If that bothers you, you would have to define their localized names in localization.csv. example: bmIrradiatedOcean | Irradiated Ocean | (Translated name) | (other translated name) according the localization.csv But that would only work in single player anyway, as everyone else in the MP group would need to have the same localization file, to read their localized names accordingly. I would highly suggest to only use predefined names like OpenPlains, TropicalForest, ... Take a look at the other playfield.yamls to get a list. If you use custom biome names, you also have no environment sounds in that biome, because those are hardcoded into the predefined biome names. This is defined in the sector.yaml. Have you edited an existing playfield template like NewTemperate, .... Meaning one that is already used in the sectors file? Then this playfield is maybe already defined as starting planet. /jmc
I'm editing it in: Content\Scenarios\[SCENARIO NAME]\Playfields\Anomaly\ Speeding up the game with the debug menu allowed them to spawn. Thanks! Thanks for the info. I don't mind the 'bm' in front of it, and the lack of environmental sound makes it even creepier, like it should be. lol. I don't see this anywhere in the sector.yaml: Code: Sectors: - Coordinates: - 0 - 0 - 0 Color: 0, 0, 0 Icon: No Playfields: - - 0, 0, 0 - Sun - Sun - '' Allow: [] Deny: [] - Coordinates: - -149 - -115 - 295 Color: 1, 1, 1 Icon: Diamond Playfields: - - 0, 0, 0 - Outer Rim - SpaceOuterRim - true:0 - - -6500, 4000, 9500 - Anomaly - Anomaly - true:0 #Tried changing this to "false" but it didn't seem to do anything. - '' Allow: [] Deny: [] I started the playfield from scratch, but copied and pasted things within it from various planets to get the terrain, water level, and creatures what I wanted. Edit: I removed the "-true:0" line entirely, and it worked!!! Thanks for all your help!!!!!
