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

Ok Simple Question

When I have
UseFixed: True
UseRandom: True
No Drone showup anyplace on the map.

If I make UseFixed: False
The Drones show up

Playfield I used was akra in it's own scenario, Added just 5 fixed poi of my design and had the player spawn in the base no other changes other then remarking out the Wreckage

Also ran the playfield through EPD_v1347 and same thing happened no drones if UseFixed: True
Also this is a single player game
Everything else works. So what have I missed?

 

Just tested and confirmed. But i'm guessing this is a game bug, as this happens with all the playfields that originally come with the game as soon as you set UseRandom to 'true.'

I'll file a bug report.

Thx for the report.

/jmc

 

Had the same issue and then went flying around and used my admin powers to find them...they all get stuck to each other and dont roam free.

have also logged a bug report

 

And what playfields does it work with? How can a original playfield be different from one you create from scratch?.

From what you had stated above it sounded like all I had to do was create a new planet name add it to the sector's file and pop that playfield.yaml in and bobs your uncle. How can the game know the difference it's no longer called akra and it's not in the Temperate folder.
I did try doing just that and nope no drones showed up

Not trying to sound narky just abit flustered to have gotten part of it working just to have me shot down by a drone that I can't see

 

At least you could find them. not one showed in the ents listings for me, went to the drone base and nothing. plenty of mobs spawning inside the base but sadly for me the drones were hiding. I never thought I would be sad that a drone wasn't there to try to kill me

 

Maybe you misunderstood me there.

It doesn't work with ANY playfield (original or custom), as far as i tested. My guess is that this bug got introduced when they added the feature to allow fixed POIs together with random.

It may still be an EPD bug, but i don't think so. I tried to just add (manually with Notepad++) the 'UseRandom: True' and 'UseFixed: True' without changig anything else in the original 'temperate' playfield, and the drones were gone. So it's not an issue with EPD, as it happens as well, when editing the yaml by hand.

I'll guess, we'll just have to wait either for an answer to the bugreport i sent or a new game release to fix the issue.

/jmc

 

Thanks Mate and no worries. I never thought it was your program. Because I just found it today and I have been fighting this for a couple of weeks now. And had felt if your EPD created a playable playfield with both Mixed and Random then I might find out from comparing yours and mine and see what I missed. Oh nice Program by the way!! only thing from a new user perspective your BIG GO button for the Seed had me confused, to start with I thought it was the save button lol then I found the smaller but larger then rest of text to Save the file. All good though

 

Really nice tool =) =) =)

Made my first Scenario thanks to you
It is a start, but with this tool, much is done

search Two Towers in workshop if you want to have a look...........

Keep up the great job =)

 

Thx, nice to hear that it is of help.

Will take a look.

/jmc

 

Empyrion Universe Designer (EPD v2) alpha development progress:

Importing of Sector.yaml and 3D handling and moving of OrbitSpheres almost done.



Restrict to OrbitSphere movement to XY plane:


/jmc

 

hiya, trying your tool on a dedicated server, is it possible to change to a fixed poi spawn on akua ? so far have not been able to affect the starting inventory with changes or the starting position.

 

I tried it to set a fixed POIs name as structure reference (manually for a test, as EPD currently only supprts GroupNames to be set in PlayerSpawn 'Structure'), but the game doesn't accept it. I don't think that's possible with Empyrion, as it also states in the 'Example Planet' playfield yaml, that you can only set Groupname as a Strcuture Reference:

Example Planet yaml:



/jmc

 

thanks for the reply dude, Your tool has been useful with modding playfields and I look forward to your next release.

 

Thx for your kind feedback.

/jmc

 

JMCBURN maybe you can assist?:

Hi

can anyone see something wrong in this code?

In this playfield trying to enter the map gives the internal (continue) error

Code:

---
# Playfield Configuration
# IMPORTANT: YAML files use spaces as indentation. Please don't use TABs - tab indentation is forbidden: http://yaml.org/faq.html

# Playfield Characteristics
Gravity: 0                          # Please don't change
AtmosphereEnabled: False            # Please don't change
PvP: False                          # Set to True to allow PvP in this playfield, default is False
UseFixed: False                      # If set uses fixed drones
Radiation: 7.7
TemperatureDay: -130
Music: Migration   

# Playfield difficulty (has impact on experience gains)
Difficulty: 2                       # Between 2 and 5: larger values indicate higher difficulty

# Planet or Space
PlayfieldType: Space               # Please don't change

PlanetType: Space                  # No functionality yet
Description: "Admin Trading area and events arena."

# Sun                             
SunFlare: EnvironmentalEffects/SunFlareWhite3Space

# Stars
Stars: SkyboxStarsBlue                       

# Nebula
Nebula: PrefabNebulaBlueGlittery

#Nebula:
#    Count: 12                                 # 0 - 32
#    Brightness: [ Dark, Medium, Bright ]      # VeryDark, Dark, Medium, Bright, VeryBright
#    Colors: [ Blue ]                          # Blue, Pink, Purple, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red
#    Styles: [ Streaky, Cloudy ]               # Cloudy, Streaky, Glittery, DarkMatter
#    Complexity: 1                             # 0 - 1
#    Textures: VeryHigh                        # VeryLow, Low, Medium, High, VeryHigh (Only One)

Build: 1211

 

This is the most minimalistic version i can get to run without error.
It seems, you need a Dronebase (not really, but for the game selector menu you do, otherwise you get a COQ, as soon as you select the playfield).

if you remove the dronebase from the yaml, you get the COQ, but if you choose 'continue' then, the game loads the playfield nevertheless without any erros. So this may be a game bug. I'll file a report.

Secondly, i'd suggest not using quotes in description text. Works most of the times, but i'd rather leave them out.

/jmc

 

Thank you. yes it loads and we have been playing on it, it just dont load the map.

question now is if i added it to the saves template YAML will it load?

or do i have to do wipe and fresh playfield

 

with my version, there is no more COQ when opening the map.

Sorry, don't really know, if you can replace it, but backup your savegame folder and try it out. Personally i don't think so, as POI placement happens on first load of playfield, then the POIs/DroneBase are stored in the area files. So without wiping i'm afraid, it won't show up.

/jmc

 

Thanks...let me try and see....

otherwise i will have to BP everything, delete and create new playfield, then spawn everything back

 

New versjon (completed)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1135639648