[TOOL] [DISCONTINUED] Empyrion Playfield Designer Alpha7 v1.36.1 [deprecated version]

Thx for the report. Already heard it today from Rexxxus, who was having the same issue. I found the bug, but i don't know yet, how to resolve the issue, as it's the same bug, i had for weeks and thought i had fixed.

It happens, if you edit an effect/weather and don't change the type and/or name and click ok right away. Then the name get's deleted from yaml.
For the moment, please avoid editing an effect without changing it's type back and forth. I'm not 100% sure, but this should resolve the issue as a workaround for now. Maybe you also have to set the name once, too.

For a better understanding:
The underlying problem is ,that the name is listed before the type in the playfield yamls, but the type defines the database in which the corresponding effect resp. weather name is to be found. That causes a lot of problems and needs special fixes for every use case. But the underlying code mechanics of comboboxes are all the same for every selectable database value. So fixing the problem in one place can break the code for all other comboboxes. That's why i have to be very careful, what to change. That's what kept me from releasing new updates for a few weeks the last time.

But i'm working on a solution.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

/jmc

 

Yup, same here. I deleted the weather effects, saved, then put them back in. Fixed the CoQ.

 

Good tool, but
Does not download prefab from the folder with scenarios )

 

I don't understand this at all.

 

Strange. It works for me. It should import all the prefabs from every scenario's Prefabs folder. It should import the groupname and the filename for the different properties (e.g. fixed POIs -> filename, Random POIs -> groupname).

Could you please tell me the steps to reproduce?

Could you try the 'Import Prefabs' button on top. It's for reimporting and looking for new prefabs, if you added a prefab to the folder, after EPD has started already.

/jmc

 

UPDATE (v1.33.7)
Hotfix

FIXES:

• fixed: In SpecialEffectsGlobal/Weather the effect's/weather's name got lost, if you edited the effect after creating it and did not change type and name.

DOWNLOAD LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxUpWMGez5I0U1hSZGc3Y0U0VzA/view?usp=sharing

Please let me know, if that fixed the issue. As far as my tests went, it looks fine.

/jmc

 

This version fails to start on my system, does not even make it to the task manager process window :s

EDIT: never mind, after 4 consecutive attempts to start it, it randomly worked.

 

If it happens again, keep me posted. Didn't change anything critical, so it shouldn't behave any other than the versions before, but who knows.

/jmc

 

I think my pc was just having a blonde moment.
Seems fine now

 

Yes, loading prefabs works .... probably there was some kind of failure

 

Hello, I was just wondering if this was working right or not....

So I have the game up and the program and are able to reload playfield and stuff from the program. But my question, am I supposed to be able to edit the playfield through the program, reload it, and check the new settings in the game? (hope so, would be awesome) As of now, I am able to reload it from the program and see the game reload it, but none of the changes take effect.

Thank you

 

Yes, that should work for most of the parts. But Empyrion does not support to change everything live via reload (for the moment).

Working so far:
Deco, Textures, Colors ( Sky, Fog, ...), Weather/Effects, Biomes, ...

Not Working:
POIs, Resources, DroneBase, Creatures

But it's important, that you edit the playfield.yaml stored in <EmpyrionMainFolder>\Saves\<SaveGameName>\Templates\<TemplateName>\.
If you edit the playfield.yaml, that's located in <EmpyrionMainFolder>\Content\Playfields\<TemplateName>\, it WON'T work, as Empyrion always reloads from the savegame folder.

Use the 'Import Playfield' button on top to load the yaml from the savegame folder.

After you edited something, you can just press Ctrl+S for saving and then Ctrtl+R for reload.

Hope this helps.

/jmc

 

Maybe your download got infected?
https://virustotal.com/de/file/c221...d854ab82a5d4bc76c1a3d4f232b6586b5c3/analysis/

 

Thats just because he hides the code. The download doenst have a virus.
My pc never complained about it

 

Maybe. My Avast Free directly quarantined it. We live in unsecure digital times

 

It even happens with me.
Avira Antivirus always complains and deletes the exe, if i move the ready compiled tool to another folder.

Maybe i coded in a virus without even knowing it.

/jmc

 

Yeah I get a trojan warning from time to time, but I know where the file came from and I don't really have anything anyone wants so I'm just glad I have a gui interface to the YAML.

 

Could be some sort of a code signature which is simular to some of the Malware. I mentioned it, because sometimes the bad guys hack and inject code to websites or Programs. With older versions it didn't happen at all.

btw.: Keep up your good work Sometimes I miss this little pictures for some of the planet decorations. Is it possible to copy them in somehow?

 

Yeah, exactly, it's mainly, because malware also obfuscates their code and this produces the same or similar signatures. And Antivirus software can behave differently with every released version, as the compiled code changes.

Previews:
I have a direct access to the dev's drop box with their official previews. Most of them should be in, i guess. But I can check if they updated some more in the last weeks. If so, i'll include them in next release.

In the meantime, you could put your images into the data/images/deco folder. If you name it exactly like the official ingame name and they are .png or .jpg, it should work, i guess.

Thx, glad you like it.

/jmc

 

A quick heads up. Just case we get more virus reports.

The program is once again getting a false postive on diffrent anti virus. This time Kaspersky Labs have flagged it as a trojan. I have marked as safe and passed it back to Kaspersky Labs. Hopefully more people will do this. Perfectly alright here as this is experimental, not open source and for a made game that still in alpha. So it is going to look odd to people outside of our community. Very much a work in progress.

The game developer has even used this as things progress. There might be room here for a commercial release at some point. Some of this might end up in the actual game. Or might not. Wait and see. So obfuscation of code is the way to go. It just means false postive virus report now and again is a result. It a wonderful bit of software all the same.